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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> begins with Isaiah\u2019s poetic thanks and celebration for God\u2019s deliverance:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In that day, you shall say: I will give thanks to You, O Lord ! Although You were angry with me, despite Your wrath, and You comfort me. Behold the God of my salvation! I am confident, unafraid, for <\/span>Yah<\/span><\/i> (God) is my strength and song and has been my deliverance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to<\/span> Talmud Bavli Niddah<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Rav Yosef<\/span><\/a>, apparently in one of his Shabbat sermons, illustrated Isaiah\u2019s words, \u201cI will give thanks to You, O Lord\u201d, with a parable. Two men left on a trip. When a thorn stuck one of them preventing him from continuing the trip, he started cursing in frustration. But when he heard that the ship on which his companion sailed had sunk in the sea, he realized that the thorn had saved him from death. So, then he started thanking God, praising Him for his delivery, despite the slight pain caused to him by the thorn. This illustrates the full verse in Isaiah: \u201cI will give thanks to You, O Lord. Although You were angry with me, Your wrath has turned back, and You comfort me\u201d. This parable further reflects the<\/span> verse<\/span><\/a>: \u201cBlessed is the Lord God, God of Israel, Who alone does wondrous things\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Appropriately, this parable and its midrashic elaboration are cited in the context of the Talmudic discussion of the wonderous formation of the human fetus. When a wineskin is filled, even if it is tied and held facing upward, the wine may leak out. But the Holy One, Blessed be He, forms the fetus in a woman\u2019s womb which faces downward, and yet the fetus does not emerge until the time of birth. Similarly, when a person weighs something on a balance scale, the heavier the item the more it descends. But when the Holy One, Blessed be He, forms a fetus, as it grows, it ascends upward in the womb. Moreover, if a person plants seeds of various species in one garden bed, each of the seeds sprouts from the ground as the specific species of its seed. But the Holy One, Blessed be He, forms the fetus in a woman\u2019s womb, the \u201cseeds\u201d (in modern terms, the ovum of the mother and the sperm of the father) are born as an infant of one sex. Yet another illustration of the miraculous phenomenon of birth -- a dyer mixes various colors when dyeing cloth, but when the cloth comes out of the vat it is of one color. However, when the Holy One, Blessed be He, forms the fetus in a woman\u2019s womb, each of its constituent \u201cseeds\u201d are reflected in the infant as distinct elements, such as the white of the eye, the varicolored iris and in the center of the eye the black pupil.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to<\/span> Midrash Exodus Rabbah<\/span><\/a>, Isaiah\u2019s exclamation: \u201cI am confident, unafraid\u2026\u201d, refers to the Messianic redemption, when Moses and the Israelites shall again sing, as at the former<\/span> redemption from Egyptian enslavement<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":94002,"alt":"","title":"job10-mother baby 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The Talmud in Berachot 33a discusses the place of Havdalah, marking the distinction between the Shabbat and the rest of the week, in the <\/span>amidah<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>and the subsequent transition to saying it over a cup of wine:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Initially, during the difficult, early years of the Second Temple, they established that Havdalah is to be recited in the <\/span>amidah<\/em> <\/span>prayer. Subsequently, when the people became wealthy, they established that Havdalah is to be recited over the cup of wine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although the Mishnah and Talmud talk about the practice of Havdalah on wine, neither discuss any additional verses beyond the blessings themselves. The verses recited with the kiddush during Shabbat make sense as they concern the commandment for Shabbat. However, there are no verses that describe the end of Shabbat. The practice of saying special verses in the Havdalah first appears in the commentary of the Rama (R. Moshe Isserlis) in the Shulchan Aruch. He references the second and third verses in this chapter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is our custom to say, before Havdalah that is done at home \u201cBehold the God who gives me triumph\u201d (Is. 12:2-3) etc. I raise the cup of deliverance (Psalms 116:13), etc. \u201cThe Jews enjoyed light and gladness, happiness and honor. (Esther 8:16), etc.; they are all recited as a good omen. (Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 296).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Rama does not give any reason beyond this cryptic statement. What is special about these two verses?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Behold the God who gives me salvation! I am confident, unafraid; For GOD is my strength and might,\u00a0 And has been my deliverance. Joyfully shall you draw water from the fountains of salvation (verses 2-3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(Sefardim have a different version of Havdalah with different verses).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yosef Tzvi Rimon, in his book on Shabbat, volume 2, discusses the various laws of Havdalah. He explains that these verses are chosen because the word \u201csalvation\u201d appears a total of six times between all the verses. These six words of salvation correspond to the six days of the week that we want God to extend his blessing beyond Shabbat. Rav Rimon also explains that the Rama\u2019s idea of \u201ca good sign\u201d includes some practices of having the Havdalah wine spill over, rubbing one\u2019s eyes with the Havdalah wine and using the Havdalah wine to extinguish the candle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These practices are based on the Talmud in Eruvin 65a \u201cAnyone in whose house wine does not flow like water is not yet included in the Torah\u2019s blessing, as it is stated: \u2018And He shall bless your bread and your water.\u2019\u201d Perhaps beyond providing two of the six words of salvation, the verses themselves talk about trusting in God to be that salvation. In that way, the verses serve a dual purpose. They are the perfect introduction to the idea of God\u2019s salvation during the week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The prophets of old expressed themselves in powerful, soaring rhetoric, in inspired bombasts of eloquence, and yes - in poetry. So it's no accident, that some of the people most appropriate for this 929 project on contemporary prophets are themselves poets! And poetesses. The feminist movement in particular has been graced (Paley) with an (Adrienne) rich array of (Marge) piercy-ing, prophetic voices that have contributed to this hard-won transformation to\u00a0a more just, inclusive world.
\r\nThis is the first in a series of feminist poets as contemporary prophets, working to change our consciousness and society.<\/p>\r\n

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There\u2019s a case to be made that Grace Paley was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed, in her spare time, to become one of the truly original voices of American fiction in the later twentieth century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Paley was often asked about the connection between her politics and her fiction. Sometimes she said that her subject matter turned out to be inherently political. Paley initially suspected that her work would be considered \u201ctrivial, stupid, boring, domestic, and not interesting,\u201d but she couldn\u2019t help it: \u201cEveryday life, kitchen life, children life had been handed to me.\u201d Another answer had to do with justice, the quality that Paley saw at the root of her literary and political endeavors. In a 1985 \u201cFresh Air\u201d interview, she told Terry Gross, \u201cWhen you write, you illuminate what\u2019s hidden, and that\u2019s a political act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

-Alexandra Schwartz, The Art and Activism of Grace Paley,<\/span> https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/05\/08\/the-art-and-activism-of-grace-paley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Quotes from Grace Paley:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cLet us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe only recognizable feature of hope is action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWe are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cit is possible with only a little extra anguish<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cI write for the still, small <\/span>possibility of justice.\u201d
\r\n
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Two verses in Isaiah 12 (v. 2 and 3) serve as the beginning of the introductory text for the Jewish ritual of Havdalah (<\/span>lit<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>separation; making a demarcation between Shabbat and the upcoming weekdays<\/span><\/i>), recited every Saturday evening at the conclusion of Shabbat:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2 Behold, God is my unfailing <\/span>help<\/span>; I will trust in God and will not be afraid. The Lord is my strength and song; God is my <\/span>Deliverer<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

3 With joy shall you draw water out of the wells of <\/span>salvation<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The verses in question could be understood as stark reminders that although we are transitioning <\/span>from<\/span> a time when we were able to intimately engage with thoughts about God\u2019s role in our lives via Shabbat\u2019s special prayers, festive meals, Torah study, and conversations with family and friends, <\/span>to<\/span> having to focus once again upon the every day, primarily secular, responsibilities over the course of the following six days, we should try to continue to keep in mind how he can rely on God, especially when the \u201cgoing gets rough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In effect, all of the introductory verses of Havdalah, including the two verses from Isaiah, sound a similar theme of reliance on God for salvation and assistance, with a single, blatant exception:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Psalms 3:9 \u201c<\/span>Salvation<\/span> belongeth unto the LORD; Thy blessing be upon Thy people. Selah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibid. 46:8 \u201cThe LORD of hosts is <\/span>with us<\/span>; the God of Jacob is <\/span>our high tower<\/span>. Selah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibid. 84:13 \u201cO LORD of hosts, happy is the man that <\/span>trusteth<\/span> in Thee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibid. 20:10 \u201cSave, LORD; let the King <\/span>answer us<\/span> in the day that we call.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Esther 8:16 \u201cThe Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Tehillim 116:13 \u201cI will lift up the cup of <\/span>salvation<\/span> and call upon the name of the LORD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not only does the verse from Esther cited in Havdalah\u2019s introduction not mention anything about God, but His name never appears in the entire Megillah<\/span>, leading the Talmud (Chullin 139b) to comment: \u201cWhere is Esther indicated in the Torah? \u2018And I will surely hide (<\/span>Astir<\/span><\/i>) My face\u2026\u2019\u201d (Deuteronomy 31:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Reading the story related in Esther could lead one to reach one of two conclusions. E<\/span>ither<\/span> that the Jews being saved from Haman\u2019s genocidal plans was entirely an exercise in serendipity, and they ended up celebrating their close brush with death and destruction due to pure luck. Or, rather,\u00a0<\/span>while God was not overtly perceived as the orchestrator of the events affecting the Persian Jewish community (as was clear, for example, in Exodus\u2019 account of the Jews being redeemed from Egypt), God nevertheless remained extremely active \u201cbehind the scenes.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The amalgam of verses introducing Havdalah make a case for the latter approach.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Following on the messianic vision of Isaiah 11, Isaiah continues here with the predicted response of the people. These are some of the best-known verses in the book (12:2-3), since they are recited at the end of Shabbat, in the <\/span>Havdalah<\/span><\/i> ceremony:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u05d4\u05b4\u05e0\u05bc\u05b5\u05d4 \u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d9\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b8\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d0\u05b6\u05d1\u05b0\u05d8\u05b7\u05d7 \u05d5\u05b0\u05dc\u05b9\u05d0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05e4\u05b0\u05d7\u05b8\u05d3 \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05bd\u05d9\u05be\u05e2\u05b8\u05d6\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d6\u05b4\u05de\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05ea \u05d9\u05b8\u05d4\u05bc \u05d4' \u05d5\u05b7\u05bd\u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05be\u05dc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05dc\u05b4\u05bd\u05d9\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b8\u05bd\u05d4. \u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05d0\u05b7\u05d1\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b6\u05dd \u05de\u05b7\u05d9\u05b4\u05dd \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e9\u05c2\u05b8\u05e9\u05c2\u05d5\u05b9\u05df \u05de\u05b4\u05de\u05bc\u05b7\u05e2\u05b7\u05d9\u05b0\u05e0\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d4\u05b7\u05d9\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b8\u05bd\u05d4.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Look, the God of my triumph! I am confident, unafraid; For Yah the LORD is my strength and might, And He has been my deliverance. You will joyfully draw water from the fountains of triumph.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophetic metaphor of God as water source, and divine involvement as water itself, is activated here in saying that the Jews will draw from the fountains of triumph \u2013 and God is the God of triumph! So Godly sustenance is close at hand, and the people\u2019s thirst for deliverance will thus be quenched.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is something unfair about this praise, though, when we recite it in the\u00a0<\/span>Havdalah<\/span><\/em>. We gloss over the first verse of our chapter, which confronts the complexity head-on: \u201cAlthough You were wroth with me, Your wrath has turned back, and You comfort me.\u201d God may be the source of our salvation, but he was also the cause of our suffering beforehand. Now, of course, this is a cycle, and God caused us to suffer because of our behavior.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Granting God credit for delivering the people from oppression that God brought about is like a prisoner singing the praises of the warden who lets her out at the end of her sentence, or a child who thanks his parent for declaring that a period of punishment is now over. These scenarios seem, in fact, quite natural, although they are logically odd.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our own day, there is a reflex of these in the responses of some thinkers to the catastrophes and the miracles of the Jewish 1940s. For some theologians, such as Eliezer Berkovitz, God is not to blame for the Holocaust \u2013 humankind must bear full responsibility for that \u2013 but God gets at least some of the credit for the establishment of the State of Israel. Isaiah doesn\u2019t shy away from acknowledging both sides: Although you were wroth, you comfort me. 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This short chapter outlines the song that the Jews will sing when they are redeemed (12:1-6). Continuing with the connection to the redemption from Egypt in the previous chapter, the song of redemption quotes from the Song of the Sea (12:2), and also quotes from the Psalms (105:1). If this redemption is as great as the original Exodus, then surely the song will be great as well (30:29).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Most of the various parts of the redemption vision can only be fulfilled by God; for who else can usher in world peace or gather the exiles as in chapter 11? But this final aspect of the redemption is something the Jewish people can control; they may author their own song and sing words of praise. Yet, there is no record of the people singing any song of thanks when they are redeemed (see 37:36), an observation that was not lost on the Midrash (Ptikha to Eikha Rabba 30) and Talmud (Sanhedrin 94a).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, the traditional Jewish explanation of this chapter has generally been that it is precisely this flaw that was the reason why the dramatic Messianic predictions of chapters 2, 9, and 11 did not come to pass. Yes, Hezekiah was a righteous leader from the line of David, as the Messiah would be. But the Messiah would also need to be someone who would sing the songs of praise to recognize that the dramatic redemption was Divine in its origin and not merely politics, war and statecraft playing their usual roles. For whatever reason (was he too weary from the siege?\u00a0 too wounded from the losses of life and territory on the way?) Hezekiah was unable to compose the songs of thanks \u2013 and this disqualified him from becoming the Messiah as originally planned.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maimonides famously writes that positive predictions cannot be revoked and are not contingent on human beings keeping up to a standard. Though this is one view in Jewish philosophy, the Talmud has a different view on the basis of our story. Hezekiah is predicted to be the Messiah who ushers in world peace \u2013 provided he can maintain the highest standard. 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Some believe that the future is simply the sum total of the consequences of the past. If every event is the product of a previous choice, then the future is already determined and simply plays out life a movie: the ending never changes, and we are all simply following a script already written and decided. Others affirm that the future marks a cycle of endless return, as it was in the beginning, so it shall be in the end, or \u201crenew our days as of old.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As tempting as those visions of the future might be, and as much as they might seem to answer to a mechanistic view of the universe, Judaism has generally reached beyond it, to affirm a future that is both open and joyous. The capstone of such vision is that of Isaiah, whose words are so vital that the sages placed them front and center in the weekly Havdalah ritual. We literally start each week by reminding ourselves: \u201cThe Lord is my strength and might, and God has been my deliverance. Joyfully shall you draw water from the fountains of triumph!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With each new week, we enter a future that is meant to be more radiant than the past. Every new week offers a chance to make better choices, to fashion a better world. Relying on God\u2019s desire that each of us should shine and rise, offering us the insight to make the best possible choice and the resilient capacity to implement it, we face tomorrow with confidence and excitement. Isn\u2019t that the very heart of any deliverance? We need not repeat the past endlessly, nor are we trapped by what we have done (or what has been done to us) before. We are literally delivered from those constraints and open into a tomorrow of possibility and shimmering color.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Which is why we are invited to joy. Like a gushing fountain, from which water seems endlessly new and capable of washing away any accumulated crud, the future flows through us and wafts us into cool, splashing delight.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Tomorrow is open, awaiting our choices and our expansive deeds. With joy, we will dance into that future with gratitude inspired hope, and faces shining as they can only when newly washed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are bathed with waters of joy, floating on a fountain of salvation.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":65426,"alt":"","title":"is12-fountain","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain.jpg","width":1920,"height":1281,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1025,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1281,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-1200x801.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":801,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-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":"","tile_main_caption":"A Future Of Joy And Song","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Floating on a fountain of salvation, each week anew: shine and rise!","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":65426,"alt":"","title":"is12-fountain","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain.jpg","width":1920,"height":1281,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1025,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1281,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-1200x801.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":801,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is12-fountain-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"12","chapter_main_number":"346","date":"20261227","wall_id":"346"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"403","name":"Redemption","old_id":"803"},{"term_id":"619","name":"Free Will","old_id":"1019"},{"term_id":"743","name":"Joy","old_id":"1143"}]},{"order":11,"id":"65445","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"How To Enlarge \u2018A Shortened Soul\u2019 ","post_title":"How To Enlarge \u2018A Shortened Soul\u2019","slug":"how-to-enlarge-a-shortened-soul","old_id":"65445","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34250,"post_title":"Sarah Rudolph","slug":"sarah-rudolph","old_id":"34250","first_name":"Sarah ","last_name":"Rudolph","description":"Sarah Rudolph is a freelance Jewish educator, writer, and editor. 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\u201cAnything that is difficult for a person, the phrase \u2018shortening of the soul\u2019 (kitzur nefesh)<\/em> applies: like a person for whom troubles come, and his mind is not wide enough to accept it; he has no space within his heart for that pain to dwell.\u201d (Rashi, Numbers 21:4)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whether we speak in terms of heart, mind, or soul, coping with a challenge requires the \u201cspace\u201d to hold that challenge within us. If I have an object that cannot simply be discarded, but no attic or file cabinet or unused corner in which to place it, that object will confront and confound me. With no way to compartmentalize it, I will be forced to reckon with it constantly \u2013 dumped on the kitchen table, it will have to be moved so we can eat dinner; dropped on the floor, I will have to step over it, which might itself be impossible if there is more junk on the floor around it. So too, if a challenge is too great to fit into our current capabilities, we will be unable to meet and move past it. We might try to ignore it, shift it around in our consciousness as we attempt to go on with other things \u2013 but it\u2019s always there, in the way.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When it comes to physical items, it can be relatively easy to make more space: we might get rid of something else; if we have the means, we might acquire more storage units or even add on to our homes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But how do we increase mental or emotional space?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0And you will draw water with joy, from the wellsprings of salvation (Isaiah 12:3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi here explains that \u201ctheir hearts will be broadened by the salvation that arrives for them, and secrets of Torah will be revealed to them that were forgotten in Babylonia[n exile] because of troubles.\u201d Challenges might narrow our mental or emotional \u201cspace\u201d \u2013 and successes, perhaps finding support from another (or Another, if we are fortunate to perceive that support in our lives), can enlarge it. The more \u201csalvation\u201d we experience, the more space we have to expand our minds and hearts, to hold onto and cope with more than we thought possible.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And there is one more word here, that Rashi doesn\u2019t address but that seems to offer another means by which one might create space: \u201cwith joy.\u201d Marie Kondo famously advises letting go of those items that don\u2019t spark joy, but perhaps she has it backwards: If we can find ways to increase joy (and perhaps one method is by searching out those bits of \u201csalvation\u201d in our lives), we might discover we have created the space to handle more than we thought we could fit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 12 in the Book of Isaiah provides a summation for the prophecies attributed to the Prophet Isaiah in the beginning twelve chapters of the book. We read in verses 1-2:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In that day, you shall say: \u201cI give thanks to You, O LORD! Although You were wroth with me, Your wrath has turned back and You comfort me,\u00a0Behold the God who gives me triumph! I am confident, unafraid; For Yah the LORD is my strength and might, And He has been my deliverance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Isaiah\u2019s reminder to the Israelites is a revolutionary statement that reminds the Israelites of God\u2019s love and loyalty to them. Here, God shows the Israelites unconditional love and understanding despite their actions. God reminds them of their status as His people and reaffirms His love for them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter, although short, reminds us of the significance of the relationships that we have in our modern lives. God\u2019s relationship to the Israelites is predicated on unconditional love, much like the unconditional love that we feel in our more meaningful relationships. Our strongest platonic, romantic, and familial relationships are based on unconditional love, understanding, and open and honest communication. The most significant part of a healthy relationship is the demonstration of unconditional love, even if we don\u2019t live up to the expectations that we make for ourselves. 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As we have already seen several times, Malbim* was inclined to put as positive a spin on the prophecies of Isaiah as their language permitted. Here, too, his substantive remarks on God\u2019s salvation, featured prominently\u2014and repetitively\u2014in vs. 2-3, were predicated upon the distinctions between being saved and simply being assisted out of one\u2019s distress.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Assistance (`<\/span>ezer<\/span><\/em>) is only help and the major part of [the activity] still needs to be done by the one being assisted. Salvation (<\/span>yeshu`ah<\/span><\/em>), however, requires no action on the part of the one being saved; it is all done by the savior\u2026 that is why he says \u201cBehold the God who saves me,\u201d as an act of complete grace, and therefore \u201cI am confident, unafraid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Drawing water (5) likewise came in for one of Malbim\u2019s fine distinctions, namely that the verb SH-\u2018-B implies a lesser effort than D-L-H (see Exodus 2:19). Therefore:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not only will you be unafraid lest salvation pass you by, you will even obtain new salvations, from time to time, as though the \u201cwells of salvation\u201d had been opened, which flow perpetually and are renewed even as water is drawn from them. To this extent, the one who draws from them does so in joy, knowing that the source will not dry up.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps Malbim\u2019s interpretation of these verses can account for their incorporation into the Havdalah service performed at the end of every Shabbat. We recognize that we, too, are drawing, almost effortlessly, upon ceaseless reserves of salvation and we express our joy that no matter how much we draw from them, they seem never to be exhausted.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Although our chapter is one of the shortest chapters in the Bible (six verses only), it suggests a unique eternal pattern of relationship between God and his chosen people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God gives Israel comfort and joy and strength and might and deliverance and glory and triumph. In return Israel thanks God for his tremendous help.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is the glorious triumph that Isaiah mentions again and again in our chapter?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Was it the ancient triumph over the Egyptian army in the days of Moses?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is it Judah's triumph over the armies of Aram and Israel in the days of King Ahaz?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is it Judah's triumph over the Assyrian army in the days of King Hezekiah?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Will it be the promised return from the diaspora of the deported tribes of Israel?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Will it be the promised creation of a peaceful vegetarian world in the end of days?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or maybe all the answers above are correct. Maybe the prophecy tells us that the chain of God's triumphs and his people's thanks never ends.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Certain important philosophers and historians of religion once claimed that the Bible marked a radical break with the dominant ancient conception of time. For most ancient civilizations, the theory went, time was cyclical\u2014a perpetual circle of order giving way to chaos giving way again to order, life yielding to death yielding again to life. But ancient Israel was supposed to be different: as monotheists, they conceived of time linearly. The God who was above time itself could act without precedent, once and for all. Abraham\u2019s call, the exodus, Sinai\u2014all of these were radically unique events.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This theory has fallen on hard times, and rightfully so. It is a misleadingly simplistic (if not outright inaccurate) characterization of both ancient civilizations in general and the Bible in particular. Linear conceptions of time appear outside of Israel, and the Bible is no stranger to cyclicality. One particularly vivid example may be found in Isaiah 12.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The stage is set in the previous chapter. Isaiah 11 depicts God\u2019s restoration of subjugated Israel as nothing less than a second exodus: \u201cIn that day, my Lord will apply His hand again to redeeming the other part of His people from Assyria\u201d (Isa 11:11). Once God has made a path \u201csuch as there was for Israel when it left the land of Egypt\u201d (Isa 11:15), the prophet informs the people that, on that day, they will sing to their redeemer, \u201cBehold the God who gives me triumph! I am confident, unafraid; For Yah the LORD is my strength and might, And He has been my deliverance. \u2026 Hymn the LORD, For He has done gloriously\u201d (Isa 12:2, 5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If this sounds familiar, you are not imagining things. It both quotes and alludes to the so-called \u201cSong at the Sea\u201d (Exod 15:1\u201318), which Moses and Israel sang to God after the original exodus from Egypt. Now, in the age foreseen by Isaiah, the new exodus will culminate with the same song. Returning to their land from the clutches of Assyria, Israel will effectively stand once again on the shores of the Sea of Reeds and proclaim God\u2019s glorious kingship\u2014this time, forever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A well-known rabbinic adage goes, \u201cThe stories of the ancestors are paradigms for the descendants.\u201d Long before the rabbis, however, Isaiah already affirmed this ideal. Jewish history is not simply a forward-facing march. Divine actions that seem discrete and linear in isolation might ultimately constitute a historical cycle so vast in scale that it takes a prophet to perceive it. The songs of a storied past may yet be those of a redeemed future.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Sing To The Lord An Old-New Song","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Divine actions that seem isolated might ultimately constitute a historical cycle so vast in scale that it takes a prophet to perceive it. The songs of a storied past may yet be those of a redeemed future","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","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":"12","chapter_main_number":"346","date":"20261227","wall_id":"346"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"420","name":"Time","old_id":"820"},{"term_id":"506","name":"Prophecy","old_id":"906"},{"term_id":"550","name":"Future","old_id":"950"}]},{"order":16,"id":"65418","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Strength And Song, Strength As Song ","post_title":"Strength And Song, Strength As Song","slug":"strength-and-song-strength-as-song","old_id":"65418","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. He has written over twenty books, focusing on such topics as the European novel from the 18th century to the present, contemporary American fiction, and modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on the literary aspects of the Bible. His most recent work is his monumental three volume translation of the entire Hebrew Bible - The Hebrew Bible, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019 - from which the selections in 929 are taken. ","short_description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of the three-volume translation of the entire Hebrew Bible - The Hebrew Bible, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019.","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":54357,"alt":"","title":"robert alter","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","width":184,"height":275,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","medium-width":184,"medium-height":275,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","medium_large-width":184,"medium_large-height":275,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","large-width":184,"large-height":275,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","1536x1536-width":184,"1536x1536-height":275,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","2048x2048-width":184,"2048x2048-height":275,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","post_full_size-width":184,"post_full_size-height":275,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","home_baner-width":184,"home_baner-height":275}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"346","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"A celebration of deliverance and national triumph","post_main_content_content":"

12: 2 \u201cLook, God is my deliverance, I trust and fear not. For my strength and my power is Yah, and He became my deliverance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This translation follows the scholarly consensus that <\/span>zimrah<\/span><\/i> means \u201cpower\u201d or \u201cmight\u201d and is a homonym for the more common word that means \u201csong\u201d or \u201chymn\u201d. It might be said, however, that in thanksgiving psalms the root <\/span>z-m-r<\/span><\/i>, which appears quite frequently, always has the sense of song. This entire line is a verbatim quotation from the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:2), which is appropriate because the earlier text is one of the great poetic celebrations of national triumph through God\u2019s aid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible, <\/span><\/i>vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. Happy water<\/em>. It\u2019s not just wine that makes the heart glad. In verse 3, divine salvation is water, which brings great joy: \u201cJoyfully shall you draw water From the fountains of triumph.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/em> If verse 2 seems familiar - <\/span>\u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9-\u05e2\u05b8\u05d6\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d5\u05b0\u05d6\u05b4\u05de\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05ea \u05d9\u05b8\u05d4\u05bc \u05d4' \u05d5\u05b7\u05d9\u05b0\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9-\u05dc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05dc\u05b4\u05d9\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05b8\u05d4<\/span> -\u00a0 \u201cFor Yah the LORD is my strength and might, And He has been my deliverance,\u201d that\u2019s because it appeared 281 chapters ago, in the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. What are we being so thankful for, anyway?<\/em> Commentators have some suggestions - worth a read.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"Isaiah 12","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"12","chapter_main_number":"346","date":"20261227","wall_id":"346"},"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\/65027"}],"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=65027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}