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\u201cIn that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah\u201d (verse 1).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 26 is a joyous song, one thankful for God\u2019s redemption. The introductory verse is different from the ones used so far. The chapter does not use a prophetic opening phrase and it does not simply just start, like chapter 25. So why start with this introduction? Perhaps Isaiah is trying to contrast this song with the song mentioned in chapter 23 against Tyre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In that day, Tyre shall remain forgotten for seventy years\u2026After a lapse of seventy years, it shall go with Tyre as with the harlot in the ditty (23:15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There the song is one meant to mock and foretell of the nation's destruction, but here, in Jerusalem, there is a song of happiness and redemption. The chapter ends with a reference to the Exodus story:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Go, my people, enter your chambers, And lock your doors behind you. Hide but a little moment, until the indignation passes (20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse sounds like the commandment to the people in Egypt to hide in their houses during the plague of the death of the first born. God passed over the Israelites in Egypt just as he will pass over the ones in Jerusalem. The Exodus story ended in a great song at the sea, and the redemption in Jerusalem will also end with a brand new song of praise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter begins with the prophetic promise that <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In that day [i.e. the End of Days] this song will be sung\u2026Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith (Isaiah 26:1-2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An early midrashic text (Sifra Aharey Mot 8:13 to Leviticus 18:5) derives a remarkably universalistic teaching from our verse -- that a non-Jew who observes the Torah is like the Jewish high-priest. For it does not say: Open the gates that the Priests, Levites and Israelites shall come in, but that the \u201crighteous nation may enter\u201d. This suggests that a member of any righteous nation that \u201ckeeps the faith\u201d in the God of Israel by observing the commandments of the God of Israel may receive the reward of life in the World to Come.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to Talmud Bavli Sanhedrin 110b, Rabbi Meir is said to have stated that a person, no matter how young, is eligible to enter Paradise, from the first moment he says Amen. This is based on a midrashic re-reading of the final phrase of our verse, read not as shomer \u2018emunim<\/em> (\u201cthat keeps the faith\u201d) but as the similarly sounding Hebrew phrase she-\u2018omer Amen<\/em> (\u201cthat says Amen\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This midrash seemed to have been quite popular with the Rabbinic Sages. According to Talmud Bavli Shabbat 119b, Resh Lakish states that anyone who responds \u201cAmen\u201d with all his might, the gates of Paradise are opened for him, as it is written, \u201cOpen the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith\u201d. Read not shomer \u2018emunim <\/em>(\u201cthat keeps the faith\u201d) but rather she'omrim amen<\/em> (\u201cwho say amen\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A later rabbinic text (Seder Eliyyahu Zuta, Chapter 20) employs this midrashic re-reading of our verse in an extraordinary description of the eschatological future. After the Holy One, blessed be He, and those accompanying Him, have eaten together and recited the Grace after Meals, God will take hold of the Torah and give a Halakhic discourse, followed by King David who will give an aggadic discourse. Then the righteous in Paradise will exclaim: \u201cMay His great name be blessed for ever and ever\u201d, to which the transgressors of Israel in Hell will respond \u201cAmen\u201d. God will turn to the ministering angels and ask them: Who are they who are responding Amen from out of Gehenna?! And the angels will answer that these are the transgressors of Israel, for though they are in Hell suffering intense torment, they have summoned up all their remaining strength to cry out before you Amen! Whereupon, God will tell the ministering angels: Open up the Garden of Eden for the transgressors to come and sing Amen before Me. For Scripture states: \u201cOpen the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith [shomer \u2018emunim<\/em>\u2019]\u201d \u2013 those are the people who say Amen (she-\u2018omrim Amen<\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image: Gustave Dor\u00e9 - Henry Francis Cary (ed) (1892) \"Canto XXXI\" in The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. 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\u201cIn that day, this song shall be sung in the land of Judah\u2026 \u2018Open the gates, and let a righteous nation enter, [a nation] that keeps faith!\u2019\u201d (Isaiah 26:2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After the enemy falls, says the prophet, Judah\u2019s gates will be thrown open in a fit of triumphant glee at the city\u2019s newfound security \u2013 but who is it that will then be allowed to enter? \u201cA righteous nation, that keeps faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibn Ezra explains that \u201cit is only appropriate to open the gates of this country\u2026for the righteous\u201d \u2013 but how righteous does one have to be? Does entry require complete and total faith? Is it only those who never once doubted God\u2019s own faithfulness, despite and throughout a lengthy exile, who will merit to see that redemption?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>Shomer emunim<\/span><\/em>\u201d \u2013 only those people who keep faith. What does it mean to keep faith?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Several commentaries relate the word \u201c<\/span>shomer<\/span><\/em>\u201d (keep) in this verse to an apparently very different instance of the same Hebrew root. After Joseph shares his dreams with his brothers, provoking an increase in their ill will towards him, we are told \u201cand his father <\/span>shamar<\/span><\/em> the matter\u201d (Genesis 37:11). What does that <\/span>shamar<\/span><\/em> mean, and how might it shed light on our verse?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though Joseph\u2019s father rebukes him for his dream \u2013 whether for harboring delusions of grandeur, or for the mistake of sharing them with his brothers, is unclear \u2013 the verse informs the reader that in fact, he took the dream seriously. Jacob didn\u2019t dismiss the idea, but \u201ckept\u201d it \u2013 though commentaries differ in the degrees of certainty they ascribe to him about his son\u2019s destiny: perhaps he \u201cknew\u201d the dreams would come true (Chizkuni); maybe he was simply \u201cconcerned\u201d they might (Radak); or he might have \u201cthought\u201d it was possible and \u201cdesired\u201d that outcome (Seforno). As Abarbanel puts it in his comment on Isaiah, <\/span>sh\/m\/r<\/span><\/em> in both contexts could indicate \u201choping and waiting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And \u201choped\u201d does not have quite the same ring as \u201cknew.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Inclusion in God\u2019s final redemption of His people may not require the certainty of perfect, unwavering faith. The righteous who may enter the city \u201con that day\u201d are then not limited to those who <\/span>knew<\/span><\/em>, who never doubted they would be redeemed, but to those who <\/span>sh\/m\/r<\/em> <\/span>the prophecies of redemption, who didn\u2019t dismiss them. To those who, despite the long exile and even the uncertainties it brought, always held on to hope.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Isaiah 26:5 sounds like there will be no resurrection: \u201cThey are dead, they can never live; Shades, they can never rise!\u201d But what would we do then with the passages that say that God can bring people back from the dead, and will do so? That God <\/span>can<\/span><\/i> do so is found in Ezekiel 37, the vision of the dry bones:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Prophesy, therefore, and say to them: Thus said the Lord God: I am going to open your graves and lift you out of the graves, O My people, and bring you to the land of Israel. \u2026 I will put My breath into you and you shall live again, and I will set you upon your own soil. Then you shall know that I the Lord have spoken and have acted\u201d\u2014declares the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That God <\/span>will<\/span><\/i> do so is found only in Daniel 12 (where it is not entirely positive):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, others to reproaches, to everlasting abhorrence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What to do with our verse, then? The midrash (Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer 34:2) explains that it relates only to certain people, who do not deserve to live again:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yo\u1e25anan said: All the dead will arise at the resurrection of the dead, except the generation of the Flood, as it is said, \u201cThe dead shall not live, the Shades shall not rise\u201d (Isaiah 26:14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Still, to quote Lil\u2019 Wayne, \u201cYou know I see dead people, I just tell \u2019em, Get a life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":66279,"alt":"","title":"is26-rip","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-rip-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":"Resurrection?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Sure - 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In Chapter 26, Isaiah prophesies about the future redemption of Jerusalem, both from its enemies, but more importantly, from the corruption that sullied it in the past.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since Solomon built the temple centuries earlier, it had been a site of pilgrimage during the annual festivals. But this had been the privilege of the elite, who ignored their obligation to include the needy in their festival celebrations (Deuteronomy 16:14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, after the impending destruction of Jerusalem, a new social structure will take form:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For He has brought low those who dwelt high up,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Has humbled the secure city,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Humbled it to the ground,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Leveled it with the dust -<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To be trampled underfoot,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>By the feet of the needy,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>By the soles of the poor. (Isaiah 26:5-6)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We can learn something interesting from look at the Hebrew words for \u201cfeet\u201d and \u201csoles\u201d in that verse. <\/span>Regel<\/span><\/em> is the Hebrew word for foot, and the synonym, translated as \u201csole\u201d is <\/span>pa\u2019am<\/span><\/em>. In addition to their meanings as words for feet, both words also refer to the yearly festivals in the Torah. For example, in Exodus, we find:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThree times a year you shall hold a festival for Me\u201d (23:14)<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cThree times a year all your males shall appear before the Sovereign, the LORD.\u201d (23:17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While in the English translation both verses have the word \u201ctimes,\u201d in the Hebrew verse 14 has the word <\/span>regel<\/span><\/em>, and verse 17 uses <\/span>pa\u2019am<\/span><\/em>. So Isaiah played with the double meaning of <\/span>regel<\/em> <\/span>and <\/span>pa\u2019am<\/em> <\/span>to refer to the feet of the needy and to hint to the yearly festivals.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But why do these two words mean both \u201cfoot\u201d and \u201cfestival\u201d? Well, they actually went through a number of transitions. They each first meant \u201cfoot,\u201d then \u201cstep,\u201d then \u201cpace,\u201d then \u201ctime\u201d \u2013 and then the \u201cthree times a year\u201d became associated with the three yearly pilgrimages to Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As often happens in Hebrew, when two words initially have the same connotations, over time they diverge and develop distinct meanings. <\/span>Regel<\/em> <\/span>still means \u201cfoot\u201d and also \u201cleg.\u201d Some related words are <\/span>meragel<\/span><\/em> \u2013 spy, because spies walk about on foot, and <\/span>ragil<\/span><\/em> \u2013 common or customary, which developed from the meaning \u201cto go on foot\u201d to \u201cgo about frequently.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Today, however, <\/span>pa\u2019am<\/em> <\/span>only carries the meaning of \u201ctime, occasion.\u201d\u00a0 Some scholars say that even before pa'am<\/em> meant \u201cfoot\u201d or \u201cstep,\u201d it meant \u201cto strike, to beat.\u201d This sense is preserved in the words \u201c<\/span>pa\u2019amon<\/span><\/em>\u201d \u2013 bell, and \u201c<\/span>pe\u2019imot<\/span><\/em>\u201d \u2013 heartbeats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":66276,"alt":"","title":"is26-feet","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet.jpg","width":1920,"height":1440,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-1024x768.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":768,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1152,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1440,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-1200x900.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":900,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"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":"The Regel-ar Festivals","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"They\u2019re good for the sole(s)","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":66276,"alt":"","title":"is26-feet","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet.jpg","width":1920,"height":1440,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-1024x768.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":768,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1152,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1440,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-1200x900.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":900,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is26-feet-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"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":"26","chapter_main_number":"360","date":"20270114","wall_id":"360"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"361","name":"Hebrew language","old_id":"761"},{"term_id":"420","name":"Time","old_id":"820"},{"term_id":"516","name":"Holidays","old_id":"916"}]},{"order":8,"id":"116322","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"The Tanakh Podcast-Isaiah26","post_title":"The Tanakh Podcast-Isaiah26","slug":"the-tanakh-podcast-isaiah26","old_id":"116322","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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Our chapter begins with:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In that day, this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: Ours is a mighty city; He makes victory our inner and outer wall.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The subject of the song is clearly the salvation of Jerusalem\u2014most probably from the Assyrian siege we read about in 2 Kings 18 ff. and about which we will shortly read again in this book, chapter 36 ff. And, for the record, we will encounter it yet a third time in 2 Chronicles 32.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is unclear, however, is: who will be singing? The medieval exegetes were all silent on this point, probably assuming that the singers were the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Malbim* tacitly accepts this as the likeliest interpretation, but also offers a striking alternative:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Many of the Ten Tribes who returned from exile during the reign of Hezekiah\u2026 will say: We have a fortress city, Jerusalem, whose ramparts are not fortified by the construction of men but whose salvation will be granted by God, who will serve as its inner and outer walls. God\u2019s salvation will serve as its deliverance and fortification.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The return of the Ten Tribes from the Assyrian exile was already disputed in the Mishna, with R. Akiva arguing that \u201cthey will never return\u201d and R. Eliezer arguing that they [eventually] would. Where did Malbim get the idea that some\u2014let alone many\u2014of them had already returned at the time of Isaiah\u2019s prophecy?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Conceivably, he drew his conclusion from this verse: \u201cHezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah; he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh to come to the House of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover for the LORD God of Israel\u201d (2 Chronicles 30:1). Since the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh belonged to the exiled northern kingdom of Samaria, the only way Hezekiah could have invited them to Jerusalem was if some of them had, indeed, returned.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The problem with this inference, as already noted on the verse by Rashi, is that the context in which this verse appears is indicative of the early years of Hezekiah\u2019s rule, i.e., a time at which the ten tribes had not yet been exiled. We shall have more to say on this subject when we reach the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.<\/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>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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At the beginning of chapter 26 Isaiah describes Jerusalem and the Jewish nation at the time of the final redemption to come, and in so doing refers to the people as the \u201cguardians of faith (<\/span>shomer emunim<\/span><\/em>).\u201d\u00a0 After all of their battles, corrupt Kings, the destruction of their Temple and exile from their land, here is a nation that, however tenuously at times, \u201ckept the faith\u201d that redemption would come.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word for faith \u2013 <\/span>emunah<\/span><\/em> \u2013 relates to its root word \u201c<\/span>amen<\/span><\/em>\u201d as Rav Schwab points out in <\/span>Rav Schwab on Yeshayahu<\/em> <\/span>as does<\/span> Jeremy Benstein in\u00a0<\/span>Hebrew Roots, Jewish Routes<\/span><\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/i> How many times a day does that word get uttered by Jews? A multitude of times in prayer and in blessings over food and on performing mitzvot, we utter that faithful word. And outside of religious observance contexts we use it colloquially in answer to our hope and faith for the future: \u201cYou should have a year of good health. AMEN!\u201d; \u201cMay you have success in your new business. AMEN!\u201d Our faithfulness is indeed a hallmark of the Jewish personality and we express it constantly. Even when the odds don\u2019t seem great, Jew end their Passover seder, year after year with the words \u201cNext year in Jerusalem.\u201d We collectively never lose faith that our redemption is almost upon us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Contrast that faithfulness that Isaiah highlights with the fateful response of the people, in Chapter 22 when they are being forewarned of the catastrophe to come. At that moment they lost faith not just in redemption but in their own ability for repentance. With the words \u201cEat and drink for tomorrow we die (22: 13)\u201d they succumbed to hopelessness. This was not an expression of jovial nonchalance, as it is spoken in modern day usage, but was, according to our Sages, the ultimate degradation of God. So much so that the verses that follows warns \u201cthis sin will not be forgiven until you die (22:14).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Talmud (Makkot 24a) relates the prophet Habakkuk\u2019s assertion that faith alone, absent any other merits, will be sufficient for our reward of redemption: \u201cHabakkuk came and established the 613 <\/span>mitzvot<\/span><\/i> upon one, as it is stated, \u201cThe righteous person shall live by his faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

May we all find ways to continually express our faith in the future and the speedy fulfillment of God\u2019s promise for redemption. 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26:19 \u201cYour dead shall live, their corpses rise, the dwellers in the dust shall wake and sing gladly. For Your dew is a dew of brightness, and the netherworld releases the shades.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The entire line of poetry flatly contradicts the declaration in verse 14 that the dead shall not live. The operative term of distinction is \u201cYour.\u201d Is the prophet introducing a doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which is generally not thought to emerge until the Book of Daniel? This is at least a possibility, and this is certainly the way this verse was later understood by communities of believers. But given the theme of national renewal that informs this entire prophecy, it may be more likely that what the poet has in mind is a rebirth of the nation, like Ezekiel\u2019s vision of the valley of dry bones.\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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\u201cThe Revival of the Dead\u201d<\/a> by Michael Howald: Explore sources on resurrection.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cMust a Jewish Zombie Eat Kosher Brains? Halachot of the Undead\u201d<\/a> by Ari Elias-Bachrach: Theoretical explorations of Jewish law and the undead.<\/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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Isaiah 26","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Isaiah","chapter":"26","chapter_main_number":"360","date":"20270114","wall_id":"360"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":13,"id":"66251","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Isaiah 26 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Isaiah 26","slug":"points-to-ponder-isaiah-26","old_id":"66251","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"360","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. From below to above<\/em>. That is the nature of Biblical poetry. It starts with humans and the nation, and proceeds to God, who, by the way is mentioned by name ten times in the verses of this song (1-19).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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