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1st Day: 2nd Day:<\/span> For the many posts we have on the Book of Ruth - see here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n Chag sameach<\/em> - happy 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But before Isaiah gets started, this chapter offers us a compelling vision of peace. At its heart is God\u2019s own city, Jerusalem, the center of wisdom \u2013 \u201cfor instruction shall come forth from Zion, God\u2019s word from Jerusalem,\u201d (3) words sung in many communities as the Torah scroll is wrapped before it is returned to the ark.<\/span><\/p>\r\n This is followed almost immediately by another powerful passage, one that proved to be so meaningful that it is repeated throughout the Tanakh (cf. 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More recently, the phrase inspired Leo Tolstoy\u2019s novella <\/span>Kreutzer Sonata<\/span><\/em>, the 1980s anti-nuclear armament peace movements in Germany and many artists: from the spiritual <\/span>Down by the Riverside<\/span><\/em> to Michael Jackson\u2019s <\/span>Heal the World<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n In 2000, the Jewish theologians who had convened to affirm the new relationship between Jews and Christians, stressing common ground while affirming theological differences between the two, chose this quote to conclude their statement, known as <\/span>Dabru Emet<\/span><\/em> (Speak the Truth). In their eyes, Isaiah\u2019s words served as an inspiration \u201cthat s<\/span>eparately and together, we must work to bring justice and peace to our world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n Isaiah\u2019s vision might seem overly optimistic, and perhaps na\u00efve. Then, as today, we are far away from living in a peaceful world filled with peace. 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One can hardly imagine the pain with which Isaiah brings this information to his people, deserving though it may be. The Gemarah (Chagigah 14a) tells us he did not calm down until he said, \u2018they will act arrogantly: the boy against his elder (3:5).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n Many interpret this prophecy of children disrespecting elders as the ultimate curse. While Malbim speaks of the reversal of a natural order of respect, and Radak refers to insolent behaviour, Rav Schwab (<\/span>Rav Schwab on Yeshayahu<\/span><\/i>) has a totally different interpretation. According to his understanding, the calm that came over Isaiah with this proclamation was induced by the first glimmer of hope for redemption from this national tragedy. \u201cThe first sign of hope for the <\/span>teshuvah<\/span><\/em> (loosely translated as repentance, but so much more than that) of the Jewish nation was the rebellious attitude of the younger generation against their parents and elders,\u201d says Rav Schwab. 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Warning that they have gone astray, and promising redemption if they will forsake their wickedness, Isaiah uses a metaphor of women\u2019s power -- that the people of Judah have come so low that it is as if they are being ruled over by women -- to illuminate how far his people have fallen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n What, after all, could be worse than being ruled over by a woman?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Such was the position of the men who wrote the Book of Isaiah hundreds of years before the Common Era, and such was the position of the Rabbis a thousand years later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n As the torch of misogyny passed from the prophets to the Rabbis, the depiction of women in Jewish literature remained oppressive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n When interpreting Isaiah 3:12, the Rabbis wrote that \u201cfour women [ruled] in the world... Jezebel and Athaliah\u2026 and Semiramis and Vashti...\u201d (Esther Rabba 3:2). 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That a leader should never have the heart of a woman?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Today\u2019s three major world religions can all trace their origin to the stories of the Hebrew Bible. It is impossible to overestimate how these stories have shaped western culture. And we can barely begin to grapple with how pervasively their oppressive depictions of women have been woven into the fabric of our society.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Given this, when we look to Isaiah 3:12, is it any wonder that we have such a dearth of women leaders in the western world today? From the boardroom to the oval office, women continue to be plagued by a perpetual glass ceiling. We live in a society that has spent thousands of years telling itself that there is nothing worse than being under a woman\u2019s rule, that women\u2019s power is treacherous, that a woman\u2019s heart is not a leader\u2019s heart. 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The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are so vain and walk with heads thrown back, with roving eyes, and with mincing gait, making a tinkling with their feet\" (15-16).<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span>Torah reading<\/em>: Exodus 19<\/a>, Exodus 20<\/a>
\r\nHaftarah<\/em>: Ezekiel 1<\/a><\/p>\r\n
\r\nTorah reading<\/em>: Deuteronomy 15<\/a>,\u00a0Deuteronomy 16<\/a>
\r\nHaftarah:<\/em> Habakkuk 3<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\t
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\r\nRuth 3<\/a>
\r\nRuth 4<\/a><\/p>\r\n