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Chapter 5 of Hosea ended with God declaring He will punish the kingdoms of Israel (Ephraim) and Judah:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I will be like a lion to Ephraim,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Like a great beast to the House of Judah;<\/span>
\n<\/span>I, I will attack and stride away,<\/span>
\n<\/span>Carrying the prey that no one can rescue.\u201d (Hosea 5:14)<\/span><\/p>\n

But the last verse of chapter 5 and the beginning of chapter 6 predict that the people will repent:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I will return to My abode\u2014 till they realize their guilt. In their distress, they will seek Me and beg for My favor. \u2018Come, let us turn back to the LORD: He attacked, and He can heal us; He wounded, and He can bind us up.\u2019\u201d (Hosea 5:15-6:1)<\/span><\/p>\n

Both the prediction of punishment and promise of repentance use the word \u201cattack.\u201d However, a more literal translation of the Hebrew <\/span>taraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0would be \u201ctear\/torn.\u201d It is usually used to describe animals tearing up their prey. An animal whose flesh was torn by beasts in the field is a <\/span>terefah<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(Exodus 22:30). In Talmudic Hebrew the meaning of <\/span>terefah<\/span><\/em> was extended to mean “a clean animal inflicted with an organic defect, a mortal injury, or a fatal disease.\u201d Later, the term expanded to include all non-kosher food, and this eventually led to the Yiddish <\/span>treif<\/span><\/em>, which can mean anything not “kosher”, even non-food items.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, there are also verses (like Psalms 111:5 and Proverbs 31:15), where <\/span>teref<\/span><\/em>\u00a0means food in general. It probably originally meant \u201cfood carried off\u201d, and then became simply \u201cfood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Another way that <\/span>taraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0diverged from its original meaning doesn\u2019t involve food. From \u201cto tear away\u201d it came to also mean \u201cto mix, confuse.\u201d A person who is mixed up, disturbed, confused is <\/span>metoraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0– which in Modern Hebrew means “insane”. And just as in English, where the word “mad” means insane, but “like mad” means “with excitement or enthusiasm”, so too does <\/span>metoraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0mean in Israeli slang not only “crazy”, but “excited, exceptional, unbelievable” and <\/span>b’teruf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0means “with excitement.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Considering the ultimate disaster that befell both kingdoms, it would certainly be <\/span>metoraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0to think that they would ever return. But as the people understood, if He tore us up, he can certainly heal us.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Image: \u201cTreif\u201d happens to (also) be the name of a German food processing machine company (no connection to the Jewish category). 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