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Our chapter is a collection of oracles against the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Verses 3-6 are a series of rhetorical questions. Verse 8 explains why Amos, the sheep breeder (see 1:1) has now become a prophet: \u201cA lion has roared, who can but fear? (compare 1:2). My Lord God has spoken, who can but prophesy?\u201d (3:8).<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the preceding rhetorical questions, we hear and see a powerful audio-visual image: \u201cWhen a ram\u2019s horn is sounded in a town, do the people not take alarm?\u201d (Amos 3:6).<\/span><\/p>\n

This verse provides the opening of a proem (<\/span>petichta<\/span><\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/i>), preserved in Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana 24:1 \u201cShuvah\u201d, that concludes with a citation of Hosea 14:2: \u201cReturn (shuvah<\/em>), O Israel, to the Lord your God\u201d. This verse provides the opening of the Haftarah that is read on <\/span>Shabbat Shuvah<\/span><\/em>, the Sabbath that falls between Rosh Ha-Shannah and Yom Kippur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our proem begins: \u201cWhen a ram\u2019s horn is sounded in a town, do the people not take alarm?\u201d (3:6), which is illustrated by a parable of a city about to be attacked. An elder warned all the inhabitants of the approaching danger. Those who listened to his warning were saved; but those who did not listen to his warning were killed by the invading forces\u2026So too: \u201cWhen a ram\u2019s horn is sounded in a town\u2026\u201d \u2013 on Rosh Hashanah, \u201c\u2026Do the people not take alarm?\u201d This refers to the people of Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The verse continues: \u201cCan misfortune come to a town if the Lord has not caused it?\u201d. But the Holy One, blessed be He, does not desire the death of the wicked, as it is written: \u201cAs I live\u2014declares the Lord God\u2014it is not My desire that the wicked shall die, but that the wicked turn from his [evil] ways and live\u201d (Ezekiel 33:11). O People of Israel! What do I require of you?! Only that you: \u201cTurn back, turn back from your evil ways, that you may not die, O House of Israel!\u201d (ibid).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are those who seek an explanation of what is required of Israel in another verse: \u201cThus said the Lord to the House of Israel: Seek Me, and you will live!\u201d (Amos 5:4). This may be understood as God saying to Israel: What do I require of you? Only that you seek Me in order to remain alive! And therefore, Hosea admonishes Israel by saying to them: \u201cReturn (shuvah<\/em>), O Israel, to the Lord your God\u201d (Hosea 14:2).<\/span><\/p>\n

The sounding of the shofar continues to be mentioned in our daily prayers, in the 10<\/span>th<\/span> blessing of the <\/span>Amidah<\/span><\/em> concerning the Ingathering of the Exiles: \u201cSound the great Shofar for our freedom. Raise a banner to gather our exiles. And bring us together from the four corners of the earth into our land. Blessed are You Lord, who gathers the dispersed of His people Israel\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: Jacob Steinhardt, woodcut, \u201cJoshua\u2019s Conquest of Jericho,\u201d 1953, courtesy of Yosefa Bar-On Steinhardt.<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":53456,"id":53456,"title":"jo6-shofarot2","filename":"jo6-shofarot2.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jo6-shofarot2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/destruction-conquest-and-music\/jo6-shofarot2\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jo6-shofarot2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":53455,"date":"2019-04-09 07:34:23","modified":"2020-11-17 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