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A highlight of Friday night services\u00a0 is the <\/span>Lecha Dodi<\/em> <\/span>prayer. It is one of the main special evening prayers that is sung, and the whole congregation rises and turns to welcome the Shabbat queen at the end. The prayer was composed in the 16<\/span>th<\/span> century by the kabbalist Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz. His name appears as an acrostic of the first letters of each stanza. The inspiration for the Lecha Dodi may have come from Shabbat 119a:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi \u1e24anina would wrap himself in his garment and stand at nightfall on Shabbat eve, and say: Come and we will go out to greet Shabbat the queen. Rabbi Yannai put on his garment on Shabbat eve and said: Enter, O bride. Enter, O bride.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Three of the poem\u2019s stanzas are based on verses in Isaiah, chapters 51 and 52.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rouse, rouse yourself! Arise, O Jerusalem, You who from GOD\u2019s hand Have drunk God\u2019s wrath-filled cup, You who have drained to the dregs The bowl, the cup of reeling!\u201d (51:17)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

inspired:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rouse yourselves! Rouse yourselves!<\/span> Your light is coming, rise up and shine.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Awake, awake, O Zion! Clothe yourself in splendor; Put on your robes of majesty, Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and the impure Shall never enter you again\u201d (52:1)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

became\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Awaken! Awaken! Utter a song,<\/span> The glory of the Lord is revealed upon you.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(This stanza also borrows from Judges 5:12 \" Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, sing a song\u201d).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And finally<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Arise, shake off the dust, Sit [on your throne], Jerusalem! Loose the bonds from your neck, O captive one, Fair Zion!\u201d (52:2)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

became\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shake yourself free, rise from the dust,<\/span> Dress in your garments of splendor, my people. <\/span>By the hand of Jesse\u2019s son of Bethlehem, draw near to my soul; redeem it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why are these three verses included? The first three stanzas of the poem refer to the context of Shabbat. The first, as mentioned, welcomes the Sabbath queen. Stanza two references \"safeguard\" and \"remember,\" terms from the two versions of the Ten Commandments. Stanza three calls in the Shabbat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fourth then talks about Jerusalem in the time of destruction. This is the transition to the Isaiah verses. 52:2 starts the next stanza and imagines Jerusalem getting up and sitting on the throne once more. Then 51:17 discusses Jerusalem waking up from being drunk on God\u2019s wrath. Finally, 52:1 talks about Jerusalem putting on clothes of splendor. These three verses offer a beautiful transition from being downtrodden to a royal-robed people. The Shabbat is a time when Israel reiterates its special marriage to God. This marriage means that no matter what state they are in, they are always welcome to sit on the throne with God. This is the transition from a mundane workweek to an idyllic Shabbat and from a persecuted people to the bride of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> consists of three separate but interrelated prophecies on God\u2019s redemption of Jerusalem. The first of these prophecies<\/span> begins<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Awake, awake, O Zion! Clothe yourself in strength; Put on your robes of majesty, Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and the impure shall never enter you again. Arise, shake off the dust. Sit [on your throne], Jerusalem! Loose the bonds from your neck, O captive one, Fair Zion!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These verses served as one of the scriptural sources for the well-known hymn<\/span> Lekha Dodi<\/span><\/a> (composed in 16<\/span>th<\/span> century Safed by Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz): \u201cShake it [the dust] off! From the ashes, arise! Awake, Awake!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The repeated call \u201cAwake, awake, O Zion! Clothe yourself in strength\u2026\u201d, echoes Isaiah\u2019s<\/span> previous call<\/span><\/a> : \u201cAwake, awake, clothe yourself with splendor. O arm of the Lord! Awake as in days of old, as in former ages!\u201d (compare<\/span> Isaiah 51:17<\/span><\/a>). And more distantly reflects the beckoning of Deborah in the<\/span> Song of Deborah<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAwake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, speak a song!\u201d (<\/span>Judges 5:12<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Tanhuma<\/span><\/a> reflects on the repetitive language of Isaiah\u2019s call to Jerusalem to \u201cAwake, awake!\u201d The midrash notes that many of the consolations spoken by Isaiah are double: \u201cComfort, oh comfort My people, says your God\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 40:1<\/span><\/a>); \u201cI, I am the One who comforts you!\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 51:12<\/span><\/a>); \u201cAwake, awake, clothe yourself with splendor\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 51:9<\/span><\/a>); \u201cRouse, rouse yourself! Arise, O Jerusalem\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 51:17<\/span><\/a>); \u201cJoyfully I will rejoice [<\/span>sos asis<\/span><\/em>] in the Lord\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 61:1<\/span><\/a>); \u201cIt [the desert] shall \u201cblossom blossoms [<\/span>paroah tifrah<\/span><\/em>]\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 35:2<\/span><\/a>). The midrash explains that all these doublings are because of [i.e. in recompense for] Jerusalem having \u201ctaken from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 40:2<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to<\/span> Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yismael<\/span><\/a>, Rabbi Yishmael says that because of the merit of Jerusalem, I [God] will split the Sea for them [Israel], as it is written \u201cAwake, awake, O Zion! Clothe yourself in splendor; Put on your robes of majesty, Jerusalem, holy city!\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 52:1-2<\/span><\/a>) and \u201cAwake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength, O arm of\u00a0 the Lord. Awake as in days of old, as in former ages!...It was You that dried up the Sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the abysses of the Sea a road the redeemed might walk\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 51:9-10<\/span><\/a>).<\/span> Seder Eliyahu Zuta<\/span><\/a> adds that Israel merits being clothed in splendor because of what they sang at the crossing of the Sea: \u201cThe Lord is my strength (<\/em><\/span>\u2018ozzi<\/span><\/em>)<\/em> and my song\u201d<\/span> Exodus 15:2<\/span><\/a>. And from where in Scripture do we learn that Israel is clothed with strength? From what<\/span> Isaiah calls<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAwake, awake, O Zion! Clothe yourself in strength [<\/span>\u2018oz<\/span><\/i>]\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to<\/span> Midrash Tehillim<\/span><\/a>, in the future, Israel will wear the garment of the Holy One, blessed be He. For<\/span> Scripture<\/span><\/a> says of God: \u201cThe Lord is king; He is robed in grandeur. The Lord is robed; He is girded with strength [<\/span>\u2018oz<\/span><\/em>]\u201d. And similarly,<\/span> Isaiah calls to Israel<\/span><\/a> : \u201cAwake, awake, O Zion! 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It isn\u2019t often that a phrase reserved for a faithful servant emerges from the mouth of the master. Yet here, in Isaiah 52, we see precisely this great wonder.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When God called upon Abraham, that faithful patriarch answered the call, \u201cHineni<\/em>\/Here I am!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jacob responds not once, but twice when called, \u201cHineni<\/em>\/Here I am!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses, at the burning bush, responds wholeheartedly, \u201cHineni<\/em>\/Here I am!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And the prophets Samuel and Isaiah each launch their service as prophets with that powerful word.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Across the Bible, Hineni<\/em> signifies that a person is willing to give themselves completely to God\u2019s mission, whatever that might be.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So it is particularly striking that God\u2019s redemption, as seen by Isaiah, opens with God responding to us with that same open devotion. On the occasion of the ultimate redemption, all of God\u2019s children will witness something transforming, the turning of God to God\u2019s people openly, without hiding. \u201cTherefore, My people shall know My name. Therefore, on that day, they will know that it is I Who speaks: Hineni<\/em>\/Here I am!\u201d (verse 6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So many wonders to notice here: that the redemption is mutual; just as we turn to God even during our times of wandering and tribulation, so God will turn to us at the end of time, a fullness of embrace that eclipses anything we might aspire to in these difficult days.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our redemption is about emerging from hiding, openly facing each other with full hearts and commitment to the mission that embraces us and God together: redeeming a broken world, binding the wounds, caring for widow and orphan, redeeming the land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When we can be unembarrassed by the commitments of our faith, when God reveals intimacy and fidelity in public, when we know God\u2019s real nature not as mere fact to comprehend but as an existential compass that gives us direction and inspiration, then we are ready to answer with our all: Hineni<\/em>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And so is God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Isaiah 52 contains one of the most evocative, lyrical and concise descriptions of the advent of the Messianic Age, along with the Jewish people\u2019s joyous response to this long-anticipated event: \u201cHow welcome on the mountain Are the footsteps of the herald Announcing happiness, Heralding good fortune, Announcing victory, Telling Zion, \u2018Your God is King!\u2019 Hark! Your watchmen raise their voices, As one they shout for joy; For every eye [lit. \u201ceye to eye\u201d] shall behold The LORD\u2019s return to Zion\u201d (verses 7-8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The imagery of being able to intimately \u201csee\u201d God \u201ceye to eye\u201d is incorporated into a prayer that is recited immediately after the Torah is taken out of the Ark on Shabbat and Yom Tov mornings:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026May we see Him \u201ceye to eye\u201d upon His return to His abode, as it is written: (Isaiah 52:8) \u201cFor they shall \u2018see\u2019 \u2018eye to eye\u2019 as HaShem returns to Zion.\u201d And it is said: (Ibid. 40:5) \u201cthe Glory of HaShem shall be revealed and all flesh together shall \u2018see\u2019 that the mouth of HaShem has spoken\u201d (<\/span>ArtScroll <\/span><\/i>\u201cAl HaKol\u2026\u201d, p. 439).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This prayer and its placement within the prayer service tacitly suggest that while we are expected to await God\u2019s direct reappearance in our lives, hoping to finally be able to cry out: \u201c<\/span>This <\/b>is my God\u2026\u201d (Exodus 15:2), until such a time we will have to make do with what studying the Torah can tell us about God, much in the same manner as our prayers at best serve as temporary substitutes for the Temple and its sacrifices: (Hosea 14:3) \u201cTake with you words, and return unto the LORD; say unto Him: Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I have often used the metaphor of an insect \u201cfrozen\u201d in amber, to describe the limbo-like spiritual condition in which Jews find themselves presently, both in Israel and out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But how literally should we take the idea of being able to \u201csee\u201d God \u201ceye to eye\u201d? When Moses requested of God on Sinai to \u201csee\u201d Him, God appeared to respond that this was literally impossible, \u201cAnd He said: Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and live\u201d (Exodus 33:20). Was God\u2019s response to Moses factually correct for all times and places, with the idiom in Isaiah 52:8 therefore having to be understood only figuratively? Or will the Messianic era usher in such a sea-change in man\u2019s nature and spirituality, that heretofore impossibilities will become realities? 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Verses 10-12 of this chapter represent the climax of the miraculous salvation that Isaiah prophesied for the people. First, there would be a demonstration of God\u2019s strength: \u201cThe LORD will bare His holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and the very ends of earth shall see the victory of our God\u201d (10). That victory would set the conditions for His people, Israel, to leave their places of exile: \u201cTurn, turn away, touch naught unclean as you depart from there; keep pure, as you go forth from there, you who bear the vessels of the LORD!\u201d (11). And, finally, there is the promise of His Providence: \u201cFor you will not depart in haste, nor will you leave in flight; for the LORD is marching before you, the God of Israel is your rear guard\u201d (12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim* elaborated on the miraculous nature of the promised deliverance, pointing out that it would suffice to prove to all who witnessed it that \u201cit was neither accidental nor natural, but divine salvation.\u201d He further explained that God instructed the people to leave the lands of the idolaters, to which they had been exiled, for two reasons:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[A] Because that very earth was impure, hence \u201ctouch naught unclean as you depart from there,\u201d i.e., do not touch anything impure because you need to preserve bodily purity. [B] For the sake of the purity of mind and intellect, because it was impossible for them to maintain purity of thought while amongst worshippers of stars and constellations, to wit: \u201ckeep pure, as you go forth from there, you who bear the vessels of the LORD!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And, finally, Malbim, characteristically, drew a distinction between \u201chaste\u201d and \u201cflight\u201d (12), explaining that one makes haste while going towards a desirable objective, while one flees from something threatening. He illustrated it by comparing the promised deliverance to the historical precedent of the Exodus from Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Exodus from Egypt was carried out in haste\u2026 because they were hastening towards the great benefits of the revelation of His presence in pillars of fire and cloud\u2026 The rest of their journey [ to Sinai] was in flight because the Egyptians were pursuing them. In the future, it will be otherwise\u2026 You will have no need to hasten towards God because He will lead you, and you will have no need to flee from a pursuing enemy because God will be your rear guard.<\/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>","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":"Haste and Flight","tile_main_caption":"For you will not depart in haste, nor will you leave in flight; for the LORD is marching before you, the God of Israel is your rear guard","tile_main_caption_size":"2","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Isaiah","chapter":"52","chapter_main_number":"386","date":"20270221","wall_id":"386"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"403","name":"Redemption","old_id":"803"},{"term_id":"601","name":"Exodus","old_id":"1001"}]},{"order":9,"id":"68088","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Ultimate Degradation ","post_title":"The Ultimate Degradation","slug":"the-ultimate-degradation","old_id":"68088","type":"event","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He has written over twenty books, focusing on such topics as the European novel from the 18th century to the present, contemporary American fiction, and modern Hebrew literature. He has also written extensively on the literary aspects of the Bible. His most recent work is his monumental three volume translation of the entire Hebrew Bible - The Hebrew Bible, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019 - from which the selections in 929 are taken. ","short_description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of the three-volume translation of the entire Hebrew Bible - The Hebrew Bible, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019.","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":54357,"alt":"","title":"robert alter","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","width":184,"height":275,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","medium-width":184,"medium-height":275,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","medium_large-width":184,"medium_large-height":275,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","large-width":184,"large-height":275,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","1536x1536-width":184,"1536x1536-height":275,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","2048x2048-width":184,"2048x2048-height":275,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","post_full_size-width":184,"post_full_size-height":275,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/robert-alter.jpg","home_baner-width":184,"home_baner-height":275}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"386","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Losing sovereignty, home, humanity\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

52:14 \u201cAs many were appalled by him, so marred beyond human his looks and his features unlike humankind\u2019s,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This whole line vividly demonstrates the power of personification and hyperbole. Collective Israel is imagined as a person. In a point of historical fact, the exiles, undergoing a fate that was by no means unprecedented, would scarcely have been perceived as having lost their humanity. In the poetic hyperbole, personified Israel, deprived of sovereignty, homeland, and place of worship, is envisioned as someone so degraded, humiliated, and abused by his condition in history that those who see him are appalled and can scarcely recognize a human form in this disfigured person.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. The Holy City<\/em>. Perhaps we are already used to the epithet <\/span>Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh<\/span><\/i>, the holy city of Jerusalem, but it appears for the first time here in verse 1, and will only appear one more time in the Tanach, in another 476 chapters in Nehemiah 11.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Uncircumcised, impure<\/em>. Twice in the chapter there is a separation from impurity. In the message to Jerusalem, that \u201cthe uncircumcised and the unclean Shall never enter you again\u201d (verse 1), and in the call to those returning to Zion to keep far from uncleanness in Babylon, \u201cTurn, turn away, touch naught unclean As you depart from there\u201d (verse 11). If we remember that the people returning to Zion were coming back to rebuild the Temple, we can understand more fully the role that purity and impurity had for the prophet and his audience.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. For free<\/em>. \u201cYou were sold for no price, And shall be redeemed without money\u201d (verse 3). Exile is enslavement, being sold into slavery. But the nature of redemption is colored by the fact that there was no actual sale. God doesn\u2019t owe the nations anything in order to redeem the people.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The watchmen and the herald<\/em>. These two imagined figures, the watchman on the walls, and the herald, skipping over the mountains, connect Babylon with Jerusalem. They connect the message with the reality, and in song and movement \u201cAnnouncing happiness, Heralding good fortune, Announcing victory\u2026\u201d It\u2019s quite a picture.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The servant of God<\/em>. Who is the servant of God this time? Check in tomorrow, for the rest of the prophecy, before you decide.<\/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 52","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":"52","chapter_main_number":"386","date":"20270221","wall_id":"386"},"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\/67758"}],"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=67758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}