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After several chapters of poetic prophecies, God shifts tactics and prepares Isaiah for a performative prophecy. In order to mimic the future exile of Egypt and Ethiopia, Isaiah is instructed to walk about naked and shoeless.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is unclear from the text how long Isaiah walked around without clothes and unshod. According to Rashi, the three years in verse three are the number of years that Isaiah walked around undressed. This would mean that Isaiah\u2019s actions were a years-long warning to the Egyptians and Ethiopians. Ibn Ezra explains that the three years is simply the time period after Isaiah walks around naked that the prophecy will come true. The implication is that Isaiah was only nude for a short period of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does God choose both naked <\/span>and<\/span><\/em> barefoot? These two states of undress have been used in the past to signify a tragic exile. In the great rebuke in Deuteronomy, God warns the Israelites that if they do not obey God, they will be sent into exile naked and afraid:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You shall have to serve\u2014in hunger and thirst, naked and lacking everything\u2014the enemies whom God will let loose against you. [God] will put an iron yoke upon your neck until you are wiped out\u201d (Deut. 28:48).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now this punishment is being turned against enemies of the Israelites as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When David fled Jerusalem from Absalom, he ran away barefoot:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David meanwhile went up the slope of the [Mount of] Olives, weeping as he went; his head was covered and he walked barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered their heads and wept as they went up (II Sam 15:30).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just as the great king of Israel fled from his royal perch in haste and barefoot, so too will the grand enemies of Israel be debased and forced to flee barefoot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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It reminds me that we weren\u2019t intended to be perfect\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

Ring the bells that still can ring<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Forget your perfect offering<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This call of Leonard Cohen to the human race addresses the deep, multi-dimensional crisis of today\u2019s values that drive the human experience, both collective and individual. We live in an age where imagined \u2018optimal\u2019 impossible-to-reach standards set the tone in all areas of our lives, as objectives to reach, if we are to be good.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is true for employees, managers and workers, doctors and policemen, the parents among us, the children among us, partners. Our role in society, our bodies, everything is measured by the optimum, as if it were a possible, accessible human goal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But it is not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These imagined objectives sentence us all to chronic dissatisfaction, perpetual frustration with\u00a0 ourselves, and those around us. This is a dissatisfaction that motivates us to act, generally in self-destructive ways. Dissatisfaction with our achievements at work will lead us to work more, sometimes beyond our limits, the limits of our resources. Dissatisfaction with our bodies can lead us to consume anything that can \u201cimprove\u201d us, and move us toward that unattainable model of fitness or glamour, guaranteeing continual restless movement. Dissatisfaction is the economic engine that drives us all for the sake of consumption and growth, and shapes our lives and culture.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is not only in the meaning and the experience of our personal lives that this chronic dissatisfaction leaves its mark, but also in our ability to give something back to our environment, to be good people, and not to give ourselves over, and settle for being people of culture. Having tickets to the opera in a Louis Vitton bag doesn\u2019t make us cultured, if we have forgotten those who lower their gaze and hold out their hand at the entrance to the concert hall, and all the defeated ones among us, that have been forced to that wide, invisible periphery, in the mechanism of injustice that manufactured dissatisfaction has created for us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are human beings, we were not intended to be perfect. If we continue to run, and to run, sure that we must achieve that which we are not destined for, we will miss out on, and ultimately trample, everything that makes this life worth living.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perfection is deficient; it is deficiency which is whole, because it reminds us of our nothingness, our modesty which enables us to see and to love others, to accept what is, to draw closer to truth, and to create out of nothingness instead of emptying ourselves out to the light of a counterfeit reality. Deficiency has a role. It is what charges us, as sons and daughters of the human tissue, it charges our lives with meaning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And thus Leonard Cohen continues his prophetic call, for us, for all of human society.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a crack in everything<\/span>
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This chapter is one of a number of chapters in the later prophets where the prophet is asked to engage in an unusual, troubling action. The prophet walks without shoes and clothes (either only in sack cloth or even bereft of that) for three years, predicting the fall of Egypt, thereby reminding the Jews that Egypt would not be able to help save them from the Assyrians. Our story echoes the disturbing stories of Hosea marrying an adulterous woman (chapters 1-2) and Ezekiel\u2019s wife dying (chapter 24) \u2013 in each story, a reader finds it hard to imagine how a saintly prophet and his family could be asked to engage in such behaviors!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi and the Talmud take all of these texts literally \u2013 one should follow the simple meaning of the text \u201cpeshuto shel mikra<\/em>\u201d and therefore if the text indicates that the stories happened, then we must assume they happened, without evidence to the contrary.\u00a0 As is his wont, Ibn Ezra follows the more Midrashic view, arguing the texts did not really happen as they appear to have. Instead, the prophet is given a vision of himself engaging in the unusual action, and then relays that message to the people, \"I saw myself walking without clothes.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi\u2019s view gives a more robust sense of the purpose and role of prophecy. Prophets do not just convey a message from their Creator, they try to influence, impact, and change people. Words can only go so far \u2013 but enacting and living an unusual life provides an unshakable, visual recollection of the message, and so people cannot help but remember the message that one day soon Egypt would be defeated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The life of the prophet is not easy.\u00a0 The prophet will face adversity, and \u2013 as we see in this chapter and as we saw in chapters 7-8 \u2013 the prophet\u2019s own life becomes part of the messaging and drama. If only the people will listen and learn that the Egyptians will not save them from the Assyrians. And so the denizens of that one, lonely, solitary \u201cisland\u201d (a metaphor for the lonely Jerusalem, the one city still free from Assyrian rule) will realize their only true support comes from the Almighty, and turn to Him for salvation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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During Assyria\u2019s first campaign against Ashdod (713 BCE), God com\u00admanded the prophet to remove the sackcloth that he was wearing\u2026 He was then commanded to remove his shoes and walk \u201cnaked and barefoot\u201d through the streets of Jerusalem for three years...[I]t is difficult, even painful, to contemplate the prophet, a man of royal bearing, being an object of ridicule for so long, at God\u2019s command.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, [it] is not merely a metaphor or prophetic parable. Although sackcloth often symbolizes mourning in the Bible, it also represents supplication, pleading for salvation, and prayer (see Ben Haddad\u2019s words in I Kings 20:31\u201332, and Ahab\u2019s deeds in I Kings 21:20, among others), and this seems to be the case in this chapter of Isaiah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of Sargon\u2019s records documents that the initiator of the Ash\u00addod rebellion turned to some of his neighbors: \u201cKing Azuri of Ashdod secretly plotted that he would no longer pay tribute to Assyria, and he sent out delegates to his neighboring kings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah saw the seeds of this process begin to sprout, and became deeply disturbed. Twenty years earlier, he had stood before Ahaz, des\u00adperately trying to convince him to stay out of the Aram-Israel-Assyria conflict, but to no avail; Ahaz appealed to the king of Assyria, who turned Judah into an Assyrian province. During the years that Ahaz considered himself to be Tiglath-Pileser\u2019s servant and son, Jerusalem became defaced, a city of idolatry.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After these difficult years, Ahaz\u2019s son Hezekiah redeemed and purified Jerusalem. These were years of returning to God and the traditions, of Jerusalem\u2019s expansion, and of reunion with the remaining tribes of Israel. All this restored the city to its former glory, and renewed the prophet\u2019s faith in the institution of earthly rule. Perhaps this king was worthy to sit upon David\u2019s throne, for he clung to his God in faith and devotion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But now, Isaiah\u2019s old fears crept back; would this king, too, be sucked into local politics and hopeless, useless treaties? Would Isaiah once again be forced to explain that a rebel coalition was nothing but a fantasy that would lead the people away from God\u2019s will? A local rebellion would rely upon Egypt, who promised aid, but was locked in fierce internal struggles.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Tartan\u2019s campaign to Ashdod was no secret. As the Assyrian forces marched towards their destination, the people knew that doom and destruction were on their way. Terror and panic seized the people of Jerusalem. The Assyrians were on their way to punish Ashdod, but there was no guarantee of safety for those who had joined their alliance, or even those who received their delegates.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Assyrian army descended upon Ashdod, and Jerusalem held its breath. Isaiah donned sackcloth and prayed for salvation from the sword of Sargon. Presumably, he began his supplications as soon as he heard that the Tartan\u2019s campaign had commenced. 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Our chapter harkens back to 2 Kings 18:17, which names Tartan, along with Rav-Saris and Rav- Shakeh, as emissaries dispatched by Sargon as he launched the earliest Assyrian attack on Judean territory. We learn, here, that at that time God also instructed Isaiah to loosen and then remove his clothes and shoes (2) as a visible sign of mourning over the impending fate of Judah. Rashi, sensitive to the honor of Isaiah, insisted that he did not actually go naked and barefoot for three years; rather, he wore torn and worn out-clothing. Malbim was prepared to accept it literally, but limited the nakedness to \u201ca day, or even just a brief time, in his own home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The matter of this peculiar prophetic behavior also elicited the following observation from Malbim* on the nature of prophecy:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I have explained elsewhere that any divine prophecy predicting evil could conceivably be annulled because God is compassionate and gracious and when they repent, He annuls the decree. Witness the prophecy of Jonah to Nineveh, and Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy to Hananiah ben Azur (Jer. 28).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, whenever God reinforces the prophecy by having the prophet conduct some activity, the matter is inevitable, more so if that activity involved something remarkable to the audience. Indeed, the more eccentric his instructions, the more certain its fulfillment, which is why it is called a sign (\u2018<\/span>ot<\/span><\/i>) or wonder (<\/span>mofet<\/span><\/i>): a sign, because it aids memory, and\u00a0 a wonder due to its peculiarity to the audience.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This also explains God\u2019s instructions to [the Prophet] Hoshea to \u201ctake a promiscuous woman\u201d (1:2), and similar cases.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our comments on chapter 11<\/a>, we noted that Malbim explained that optimistic prophecies, such as those predicting the messianic age, could be delayed\u2014albeit not annulled\u2014if the people were found undeserving. Here, he offered the converse: catastrophe might be averted if anticipated by genuine remorse, but prophecies that were accompanied by unusual actions were bound to be fulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In our chapter, Isaiah joins the list of prophets who act in shocking manners.\u00a0 After the Assyrians capture the city of Ashdod, God commands Isaiah to \"Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off your shoe from your feet.\" The verses then describe Isaiah who walks away- naked and barefoot. If this wasn't enough, we then have a prophecy of God explaining the reason Isaiah needed to walk naked and barefoot FOR THREE YEARS.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is almost as shocking as when we read that God commanded Hosea to marry a well-known prostitute, with the knowledge that she has no plans in quitting her job (Hosea chapter 1). Indeed, Hosea followed God's orders, married Gomer the prostitute and named the three children she bore, and he was not the father of any of them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One prophet who objected to a shocking commandment was Ezekiel. At first he was commanded to lie on his left side for 390 days, and he didn't complain. He was then commanded to lie on his right side for 40 more days, and here too he doesn't object. But after completing his 14 months of lying on his side, he was commanded to make a barley cake and \"bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man\", and here Ezekiel\u00a0 protests. God does not heed Ezekiel's objections, and commands him to eat this dish with the exact ingredients which he commanded. (Ezekiel chapter 4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These shocking acts are not random. In each of these cases, the acts that the prophets did were highly symbolic. The three years of Isaiah walking naked, Hosea marrying a prostitute, the names of their children, the days Ezekiel lies on his side, and the dung that he needed to eat all have clear symbolism, spelled out in the Bible itself. The question is: how did these prophets do abnormal, unethical, and inhuman acts and still retain the respect of the people?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The key to understanding these acts is realizing that the prophet did not do them in reality, but rather they acted them out in a play. A prophet has the job of <\/span>communicating<\/em> <\/span>God's message. Communication is more than speaking; it is ensuring that the other party hears your message. If a prophet walked into the middle of the market place and started shouting out his prophecies, who would listen?\u00a0 He would either be looked at as insane or irrelevant. But if a prophet acted out a play in the middle of the market, who wouldn't stop his shopping to enjoy good entertainment? Therefore, to be a successful prophet, besides being a spiritual person, you would need to have good drama skills.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter opens with a specific date \u2013 well, specific by biblical standards: \u201cIn the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod, when King Sargon of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it.\u201d The short prophecy that follows tells of the coming fall of \u201cEgypt and Kush\u201d at the hands of Assyria. Egypt at the time \u2013 this is the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty \u2013 was ruled from the south, and the kings were in fact \u201cNubian\u201d rather than native Egyptian.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When did the <\/span>tartanu<\/span><\/i> (an Assyrian title) arrive at Ashdod? The context is developed in an important<\/span> book on Isaiah<\/span><\/a> by Dr. Shawn Zelig Aster. As he argues, Sargon narrated the background for these events for us in an inscription relating to 716 BCE:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Azuri, king of Ashdod, whose heart planned not to bring tribute, therefore sent (messages containing) hostility against the land of Assyria to the kings surrounding him. Because of the crimes he committed towards the people of his land, I changed his rule. I established Ahimti his beloved brother, over them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But the people of Ashdod did not accept their new king, Ahimti, and in 714, when Sargon was busy fighting up in eastern Turkey or northwestern Iran, and the Ashdodites took the opportunity to overthrow Ahimti. Again, Sargon tells the story:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They appointed Yamani, a <\/span>\u1e2bup\u0161u<\/span><\/i> soldier, who was not a master of the throne, to the kingship over them, and seated him on the throne of his lordship.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Most importantly, this was not just a local event in Ashdod. The Ashdodites got help from many of their neighbors, including Judah, and finally relied on Egyptian aid, as well:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To the kings of Philistia, Judah, Edom, and Moab, who live by the sea, who bear tribute and gifts of the god Ashur my lord, (they sent) words of lies and words of treachery, to make them hostile to me. To Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, who will not save, they sent payments seeking help, and asked repeatedly for auxiliaries.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Egyptian focus in Isaiah\u2019s prophecy then makes good sense. Ashdod relied on Egypt for help against Assyria; Isaiah retorts that Egypt itself will soon need help! And Isaiah\u2019s involvement becomes clearer overall. When the Assyrians came back, in 712, to punish Ashdod for the insurrection, it was not only Ashdod, but all of its enemies, who were punished. There are cities in Judah which archaeologists have found were destroyed at this time, and this was presumably punishment for supporting Yamani, the anti-Assyrian king of Ashdod.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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20:1 \u201cIn the year Tartan came to Ashdod when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he battled against Ashdod and captured it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This notation refers to an actual historical event. In 714 B.C.E. the coastal city of Ashdod rebelled against Assyria. Sargon dispatched a force against Ashdod under the command of Tartan, and in 711 the rebellion was suppressed, its leader taken prisoner, and the city reduced to subject status. All this leads one to suspect that precisely at this moment, Isaiah undertook the symbolic act spelled out in the following verses, even though it is directed to the fate of Egypt and Nubia, not Ashdod.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. From Philistia to Cush<\/em>. If the Philistines rebelled, why does the prophecy focus on Egypt and Cush as the ones to be defeated? Because, behind every small, rebellious country, there is a covenant with a big empire, who has their own interests. In this case, Egypt wanted Philistia as a buffer between it and the Assyrians, and so backed them in their revolt, and ended up paying the price. And what about Cush? In this period, the reigning dynasty in Egypt were the Nubians, who were Cushite.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. A continental island<\/em>. \u201cIn that day, the dwellers of this island shall say, \u2018If this could happen to those we looked to, to whom we fled for help and rescue from the king of Assyria, how can we ourselves escape?\u2019\u201d (verse 6). The \u201cisland\u201d dwellers who also trusted in Egypt are anxious, when they see the defeat of Egypt. Who are we talking about? Apparently, Judah. Why an island (or coastland)? Scholars and commentators have some interesting takes\u2026<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. A sign and a portent - but for whom<\/em>? To whom is Isaiah trying to communicate this message? Does he want Egypt to know that the divine plan is going forward? Does he want Judah to learn the lesson of Philistia and Egypt, and not enter into \u2018adventures\u2019 of this nature in the future? 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