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The measure of a prophet did not depend on his popularity, nor even on his effectiveness. A prophet is a person whose whole being is possessed by a compelling sense of holy mission, a sense of agency and inescapable responsibility. This absolute dedication looks strange in the eyes of ordinary people, it seems as if \"the prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad\" (Hoshea 3:7), but there is nothing more true, or more holy, and the people ignore the prophet to their detriment. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I never knew a prophet, or thought I would meet one, until I met Elie Joseph, an uncompromising soldier in the battle to save Israel's soul from the cynicism of real-politik that hides the corruption of big money and deep state. Elie, an educator, and ardent Zionist raised in the Beitar movement, has dedicated every ounce of his energy to waging a war against Israel's weapons sales to murderous regimes. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Inspired by the actions of Raoul Wallenberg, and by a deep love of humanity, Elie is an island of sanity in an insane world in which we congratulate ourselves for Israel's moral standards, while willfully ignoring our active support of some of the worst human rights violators in the world- governments committing genocide and ethnic cleansing, sponsoring mass killing and rape. As we read the prophets, Elie is a reminder that their call is as relevant, as challenging, and as demanding as ever. Will the modern state of Israel guide itself by the light of these moral demands, or will it speak the language of the prophets while acting just like the kings of old, claiming pragmatism but enabling corruption? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Will we continue to ignore the prophetic call?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":65222,"alt":"","title":"Elie Joseph","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph.jpg","width":1563,"height":944,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-300x181.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":181,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-768x464.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":464,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-1024x618.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":618,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":928,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph.jpg","2048x2048-width":1563,"2048x2048-height":944,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-1200x725.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":725,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-695x420.jpg","home_baner-width":695,"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":"Prophets Of Today","tile_main_caption":"Elie Joseph","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Fighting Israel's arms sales to murderous regimes: railing against pragmatism that enables corruption","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":65222,"alt":"","title":"Elie Joseph","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph.jpg","width":1563,"height":944,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-300x181.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":181,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-768x464.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":464,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-1024x618.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":618,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":928,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph.jpg","2048x2048-width":1563,"2048x2048-height":944,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-1200x725.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":725,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Elie-Joseph-695x420.jpg","home_baner-width":695,"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":"10","chapter_main_number":"344","date":"20261223","wall_id":"344"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"327","name":"Today's Prophets","old_id":"727"},{"term_id":"539","name":"Israel","old_id":"939"},{"term_id":"634","name":"Military","old_id":"1034"}]},{"order":3,"id":"65247","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Challenges Of One God ","post_title":"The Challenges Of One God","slug":"the-challenges-of-one-god","old_id":"65247","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36147,"post_title":"Aaron Koller","slug":"aaron-koller","old_id":"36147","first_name":"Aaron","last_name":"Koller","description":"Aaron Koller is professor of Near Eastern studies at Yeshiva University, where he is chair of the Beren Department of Jewish Studies. 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Monotheism is a powerful idea. On the one hand, it creates new problems. In a polytheistic system, the destruction of a temple is painful, but it is not a reason for a theological crisis. It may simply mean that other gods have defeated, or even outvoted, my own god, as we read in some of<\/span> the Sumerian city laments<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For a monotheist, however, this is a major crisis, and entire biblical books (such as Ezekiel) are focused on this problem precisely: how can <\/span>our<\/span><\/em> God abandon us? Even more profoundly, the question of theodicy (\u201cwhy do bad things happen to good people?\u201d) only arises in a monotheistic worldview. Then we have to struggle to explain how an omniscient (all-knowing), omnibenevolent (all-good), and omnipotent (all-powerful) God can allow pain and suffering in the world. If there is no omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipotent God, there is no question.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So how does Assyria conquer Israel? The monotheistic answer is given in Isaiah 10:5: \u201cWoe! Assyria, rod of My anger \/ in whose hand, as a staff, is My fury!\u201d This short line encapsulates a fundamental theological teaching. If Assyria is ascendant, it is not <\/span>despite<\/span><\/em> God, but because of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is not the only view found in Tanakh. Elsewhere, it is implied that the various nations have their own gods \u2013 assigned to them by God Godself. (This view is developed and defended by Ramban \/ Nachmanides, most elaborately in his commentary on Leviticus 18:25.) The prophets object to that, however, in passages such as this one, or Amos 9: \u201cLook, I brought Israel up out of Egypt \u2013 but also the Philistines from Crete, and the Arameans from Qir!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This sort of radical monotheism, clearly prominent in prophetic thinking already in the days of Isaiah and Amos, does have a theological downside, however (besides the issue of theodicy): if God is God of the whole world, what makes Israel special? 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Isaiah began his prophecy with a formal prophetic declaration, a general monotheistic statement about the rise and fall of empires that attribute their success to their own gods. Such empires are only execut\u00ading God\u2019s will in the world and carrying out His mission, and they are but the rod that delivers God\u2019s punishment:<\/p>\r\n

Woe to Assyria, rod of My wrath \u2013 in whose hand, as a staff, is My fury \u2013 I send him against an ungodly nation, I charge him against a people that provokes Me, to take its spoil and to seize its booty, and to make it a thing trampled like the mire of the streets. (10:5\u20136)<\/p>\r\n

Assyria\u2019s task was to bring destruction upon nations deserving of pun\u00adishment, and they were successful. However, it may be asked how God could leave His people\u2019s fate in the hands of an evil, violent nation like Assyria. Isaiah\u2019s answer is that the Assyrian Empire is not actually in control, but rather God is ruling the world through<\/em> the Assyrian rulers. Assyria is an emissary for the punishment of wayward nations, and the Kingdom of Israel in particular.<\/p>\r\n

Sargon, however, is unaware that he is but a messenger, the rod of God\u2019s wrath. His arrogance surpasses all his predecessors:<\/p>\r\n

But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations. 'Are not my commanders all kings?' He says. Has not Calno fared like Carchemish, is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus? As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria \u2013 Shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols? (10:7\u201311)<\/p>\r\n

This imaginary monologue is a summary of the Assyrian conquest up until Sargon\u2019s time. Carchemish and Samaria, like Arpad, Hamath and Damascus before them, had become Assyrian provinces, and this was attributed to the Assyrian gods who looked on and controlled it all. Sargon perceived himself as the supreme ruler of all kingdoms, and he viewed his ever increasing subjects as dirt beneath his feet. He mocked the \u201ckingdoms of the idols,\u201d and promised that Jerusalem would meet the same end as Samaria. At this point, the prophet begins a description of Assyria\u2019s \u201cDay of Judgment\u201d (10:15\u201321).<\/p>\r\n

Here, Isaiah contributed to the development of the theory of reward and punishment. If the Assyrian conqueror was indeed but a tool in God\u2019s hand, then it would seem that he had no will of his own, and there is no point in judging, condemning, or punishing him. According to the prophecy, however, every person is created in God\u2019s likeness, and has freedom of choice, the most important aspect of which is their consciousness and intent. The king of Assyria was unaware that he was fulfilling God\u2019s will, and he would be punished for his own intentions, which violated the mission that he was given.<\/p>\r\n

From: Lau and Bin Nun, Isaiah: Prophet of Righteousness and Justice <\/em>(Maggid Books, 2019), chapter 10.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":65184,"alt":"","title":"Isaiah-LauBinNun","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun.png","width":1816,"height":1816,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-1024x1024.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun.png","2048x2048-width":1816,"2048x2048-height":1816,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-1200x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-420x420.png","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":"Excerpts from \"Isaiah: Prophet of Righteousness and Justice\"","tile_main_caption":"Sargon, The Evil Messenger","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Isaiah delivers a harsh vision of Assyria\u2019s historical role and its future downfall on its own Day of Judgment","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":65184,"alt":"","title":"Isaiah-LauBinNun","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun.png","width":1816,"height":1816,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-1024x1024.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun.png","2048x2048-width":1816,"2048x2048-height":1816,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-1200x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Isaiah-LauBinNun-420x420.png","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":"10","chapter_main_number":"344","date":"20261223","wall_id":"344"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"547","name":"Punishment","old_id":"947"},{"term_id":"953","name":"Assyria","old_id":"1353"}]},{"order":5,"id":"115693","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"The Tanakh Podcast-Isaiah10 ","post_title":"The Tanakh Podcast-Isaiah10","slug":"the-tanakh-podcast-isaiah10","old_id":"115693","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33692,"post_title":"Alex Israel","slug":"33692-2","old_id":"33692","first_name":"Alex","last_name":"Israel","description":"Alex Israel teaches Tanakh at the Pardes Institute, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and Matan, Jerusalem. 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In our chapter, Isaiah explains to his audience (which includes us!) that Assyria\u2019s successful conquest of Ephraim\u2014and now posing a threat to Judah\u2014was not due to any particular virtue on its part, but rather to God having selected them to be the instrument of His anger. He says:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ha! Assyria, rod (<\/span>shevet<\/span><\/em>) of My anger (\u2018<\/span>api<\/span><\/em>), in whose hand, as a staff (<\/span>mateh<\/span><\/em>), is My fury (`<\/em><\/span>evrati<\/span><\/em>)! I send him against an ungodly nation, I charge him against a people that provokes Me, to take its spoil and to seize its booty and to make it a thing trampled like the mire of the streets. (5-6)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rod and staff and anger and fury are synonymous word pairs that were treated by Ibn Ezra and Radak as identical in meaning (Radak: <\/span>kefel ha`inyan bemilim shonot<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> v. 6). Malbim,* however, once again, drew fine distinctions between them: \u2018<\/span>api<\/span><\/em> denotes anger, while `<\/span>evrati<\/span><\/em> is a form of curse; <\/span>shevet<\/span><\/em> symbolized sovereignty, and <\/span>mateh<\/span><\/em> is the instrument of its enforcement. This enabled him to produce the following commentary that not only sets limits on the Assyrian action, but also manages to inject a note of consolation into an otherwise catastrophic prophecy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(5) Assyria is <\/span>only<\/span><\/em> the rod of my anger; it has no dominion of its own. Only my anger has given it sovereignty and made it my instrument for their destruction. He then added: Even its domination and sovereignty are not unmitigated; only my anger and curse are its staff and only by means of my curse can it strike and it has no warrant over a nation I have not cursed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(6) The symbol of rulership I have granted it is on account of my dispatching it against the ungodly people of Israel. And the instrument of my wrath signifies that it has no authority to strike every nation\u2014righteous and wicked alike\u2014because I have appointed it only over the object of my anger, namely the tribe of Ephraim, and not over the righteous tribe of Judah. Even with respect to the object of my anger, it has no authority to destroy it but only to loot their property; their bodies can only be trampled like mire in the streets. Just as the mire is trampled in order to fashion from it bricks or pottery, so will they be trampled in order to repair them and have them repent; not to utterly destroy them.<\/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>\r\n

Image: Assyrian relief from the North-West Palace in Kalhu (c. 865-860 BCE) \/ 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The theme of telling Israel that they need to care for the widows and orphans appears multiple times in the book of Isaiah. But there\u2019s an interesting juxtaposition of this theme at the end of the ninth chapter and the beginning of the tenth. In Isaiah 9:16 God says that he will destroy all of Israel, including the widows and orphans. And then in Isaiah 10:1-2 Isaiah castigates the people of Jerusalem for not protecting widows and orphans. Why juxtapose these two messages? On the one hand God proclaims that everyone is evil and he will destroy the widows and orphans and yet the very next chapter the people are castigated for their treatment of the widows and orphans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We want to suggest three potential answers, each showing a slightly different way that the prophet can portray a theme or message by simple juxtaposition:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

1) When God declares that he will destroy the widows and orphans, the unwritten response from the people is- \u201cWhat can we do to prevent the destruction of the vulnerable?\u201d God takes that point and flips around and responds, \u201cIf you want to save the vulnerable from my wrath, you need to do a better job of protecting them yourselves!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2) Similarly, God says he is going to destroy the widows and orphans and then he turns to Israel and asks why didn\u2019t you protect them? In essence He is saying that it is Israel\u2019s fault that He has to destroy them along with all Israel. The people could have been better and not have this destruction. \u201cIf you feel bad right now, it's your fault not mine.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

3) Finally, such a staggering decision to destroy the most vulnerable of the population may have triggered a reaction from the listeners questioning how can God possibly harm those that are most vulnerable. Isaiah then turns around and throws it back at the people. You are blaming God for promising to destroy the widows and orphans and yet look how you yourselves treat them!?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Animal. Vegetable. Mineral. Metaphor<\/em>. The striking images in this chapter are taken from various realms. Notice, for instance, the king of Assyria boasting of the ease with which he has destroyed all the kingdoms of the area: \u201cI was able to seize, like a nest, The wealth of peoples; As one gathers abandoned eggs, So I gathered all the earth: Nothing so much as flapped a wing Or opened a mouth to peep\u201d (verse 14).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The ax, the saw, the hatchet and the iron<\/em>. In this chapter, there is frequent reference to tools used for trimming and chopping. Assyria is the ax and the saw in God\u2019s hands, but they themselves don\u2019t realize this, and so will be punished in turn when God cuts them down to size, lopping off their proud \u201ctreetop,\u201d as one chops down a tree.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Defeating Midian at the Rock of Oreb<\/em>. As we promised yesterday, in today\u2019s chapter as well there is reference to Gideon\u2019s battles, and his impressive victory over the Midianites. This time in verse 26, with additional details: The Rock of Oreb, the place that got its name from the victory over Oreb, the Midianite general (Judges 7:25). The victory over Assyria will be no less impressive.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Following the map.<\/em> The Assyrian army progresses from North to South, via relatively well-known settlements: Ai, Migron, Michmas, Maabarah, Geva, Ramah, Gibeah of Saul. Nearby villages take cover: Bath Gallim, Laishah, Anathoth, Madmenah and Gebim. Is this the path that Sennecharib took in his march to Jerusalem? From the archaeological record, and Assyrian records, a different, western route is surmised: it reaches Lachish and from there to Jerusalem. Did the Asssyrian army perhaps split into two parallel routes? Did this early prophecy perhaps not come true? 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