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Your throat shall murmur in awe, \u2018Where is one who could count? Where is one who could weigh? Where is one who could count [all these] towers?\u2019 (verse 18).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah began the chapter by addressing the enemies of Jerusalem who will be vanquished. He now turns towards the victorious inhabitants. Who is counting in verse 18 and what are they counting?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi explains that this verse is referencing the generals of the enemy who are now being judged. Isaiah is addressing the inhabitants of Jerusalem and telling them to look for the people who spent their time plotting the attack on Jerusalem by taking note of the city\u2019s defenses. These enemies are now vanquished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibn Ezra does not see a military angle, but rather a vassal dynamic. The people described here are the tax men who counted the towers in their records as they laid a heavy burden on the city as rulers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim does not believe these are the enemies, but instead these are Hezekiah\u2019s war planners. Instead of a post-war pronouncement, the lament here is that the people see the massive army of Sennecharib outside the gates of Jerusalem and they are perplexed that the government is not doing more to plan for the attack. They do not have faith that God will save the city without the need for meticulous war planning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Talmud in Chagigah 15b suggests an allegorical interpretation. Rav Yehudah does not see tax men or military men. Instead, this verse refers to the Torah martyrs who would count each letter of the Torah to learn halachot and would weigh minor and major laws and the set up grand towers of halacha to protect the Torah. Isaiah therefore is foretelling of a time well into the future when the defenders of the Torah will be persecuted for teaching and the people will lament their death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Verse 17 talks about seeing the king in his beauty, most likely referring to a triumphant Hezekiah. It would be odd for the next verse to mock the war effort of that same king, so Malbim\u2019s interpretation does not work contextually. Rashi and Ibn Ezra\u2019s interpretations match the flow a little better. 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Whoever walks in<\/span> righteousness, speaks uprightly, spurns profit from fraudulent dealings, waves away a bribe instead of grasping it, stops their ears against listening to infamy, shuts their eyes against looking at evil\u2026 (verse 15).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Except for this verse in the middle of the chapter which defines the individual who has lived an ideal moral and ethical life, most of chapter 33 is filled with difficult imagery, posing severe challenges to the reader.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the most difficult verse in the chapter is the first one:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ha, you ravager who are not ravaged, You betrayer who have not been betrayed! When you have done ravaging, you shall be ravaged; when you have finished betraying, you shall be betrayed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who is this referring to? The subject of the next verses is God:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

O ETERNAL One, be gracious to us! It is to You we have looked; Be their arm every morning, also our Deliverance<\/span> in time of stress. At (<\/span>Your<\/span><\/i>) roaring, peoples have fled, before Your majesty nations have scattered.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The context, however, mitigates against such an interpretation, and the first verse is assumed to be referring to a ruler who has not lived up to Divine expectations, i.e., Sennecharib, king of Assyria. Malbim explains:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You have taken advantage of many nations, although you have not been taken advantage of. So why have you done so?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Similarly, you have rebelled\u00a0 against peoples with whom you entered into covenants, although they never did this to you. So again, why did you do it?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Know that just as you took advantage, eventually you will be taken advantage of \u2026\u00a0 and a rebellion will take place in the future that affects your children.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The principle of \u201c<\/span>mida ke-neged mida<\/span><\/em>\u201d (\u201ctit for a tat\u201d) which God often uses for calculating human punishments, can be put to good use with respect to problematic individuals, as indicated by 2 Samuel 22:27:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With the pure You act in purity, and with the perverse You are wily<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, when acting perversely becomes a \u201crule of thumb,\u201d<\/span> applying equally to both the righteous and the sinner, such an approach will eventually come back to afflict the perpetrator, as in the case of Sennecharib.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":116487,"alt":"","title":"-64a172f813ba2--64a172f813ba3is33-vengeance 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The 33rd chapter of Isaiah further reassures the people that it will be specifically this king, Hezekiah, who would help the people and bring them towards salvation. The new chapter begins with the key word \u201cWoe\" indicating a new address to a new subject, in this case Assyria the nation known already for its plundering in 10:6 (Ibn Ezra). The Israelites pray to God to be saved from this plundering nation who had overcome many other countries (33:1-4).\u00a0 And the prophet predicts that God will save them \u201cAnd the lastingness of your times and the strength of salvation will be wisdom, knowledge and the fear of God.\u201d (33:5-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After a review of the mourning and times of dread for the people (33:7-14), the nation asks \u2018who can live opposite this great enemy of fire (Assyria), who can live opposite the burning of eternity?\u201d\u00a0 The prophet answers that it is the king who can support the nation. The king is extolled for his many virtues (33:15): <\/span><\/p>\r\n

who walks with justice, and speaks the straight (truth), who is disgusted by the money\u00a0 of oppression, he shakes his hands from being supported by bribes, who closes his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and who closes his eyes from seeing evil. He shall reside in the high-places, towers of rocks is his strength; his bread is provided, his water is faithful.\u00a0 Your eyes shall see a king in his beauty, [instead of a king of a far-away land].
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In a time of hunger, famine, and meager rations, the righteous king has his bread provided from heaven, and his water is always faithful, a never ending stream. You will no longer fear the tax-collectors evaluating the size of the city, and the foreign nation speaking a foreign tongue (33:18-19)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

See Zion, the city of our gathering; your eyes will see Jerusalem a serene dwelling place, a tent that will not be uprooted, that its stakes\u00a0 will not be moved forever, and all of its strings will not be detached.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rather, God will reside in and protect Jerusalem, complete with Divine strength, as if surrounding the city with a moat of protection\u00a0 that enemy warships not be able to cross. To the Assyrians, trying to cross the moat of protection, the prophet continues the parable: you are like a boat \u201cwhose cords have been forsaken [by its sailors], the mast cannot be tightened and the sails are not spread out,\u201d the boat will sink, and its treasures spoils will be divided, even to the week or limping. The Israelites that remain will be victorious, and called the nation \u201cforgiven of sin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In a prophecy combining both severe warning and great hope, our chapter includes the promise: \u201cYour eyes shall behold the King in His beauty and they shall perceive a distant land\u201d (Isaiah 33:17). This verse is employed in later Jewish texts in a variety of ways.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talmud Bavli Yoma 78b explains the halakhic rule that, despite the general prohibition of bathing on Yom Kippur, a king may wash his face, for \u201cYour eyes shall see the king in his beauty.\u201d This seems based on Israel having been commanded: \u201cYou shall put over you a king whom the Lord God shall choose\u201d (Deut. 17:15). A well-groomed king inspires fear like the roaring of a lion (see Proverbs 20:2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

More metaphysically speaking, it is stated (Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 23:13) that anyone who does not \u201cfeast his eyes\u201d (<\/span>zan einav<\/span><\/em>) upon seeing a sexual transgression <\/span>being committed, merits seeing the Face of the Shekhinah. Our chapter provides the Scriptural proof: \u201cThose who walk righteously\u2026and shut their eyes against contemplating evil\u201d (Isaiah 33:15), is followed by: \u201cYour eyes shall see the King in His beauty\u201d (Isaiah 33:17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A later Rabbinic text, Eliyyahu Rabbah (Chapter 13 end) states that The Holy One, blessed be He, will sit in His great academy of Torah study with the righteous before him and say to them: Because you have martyred yourselves for Me, you will live forever like Me, and \u201cyour eyes shall see the King in His beauty.\u201d Eliyyahu\u00a0 Zuta (Chapter 1 end) elaborates that it is righteous behavior <\/span>that causes the soul to ascend and sit next to the divine Throne of Glory. For it says: \u201cMaintain justice and do righteousness; for My salvation is close at hand, and My righteousness shall soon be revealed\u201d (Isaiah 56:1). And of the one who behaves righteously is written: \u201cHe shall dwell on high\u2026Your eyes shall see the King in his Beauty\u201d (Isaiah 33:16-17). This verse continues \u201cthey shall perceive a distant land\u201d, which is interpreted that the righteous shall behold the Hekhalot (Heavenly Palaces) that the Holy One, blessed be He, conceived of, nine hundred and seventy-four generations before He created the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Hekhalot texts of ancient Jewish mysticism, the ultimate goal of those who ascend to the Divine Chariot (the \u201cMerkavah\u201d -- described in Ezekiel, Chapter 1) is to \u201csee the King in His Beauty\u201d. Pirqe Hekhalot Rabbati 23:3 dramatically describes the tortuous ascent of those who would dare seek this mystic vision: He shall shake, tremble in fear, be shocked into panic, faint and fall backwards. But Anaphiel, the greatest of the ministering angels, together with the sixty-three guardians of the seven gates of the Hekhalot palaces, shall support him. Together they shall encourage him by saying: Be not afraid, O son of beloved seed! For you shall not be slaughtered, neither shall you be burnt -- Enter and \u201cBehold the King in His Beauty\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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33:11 \u201cYou shall conceive chaff, give birth to straw--My breath shall consume you in fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The \u201cyou\u201d (plural in the Hebrew) refers to the Assyrians. Conceiving chaff and giving birth to straw is an image of utter futility, and since these are both highly combustible materials, the metaphor also represents their absolute vulnerability to God\u2019s consuming fire.<\/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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\u201cHe who walks in righteousness, speaks uprightly, spurns profit from fraudulent dealings, waves away a bribe instead of grasping it, stops his ears against listening to infamy, shuts his eyes against looking at evil.\u201d (15)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The congruence between Malbim and Radak in their commentaries to this verse is so striking as to invite commentary. If we have created the impression that Malbim sought, as an absolute principle, to differ with his predecessors, this is a welcome opportunity to put that misconception to rest. Both exegetes attributed these characteristics to Hezekiah, and both interpreted them as signifying a moral fortitude in excess of the ordinary. Indeed, we highlight this by relating Radak\u2019s commentary and simply noting that Malbim* said likewise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWalks in righteousness,\u201d because all his actions and deeds are righteous and benevolent. \u201cSpurns profit from fraudulence:\u201d The Torah requires judges to \u201cdetest corruption\u201d in general; they must disdain wealth because on account of that disdain they will not be inclined to accept bribes. Here, however, it specifies \u201cfraudulent profit,\u201d i.e., ill-gotten gains, because it is describing a king. A king needs money for his soldiers and army and servants and has a legitimate need to acquire wealth. However, he must still disdain ill-gotten wealth, hence \u201cfraudulent profit.\u201d Even though he has the right to appropriate others\u2019 wealth, he disdains it if it is not obtained legally such as if someone paid a fine to the king. Therefore, it states \u201cwaves away a bribe\u201d because he will never accept a bribe even to confirm innocence or guilt. He will not even accept a gift from a litigant, waving it away lest it appear to be a bribe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cStops his ears:\u201d Since the king can execute those who defy him, it states that he does not take a life other than by law. If a member of his household were to report that someone deserves the death penalty, he would refuse to listen; i.e., he accepts only legal evidence of guilt or innocence\u2026 because he will take human life only to eradicate evil from the land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cShuts his eyes:\u201d He refuses to see any evil in the world, or it means [to refuse] to look a wicked person in the eyes, as David said: \u201cI will not countenance a liar\u201d (Ps. 10\u201d7). All these attributes could be found in Hezekiah.<\/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

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\u201cFasting on Yom Kippur\u201d<\/a> by Jeremy Borovitz: Explore sources about the day of repentance.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cMoney, it's a crime?\u201d<\/a> by Rabbi Ephraim Pelcovits: Texts about finance.<\/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 33","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":"33","chapter_main_number":"367","date":"20270125","wall_id":"367"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"66608","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Isaiah 33 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Isaiah 33","slug":"points-to-ponder-isaiah-33","old_id":"66608","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":"367","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. Every region and landscape<\/em>. Verse 9 lays out for us in one panoramic image a range of regions and landscapes. All of them are desolate and withered, as befits a vision of destruction. \u201cThe land is wilted and withered; Lebanon disgraced and moldering, Sharon is become like a desert, And Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Change now<\/em>. The proclaimed change is emphasized no less than three times in verse 10: \u201cNow I will arise,\u201d says the LORD, \u201cNow I will exalt Myself, now raise Myself high.\u201d The only question is: when is now?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Which king<\/em>? Verse 17 speaks of a king and his beauty that is perceived from afar. Who is this king? The king of Assyria, whose regal grandeur threatens the inhabitants of Jerusalem? Hezekiah? The promised righteous king who has not yet arisen in Jerusalem? The king, king of kings? Whichever one will choose will influence your interpretation of the prophecy? (See also Marc Bregmans\u2019s post for this chapter).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. If security were\u2026<\/em> If security were a tent, it would be a tent who ropes would never come undone (verse 20). If security were a river, it would be so wide, that no ship could cross it (21). That\u2019s the sort of security that God is promising Jerusalem.<\/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 33","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":"33","chapter_main_number":"367","date":"20270125","wall_id":"367"},"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\/66521"}],"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=66521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}