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\u00a0<\/span>Chapter 63 mentions three giants of Israelite history- Abraham, Jacob\/Israel and Moses. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then they remembered the ancient days, Moses who pulled a precious people out [of the water]: Where is the One who brought them up from the Sea along with the shepherd of this flock? Where is the One whose holy spirit was placed in their midst; whose glorious arm was made to march at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make a reputation for all time\u201d (verse 11-12)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

Surely You are our Father: Though Abraham regard us not, and Israel recognize us not, You, O ETERNAL One, are our Father; from of old, Your name is \u2018Our Redeemer\u2019\u201d (verse 16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses makes his first direct appearance in the book of Isaiah here, while Abraham and Jacob\/Israel have appeared before. Usually, a prophet will invoke the forefathers to ask them to intercede on behalf of the people or to inspire the people to remember the glory days of old. The message of chapter 63, however, is that the people cannot rely on their forefathers to save them. They remember the stories of Moses bringing the people through the Red Sea, but Moses is not there to save them now. By verse 16, Abraham and Israel are not fondly remembered. They are only mentioned for the fact that they do not pay attention to the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The people know they can only rely on God. That is why the chapter ends with a direct supplication to God: \u201cRelent for the sake of Your servants, the tribes that are Your very own!\u201d (verse 17). In other contexts, this verse could be interpreted as \u201crelent for the sake of your servants, the forefathers, and do not forsake us.\u201d For example, when God promises Isaac that he will continue the blessings for him: \u201cFear not, for I am with you, and I will bless you and increase your offspring <\/span>for the sake of My servant Abraham<\/span><\/em>\u201d (Genesis 26:18) or when God promises Solomon he will not destroy split the kingdom in his lifetime: \u201cBut, <\/span>for the sake of your father David<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> I will not do it in your lifetime; I will tear it away from your son\u201d (I Kings 11:12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here, however, the people do not look to someone in the past to save them. Instead, they pray to God to save them for their own sake. Isaiah\u2019s message is that the people cannot always default to looking to others for help. 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Isaiah 63 contains the implication that God is responsible for at least some of man\u2019s transgressions:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why, ETERNAL One, do You make us stray from Your ways, turn our hearts away from revering You? (verse 17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God in the Torah, speaks about giving humanity choices to either opt for good or bad, blessings or curses (see Deut. 10:15-20,) stemming from the embedding within human beings the ability to choose freely (see Gen. 1:26-7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Therefore, to even imply that God undermines a person\u2019s ability to act righteously, strikes at an important theological assumption of Jewish thought upon which is built the ability to repent, and reward and punishment (see Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Repentance, Chapter 5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi, in his commentary to Isaiah 63, looks to objectify the issue, and therefore asserts that since God can do away with anything He has created within a person (Ez. 36:26: \u201cI will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh\u201d), God\u2019s allowing the continued presence of the evil inclination within people is clearly the fault of God!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak and others see a sociological and psychological cause for Jewish apostasy that is traceable to God, with respect to: 1)\u00a0 the interminable Jewish exile from the holy land, and 2) the general \u201csuccess\u201d of evil doers within the broader society.\u00a0 Since, by definition, God can: 1) return the Jews to their homeland in speedy fashion, and 2) punish transgressors in a more clear-cut manner. If things don\u2019t improve, God could be blamed for Jewish frustration, and ultimately, their lack of compliance with the commandments.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the prophet in v. 17 is reflecting what ordinary people are saying, rather than believing these arguments himself, the point appears to be valid, at least for some. Although there have always been individuals who are faithful, fully prepared for whatever their surroundings might seem to imply regarding their unquestioned loyalty to the Divine, others are not so sanguine and given a good excuse, are ready to abandon the tenets of their belief for what they consider more tenable beliefs. And then, of course, there are those who find themselves \u201cin between.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Furthermore, while some might perceive God\u2019s plan as a requirement to submit to His plans for the world, others relish the freedom that not having things \u201cin your face,\u201d and even the \u201cHiding of God\u2019s Face\u201d (see Deut. 31:18; 32:20) affords them. The ability to choose creates difficulties; but some, including apparently God Himself, would not have it any other way.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Israel\u2019s reaction to its exile and oppression, rather than inspiring introspection and remorse, consisted of their rejection of God. \u201cBut they rebelled, and grieved His holy spirit; Then He became their enemy, and Himself made war against them\u201d (10). So afflicted, they began to reflect on their historical fate, recollecting the better times they had once experienced. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then they remembered the ancient days, Him, who pulled (<\/span>moshe<\/span><\/em>) His people out [of the water]: Where is He who brought them up from the sea along with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put in their midst His holy spirit? Who made His glorious arm march at the right hand of Moses (<\/span>moshe<\/span><\/em>), Who divided the waters before them to make Himself a name for all time\u201d (11-12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi explained, simply, that Israel, in exile, became nostalgic for its past glory, which they personified in Moses and epitomized in the crossing of the Sea. Radak elaborated, suggesting that the exodus from Egypt was cited, specifically, because, although many Jews there had fallen under the sway of\u00a0 idolatry, God nevertheless redeemed them, and the crossing of the sea was mentioned because God effected it despite the Israelites having complained \u201care there no cemeteries in Egypt that you have taken us out to die in the wilderness?\u201d (Exodus 14:11). In other words, these particular examples were chosen because they promised salvation even in the absence of complete righteousness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our ongoing preoccupation with Malbim\u2019s* substantive interpretations does not free us from making other observations on the text of Isaiah and its exegesis. One particularly noteworthy point arises apropos of a single Hebrew word that we have highlighted in two of the aforementioned verses: <\/span>moshe<\/span><\/em>. In its second appearance, \u201cat the right hand of <\/span>moshe<\/span><\/em>,\u201d it clearly is a proper noun and is properly translated \u201cMoses.\u201d The question is, what of the previous verse, \u201c<\/span>moshe<\/span><\/em> His people\u201d? Our translation (Jewish Publication Society, 1978) treated it as a verb meaning to pull out, clearly regarding it as a pun on the noun Moshe (Moses), and basing itself on Exodus 2:10: \u201c[Pharaoh\u2019s daughter] named him Moshe, because I have pulled him out of the water.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibn Ezra cited this possibility, but rejected it, as did Malbim. Ibn Ezra read the opening clause of v. 10 as \u201cThey recalled Moses <\/span>and<\/span><\/em> his people (<\/span>ve-`amo<\/span><\/em>),\u201d and Malbim made the \u201cpeople\u201d its subject, reading \u201cHis people recalled the days of yore, [the days of] Moses.\u201d<\/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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In general, there are profound connections between the Books of Isaiah and Psalms. In chapter 12 of Isaiah there is a full psalm of thanksgiving as an integral part of the vision of redemption and ingathering of exiles, and the sages point out a psalm scattered throughout the chapters of Jerusalem\u2019s salvation (Is. 24\u201327). Likewise, Hezekiah\u2019s psalm of thanks\u00adgiving for his recovery from illness (38:9\u201320) appears only in Isaiah, and not in the parallel chapters in the Book of Kings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Isaiah\u2019s disciples continued on his prophetic path, with lofty ideas and a lyrical style, from Manasseh\u2019s time until Jerusalem\u2019s destruction, which is described in the final historical psalm:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Lord\u2019s kindnesses I will mention; the Lord\u2019s praises, for all the Lord has bestowed upon us. (63:7)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The opening mention of God\u2019s kindness, together with the mention of Moses\u2019 song at the sea after the exodus from Egypt (63:7\u201314), recall Psalm 106:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who can express the Lord\u2019s might or proclaim all his praises. (106:2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He blasted the Sea of Reeds and it dried up, and He led them through the deep as if through the wilderness. (106:9)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They forgot God their savior. (106:21)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What follows in Isaiah is:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But they rebelled, and vexed His holy spirit\u2026Dividing the water before them\u2026That led them through the deep like a horse in the wilderness. (Is. 63:10\u201313)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Afterwards, we find a great cry in the face of terrible destruction:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Look down from heaven and see\u2026Where is Your fervor, Your acts of might? (63:15)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Your holy cities became wilderness, Zion became a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. (64:9\u201310)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This cry is similar to Jeremiah\u2019s cry in his final prophecy (Jer. 32:16\u201325), and to the cries of the psalms of destruction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why, O God, have You abandoned us forever (Ps 74:1);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Arise, O God, champion Your cause (74:22);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How long, O Lord, will You be furious forever (79:5);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How long, O Lord, will You remain hidden forever (89:47);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

O God of hosts, come back now, look down from heaven and see (80:15);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shine Your face and we will be saved. (80:20)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The school of psalmists existed in Jerusalem from David\u2019s time until after the destruction of the Temple. David\u2019s followers, and Assaf and Ethan the Ezrahite, continued composing psalms through divine inspiration. Isaiah and his disciples took part in this lyrical composition through prophecy, and as David\u2019s psalms inspired psalmists after him, Isaiah\u2019s prophecies inspired his disciples to prophesy in his style and spirit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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63:11 \u201cBut He recalled the days of yore, drawing His people out from the water: Where is He Who brought them up from the sea, the shepherds of his flock? Where is He Who put in their midst His holy spirit?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew <\/span>mosheh \u2018amo<\/span><\/em> should not be construed as \u201cMoses his people,\u201d which would make little sense. Instead, <\/span>mosheh<\/span><\/em> is used as a verb here, the verb with which the name of Moses is etymologized. This usage is clear because of the next line, \u201cWhere is He Who brought them up from the sea.\u201d But the poet interprets the Moses story as he invokes the miracle at the Sea of Reeds: the infant Moses drawn from the water is a prefiguration of Israel saved from the waters as the sea is split open.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Why and wherefore?<\/em> Whatever did Edom to Israel that led to this fierce desire for revenge? Is this the actual Edom, the neighboring political power, or Edom - as a symbol of an evil kingdom? There are various answers in learned commentaries and academic research. It\u2019s worth knowing though, that this prophecy is not alone on this. In another 325 chapters, we will encounter a psalm from the days of the return to Zion, that also calls for divine retribution on Edom (see Ps 137 verses 7-9).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Red (\u201cAdom\u201d) Edom<\/em>. The word and color plays are very vivid. The color of the clothes of the one who comes from Edom are red (adumim). Coming from the city of Batzra, he looks like a <\/span>botzer<\/span><\/i>, a harvester or trodder of grapes. But his clothes are not red from the juice of grapes, but from the blood of the Edomites.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Bottom up<\/em>. The second half of the chapter is not a prophecy but a prayer. The prophet, who is generally a messenger bringing the message of God to the people, here works in the opposite direction: from the people to God.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Warm regards from Moshe\/Moses<\/em>. It is not surprising that Moshe\u2019s name is mentioned in the context of the exodus from Egypt, but this hasn\u2019t occurred now for many many chapters. Two instances though occur in this chapter, in verses 11-12.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. More fatherly than the fathers<\/em>. \u201cSurely You are our Father: Though Abraham regard us not, And Israel recognize us not,\u201d and even if our forefathers don\u2019t acknowledge: \u201cYou, O LORD, are our Father; From of old, Your name is \u2018Our Redeemer\u2019\u201d (verse 16).<\/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 63","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":"63","chapter_main_number":"397","date":"20270308","wall_id":"397"},"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\/68426"}],"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=68426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}