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In our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a>, God warns Israel to listen closely and obey His commandments for He is about to redeem them from Babylonian bondage. God repeatedly emphasizes that He is the Creator, Redeemer and Teacher.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus said the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. \u2018I am the Lord your God, instructing you for your own benefit. Guiding you in the way you will go\u2019 (<\/span>Isaiah 48:17<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the basis of this and other verses,<\/span> Talmud Bavli Makkot<\/span><\/a> learns that \u201con the path that a person wishes to go, he is led (by God)\". This suggests the doctrine of<\/span> Free Will<\/span><\/a> later elaborated by<\/span> Maimonides<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In graphically depicting how God instructs Israel,<\/span> Midrash Leviticus Rabbah<\/span><\/a> creatively rereads the Hebrew verbal expression <\/span>melammedkha<\/em> <\/span>\u201cinstructing you\u201d, as the noun <\/span>malmad<\/em> <\/span>(cow prod, see<\/span> malmad ha-baqar, Judges 3:31<\/span><\/a>). This leads to the vivid image: \u201cGod prods you like a goad prods a cow\u201d. The Midrash goes on to state that there are actually three terms for the cow prod: <\/span>malmad<\/span>, <\/span>mardea<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>darban. Malmad<\/span><\/em> because the cow prod is used to \u201cinstruct\u201d the cow where to plow in order to give life to its owner (by helping to produce food). <\/span>Mardea<\/em> <\/span>because the cow prod \u201cteaches understanding [<\/span>deah<\/span><\/em>]\u201d to the cow. <\/span>Darban<\/span><\/em> because the cow prod causes understanding [<\/span>binah<\/span><\/em>] to dwell [<\/span>dar<\/span><\/em>] in the cow. And just as a man makes a prod to guide his cow, how much the more so should a man prod his evil instinct to not inflame him in this world, which would incite him to leave the path that leads to the world to come. There is a parable about a man who had a lawsuit against his father. His father said to him, my son, if you wish to win your case against me, employ a lawyer so and so. Similarly, the Holy One, blessed be He says to Israel, if you wish to be forgiven any claim I have against you, you can rely on the<\/span> Merit of the Patriarchs<\/span><\/a> for My forgiving your sins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Tanhuma<\/span><\/a> compares what a father must do for his son, to what God does for Israel. Just as a father must see to the circumcision of his son, so God saw to the circumcision of the Israelites in the time of<\/span> Joshua<\/span><\/a>. A father must redeem his son, so too God<\/span> redeems Israel<\/span><\/a>. A father must see to the marriage of his son [so he may have children], so too God commanded Mankind:<\/span> \"Be fruitful and multiply\"<\/span><\/a>. A father must teach his son commandments, so too God gave Israel commandments: \"<\/span>These are the commandments that the Lord gave Moses for Israel at Mount Sinai<\/span><\/a>. A father must teach his son Torah, so too God teaches Torah to Israel, as it says: \u201cThus said the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I am the Lord your God, instructing you for your own benefit. Guiding you in the way you will go\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 48:17<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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What is the point of prophecy? Why does God send prophets to the people to tell them about things that will happen in the future? In chapter 48, God provides one answer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Therefore I told you long beforehand, Announced things to you where they happened\u2014 That you might not say, \u2018My idol caused them, My carved and molten images ordained them.\u2019 You have heard all this; look, must you not acknowledge it? As of now, I announce to you new things, well-guarded secrets you did not know\u2026\u201d (verses 7-8).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Israel is stubborn. They will ascribe things to idols that they should ascribe to God. To counter this, God lets them in on the secret. If something God predicts comes to pass the people have to realize it is God. Yet they do not. God keeps trying and the people are stubborn. One can sense God\u2019s frustration- \u201cFor the sake of My name I control My wrath\u2026 For My sake, My own sake, do I act\u2026\u201d (verses 10-11). God pleads with the people to listen to Him. It seems futile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To counter this, Isaiah tries to appeal to the daily prayer. Every day the people pray to God with a collective acknowledgment that He is their God. \u201cHear O Israel the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.\u201d (Deuteronomy 6-9). Isaiah invokes this, the <\/span>Shema<\/em> <\/span>prayer:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2018Listen to Me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called: I am the One\u2014I am the first, And I am the last as well\u2019 (verse 12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact, the word \u201chear\u201d and variations of the word appear 10 times in 22 verses showing the centrality of listening to the chapter\u2019s message.\u00a0 It seems like a simple request, but Isaiah knows that for the people to be saved all they have to do is listen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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One of the traits that makes the Prophets of Israel unique in the annals of human culture is that they regularly offered stinging criticisms of their own people. Addressing themselves to monarchs, priests, the wealthy and the powerful, they hurled insult and venom at those who oppressed the people, violated the rights of the poor and marginalized. Indeed, they were extraordinary in chastising those whose false theology posited that God would shield them even when they betrayed the moral bedrock on which the Covenant was founded.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We admire them for those very traits: their uncompromising commitment to moral rigor, their objective application of assessments of right and wrong, even when it meant condemning the behavior of their own people, their own religion, their own rulers.\u00a0 Isaiah doesn\u2019t mince words when he says, <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I know that you are difficult and that your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead is brazen \u2026 For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, and you have been called a rebel from your birth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Contemporary Jews and Christians hold these Prophets of Israel up as exemplary figures of what real religion means: righteousness applied impartially, justice as the North Star, compassion and mercy as the roadmap.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or, at least, we hold up these values once their advocates are safely dead. Once their message is relegated to the past.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But do we honor those who critique our own group today? Do we praise those who are critical of some of our nation\u2019s most oppressive policies, those who protest against abuses aimed at those under our military authority? What about groups that witness against our own acts of coercion or who seek to apply one standard law both to the rich and to the poor, to hold accountable those in high office no less than those who are destitute and despised?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It turns out that we only like prophets when their message is dusty and safe to read without pricking our own conscience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah\u2019s God has something to say about that too: \u201c\u2019There is no peace for the wicked,\u2019 says the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":67834,"alt":"","title":"is48-truth","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","width":564,"height":540,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth-300x287.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":287,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","medium_large-width":564,"medium_large-height":540,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","large-width":564,"large-height":540,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","1536x1536-width":564,"1536x1536-height":540,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","2048x2048-width":564,"2048x2048-height":540,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","post_full_size-width":564,"post_full_size-height":540,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth-439x420.jpg","home_baner-width":439,"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":"We Only Praise Critics When They Are Dead","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"How to honor the prophetic example, and support our own critics today?\u00a0","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":67834,"alt":"","title":"is48-truth","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","width":564,"height":540,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth-300x287.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":287,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","medium_large-width":564,"medium_large-height":540,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","large-width":564,"large-height":540,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","1536x1536-width":564,"1536x1536-height":540,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","2048x2048-width":564,"2048x2048-height":540,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth.jpg","post_full_size-width":564,"post_full_size-height":540,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is48-truth-439x420.jpg","home_baner-width":439,"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":"48","chapter_main_number":"382","date":"20270215","wall_id":"382"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"327","name":"Today's Prophets","old_id":"727"},{"term_id":"390","name":"Prophets","old_id":"790"},{"term_id":"622","name":"Criticism","old_id":"1022"}]},{"order":5,"id":"67818","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Why Don\u2019t The Jews Return Right Away? 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With the downfall of the Babylonians in 3392, Cyrus, the conquering Persian king, announced that the Jews could return to their homeland and rebuild their holy Temple. But the Jews hesitated, and in that moment of hesitation the invitation to return was revoked and the Jews found themselves under the rule of Achashverosh and Haman of Purim infamy. It was another 18 years, after the miracle of Purim (3407), that the Jews actually returned en masse to rebuild the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God rebukes the Jews for not jumping at the chance to leave Babylonia at their first chance, as prophesied by Isaiah in 48:20: \u201cLeave Babylonia, flee from Chaldea, with the sound of jubilation.\u201d In other words, \u201cwhen the time comes to leave, Cyrus calls you to return, flee as fast as you can (Rav Schwab).\u201d What caused their failure to mobilize? One could imagine that they suffered from some degree of what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder, resulting in collective feelings of distrust, hopelessness or estrangement. Or perhaps after their lengthy exile, even though, or perhaps because of the fact that in some respects they flourished, there were some twinges of Stockholm syndrome in which the Jews had developed a level of alliance with their captors. Or perhaps they had just lost their ability for self-direction and couldn\u2019t move forward to a new life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

All of those could be possibilities, but in the very first verse of this chapter we learn that the root cause was far more disturbing, when God admonishes the Jews with:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Listen to this, O House of Jacob, who bear the name Israel and have issued from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel \u2014 <\/span>though not in truth and sincerity<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though they may seem connected to God and in fact may truly want to be, they\u2019re not walking the talk. \u201cLo b\u2019emet<\/em> \u201c\u2013 not in truth, and \u201clo b\u2019tzedakah<\/em>\u201d \u2013 not in righteousness.\u00a0 As Ibn Ezra comments, \u201cThey utter with their lips that they are God\u2019s people, but do not think so in their hearts nor show it in their deeds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the end it wasn\u2019t their hesitation that made them unworthy of returning to their homeland with Cyrus\u2019 invitation, it was their integral unreadiness. When God saw that the time was right, He made it happen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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One of the perennial philosophical problems is the question of just how much control we have over our lives. Is everything which happens to us determined by forces outside us? Are we free to carve out our own path in life? Or does the answer lie somewhere between these extremes?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For the most part, Isaiah 48 seems to side decisively with determinism: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Long ago, I foretold things that happened, from My mouth they issued and I announced them; suddenly I acted and they came to pass\u2026I told you long beforehand, announced things to you before they happened.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Israel seems to be a spectator in its drama; while \u201cnew things, well-guarded secrets\u201d may suddenly come to be, their appearance was inevitable. Even Israel\u2019s own character seems beyond its control: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I refine you, but not as silver, I test you in the furnace of affliction. For My own sake do I act \u2026 I will not give glory to another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though Israel may change as a result of the experience of exile and return, it seems that rather than learning and growing, the Israelites are merely <\/span>reshaped<\/span><\/em> by God. According to this vision of Isaiah, God is the only real subject of history \u2014 the rest of us are only pawns (or, put less harshly, actors. See also Jeremiah 18:6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While this vision of divine domination has appealed to many thinkers in the tradition, there have been others to whom such a picture is unacceptable. Maimonides is the most prominent of these voices: how could it be, he asks, that the Torah issues commands to people with no ability to choose their own fates? It must be the case, he concludes, that we are in some sense really free. Despite the overall tone of this chapter, we can find support for this second point of view as well. Near the end of the chapter, the prophet states: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am the LORD your God, instructing you for your own benefit. Guiding you in the way you should go. If only you would heed my commands! Then your prosperity would be like a river, your triumph like the waves of the sea.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This seems to support Maimonides\u2019 position: God is longing for a future in which Israel <\/span>listens<\/span><\/em> to divine instruction and obeys <\/span>on its own<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It may be that the problem is intractable \u2014 sometimes it seems as if our roles are written for us, and sometimes that we are the shapers of our own fates. Perhaps, rather than taking either of these positions as mutually exclusive pictures of the world, we would do better to treat them as complementary visions. 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What\u2019s in a name? Would that which we call a rose smell as sweet by any other name?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the better question is the reverse. A flower\u2019s identity as a \u201crose\u201d sets a standard by which to judge that flower, so we might ask about each one we encounter: Does this deserve to be called by the name \u201crose\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Has it bloomed? Does it smell sweet enough?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Does it merit the distinction of being called by a name that often represents the highest echelons of floral worth?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Jacob becomes Israel in Genesis 32:29, the \u201cman\u201d (angel, perhaps) tells him it is because \u201cyou have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed.\u201d The new name describes something he did, but also sets a standard by which the man, and eventually the nation born of him, will be judged: Both names, Jacob and Israel, continue to be used throughout the Bible, presumably to signify something about the man\/nation in each context.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Every time we encounter the man, or the nation, we are confronted by the question: Is he, or are they, Jacob or Israel in this story?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Does this nation, in this moment, merit the distinction of being called by a name that represents the highest echelons of moral worth?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Isaiah 48:1, apparently not. The prophet criticizes the \u201cHouse of Jacob, who bear the name Israel\u201d for claiming connection with that name (\u201cinvoke the God of Israel\u201d) without maintaining standards of truth and righteousness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The name Israel was given in a moment of physical victory, but Abarbanel reminds us that it goes deeper: \u201cJacob (Yaakov<\/em>) is the name our father, Isaac, called him because he was holding onto Esau\u2019s heel (akev<\/em>) \u2026 a name said disparagingly\u2026 Therefore, the prophet said about the people of Jerusalem that in their deeds, they were the House of Jacob, conducting themselves with \u201cakavah<\/em>\u201d and deceit \u2013 though they were called Israel for honor and glory.\u201d\u00a0 On a similar note, some suggest a connection between the name Israel and the Hebrew word \u201cyashar<\/em>\u201d \u2013 straight, or upright. Truth, righteousness, uprightness \u2013 these are the qualities that earn the name Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For though God recognizes and stands with His people even as Jacob (as in verse 20, \u201cthe LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob\u201d) \u2013 they are also reminded at the close of the prophecy that \u201cthere is no peace for the wicked.\u201d The people called Israel can and must do better; they must sweeten their conduct to make themselves worthy of being called Israel, to make themselves known as a rose among 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In this chapter, Mabim* addressed a theological question that has considerable ramifications for the study of biblical prophecy: Does it matter whether God provides forewarning of impending miraculous actions? If we reflect, for a moment, on Moses\u2019s actions at the Red Sea or Joshua\u2019s at Gibeon, they seem to have been simultaneous with their declarations. The miracles Isaiah performed, however, received considerable advance notice. Malbim, true to form, discovered and elaborated on the distinction in his commentary to verses 2-3-4.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[2] The miracles that God wrought on behalf of the Jewish people were of two kinds. [A] when they were deserving of miraculous providence, He would perform a wonder to elevate them on account of their righteousness, but [B] when they were undeserving, He would perform them in their presence to inspire their faith in Him. The difference between these is that those miracles that were performed on account of their merit were unannounced by prophets or seers before they transpired; rather, they were done suddenly, as [circumstances] necessitated. But the wonders that were performed because of the weakness of their faith necessarily required prior prophetic announcement for them to be recognized as the hand of God and inspire faith.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[3] At the time of the \u201cearlier ones\u201d I [God] had no need to tell the prophet in advance of the miracles I would perform; rather, I would perform them immediately upon announcing them\u2026 The purpose of giving prior notice of miracles to prophets is dual: [A] for God therein to inform him of the impending miracle, and [B] for the prophet to announce it to the people. None of this was necessary for the earlier miracles because the notice (to the prophet) and the announcement (to the people) and the actual performance of the miracle were all sudden [and simultaneous].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[4] All this applied to those earlier miracles but now things are different. Since I know how tough you are, you find it difficult to believe, and if the miracle would come suddenly you would fail to recognize it as the hand of God. Even if it were pointed out to you, \u201cyour neck is like an iron sinew\u201d \u2026 and your \u201cforehead of bronze\u201d would prompt you to deny it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our daily prayers we express gratitude to God for the \u201cmiracles that are with us daily.\u201d Without the benefit of prophecy, it is incumbent upon us to recognize them and be inspired by them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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48:16 \u201cDraw close to me, and hear this: Not from the first did I speak in secret, from when it came into being, there I was. And now, the Master, the LORD, has sent me with His spirit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While there is no introductory formula, the next line of poetry makes it clear that the speaker of these words is the prophet, not God. From the moment of his dedication as prophet, he has spoken openly and plainly about what God has set out to do in history. These two lines of poetry constitute a kind of coda or closing frame to the prophecy spoken by God that begins in verse 12.\u00a0<\/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. Just how hard was it?<\/em> Here is the biochemical definition of the \u201chardness\u201d level of the people: \u201cBecause I know how stubborn you are (Your neck is like an iron sinew And your forehead bronze)\u201d (verse 4).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. And how deep?<\/em> The sin is too deep: \u201cI know that you are treacherous, That you were called a rebel from birth\u201d (verse 8).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Don\u2019t say I never told you so<\/em>. God knows this people, and he doesn\u2019t want to leave a margin for error. Therefore, he relayed in advance his plans for history, so that it be known that it is God and no other that stands behind them: \u201cTherefore I told you long beforehand, Announced things to you ere they happened\u2014 That you might not say, \u201cMy idol caused them...\u201d (verse 5). Unfortunately, and according to verse 8 - it doesn\u2019t help: \u201cYou had never heard, you had never known\u05e5\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. With love<\/em>. Cyrus is not a random choice. \u201cHe whom the LORD loves Shall work His will against Babylon...\u201d (verse 14).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The path to peace and fertility<\/em>. Want a river of peace, and many, many offspring? \u201cIf only you would heed My commands! Then your prosperity would be like a river, Your triumph like the waves of the sea. Your offspring would be as many as the sand, Their issue as many as its grains. Their name would never be cut off Or obliterated from before Me\u201d (18-19). 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