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This final chapter in the Book of Micah has three parts: Vs. 1-7 feature a rebuke\u2014delivered in the form of a dirge\u2014on account of the nation\u2019s moral lapses; 8-13 present an argument between the community of Israel and its enemy; and 14-20 describe the wonders Israel will merit, after it is cleansed of its sins.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this last part, Micah declared: \u201cAs in the days when <\/span>you<\/span><\/em> sallied forth from the land of Egypt, I will show <\/span>him<\/span><\/em> wondrous deeds\u201d (15), shifting in mid-verse from the second person (you) to the third person (him). Radak noticed the switch and explained: \u201cGod replied to the prophet saying: Tell them that I will show them wonders like those [that transpired] at the time of the exodus. And the meaning of \u2018you left\u2019 is that your ancestors\u2019 exodus is as though they had left it themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is strongly reminiscent of a passage in the Haggadah that states: \u201cIn each and every generation, a person is obliged to regard himself as though he had left Egypt.\u201d Its ordinary meaning\u2014articulated by the Haggadah\u2014is that \u201chad the Holy One, blessed be He, not taken our ancestors out of Egypt, we and our children and grandchildren would still be enslaved by Pharaoh.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I would suggest that Micah was offering an alternate perspective, one that should be taken together with a parallel passage in the Book of Hosea, that reflects on the exodus and subsequent wilderness experience with considerable nostalgia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assuredly, I will speak coaxingly to her and lead her through the wilderness and speak to her tenderly. I will give her her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor as a plowland of hope (<\/span>petach tikvah<\/span><\/em>); there she shall respond as in the days of her youth, when she came up from the land of Egypt. And in that day \u2014declares the LORD\u2014 you will call [Me] Ishi<\/em>, and no more will you call Me Baali<\/em>.\u00a0 (2:16-18)<\/span><\/p>\n

The sentiment in both prophets is that Israel so endeared itself to God through its devotion to Him in those early days of the exodus and wilderness that He is willing to overlook their occasional lapses and looks forward to a day on which their original relationship of equality\u2014symbolized by the noun <\/span>ish<\/span><\/em> (man)\u2014will replace the current one of implicit subservience, represented by <\/span>ba`al<\/span><\/em> (husband).<\/span><\/p>\n

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