{"id":76500,"date":"2020-06-26T16:08:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=76500"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T13:08:24","slug":"children-are-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/children-are-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Are Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"76500","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":73524,"related_cahpter":"511","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Bring them back with cords of love\r\n\r\n","content":"

Hosea begins chapter 11 with a dramatic shift in his imagery. Until now, the prophet has portrayed Israel as the wayward wife whose adulterous and scandalous behavior has made her unfit to remain in a relationship with God, her husband. Suddenly, Hosea ceases from describing the people as God’s wife, but returns to an earlier metaphor found in the Torah, that of God’s children: “For, when Israel was young, I loved him, and from Egypt I called My son.” The change in metaphor is significant for several reasons, not the least of which is the underlying nature of the relationship. Marriages are freely entered into, and can be terminated; however, people do not choose their parents or children, and the biological bounds unite them for life. Hosea does not pretend that the children are blameless \u2013 he is aware that “to the Baalim they would slaughter sacrifices, and to the graven images they would burn incense.” Despite that, “\u2026 he took them on his arms, but they did not know that I healed them. I drew them with human ties, with cords of love \u2026”<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbinic thought drew heavily on Hosea’s words to emphasize the eternal and loving nature of God’s relationship with the Jewish people. Even at the moment of Israel’s entry into their land, the rabbis envisioned Moses speaking to Joshua as follows: “This nation I am passing to you are still young, they are still children. [Therefore] be not too demanding in all that they do, for even their Master is not too demanding in all that they do. And so it is written, ‘For Israel is a youth and I love him.’ (Hos. 11:1)” (Sifrei, Deut. 305).<\/span><\/p>\n

Hosea’s words also became the motto of those who grappled with the nature of how religious Jews today should relate to their “irreligious brethren” \u2013 should they protest, fight, rebuke them at every opportunity and with every means available? Rabbi Yeshaya Karelitz, generally known by the name of his Talmudic commentaries the \u201cChazon Ish\u201d, writes as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c(Such laws) only applied at times when the divine presence was clearly revealed such as in the days when there were open miracles, and a heavenly voice was heard \u2026 Then the heretics were of a special deviousness, bending their evil inclination towards immoral desires and licentiousness. In such days there was (the need) to remove this kind of wickedness from the world, since everybody knew that it would bring divine retribution to the world (including) drought, pestilence and famine. But at the time of \u201cdivine hiding,\u201d in which faith has become weak in people, there is no purpose in taking such action \u2026 in fact it has the reverse effect and will only increase their lawlessness and be viewed as the coercion and violence (of religious fanatics.) And therefore we have an obligation to try to bring them back with \u2018cords of love\u2019 (Hosea 11:4)\u201d (Chazon Ish, Yoreh Deah, Laws of Slaughter 2:16)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","image":{"ID":76501,"id":76501,"title":"hos11-parent child","filename":"hos11-parent-child.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/children-are-forever\/hos11-parent-child\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"hos11-parent-child","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":76500,"date":"2020-06-26 13:08:14","modified":"2023-08-20 16:05:04","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":960,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-300x150.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-768x384.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-1024x512.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":512,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":960,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-1200x600.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-840x420.jpg","home_baner-width":840,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Children Are Forever","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Bring them back with cords of love","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":76501,"id":76501,"title":"hos11-parent child","filename":"hos11-parent-child.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/children-are-forever\/hos11-parent-child\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"hos11-parent-child","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":76500,"date":"2020-06-26 13:08:14","modified":"2023-08-20 16:05:04","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":960,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-300x150.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-768x384.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-1024x512.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":512,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":960,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-1200x600.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos11-parent-child-840x420.jpg","home_baner-width":840,"home_baner-height":420}},"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\/76500"}],"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=76500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76502,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76500\/revisions\/76502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}