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This last book of Prophets (Nevi\u2019im) is an anthology of twelve books, which were grouped together allegedly in order to ensure that they would not get lost due to their relatively small size (Baba Batra 14b). For purposes of comparison, Ezekiel, the smallest of the three larger prophetic books, contains 1,273 verses. Obadiah, the smallest of the twelve, has only 21, and the entire anthology, just 1,050.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While it colloquially bears the Aramaic name <\/span>Trei Asar<\/span><\/em> (for twelve), there are a few Hebrew references to it in rabbinic literature as <\/span>Shneim Asar<\/span><\/em>. Its canonization (inclusion in the Bible) as an anthology occurred relatively early in the Second Temple period (i.e., prior to the Hasmonean dynasty) as attested to by the Book of Ben Sirach 49:10<\/span>: \u201c<\/span>Then, too, the Twelve Prophets\u2014may their bones flourish with new life where they lie\u2014they gave new strength to Jacob and saved him with steadfast hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The twelve prophets included herein span an era of about 300 years, from the decline of the northern kingdom of Samaria through the earliest years of the Second Temple. Among the earlier of these prophets were Hosea and Amos, who, along with Isaiah and Micah, prophesied at roughly the same time. Among the latest were Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The order in which they are arranged within Trei Asar corresponds, overall, to their chronological order; however, since the time frames of several are either unknown or highly speculative (e.g., Joel and Obadiah), it is also possible that there are thematic links between adjacent books, such as Obadiah following Amos because of their mutual focus on Edom , and Jonah following Micah on account of a shared prophecy about Assyria.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A curious halakhic consequence of the organization of Trei Asar<\/em> is that while reading a <\/span>haftarah<\/span><\/em> it is prohibited to skip from one prophetic book to another\u2014such as Joshua to Judges or Isaiah to Ezekiel\u2014in the case of the books of Trei Asar it is permissible. 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Hosea came to warn Israel of the nation\u2019s impending doom shortly before its conquest by the Assyrians. He served the role for Israel that Jeremiah would later serve for Judah. Like Jeremiah, Hosea is portrayed as a doomsayer and like Jeremiah, the underlying message is one of hope amid the foreboding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As we see in many of the other books, the role of the prophet is more than just an intermediary between the people and God. The prophet is to establish himself in the service of God as a human allegory for the nation as a whole. In the first section this is uniquely inverted: In one of the most morally perplexing stories in the Tanakh, Hosea is ordered to personify God Himself by marrying a harlot, Gomer, who subsequently (if predictably) betrays him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Endless words have been written over 2,000 years arguing about whether the episode actually happened or whether it was allegorical. But as always, the message is the message, and here the message is completely plain: Israel has betrayed her marital partner God and been promiscuous with all sorts of other foreign gods-cum-lovers. Just like the metaphor of marriage to God elucidated in the Torah helped the initial audience understand the human-God relationship in terms they could relate to, the extension of that metaphor to betrayal and subsequent separation concretized what is otherwise highly abstract for an audience for whom abstractions were peripheral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the metaphor of God and Israel as being bound in marriage extends throughout the Tanakh, it is here that it achieves its most explicit exposition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second section of the book is Hosea\u2019s oracles to the nation. It indirectly comments on the first part, the marriage allegory, and calls for the people to know God. The text is telling us that the experience of God needs to be intimate and exclusive; knowing God is meant to be understood as parallel to the \u201cknowing in the biblical sense\u201d that a man and wife are supposed to have but that Hosea himself did not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After reminding us that Israel was birthed in sin, with the crooked Jacob deceiving his blind father before experiencing a personal redemption and being renamed Israel, the final commentary (chapter 11 and on) switches to a second metaphor - Israel as God\u2019s son. Interweaving with a metaphor of marriage is a parallel track that sees Israel born at the splitting of the Sea of Reeds and coming of age at the end of the desert travels when entering the Promised Land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hosea\u2019s final oracle reminds us that even though Israel has failed it in its marriage vows, that is not the only way that it can relate to God. Israel is also like his son - his firstborn son. 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We begin the \"Twelve Minor Prophets\" with Hosea. As the Talmud points out, Hosea is not only the first of the prophets in the book, but signifies a new age in prophecy \u2013 the period of time known as \"Nevi'im Acharonim<\/em>\" \u2013 the later prophets:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Was Hosea the first [prophet] that it should be written: \"When the Lord spoke first to Hosea\" (<\/span>Hosea 1:2<\/span>)?\u00a0 \u2026 But surely between Moshe and Hosea there were several prophets! Rabbi Yochanan answered: [Hosea] was first among the four prophets who prophesied at that time \u2013 Hosea, Isaiah, Amos, and Micah.\u00a0 (Baba Batra 14b)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, who had enjoyed an unequaled period of peace and prosperity during the first decades of the eighth century BCE, were about to find themselves facing their deadliest, most existential threat yet. For, with the ascent of Tiglath-Pileser III in 745 BCE, the neo-Assyrian Empire would begin a policy of aggressive expansion that would ultimately engulf the entire ancient Near East.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, Hosea began his prophecy during the reign of Jeroboam II, several decades earlier, before the storm clouds began to gather. Here lies the challenge of his message. The northern kingdom had finally recovered from years of oppression under Aram, reaching its nadir under Jeroboam's grandfather Jehoahaz (2 Kings 13:7). With their rival weakened, the people of Israel could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Surely God had heard their prayers, and found them deserving. Onto this tranquility bursts forth Hosea. He doesn't gently scold, nor does he perform miracles on their behalf like the legendary Elisha. Instead, he bears one harsh message, told through the metaphors of the naming of his children:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Name him Jezreel, for, in a short time, I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will terminate the kingdom of the house of Israel \u2026 Name her Lo-ruhamah<\/em>, for I will not continue to grant clemency to the house of Israel, but I will mete out their portion to them \u2026 Name him Lo-ammi<\/em>, for you are not My people, and I will not be yours.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

No longer does the prophet threaten droughts. Instead, Hosea declares that the entire northern kingdom will be wiped off the face of the earth. Elijah complained that the people no longer kept to their covenant with God. Hosea now proclaims that God has decided to abrogate His covenant with them. Underlying his surface level metaphor of a marriage to a harlot lay an even harsher reality: Hosea declares that the rupture in the relationship between God and His people is irreversible. We can imagine the dismay, and likely outrage, of his listeners. Surely the fact that they were finally successful implied God's forgiveness? This is the background that Hosea had to navigate in attempting to persuade his people to repent \u2013 knowing that this was indeed their last chance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The opening verse of the Book of Hosea (called the heading or superscription) identifies Hosea only as \u201cthe son of Be\u2019eri.\u201d A helpful observation is that the name Hosea appears to have been used largely, if not exclusively, by members of the tribe of Ephraim: Joshua\u2019s given name was Hosea (Numbers 13:8), as was an Ephraimite chief under King David (2 Chr. 27:20), and the last king of the northern kingdom of Israel (1 Kings 15:30). Additionally, Hosea referred regularly to that kingdom by the name Ephraim (e.g., 5:3,5; 6:10; 7:1), rather than Israel, and the only place names mentioned in the book (e.g., Gilgal, Beit El, Mitzpah, Tabor) belonged to the northern kingdom while there is not a single reference in it to Jerusalem. Therefore, we are entitled to conclude that this prophet lived among the northern tribes and likely was an Ephraimite himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

About Be\u2019eri, we know nothing more, save that a rabbinic adage would have it that \u201cevery prophet whose father\u2019s name is mentioned was a prophet and the son of a prophet\u201d (Vayikra Rabbah 6:6), in which case Be\u2019eri, too, was a prophet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Four kings of Judah are mentioned in the heading, namely, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the same kings whose names also grace the headings of the Books of Isaiah, Amos, and Micah. The inclusion here of Jeroboam ben Joash, King of Israel, strengthens Hosea\u2019s presumed northern origins, as it does for Amos (1:1). The somewhat awkward usage, \u201cWhen the Lord first spoke to Hosea\u201d (2) led the Talmud to proclaim Hosea the \u201cfirst\u201d of these four contemporaries (Baba Batra 14b); later scholarship declared Amos second, Isaiah third, and Micah last.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The pressing problem with Chapter 1 pertains to God\u2019s instruction to Hosea to marry \u201ca wife of whoredom\u201d (2). In <\/span>our comments on Ezekiel 4 <\/span><\/a>(\u201c(In)Appropriate Activities\u201d), we noted:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

...several instances in Tanakh in which God instructed prophets to do strange things that turn out to be fraught with great symbolism. Jeremiah was instructed: \u201cGo buy yourself a loincloth of linen, and put it around your loins, but do not dip it into water\u201d (13:1) and then to hide it in the cleft of a rock (13:4). Later, he was told to retrieve it, and its deterioration became a symbol of the fate Israel would suffer. Isaiah was told to go about \u201cnaked and barefoot\u201d (20:3); Hosea was instructed to marry a harlot (1:2); and Ezekiel was directed to eat a scroll (3:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maimonides (Guide 2:46) regarded all such incidents as occurring only in prophetic visions, following the paradigm of Abraham and the covenant of the pieces (Gen. 15), which is explicitly designated a vision (<\/span>mar\u2019eh<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Interested in fictionalized details? 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In the first chapter of Hosea, we see a shocking command. God instructs Hosea to marry a harlot and build a life with her. Hosea, the prophet, follows God's command without dispute. But this beginning to a prophetic text proves puzzling. Why does God ask such a bizarre and personal commitment of Hosea?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our rabbis teach that God wants Hosea to put himself in God's shoes-- to know what it is like to be in a relationship with someone who is constantly unfaithful, someone who he knows has a propensity to hurt him, but whom he nevertheless loves and is committed to. God asks Hosea to do this so God has a partner, a person who gets the deep pain God feels about His beloved, Israel. We, like the adulterous spouse, constantly deceive and disappoint God. We turn to idols and false gods instead of to God. And God is left waiting for us with a broken heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And yet...despite all of the heartache and moments of separation and exile along the way...He cannot bring Himself to truly leave us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Getting personal with Hosea is the only means for God to have a partner in His loneliness. This is a heartbreaking and radical way to view our God, King of kings. And it can even be disturbing to imagine God wanting his creation to suffer just as He suffers. What good can there be in adding another member to the list of the brokenhearted?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When we suffer, we likely feel the same sense of injustice and ask the same question-- why would God make this personal? Why would God ask me to go through this? It is hard to relate or pray to a God Who wants us to suffer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I would like to believe that to read our text-- and our personal sufferings-- this way is to miss the point. God does not ask Hosea to marry a harlot because he wants Hosea to suffer. He asks Hosea to empathize and to realize that human sorrow is something God understands and joins us in. When we are lonely, when we are brokenhearted, when we feel lost and abandoned-- God does not cause or want us to feel any of those emotions. Instead <\/span>God is with us in them<\/span><\/em>. Joining, empathizing, and partnering with us with unending hope for healing and reconciliation. In this way, Hosea\u2019s interaction with God brings God into our personal relationships in order to help us feel God\u2019s empathy a little more in our personal lives-- and as a result, to empathize more with God Himself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If we read our text with this in mind, we cannot help but feel our own hearts break, longing to repair the wrongs we have committed against our Beloved. True, it is shocking to begin a prophetic book with such an intimate command. 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The names God instructs Hosea to give his, and his wife Gomer\u2019s, children in Hosea 1 represent the degradation of Israel\u2019s relationship with divinity. God commands Hosea to name his children Jezreel; \u201cfor, I will soon punish the House of Jehu for the bloody deeds at Jezreel,\u201d (1:4) Lo-ruhamah; \u201cfor I will no longer accept the House of Israel <\/span>nor pardon them<\/span><\/em>,\u201d (1:6) and Lo-ammi; for you are <\/span>not My people<\/span><\/em>, and I will not be your [God]\u201d (1:9).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Like so many other Biblical characters, Hosea\u2019s children possess names imbued with symbolism. Among dozens of other examples, Eve \u201cbore Cain, saying, \u2018I have gained (<\/span>kaniti<\/span><\/em>) a male child with the help of the LORD\u2019\u201d (Gen. 4:1). And Sarah named her son Isaac (<\/span>yitzchak<\/span><\/em>) because \u201cGod has brought me laughter; everyone who hears will laugh (<\/span>yitzchak<\/span><\/em>) <\/span><\/i>with me\u201d (Gen. 21:6).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These biblical names, or biblical <\/span>namings<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>provide insight into the mind of the namer. Isaac\u2019s name illuminates Sarah\u2019s excitement and insecurity over birthing a child in her old age in a narrative that doesn\u2019t otherwise supply ink for Sarah\u2019s thoughts. Similarly, Eve is mute after that first sin, except for the two verses naming her sons Cain and Seth. These seemingly trivial namings lend a voice and an opinion to the frequently silenced female characters of the Tanach.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This realization about namings makes Gomer\u2019s absence in Hosea 1 even more troubling. At the beginning of the chapter, God commands Hosea to marry a \u201cwife of whoredom\u201d (1:2). The marriage is, of course, a cosmic metaphor for God and the People of Israel, a whoring nation. The story is disturbing: both because Gomer and her children are used as divine props in a moral directive and because of God\u2019s utter rejection of Israel. God naming Gomer\u2019s children while she remains silent only reinforces her identity (or lack of) as a symbol. Gomer exists as a rhetorical device rather than as a person with thoughts and opinions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is appropriate that in the marriage metaphor Israel is represented by a mute \u201cwife of whoredom.\u201d In the divine-human relationship, God is omnipotent and Israel has no power, no voice. How better to represent this dynamic than through the marriage of a man to a woman with no rights, no voice, and no status in the community because of her \u201cloose morals.\u201d And this woman is not even afforded the words to name her own children, the one prerogative of the biblical woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter objectifies and silences Gomer in order to convey Israel\u2019s impotence. But as a woman in ancient society, Gomer is powerless before the chapter even starts. 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1:4 \u201cAnd the LORD said to him: \u2018Call his name Jezreel, for soon I will make a reckoning for the blood of Jezreel against the house of Jehu and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jehu, usurping the throne, killed Jezebel and carried out a mass execution of those loyal to her (2 Kings 9-10). The Book of Kings represents these bloody acts as authorized by God, but Hosea appears to have had a very different view of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Back in time.<\/em> We\u2019ve reached the prophecies of Hosea after three big books of prophecy, that presented the words of prophets who were active from the end of the 8th century BCE in the kingdom of Judah, via the destruction, the exile and until the return to Zion at the beginning of the 6th century BCE. Hosea prophesies before all those prophets, and their prophecies which we have already read. He\u2019s almost the first prophet whose words were collected and written down. Read him as such. If some prophetic idea sounds familiar, there\u2019s a chance that it was Hosea who said it first.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. It\u2019s totally a couples thing<\/em>. The prophecy of Hosea sees the connection between God and Israel as a romantic relationship, perhaps for the first time. What does this mean? Well, everything a couples relationship means, for good and for bad. Love and jealousy, distance and closeness, freedom and domination, loyalty and betrayal, courtship, revealing and concealing, pain and hope, and everything else that you also are familiar with.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Did it really happen or not?<\/em> Did Hosea really marry Gomer and establish a family with her? Or is it perhaps an allegory or a bit of performance art? That\u2019s the question - and it\u2019s not an easy one.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Children of whoredom<\/em> (v. 3). Why would the children of Hosea and Gomer be called that? Perhaps after their mother, perhaps to symbolize the moral of the betrayal, and perhaps, even as she was the wife of the prophet, Gomer continued to be a prostitute, and there is no certainty regarding the paternity. The prophecy in the next chapter will expand on this.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The blood of Jezreel<\/em>. 183 chapters ago (2 Kings 9-10), during the rebellion of Jehu, there was a bloodbath in Jezreel, where the members of the large royal family (the house of Ahab) and all the servants of Baal were eliminated. 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    \u201cAn Alliance of Love and Complexity \u05d4\u05d5\u05e9\u05e2\u201d<\/a> by Devorah Kurin: How literal do we take Hosea\u2019s actions.<\/p>\r\n

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