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After employing yet another marriage metaphor, God says, \u201cthe Israelites shall go a long time without king and without officials, without sacrifice and without cult pillars, and without <\/span>ephod<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>teraphim<\/span><\/em>. Afterward, the Israelites will turn back and will seek the LORD their God and David their king\u2014and they will thrill over the LORD and over His bounty in the days to come\u201d (3:4-5).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The commentators clarify that the kings, officials, sacrifices, and <\/span>ephod<\/span><\/em> refer to the Temple in Judah while the cult pillars and <\/span>teraphim<\/span><\/em> relate to idol worship. Israel, the northern kingdom, will experience a long period of time without any authoritative religious or spiritual guidance. Rashi interprets this period of instability as the time the Jews will spend in exile without a Temple to worship God and an Israelite monarchy to decree religion. But in the next verse, God promises that after the exile, the Messiah will come and Israel\u2019s commitment to God will be renewed.<\/span><\/p>\n

God\u2019s prophecy of the absence of spiritual and physical stability are fulfilled in Jewish history. For thousands of years (until 1948,) Jews lived in exile without a Temple, land, or political power. Chaim Hazaz, a prominent Hebrew author viciously condemned what he coined the \u201cmoonlight psychology\u201d of the Jews during that time. In his irreverent short story, \u201cThe Sermon,\u201d Hazaz explains the \u201cpsychology of the night\u201d as the Jewish need for suffering: \u201csuffering is what protects and preserves us\u2026 without it, we\u2019d have nothing to live for\u201d (Chaim Hazaz, The Sermon and Other Short Stories, p.238). Hazaz cites \u201cexile, martyrdom, the Messiah\u2026 A threefold cord,\u201d (p.239) to convey that the Jewish diaspora mentality that he despises was forged from a dialectic of mourning and yearning.<\/span><\/p>\n

God\u2019s first prediction in Hosea: the destruction of the Temple and the absence of tangible divinity in exile, are the reasons for Jewish mourning. In \u201cThe Sermon\u201d Hazaz condemns the Talmud as \u201cour Book of the Dead\u201d (ibid, p.240) because it dictates obsolete laws and customs of a destroyed Temple. The Talmud, compiled and studied almost as if to eulogize the Temple, became the basis of non-Temple Judaism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God\u2019s second promise: the Messiah and the return to Israel, are the object of historical Jewish yearning. The exiled, \u201cwandering,\u201d Jews\u2014without a homeland or political autonomy\u2014centered their religion around praying for the Messiah so they could regain sovereignty in the Land of Israel. This yearning peppers our liturgy and molded the \u201cmoonlight psychology\u201d that encourages passivity in the face of suffering. Hazaz articulates that Jews are not allowed to interfere to bring the Messiah about sooner: We are forced to accept our exile until God decides to end it. Hazaz\u2019s \u201cmoonlight psychology\u201d has a basis in God\u2019s two statements in Hosea: mourning over absence and yearning for redemption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":76059,"id":76059,"title":"hos3-triple","filename":"hos3-triple.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos3-triple.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-threefold-cord-exile-martyrdom-the-messiah\/hos3-triple\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"hos3-triple","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":76057,"date":"2020-06-15 13:02:23","modified":"2021-09-26 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