{"id":76443,"date":"2020-06-24T18:49:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=76443"},"modified":"2020-06-24T18:49:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:49:35","slug":"go-tell-it-under-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/go-tell-it-under-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Tell It Under The Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In verse 8, in response to the destruction that will befall the northern tribes, Hosea predicts that the people will “say to the mountains, ‘cover us!’ and to the hills ‘fall upon us'”. <\/span>As in our comments to chapter 8<\/span><\/a>, this image also evokes a midrash regarding the giving of the Torah.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Bavli Shabbat 85a, Rav Avdimi discusses Exodus 19:17: “Moses led the people out of the camp toward God, and they took their places at the foot of the mountain.” Ravi Avdimi says that this verse actually describes a situation where God lifted Mt. Sinai over the heads of the Israelites and asked them if they would accept the Torah. If not, God said he would drop the mountain on the Israelites. In response the Israelites proclaimed they would accept the Torah.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without getting into the complexities of this midrash and why God would do such a thing, we can see verse 8 now with an added layer. The giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai was the most pivotal moment in the establishment of the Israelite nation. The exodus from Egypt was the extraction of the people from a foreign land, but the giving of the Torah was the birth of a new nation. Hosea’s prophetic vision of the destruction of the northern tribes evokes this time frame. In essence Hosea is calling out to the people “remember that fateful day at Mt. Sinai when God lifted the mountain above you and gave you a choice, and you enthusiastically accepted the Torah? Well, through this destruction you will wish for the mountains to cover you up.” In essence, you will wish you were never born.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Go Tell It Under The Mountain","main_caption":"Remember when God lifted up the mountain and gave you a choice, and you accepted the Torah? Well, now you will wish for the mountains to cover you up.","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76444,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76443\/revisions\/76444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}