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Chapter 43 is a beautiful statement by God of his love for his people despite their transgressions. Isaiah utilizes repeated phrases spread throughout the chapter to connect everything together. First,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When you pass through water, I will be with you; Through streams, They shall not overwhelm you. When you walk through fire, You shall not be scorched; Through flame, It shall not burn you\u201d (verse 2);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I, I am GOD; Beside Me, none can grant triumph (verse 11);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And in the second half of the chapter:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus said GOD, Who made a road through the sea and a path through mighty waters (verse 16);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is I, I who\u2014for My own sake \u2014 Wipe your transgressions away and remember your sins no more\u201d (verse 25).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah even spaces these out equally. Verse 2 is nine verses from verse 11, and verse 16 is nine verses from verse 25. Both verse 2 and verse 16 both discuss God\u2019s mastery over nature to protect his people, while verses 11 and 25 discuss how God is the only one who has the power to do certain things.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The four verses also alternate chiastically in tense. Verse 2 talks about the future. God will make sure that in the future, during the redemption, the people of Israel will be completely protected.\u00a0 He will let them pass through water, fire, and streams. This pairs up with verse 16, which discusses the past. In the past, God was the one who made a path through the waters. This is a reference to both the splitting of the Red Sea and the splitting of the Jordan River. Verse 11, likewise, talks about the past. God declares that he was the primary mover. There was no other God besides him. God is the only one who saved the people. This pairs up with verse 25 which discusses the future. There God declares that only he has the power to remove the transgressions from the people in the future. Israel has sinned and deserves destruction, but God will grant them clemency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These four verses again show the depth and sophistication of Isaiah\u2019s poetic prophecies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In Isaiah 43, a passing and evocative reference is made to a precursor and to representatives of the people, who have all sinned: \u201cYour earliest ancestor (<\/span>avicha harishon<\/span><\/em>) sinned, And your spokesmen (<\/span>melitzecha<\/span><\/em>) transgressed against Me\u201d (verse 27).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Identifying precisely to whom the prophet is referring, and when this was alleged to have taken place, is important to determining the simple meaning of the prophetic vision. And yet, the commentators debate this point. Possibilities include: Adam (eating from the forbidden tree), Jereboam (sinful first king of Israel), and Saul (stripped of his kingship over Judah due to his\u00a0 failure to destroy all of Amalek), with the \u201cspokesmen\u201d being the advisors of the latter two kings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of special interest is Rashi, who explains that \u201c<\/span>avicha harishon<\/span><\/em>\u201d is a reference to Abraham, with his subtle sin being when he overtly stated to God: \u201cO Lord, how shall I know that I am to possess it?\u201d (Gen. 15:8), after having been explicitly told by the Divine: \u201cI will assign this land to your offspring\u201d (12:7), and (13:15): \u201cFor I give all the land that you see to you and your offspring forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But more remarkable still, is Rashi\u2019s interpretation of the next phrase in Isaiah 43:27:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span><\/i>And your spokesmen transgressed against Me<\/span><\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/i>:<\/b> You have none among all the intercessors upon whose merit you rely, in whom I have not found transgression. (<\/span>Even<\/span>) Isaac loved My enemy (<\/span>Esau<\/span>)...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judaism makes a great deal of the fact that its seminal characters are not without sin, and therefore can never be placed upon a pedestal beyond human emulation. Nevertheless, a commentator like Rashi, arguing that all human beings, including the likes of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, are subject to shortcomings, and are therefore imperfect, is still shocking. People have a tendency to aggrandize their heroes; apparently, according to Rashi, there is no room for doing so in terms of this nation's traditions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Isaiah teaches that God calls us by many names.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Think about your name. Who gave you your name? Do you use the name you were born with, or have you changed it? Do you have multiple names? What does your name mean? What does your name communicate about you? Do you feel that your name is yours?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Names are complicated! Names signify us, identify us, and distinguish us from others. Names give us familial and communal identity. We call someone\u2019s name to get their attention. We speak the names of people not present and call them to mind. Even if a person has died, their name may live on. Names can be used to heal or hurt. Names are more than just words \u2013 they are words infused with power to change the world and who we are.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah 43 begins with God, \u201cHashem\u201d (\u201cThe Name\u201d) speaking words of compassion to the people of Israel as they are returning from exile in Babylon. In verse 1, the God who \u201ccreated Jacob\u201d and \u201cformed Israel\u201d begins speaking directly, saying \u201cDo not be afraid, because I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name \u2013 you are mine.\u201d God has called Israel by its name, but which name is that: is it Jacob or Israel? Despite the events in Gen. 32, Israel continues being known also as Jacob. Even more confusingly, we can also read God as calling Israel by the name \u201cyou are mine.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the next several verses, God expresses God\u2019s deep love for Israel. God will gather the descendants of Israel from all directions and bless them once again. Who is to be included in this ingathering? God clarifies in verse 7, \u201cEveryone who is called by my name, and whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.\u201d It is clear: Israel is not called by its own name(s), but by God\u2019s name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This idea will be expanded a few verses later in Isaiah 44:5. There, God describes how \u201cThis one will say, \u2018I am Hashem\u2019s,\u2019 another will be called by the name of Jacob, yet another will write on the hand, \u2018Hashem\u2019s,\u2019 and title themselves with the name of Israel.\u201d Here we understand how we might be called by God\u2019s name. We also learn that we have the power to change our names to reflect this identity in God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Taking all of these passages together, we learn from Isaiah that we have two kinds of names: (1) our human names (Jacob\/Israel) and (2) our divine name (Hashem\u2019s). These names do not appear to be in conflict with one another, but instead function in a complementary way. They signify that our lives are our own and yet not our own \u2013 they also belong to God.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Imagine what our lives might look like if we lived with a greater awareness of our human and divine identities. If our names carry meaning and power to change the world, what might it mean that we bear God\u2019s name?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Seventy years after the destruction of the Temple and exile in Babylonia, Isaiah\u2019s prophecy comes to affirm the covenant between God and the Jewish people once more. God reassures them that their relationship has not permanently ruptured: (43:1-4) \u2018Fear not, for I will redeem you; I have singled you by name\u2026 I will be with you\u2026 Because you are precious to Me, and honored, and I love you.\u2019 In many ways, it would be easy to view God as the dominant partner in the relationship, for God is the creator of the world, and the one who punished the Jewish people for their sins. However, the rabbis construct a radical theology of covenant from a suggestive verse in this chapter (43:10): \u2018My witnesses are you \u2014declares the Lord\u2014 My servant, whom I have chosen.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to the <\/span>Sifrei Devarim<\/span><\/i> (346) being God\u2019s witnesses means that not only do the Jewish people need God, but God needs them as well. In fact, God\u2019s glory is fundamentally dependent on the Jewish people and can only be made known in this world through the actions of the Jewish people. If the Jewish people live a life of faith, service, mitzvot, these actions will testify to God\u2019s greatness for all of humanity. As the rabbis describe it, \u2018when the Jewish people are God\u2019s witnesses, God is God. When they are not God\u2019s witnesses it is as if God is not God.\u2019 The midrash goes on to give further examples of this phenomenon from other Biblical verses. In Exodus (15:2) Moshe proclaims, \u2018This is my God and I shall glorify Him,\u2019 to which the rabbis explain that when the Jewish people voice appreciation of God, God is glorified, but when they fail to do this, it is as if God\u2019s glory is absent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the most powerful example of the Jewish people serving as God\u2019s witnesses, speaks not only of their attitude towards God, but their relationship with each other. In Deuteronomy (33:5) Moses declares, \u2018Then He became King in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people assembled, The tribes of Israel together.\u2019 According to the midrash, this means that when the Jewish people are unified, God will be crowned king, but if they are separated into competing factions as is so often the case in Jewish history, God\u2019s kingship will be absent in this world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The notion that the Jewish people serve as God\u2019s witnesses reminds us that to be in a relationship with God is to bear great responsibility. 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It\u2019s a natural human tendency to look toward the past. We seek to resolve our current emotional dilemmas by unpacking the disappointments and complexities of our childhood, or trying to root out the sources of marital strife by looking more deeply at the opening chapters of our romance. We even speak of ourselves, like plants, as rooted. The past becomes a source of understanding, of validation, and sometimes of renewal as well \u2013 \u201crenew our days as of old.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But all that focus on the past comes at a heavy price as well. By framing our present in terms of our past, we grant the past the power to define and constrain the choices we are capable of perceiving today. If the current sources of our discontent don\u2019t fit with the parameters of our history, then it remains unexamined, often invisible to us now.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What if we made a choice not to straitjacket our future into the confines of our past? What if, instead, we imagined the future as it might be, rather than as it must be when it is merely an extension, a continuation, of what has already been?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah offers us this radical turn, when he perceives God as saying \u201cDo not recall former occurrences and do not contemplate earlier events. Behold, I am bringing forth something new! Now it will sprout, and you will surely know it!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Step toward the future that is open with possibilities. The past does not exist unless you carry it with you in the present. And the future need not depend on the traumas of yesterday. Instead, we can welcome the Divine as a source of an open future, one that beckons us to choose from among many possible destinies and asks us to partner in creating the best possible tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Instead of filtering the future through the constraints of what has already happened, we can lift our gaze to a future that might be beautifully discontinuous with the past. Just because something has always been doesn\u2019t mean it must always be. It just means that habit and culture are hard to break. But every first time is an impossibility until someone does it, and every great dynasty was launched by someone who saw themselves not as a descendant, but as an ancestor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Imagine the future ample enough for your dreams, and then go make it happen.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":67429,"alt":"","title":"is43-uplifting","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting.jpg","width":1920,"height":1324,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-300x207.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":207,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-768x530.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":530,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-1024x706.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":706,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1059,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1324,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-1200x828.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":828,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-609x420.jpg","home_baner-width":609,"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":"Face Forward!","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Lift our gaze to a future that might be beautifully discontinuous with the past \u00a0\u00a0","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":67429,"alt":"","title":"is43-uplifting","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting.jpg","width":1920,"height":1324,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-300x207.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":207,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-768x530.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":530,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-1024x706.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":706,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1059,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1324,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-1200x828.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":828,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is43-uplifting-609x420.jpg","home_baner-width":609,"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":"43","chapter_main_number":"377","date":"20270208","wall_id":"377"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"439","name":"Dreams","old_id":"839"},{"term_id":"550","name":"Future","old_id":"950"}]},{"order":8,"id":"116704","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"The Tanakh Podcast-Isaiah43","post_title":"The Tanakh Podcast-Isaiah43","slug":"the-tanakh-podcast-isaiah43","old_id":"116704","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 closes with \u201cYour earliest ancestor (literally: your first father) sinned, and your spokesmen transgressed against Me. So I profaned the holy princes; I abandoned Jacob to proscription and Israel to mockery\u201d (27-28). The exegetes differed sharply on his identification.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi identified him with the actual first father, Abraham, citing his challenge to God \u201cHow shall I know that I will inherit [the land]?\u201d (Gen. 15:8). Eliezer of Beaugency, a later French exegete, assigned the name to the entire generation of the Exodus from Egypt, who were God\u2019s first chosen people. Ibn Ezra said it refers to Jeroboam, the first king of Israel, whose selection was not initiated by God. And Radak referred it to everyone\u2019s first father, Adam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim*, like Eliezer of Beaugency, saw it as a collective designation rather than an individual one, but he assigned it to a different generation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They are your earliest ancestors, the generations during the time of the Temple, who sinned against Me, and your \u201cspokesmen\u201d are the priests and prophets who \u201ctransgressed against me\u201d deliberately. Everything they did was premeditated, as opposed to the general population whose deliberate misdeeds were regarded as accidental.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He continued by explaining that the two halves of the verses parallel each other.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Because the \u201cspokesmen transgressed,\u201d God \u201cprofaned them\u201d [the priests and prophets] and because the earlier \u201cancestors sinned,\u201d He \u201cabandoned Jacob\u201d by abandoning the entire nation \u201cto proscription\u201d and desolation. And \u201cIsrael,\u201d which refers to its sanctity and its saints and great men, was \u201cmade a mockery\u201d because they mocked their Torah and their sanctity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This sequencing displays a degree of literary sophistication. Rather than establishing the relationship between the elements of the two verses in an ordinary sequential fashion (which would match the \u201cfirst father\u201d with the \u201choly princes,\u201d and the \u201cspokesmen\u201d with Jacob and Israel), Malbim saw the relationship as chiastic, matching the first ingredient with the last and the innermost two with one another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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43:14 \u201cThus said the LORD, your Redeemer, Israel\u2019s Holy One: For your sake I have sent to Babylon and brought down all the bars and turned the glad song of Chaldeans to laments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The meaning of the Hebrew noun <\/span>barihim<\/span><\/em> is disputed, but given the fact that exile is repeatedly represented by this prophet as imprisonment, the most likely sense is the bars that bolt the doors of a prison. Although the verbal stem <\/span>b-r-h\u00ad <\/span><\/i>does mean \u201cto flee,\u201d there is no attested use in the Bible of <\/span>bariah<\/span><\/em> as \u201cfugitive\u201d (a mere grammatical possibility), a sense claimed by some for the word here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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\u201cChosenness, Monotheism, and Universality\u201d<\/a> by Raymond Habbaz: Explore the interactions of these concepts.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cPraying for Governments We Dislike\u201d<\/a> by Leeza Hirt: Sources from across Jewish history on the relationship of prayer and power.<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Fear not!<\/em> Twice the prophet tries to allay fears, with the call \u201cFear not!\u201d Just like he did three times two chapters ago (41), once three chapters ago (40), and just as he will do tomorrow (44). Apparently, there\u2019s a lot to fear.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Exclusive! Read all about it!<\/em> Verses 9-13 express the message that there is none other besides Him: \u201cNone but me, the LORD; Beside Me, none can grant triumph\u201d (11). If we read the chapter as a story of a relationship, it becomes clear why this statement is so crucial.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Forget the past<\/em>. Because sometimes focusing too much on what has always been the case, prevents new breakthroughs and moving forward: \u201cDo not recall what happened of old, Or ponder what happened of yore! I am about to do something new; Even now it shall come to pass, Suddenly you shall perceive it\u201d (verses 18-19).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Sacrificial cult can be wearisome<\/em>. Verbs based on the root \u05d9-\u05d2-\u05e2 (tired, weary) appear three times in verses 22-24. The people weary God with their (cultic) sins, even though God has no wearisome expectation from them in that department: \u201cBut you have not worshiped Me, O Jacob, That you should be weary of Me, O Israel\u2026I have not burdened you with meal offerings, Nor wearied you about frankincense\u2026Instead, you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Isaiah 43","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":"43","chapter_main_number":"377","date":"20270208","wall_id":"377"},"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\/67323"}],"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=67323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}