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The relationship between God and Israel is often depicted as the relationship between a man and a woman, with Israel as the woman. When Israel behaves badly, that female often becomes a \u2018woman of ill repute\u2019 as in chapter 1:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Alas, she has become a harlot, The faithful city That was filled with justice, Where righteousness dwelt\u2014 But now murderers\u201d (1:21).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah leans on this theme heavily in chapter 3. God\u2019s particular source of anger here is the apparent attack of the wealthy upper classes on the poor: \u201cHow dare you crush My people And grind the faces of the poor?\u201d (verse 15). Why do the people act like this? \u201cBecause 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\u201d (verse 16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophet then continues with an exhaustive list off all the adornments that God will make sure are removed from the daughters of Zion, for He:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

will strip off the finery of the anklets, the fillets, and the crescents; of the eardrops, the bracelets, and the veils; the turbans, the armlets, and the sashes; of the talismans and the amulets;\u00a0 the signet rings and the nose rings; the festive robes, the mantles, and the shawls; the purses,\u00a0 the lace gowns, and the linen vests; and the kerchiefs and the capes\u201d (verses 20-23).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The verses keep going and going emphasizing the extent to which the people of Judah had gone to enrich themselves at the expense of others. The prophet does not mince words, and it is as if every single piece of jewelry is an affront against God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there also may be a hidden message here. The detailed list of the adornments is evocative of the detailed list of the vestments worn by the high priest. Perhaps Isaiah is sending a direct message against the priestly class that should be guarding the religiosity of the populace and instead they have allowed idol worship and idle behavior to infect the nation. During the time of destruction, God will make sure that all the adornments worn by the high priest will be torn away. 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Having grown up riding the NYC subway as a kid in the 1980s, living in the very same zip code where Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had lived some decades before, I was always somewhat captivated by the line from <\/span>The Sound of Silence<\/span><\/i> reminding us that \u201cthe words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.\u201d As I rode through the dark tunnels, I\u2019d peer out the windows trying to capture even just a glimpse of the underground scrawls, the bubbles, the distinctive tags, the aspirations, disappointments, messages of hopes and dreams, opportunities lost and others found as the words of social and political protest colored the veins of my transportation system and animated the throbbing arteries of my great city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Times have changed, New York City has transformed in many ways, and the subway walls are becoming increasingly antiseptic, scoured and scrubbed from any sign of the scrawls of a different era. They are often now populated with commissioned artwork, glass mosaics, stainless and bronze sculptures that sparkle in the deep and dark of the urban night. The gleam of the glass and shine of steel reflects a move towards a city that is polished and rich; clean and content; upwardly mobile and privileged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet the words of the prophets, the youth, the disenfranchised, the struggling - those who unpack the difficult and thorny issues of identity, race relations, power structures, police brutality, and complex narratives \u2013 still make their way into the public discourse, so often through art. Thankfully, while they are becoming increasingly limited, regulated, and formalized, there are still sacred spaces and places preserved for protest art, for street artists to paint murals, adorn lamp posts with wheat-pastings and speak the aesthetic language of empowerment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Creativity and risk taking are at the heart of street art. They are also core qualities we draw upon to build things in our personal and professional lives. Street art stimulates our senses and stirs our emotions: we see, feel and internalize the history, development, core culture, internal ethics, hierarchies and social history related to the craft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These days, though it may not be while I ride the NYC subways, but instead when I wander, camera in hand, around the East Side Gallery in Berlin, through the Wynwood Walls in Miami, across the alleys of Neve Tzedek, along the security border in Bethlehem and through my own yard, looking at the murals that color my world, the prophets speak to me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As for my people... women rule over them.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

So says the prophet Isaiah (3:12) in a messianic diatribe against the people of Judah. 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). In the eyes of the Rabbis, the only women rulers the world has ever known were a murderer and thief who was eaten by dogs, a woman who murdered her own family, a woman whose downfall was having self-respect, and a woman who seized her throne through treachery and deceit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Several hundred years later the baton of misogyny passed to one of history\u2019s greatest Jewish commentators. Rashi relied on Isaiah 3:12 as the basis for his assertion that \u201ca Torah scholar\u2026 should never have just an inner heart like women\u2026\u201d (Rashi on Taanit 4a:1-2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

More than 2,500 years after Isaiah 3:12 was written, it is beyond time to ask: Is this what our tradition has to teach about women\u2019s leadership? That there is nothing worse than being under a woman\u2019s rule? That only treacherous women wield power? 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. Is it any wonder that women face a perpetual double standard and are considered \u201cunelectable\u201d presidential candidates?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The time has come to give a whole new meaning to the idea that \u201cas for my people... women rule over them.\u201d #TimesUp<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":64833,"alt":"","title":"is3-glass ceiling","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","width":510,"height":364,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling-300x214.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":214,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","medium_large-width":510,"medium_large-height":364,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","large-width":510,"large-height":364,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","1536x1536-width":510,"1536x1536-height":364,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","2048x2048-width":510,"2048x2048-height":364,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","post_full_size-width":510,"post_full_size-height":364,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","home_baner-width":510,"home_baner-height":364}},"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":"The Torch Of Misogyny\u00a0","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"When we look to Isaiah, is it any wonder that we have such a dearth of women leaders in the western world today?","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":64833,"alt":"","title":"is3-glass ceiling","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","width":510,"height":364,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling-300x214.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":214,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","medium_large-width":510,"medium_large-height":364,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","large-width":510,"large-height":364,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","1536x1536-width":510,"1536x1536-height":364,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","2048x2048-width":510,"2048x2048-height":364,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","post_full_size-width":510,"post_full_size-height":364,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-glass-ceiling.jpg","home_baner-width":510,"home_baner-height":364}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","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,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Isaiah","chapter":"3","chapter_main_number":"337","date":"20261214","wall_id":"337"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"402","name":"Leadership","old_id":"802"},{"term_id":"483","name":"Feminism","old_id":"883"},{"term_id":"600","name":"Women","old_id":"1000"},{"term_id":"908","name":"Queen","old_id":"1308"}]},{"order":5,"id":"64861","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Punishment And Salvation, Judgment And Redemption ","post_title":"Punishment And Salvation, Judgment And Redemption","slug":"punishment-and-salvation-judgment-and-redemption","old_id":"64861","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":60755,"post_title":"Katja Vehlow","slug":"katja-vehlow","old_id":"60755","first_name":"Katja ","last_name":"Vehlow ","description":"Dr. Katja Vehlow is a rabbinical student at JTS in New York City. 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The chapter opens with a terrifying image. God strips Judah of what amounts to the basic support system of a functioning society: in a first move, all supplies of food and water, all military, legal, administrative, religious, and spiritual leadership <\/span>will disappear. In their place, boys will rule, further upending the order of society and leading to oppression. Women will govern, and their rule is seen as even more disconcerting. But at the same time, Isaiah notes that the just will do well, enjoying the fruit of their works (10). These apparent contrasts are typical for many passages in the book of Isaiah: God\u2019s punishment, and the promise of salvation often follow each other. Judgement and redemption are closely linked, as is explained in the first chapter: \u201cZion shall be saved in her judgement\u201d (1:27). One seems to necessitate the other.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A large part of this chapter is taken up by a long list of the gorgeous clothes and accessories worn by the \u201cdaughters of Zion.\u201d We read about anklets, earrings, nose rings, turbans, amulets\u2026 It seems that Isaiah is not primarily offended by the opulent clothing items but rather by the attitude with which they are worn. God will mete out punishment because \u201c<\/span>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\u201d (16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is, of course, problematic that the offending behavior is marked on the bodies of women. Why focus on women\u2019s clothes instead of, say, sumptuous swords with intricate hilts imported from abroad? And were men not guilty of overspending on clothes? In any case, the text makes it clear that haughtiness and arrogance are not the prerogative of ancient Israelite women alone. God\u2019s punishment has nothing to do with fancy clothes. Rather, they are signs of impending judgment, signs of everything that will soon be lost in the Assyrian invasions that feature so prominently in the book of Isaiah. 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As Isaiah resumes his prophecy detailing the destruction of Jerusalem and the kingdom of Judah, he enumerates a series of curses that will befall the nation: famine, a degradation of their legal system, loss of leadership and ultimate oppression. 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. According to this interpretation Isaiah understood the power of youth \u2013 to question, to want a better world, to hold their preceding generation to account for the mess they are now in. And most importantly, to begin the cycle of <\/span>teshuvah<\/span><\/i> \u2013 returning to the life they were meant to have, the first step of which is rejection of the values and lifestyles that their elders had embraced.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

My generation has driven an epic <\/span>teshuvah<\/span><\/em> movement \u2013 rejecting their parents drive to assimilation, examining their own place in the world and redefining their relationship with God. A Jewish revolution has occurred in the past half-dozen decades. But to what has the <\/span>ba\u2019al teshuvah<\/span><\/i> movement returned? To the core values of the generations against which their own parents rebelled. It seems that continual progress is made only by repeating this cycle of examination, rejection and reformation. It was an idea apparent to Isaiah, perhaps lost for some time, but back again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the 21<\/span>st<\/span> century it\u2019s not a single nation that finds itself in a mess, it\u2019s the whole world. And we would do well to listen to the rebellious youth who are holding one generation to account to ensure a future for the next. Like Isaiah, we should appreciate the glimmer of hope they bring us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In today\u2019s chapter, Isaiah violently criticizes the haughtiness of the \u201cdaughters of Zion\u201d (v. 17), who walk around \u201cwith heads thrown back, with roving eyes, with mincing gait, making a tinkling with their feet.\u201d The punishment is a litany of finery that will be stripped off: jewelry, garments, ornaments of all kinds. Their heads will be uncovered, a badge of shame, and God will strip off their anklets, fillets, crescent-shaped bracelets, their eardrops, bracelets, and veils, their turbans, armlets, sashes, talismans, amulets, rings, nose rings, robes, mantles, shawls, purses, gowns, vests, kerchiefs, and capes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Many of these words are known only from this context; the Bible does not often offer detailed descriptions of women\u2019s finery, and it is only in this negative context that we get a picture of what a fashionable and wealthy Iron Age woman may adorn herself with.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The last verses then turn to stereotypes of the opposite gender: \u201cYour people shall fall by the sword, your military might in battle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As opposed to many of the commentators, who take these to be references to real women, and then real men, I think these are both simply metaphors applied to the whole people. The key point is not real jewels, or real swords, but that whatever the people pride themselves in will be stripped away, leaving them ashamed and degraded. Trading in stereotypes about each gender, the people are first feminized, compared as a whole to haughty women, who are then literarily disgraced at great length. And if the people think they can take refuge in some other form of pride \u2013 military, for instance \u2013 the prophet makes it clear that that, too, will be of no value. The ornamentation may vary, but the result will be the same: \u201cAnd her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be emptied, shall sit on the ground.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Pride here very much goeth before the fall.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter records an extensive list of the punishments that God will bring upon the people of Israel because of their sins: \u201cSee now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support, all supplies of bread and all supplies of water, the hero and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder and the man of rank, the counselor, wise silencer and the one who understands that which was transmitted in a whisper... People will oppress each other \u2014 man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise up against the old, the dishonored against the honored\u201d (Isaiah 3:1-5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talmud Bavli (Hagigah 14a) uses this list of dismaying divine \u201ccurses\u201d to create a veritable catalogue of the functions that the Rabbinic Sages most esteemed. \u201cSupply\u201d (mash\u2019en<\/em>) refers to Masters of Scripture. \u201cSupport\u201d (mash\u2019enah<\/em>) refers to Masters of Mishnah. \u201cAll supplies of bread\u201d refers to Masters of Talmud.\u00a0 \u201cAll supplies of water\u201d refers to Masters of Aggadah, who use the Aggadah to draw the human heart as a thirsty person is drawn to water. \u201cHero\u201d refers to the Masters of Oral Traditions. \u201cWarrior\u201d refers to one proficient in the \u201cgive and take\u201d of the war of Torah. \u201cJudge\u201d refers to the Rabbinic magistrate (dayyan<\/em>) who renders a completely honest verdict. \u201cProphet\u201d refers to just what it says \u2013 a biblical prophet. \u201cDiviner\u201d refers to a king. \u201cElder\u201d refers to a person with whom one can consult (see Rashi). \u201cCaptain of Fifty (Sar Hamishim<\/em>) \u2013 Rather read \u201cSar Humashim<\/em>\u201d, one who understand the \u201cgive and take\u201d of the Five Books of the Torah. \u201cMan of rank\u201d refers to one for whose sake favor is shown to his entire generation. \u201cCounsellor\u201d refers to one who knows how to intercalate years and determine the beginning of months. \u201cWise silencer\u201d refers to a disciple who causes his masters to become wiser, for when he begins teaching Torah all others fall silent. \u201cOne who understand that which was transmitted in a whisper\u201d refers to one who understands the inner meaning of what is taught \u201cin a whisper\u201d (i.e. the Secrets of Torah).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But, as Scripture indicates, God\u2019s ire was not cooled until Isaiah pronounced the final verse of his list of \u201ccurses\u201d: \u201cThe young will rise up against the old, the dishonored against the honored\u201d (Isaiah 3:4). The young who oppose the old are those who, empty of good deeds, behave insolently toward those who are filled with good deeds. And the dishonored who oppose the honored are those for whom weighty commandments seem light and therefore behave insolently toward those who treat even light commandments as weighty.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The ultimate message of this Talmudic passage remains highly relevant to our day. The transgression that seems most to anger God is disrespect, particularly by any young persons who may not properly appreciate the greater wisdom of their elders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The first two prophecies in our book illustrate how the leadership of society and how social institutions had begun to crumble. The third chapter turns to depict how the breakdown of those institutions led to a breakdown within regular human interactions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Turning to the wealthy women of Zion, the prophet notes how they would walk with a dismissive, arrogant posture, with their heads thrown back, and with their eyes looking down on the rest of society (3:16-17), and predicts how the impending doom and disaster will befall them as well. Indeed, our prophecy provides an incredibly detailed catalog of 24 types of jewelry and other accessories that the wealthy women of Jerusalem wore at the time: anklets, crescent-shaped-necklaces, veils, armlets, rings of the nose, ear, or hand, shawls and bonnets, etc. (3:18-24). The lengthy list serves to create a picture for the reader of how excessive the materialistic culture had become, and reinforces our earlier readings about the society from the first two chapters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The people of Jerusalem are also compared with Sodom (3:9), a connection also found in the first chapter of the book (1:10), a city known for their mistreatment of the poor, as we know from elsewhere in Tanach (Ezekiel 16:49). For all of the incredible wealth and ostentatiousness in society, the poor were mistreated and charity was hard to find.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not surprisingly, the impending calamity will target the leadership first (3:1-8). 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The relationship between two consecutive verses in the second half of our chapter bears scrutiny:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"How dare you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?\u2014says my Lord GOD of Hosts. 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

The tendency among the principal medieval exegetes was to view the first verse as accusing the Judean nobility of oppressing the downtrodden, and the second verse (and those immediately following it) as addressing the practice of harlotry by Judean women. No connection was made between the two, let alone a suggestion that the former was the result of the latter. Malbim, however, drew just such a connection,* writing:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse is connected to the one that follows in the manner of a question and answer. God asks: \u201cHow dare you crush my people?\u201d and He replies, rhetorically, \u201cBecause the daughters of Zion are so vain.\u201d The officials of Jerusalem were cheating and stealing and taking bribes because their \u201choity toity\u201d wives wasted their money on jewelry (described in vs. 18-23). To meet their demands, their husbands, the officials, were disposed towards cheating and robbery. Hence, God asked them \u201cHow dare you crush my people?\u201d\u2014Why can\u2019t you be satisfied with your wealth? Why don\u2019t you find it enough?\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On this account, [God] decreed their punishment, because \u201cthey walk with heads thrown back, with an erect posture, roving eyes, a mincing gait\u201d\u2014in the manner of children on the run, and \u201cmaking a tinkling with their feet\u201d to attract attention. Therefore, \u201cMy Lord will bare the pates of the daughters of Zion, the LORD will uncover their heads\u201d (17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rather than a condemnation of blatant immorality\u2014which is always present, but often confined to the margins of society\u2014Malbim interpreted this sequence of verses as a rebuke to the people usually at the center of society: its public officials, charged with the equitable administration of social justice. Their inability to find satisfaction with their lots, the ever-present \u201ckeeping up with the Joneses,\u201d becomes the prime cause of injustice and oppression.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For the significance of Malbim\u2019s commentary to the Book of Isaiah,<\/span> see our introduction to chapter 1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":64859,"alt":"","title":"is3-fashion-models","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models.png","width":1280,"height":1272,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-300x298.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-768x763.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":763,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-1024x1018.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1018,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1272,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1272,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-1200x1193.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1193,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-423x420.png","home_baner-width":423,"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":"\u201cVanity, Thy Name Is Woman\u201d","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"But in the end it was the corruption and oppression of public officials that created the injustice","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":64859,"alt":"","title":"is3-fashion-models","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models.png","width":1280,"height":1272,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-300x298.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-768x763.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":763,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-1024x1018.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1018,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1272,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1272,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-1200x1193.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1193,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is3-fashion-models-423x420.png","home_baner-width":423,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","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,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Isaiah","chapter":"3","chapter_main_number":"337","date":"20261214","wall_id":"337"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"440","name":"Wealth\/money","old_id":"840"},{"term_id":"547","name":"Punishment","old_id":"947"},{"term_id":"836","name":"poverty","old_id":"1236"}]},{"order":12,"id":"64628","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Isaiah 3 ","post_title":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Isaiah 3","slug":"sefaria-source-sheets-isaiah-3","old_id":"64628","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":42228,"post_title":"Sefaria","slug":"sefaria","old_id":"42228","first_name":"","last_name":"Sefaria","description":"Sefaria is a non-profit organization dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. 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\u201cJewish Views on Aging\u201d<\/a> by Evan Schultz: What do Jewish texts teach about growing older?<\/p>\r\n

\u201cTexts on Social Change v. Social Action\u201d<\/a> by AJWS Staff: Explore Jewish sources on our social responsibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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  1. All the roles; all the jewelry<\/em>. The two lists in Isaiah\u2019s prophecies this chapter include a great deal. Including somewhat dubious tasks such as \u201cthe expert enchanter\u201d (v. 3), and a long list of ornaments, including one possibly useful to that fortune-teller, \u201camulets\u201d (v. 20).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. No spirit of volunteering<\/em>. In the total anarchy that the prophet describes, no one is willing to accept the yoke of leadership and take responsibility for \u201cthis ruin.\u201d Everybody only wants to look out for themselves: \u201cThe other will thereupon protest, \u201cI will not be a dresser of wounds, With no food or clothing in my own house. You shall not make me chief of a people!\u201d (7).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. \u201cTheir [obvious] partiality in judgment accuses them.<\/em>\u201d Evil perhaps - but completely transparent. No need for a polygraph. Their guilt can be seen on their faces: \u201cThey avow their sins like Sodom, They do not conceal them\u201d (verse 9).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. 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