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\r\nKing Hezekiah\u2019s postponement of the Passover sacrifice and festival, reported at the beginning of this chapter, is included in the Mishnah\u2019s (<\/span>Pesachim<\/span> 4:9) list of six controversial actions during his reign, and one of three that met with the Sages\u2019 disapproval: \u201cSix things King Hezekiah did\u2026 he intercalated [the month of] Nisan in Nisan, and they did not agree with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The delay in the observance of Passover was forced by the fact that the repurification of the Temple, reported in chapter 29, was only completed on the 16<\/span>th<\/span> day of the first month (29:17), too late for the Passover sacrifice to be brought at its proper time (at twilight on the 14<\/span>th<\/span> of the month, see Exodus 12:6 and Leviticus 23:5). Therefore, postponing the sacrifice until the 14<\/span>th<\/span> of the second month seems consistent with the provision for a second Passover outlined in Numbers 9. Explicitly the Mishna\u2019s problem is not with the postponement but rather with the timing of its announcement. King Hezekiah should have given people more warning. It\u2019s hard to disagree with that point but that option was not available to him, having only just ascended to the throne (2 Chron. 29:3). Moreover, its seems presumptuous to claim the Sages did not agree with this move when our chapter states at the outset \u201cThe king and his officers and the congregation in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second month\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What then is going on here? We can\u2019t know for certain but it seems likely that the Mishnah here is less interested in revisiting the reign of Hezekiah, which was long in the past even in their day, than in asserting rabbinic control of the calendar. The first commandment given to the Israelites as a people, in preparation for the first Passover sacrifice and subsequent exodus, establishes a new calendar, independent of the Egyptians: \u201cThis month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you\u201d (Exodus 12:2). As argued by Prof Sarit Kattan Gribetz, \u201cTemporal institutions can cultivate shared notions of time along with shared communal identities, but they can also differentiate those who mark their time in certain ways from those who mark their time differently\u2026. the rabbis used time-keeping and discourses about time to construct crucial social, political, and theological difference (<\/span>Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism<\/span><\/em>, p. 1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just as King Hezekiah began his reign with a major 14-day festival celebration (2 Chron. 30: 23, 26), the rabbis understood that determining the calendar and festivals were an effective way to establish their authority and restabilize the people after the destruction of the Temple. While criticizing Hezekiah, they were actually following in his footsteps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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After abolishing idolatry, and purifying the Temple as well as the priests and Levites in the previous chapter, II Chronicles 30 describes how King Hezekiah set about to bring the rest of Israel in line with his religious reforms. The king called for the entire country to gather together and celebrate festival of Passover, commemorating the Exodus from Egypt:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah; he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh to come to the House of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover for the LORD God of Israel (30:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Like King Josiah of the kingdom of Israel after him (II Chronicles 35), and contemporary Jewish people throughout the world, Hezekiah recognized the power of the Passover celebration to cause different types of Jews, e.g., the righteous and the evildoers, the simple Jews and those who are too ignorant to even know where to begin, to share together an experience that potentially could restore their religious fervor, once it had become attenuated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But as in so many things, the \u201cdevil is in the details,\u201d particularly when it comes to properly observing religious rituals. While the Talmud concerns itself with whether Hezekiah properly inter-calculated the Jewish year in preparation for his Passover extravaganza (see Pesachim 56a,) one of the obstacles that the king had to contend with was the fact that many of the participants had not purified themselves prior to their consumption of the paschal sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For most of the people\u2014many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun\u2014had not purified themselves, yet they ate the paschal sacrifice in violation of what was written\u2026 (Ibid. 18; see Leviticus 7:20-1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hezekiah, ever the optimistic, inclusive, and rationalizing king, takes this issue up with God, emphasizes the innate good will of all who opted to participate, and the text states that he is duly rewarded:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, \u201cThe good LORD will provide atonement for Everyone who set his mind on worshiping God, the LORD God of his fathers, even if he is not purified for the sanctuary.\u201d The LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people (Ibid. 18-20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the chapter\u2019s last verse, there is another indication of God\u2019s responsiveness when being worshiped so whole-heartedly by His people, albeit this time without mention of any specific sinful behavior:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Levite priests rose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer went up to His holy abode, to heaven.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While in neither instance, are we told how it could be objectively evaluated that God proved amenable to these two appeals made to him, first by the king, and later by the priests, it is reassuring to believe that God will choose to act with compassion towards those who are clearly meaning well in their worship.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70033,"alt":"","title":"jer14-moses-prays","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","width":450,"height":648,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-208x300.jpg","medium-width":208,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","medium_large-width":450,"medium_large-height":648,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","large-width":450,"large-height":648,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","1536x1536-width":450,"1536x1536-height":648,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","2048x2048-width":450,"2048x2048-height":648,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","post_full_size-width":450,"post_full_size-height":648,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-292x420.jpg","home_baner-width":292,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"It\u2019s The Intention That Counts","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Pure thoughts and fervent prayers overcome bodily impurity","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":70033,"alt":"","title":"jer14-moses-prays","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","width":450,"height":648,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-208x300.jpg","medium-width":208,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","medium_large-width":450,"medium_large-height":648,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","large-width":450,"large-height":648,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","1536x1536-width":450,"1536x1536-height":648,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","2048x2048-width":450,"2048x2048-height":648,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays.jpg","post_full_size-width":450,"post_full_size-height":648,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer14-moses-prays-292x420.jpg","home_baner-width":292,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"II Chronicles","chapter":"30","chapter_main_number":"923","date":"20290313","wall_id":"923"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":4,"id":"100965","color":"#efefef","size":"1","name":"The Mysteries Of Intercalation ","post_title":"The Mysteries Of Intercalation","slug":"the-mysteries-of-intercalation","old_id":"100965","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. 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Our chapter, which has no parallel in 2 Kings, describes how King Hezekiah led a celebration of Passover \u201cin the second month\u201d (2). While the Torah stipulates its observance in \u201cthe first month\u201d (Exodus 12:18, Leviticus 23:5, Numbers 9:1-3, 28:16), it makes allowance for those who were either impure or who lived at a great distance (from Jerusalem) to celebrate it a month later\u2014also on the 14<\/span>th<\/span> of the month (Numbers 9:10 ff.).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is that what happened here? Not according to the Talmud\u00a0 (Sanhedrin 12b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our Rabbis taught: We may not intercalate a year because of uncleanness. R. Judah said: We may intercalate. R. Judah observed: It once happened that Hezekiah king of Judah declared a leap year because of uncleanness, and then prayed for mercy, for it is written: \u201cFor most of the people\u2014many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun\u2014had not purified themselves, yet they ate the paschal sacrifice in violation of what was written. Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, the good L<\/span>ORD<\/span> will provide atonement<\/span>\u201d <\/span>(2 Chr. 30:18). R. Simeon said: If the intercalation was on the ground of uncleanness, it holds good. Why then did Hezekiah implore Divine mercy?\u00a0 \u2014 Because only an Adar can be intercalated and he intercalated in Nisan. R. Simeon b. Judah said on behalf of R. Simeon, that it was because he had persuaded Israel to celebrate a Second Passover [unduly].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In other words, whereas the extra month is customarily added in the month of Adar (which is why it is called Adar II\/<\/span>Sheni<\/span><\/em>), in that year there was only one month of Adar, but there were two months of Nisan, and Passover was celebrated in the second one. In practice, it was celebrated on the same day on which it would have fallen had the extra month been inserted in Adar, but since the \u201cdeadline\u201d for intercalation (<\/span>`ibur hashanah<\/span><\/em>) had passed, Hezekiah had no right to postpone it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak, however, raised an interesting alternative:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am perplexed\u2026 Scripture states: \u201cThe king and his officers and the congregation in Jerusalem had agreed\u201d (2), which implies that they [the Sages, i.e., \u201chis officers\u201d] concurred. 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The first thing Hezekiah does upon ascending the throne after his father is to purify the Temple and restore its service. After that, he declares a celebration of the holiday of Passover. Because the Temple had been dormant during his father\u2019s reign, this is quite an undertaking. Hezekiah\u00a0 then does something that was not possible since the days of Solomon, he invites the northern tribes to attend. Hezekiah is only able to do this due to regrettable circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The start of his reign is during the reign of Hosea, the last king of the north. By now, most of the northern tribes have been expelled by the Assyrians. In fact, Hosea himself became a vassal to the Assyrians. Recall that immediately after the split of the kingdoms, Jeroboam wanted to prevent the northern tribes from traveling to Jerusalem three times a year for the festivals. He set up two golden calves, one in Dan in the north and one in the south in Beth El, right on the border (I Kings 12). He also set up border guards to keep his subjects from traveling south. The book Seder Olam chapter 22 explains that at this stage, the Assyrians had already ransacked the north, and took the golden calves with them to Assyria. King Hosea, although he was the last king of Israel, is seen as a relatively good king. With these idols now gone, he finally allowed his subjects to travel south.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But not all of them did:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cAs the couriers passed from town to town in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh till they reached Zebulun, they were laughed at and mocked. Some of the people of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun, however, were contrite, and came to Jerusalem\u201d (verses 11-12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With their country crumbling around them, some northerners were still too stubborn to accept their imminent destruction and make pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Others, though, realizing the end was nigh, decided to once again join their southern brethren. Perhaps these individuals are spared the fate of the northern tribes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These two verses bring to mind another internal debate between believers and non-believers at a time of destruction. During the seventh plague of hail, the Egyptians are warned of the coming hailstorm. After six destructive plagues, the Egyptians are given a chance to make amends and show their faith in God. But not all do: \u201cThose among Pharaoh\u2019s courtiers who feared the LORD\u2019s word brought their slaves and livestock indoors to safety\/but those who paid no regard to the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the open\u201d (Exodus 9:20-21).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The celebration of Passover in the south now provides the northerners an opportunity to \u201cbring their livestock into safety.\u201d Instead, much like the stubborn Egyptians, many of them would rather mock their compatriots to the south than head to the safety of the Temple and God. And, unfortunately, like those Egyptians centuries earlier, those that stayed in the north sealed their fate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\"Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the Lord<\/em>\" (30:12).
\r\n
\r\nTo find the Word of God, I thought
\r\nTo join a caravan
\r\nThat crosses the desert in quest of the Five Oases.
\r\nAnd although the desert sun blinds your eyes
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and the sand penetrates your throat;
\r\nStill \u2014 when you finally reach the Oasis
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and drink its ice-waters \u2014
\r\nYou feel
\r\nYou have found Torah.
\r\n
\r\nTo find the Word of God, I thought
\r\nTo board a full-rigged galleon
\r\nThat crosses the ocean in quest of the Five Islands.
\r\nAnd although the ocean's sun burns you when you stand atop the mast's look-out
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and the ship\u2019s constant rocking makes you seasick;
\r\nStill \u2014 when you finally reach the Island
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and smell its rare red orchids \u2014
\r\nYou feel
\r\nYou have found Torah.
\r\n
\r\nTo find the Word of God, I thought
\r\nTo become an astronaut and navigate a spacecraft
\r\nIn quest of the Five Planets.
\r\nAnd although the lack of gravity makes you hover indecisively
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and the lack of fresh air makes you queasy;
\r\nStill \u2014 when you finally reach the Planet and descend into its atmosphere
\r\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and watch its twelve moons rise and set simultaneously \u2014
\r\nYou feel
\r\nYou have found Torah.
\r\n
\r\nBut now I know:
\r\nTo learn Torah, it\u2019s enough
\r\nTo sit in a darkened room, and in the silence
\r\nTry to remember how in the womb
\r\nHundreds of candelabras and thousands of oil-lamps surrounded you
\r\nAs hosts of angels chanted hymns of wisdom
\r\nFrom a pearl and ivory prayer-book inscribed with your name.
\r\nOn your right, the angel Michael taught you how to peer into a telescope
\r\nThat captured millions of the most distant galaxies being born.
\r\nOn your left, the angel Gabriel instructed you how to peer into a microscope
\r\nThat revealed millions of chromosomes splitting and reassembling
\r\nTo form the letters of your destiny.
\r\nThe angel Uriel bowed in front of you and recited thousands of stories
\r\nAbout the righteous who once lived and did deeds of compassion;
\r\nThe angel Rafael sat behind you and whispered the chronicles
\r\nOf the righteous yet to be born and the acts of kindness they will do.
\r\n
\r\nAnd if, by chance, you cannot remember,
\r\nSimply speak to God, your Friend,
\r\nAnd He will whisper to you
\r\nHis Word.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":100970,"alt":"","title":"2chron30-angels whisper","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"The Word Of God","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"And if, by chance, you cannot remember \/ Simply speak to God, your Friend \/ And He will whisper to you \/ His Word","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":100970,"alt":"","title":"2chron30-angels whisper","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2chron30-angels-whisper-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"II Chronicles","chapter":"30","chapter_main_number":"923","date":"20290313","wall_id":"923"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":7,"id":"100926","color":"#faeed8","size":"1","name":"Hezekiah Sends Out A Temple Invite ","post_title":"Hezekiah Sends Out A Temple Invite","slug":"hezekiah-sends-out-a-temple-invite","old_id":"100926","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. 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30:1 \u201cAnd Hezekiah sent out to all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote missives to Ephraim and Manasseh to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to perform the Passover to the LORD God of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hezekiah came to the throne in 715 B.C.E, six years after the northern kingdom of Israel had been destroyed by the Assyrians. If the report here is grounded in historical fact, it provides evidence that, although many of the subjects of the northern kingdom were deported by the Assyrians, substantial numbers of them remained. Hezekiah\u2019s political move, then, is to unite the whole Israelite population, north and south, around the Temple cult in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. Comp lit<\/em>. The reign of Hezekiah is recounted in 2 Kings 18-20, and in Isaiah 36-39, but this chapter has no parallel.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. In the second month<\/em>. The Israelites left Egypt in the first month, and according to the Biblical\u00a0 law, Pesach is celebrated then. Why did Hezekiah call to celebrate it in the second month? According to the previous chapter, the Temple wasn\u2019t ready for festivities in the first month - but perhaps there is an additional reason. Hezekiah invested great effort in getting the Kingdom of Israel to take part in the celebration. But since the days of King Jeroboam (see 1 Kings 12:37), the northerners held to a different calendar, according to which Pesach had been celebrated in the second month.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. They didn\u2019t learn their lesson<\/em>. In 721 BCE the Kingdom of Israel was destroyed. Chronicles, which focuses on Judah, doesn\u2019t mention this event. But the chapter does tell of Hezekiah\u2019s messengers who came to Israel \u201cthe remnant who escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.\u201d He came with an invitation that would be a solution to their situation: \u201cIf you return to the LORD, your brothers and children will be regarded with compassion by their captors, and will return to this land\u201d (verses 6, 9). Unfortunately, most of that \u201cremnant\u201d responded with scorn to the invitation to repent.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Matters of purity<\/em>. Note who is pure, and who isn\u2019t, and what the attitude of Hezekiah and of God is to the matter (verses 15-20).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Echoes of Josiah and Solomon<\/em>. The deeds of two other kings are part of the background to this story. Josiah, who celebrated a similar Pesach after his big reform (see 2 Kings 23, and next week, 2 Chron. 35), and Solomon, who celebrated in Sukkot and not Pesach, but his dedication festivities also lasted two full weeks (1 Kings 8:68, 2Chron. 7:8-9). 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    \u201cPesachim No.5: Paschal History\u201d<\/a> by Adina Karp: Looking at how the observance of the Passover holiday has changed over the years.<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cPesach and Sukkot: Inconsistent Occurrences, Add your Opinions!\u201d<\/a> by Ephraim Helfgot: Contradictions and explanations in the stories about Pesach and Sukkot.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - II Chronicles 30","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"II Chronicles","chapter":"30","chapter_main_number":"923","date":"20290313","wall_id":"923"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/100674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}