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Following Hosea\u2019s prophecy about the <\/span>Petach Tikvah <\/span><\/em>\u2013<\/span><\/i> the gateway of hope (2:17) that God will open to this nation on redemption from exile, is a singularly unprecedented reimagining of humanity. God asserts that He will \u201cremove the names of the idols from their mouths (2:19).\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our sages explain that God actually removed the temptation for idolatry from our very being. Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld describes idol worship as coming from a good place: a natural drive to connect with the infinite. The challenge was not to suppress the drive but to know how to express it, and that is where the failure lied. Rather than using this drive to draw closer to God, the people succumbed to an equally powerful drive to find the path of least resistance, and \u201cGod was too demanding. Idolatry gave them a sense of connecting to something beyond this world but without the strings attached.\u201d God demanded a standard of behavior; idols demanded nothing. That God chose to rid us of the idol worshiping temptation (not the strings!) and find another path to rebuild our relationship, was nothing short of reconfiguring the human condition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some ask if this removal of temptation didn\u2019t also take with it a removal of free will. One critical objective for humanity is to choose good over evil. There are a myriad of ways to do that besides idol worship, but ultimately, making that choice involves a recognition of a higher authority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the end of this chapter Hosea delineates a prerequisite to completing our reformation. The land had been decimated along with the cities and Temple, and now Hosea prophecies that before the people will be able to fully express their newly recovered relationship with God, the land itself will be reconstituted. To do so requires a profound understanding of our environment and the natural processes that lead to our continued physical existence. \u201cIn that day, I will respond to the sky, And it shall respond to the earth; And the earth shall respond With new grain and wine and oil...\u201d (2:23-24).\u201d As Rashi explains, God will hear the plea of the heavens and put rain in the clouds; the heavens will, in turn, pour rain down on the land; and the land will then nurture the grain. Only then, when of our own free will we acknowledge that this seemingly natural order is God-given, will we truly connect with the infinite and be able to say, \u201cYou are my God (2:25).\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Hosea 2, filled with passion and violence, reads like a soap opera. The chapter opens with the affirmation that Israel and Judah will love one another and God (1-3). Then, in a sudden turn, Israel is adulterous (4-7), causing God to punish Israel by ruining the harvest because they turned to Baal (8-15), and ends with the prophecy that Israel will once again become God\u2019s wife (16-25). What a rollercoaster!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Hosea 2 and elsewhere in the Prophets, Israel is portrayed as the promiscuous wife and God as the betrayed husband. This is paradigm is most evident in verse 4:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cRebuke your mother, rebuke her\u2014 For she is not My wife And I am not her husband\u2014 And let her put away her harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God casts off Israel for pursuing Canaanite gods like Baal, forgetting the gifts the God of Israel bestowed upon her. As was the custom in the ancient world, a husband must protect the sexuality of the women in his household. This protection is not for the women themselves, but rather for the purity and honor of the husband. When a man is unable to do this and is betrayed, his masculinity and power have been compromised. He is weak, shamed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Still today, when men feel their power or honor are compromised, they often feel their wrath is justified, and that they are tolerated societally. God\u2019s anger and abuse creates a paradigm for how a man should react to his wife--condemning her sexuality, threatening to withdraw all material sustenance, eternal punishment. As a feminist, I am deeply troubled by this violent misogyny. As someone who believes in an eternally loving God, these verses also challenge my theology. If God can effectively divorce Israel, is the relationship truly eternal?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Burdened with these concerns, I am inspired anew each morning as I wrap my tefillin around my middle finger each morning and whisper these words of betrothal: \u201cAnd I will espouse you forever: I will espouse you with righteousness and justice, And with goodness and mercy, And I will espouse you with faithfulness; Then you shall be devoted to God.\u201d (verses 21-22)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The question of the actual reality of said marriage intrigued the Talmudic sages and medieval and modern exegetes alike. The Talmudic opinion (Pesachim 87a) took it literally. Accusing Hosea of infidelity to his people, the Talmud had God say, so to speak:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What shall I do with this old man? I will order him: \"Go and marry a harlot and beget thee children of harlotry\"; and then I will order him: \"Send her away from thy presence.\" If he will be able to send [her] away, so will I too send Israel away. For it is said, \u201cAnd the Lord said unto Hosea: \u2018Go, take unto thee a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry\u2019\u201d; and it is written, \u201cSo he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not so the medieval rationalists as epitomized by Maimonides, whom we cited in <\/span>our comments on Chapter 1<\/span><\/a>. Ibn Ezra wrote: \u201cForbid the thought that a prophet would take a wife of whoredom. Rather, this appeared to him in a dream\u201d (1:1).* Radak, too, wrote: \u201cThis entire matter transpired in a prophetic vision\u201d (1:2). Most striking, however, was Malbim who disagreed, and, in defense of the Talmudic position and explicitly contrary to Ibn Ezra, wrote: \u201cHosea was not a priest and an [ordinary] Israelite is not prohibited from marrying a whore.\u201d Referring, in fact, to the very same acts mandated of Ezekiel and Elijah whose facticity Maimonides had dismissed, Malbim responded that they were all acts of \u201cemergency legislation\u201d (<\/span>hora\u2019at sha`ah<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abrabanel, too, supported the literal position, albeit taking a different tack:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These exegetes [Ibn Ezra and Radak] have no argument by saying that God would be irreverent had He commanded a prophet to take a wife and children of whoredom, since the prophets were not chosen by God in order that their status be enhanced like royalty. Rather, they were His agents to straighten out His people, therefore He could command them to do whatever was necessary to achieve this.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The moral of Hosea\u2019s act\u2014or vision, if that was the case\u2014was the Jewish people whose relationship with God was compared to a marriage by both Jeremiah (2:1-3) and Ezekiel (16:8), among others. Neither is the use of marital infidelity original, let alone unique, to Hosea; we find it already in the Torah. In the portion that commands the wearing of tzitzit<\/em>, Israel was warned against \u201cstraying after your hearts and eyes after which you go whoring,\u201d utilizing the same verb, <\/span>zonim<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span>*Ibn Ezra wrote two commentaries on Trei Asar. This citation is from the alternate version\u2014the one not found in the standard Mikraot Gedolot.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The first three chapters of Hosea contain some of the most brutal images in the Bible. God commands the prophet to marry and divorce a woman with a shady past; father, name and re-name children without regard to the humanity of his wife and children, but solely in order to make rhetorical points about Israel\u2019s faithfulness, or lack thereof, to God, with whom they are in covenant.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The bulk of Chapter 2 describes the devastating punishments that God threatens to mete out to the recalcitrant people, depriving them not only of wealth but even of minimal food and clothing:\u00a0 \u201cAssuredly, I will take back My new grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And I will snatch away My wool and My linen That serve to cover her nakedness\u201d (verse 11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God then plans to coax the people back into relationship (v. 16) and describes a loving vision of their faithful future together: \u201cIn that day, I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; I will also banish bow, sword, and war from the land. Thus I will let them lie down in safety. And I will espouse you forever: I will espouse you with righteousness and justice, And with goodness and mercy, And I will espouse you with faithfulness; Then you shall be devoted to the Eternal\u201d (vv. 20-22).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To many readers, the assumption that a battered woman might willingly return to an unbalanced relationship is troubling at best. Relationships, even (especially) with God take work.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Long-standing Jewish practice provides an opening for that work. Verses 21-22, quoted above, are particularly familiar to Jews who pray with tefillin, as they are traditionally recited while wrapping the tefillin strap around the pray-er\u2019s hand. This liturgical usage removes the verses from their Biblical context making it possible, as many worshippers do, to ignore the pain and anger that precede them. But what if we keep the context alive?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ritual recitation puts God\u2019s pledge of commitment in human mouths. The prophetic vision of a far-off future time becomes a human action plan, an antidote to the pain, illness, and want in our world. Although we shudder at the idea that suffering is the result of divine punishment, we can uphold the idea that righteousness and justice, goodness and mercy, faithfulness and devotion are the path forward not only towards ameliorating distress but also towards reinforcing or rebuilding our relationship with God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Hosea's second chapter continues the disturbing and challenging metaphors from the first chapter of the prophet\u2019s unfaithful wife and her children, representing Israel's faithlessness towards its covenant. The poetic and powerful language alternates between Hosea's relationship with his own unfaithful wife and the damaged relationship between God and Israel. The introduction (verses 1-3) is optimistic, describing the eventual undoing of the curses against Hosea's children. However, the prophet then launches into an accusation of adultery brought against his wife Gomer. She is disowned by both her husband and her children, and as punishment for her infidelities, she is sentenced to be left naked in the desert to die of thirst.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hosea then discusses the dual sins that led to Israel's downfall \u2013 idolatry and hedonism. He cleverly links the two as he describes how the unfaithful wife continued to betray her vows. She sought after gifts, chasing lovers who flattered her with presents in return for her favors. Yet, she never realized that ultimately the gifts came from her husband:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cBut she did not know that I gave her the corn, the wine, and the oil, and I gave her much silver and gold, but they made it for Baal\u201d (10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How can a relationship so marred be restored? Hosea consistently presents one answer by repeating an image throughout the chapter \u2013 a return to the desert. Historically, the desert is where the Jewish people and God first began their journey together \u2013 for this reason, this chapter is almost universally read as the haftorah for the parasha of Bemidbar (\u201cIn the Desert,\u201d the first parasha of the book of Numbers). One can view this as a second honeymoon \u2013 a return to their roots.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, another approach can be suggested, utilizing the desert's unique qualities as a forum for rectifying the underlying foundations of Israel's sins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What ultimately led to Israel's betrayal? She sought to accumulate luxuries and goodness for herself \u2013 all of her relationships were ultimately transactional, for her own benefit. All this disappears in the desert. <\/span>In the words of Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cIn the world of the wilderness, a person is satisfied with the minimum, he exploits nature for his real and basic needs, and he is not carried away by the false charms of fashion and pleasure, but rather he worries about his survival in an appropriate manner.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ultimately, what Hosea is suggesting to the people is a radical re-imagining of the very nature of their relationship with God. Instead of the transactional approach that characterized their connection with the Divine until then \u2013 if I offer this offering, you will bring rain \u2013 Hosea suggests that the people relate to God without guile or expectations, and that God should do the same. In his words (italics are the author's interpretation):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And it shall come to pass on that day, says the Lord, you shall call [Me] Ishi (<\/span>my husband<\/span><\/em>), and you shall no longer call Me Baali (<\/span>my provider<\/span><\/em>) (v. 18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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How can you have a \u201cmarriage\u201d with an omnipotent partner?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In my article on Hosea 1<\/span><\/a>, I argued that the marriage metaphor between God and Israel strips Israel of their voice and renders them completely powerless. In Hosea 2 the dangers of the divine-human \u201cmarriage\u201d are even more explicit. For half the chapter God threatens Israel, His \u201dwife,\u201d in an abusive manner: \u201cElse will I strip her naked And leave her as on the day she was born: And I will make her like a wilderness, Render her like desert land, And let her die of thirst\u201d (2:5).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The other half of the chapter is a complete reversal. After verse 16, God offers gifts, covenants, forgiveness, and spousal love to Israel. But this divine grace is also problematic. In this chapter, God is erratic and unpredictable. He threatens violence one minute and promises \u201cgoodness and mercy\u201d (2:21) the next.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A relationship is dysfunctional when one partner holds all the power, when one half of the couple can decide if the relationship is loving or abusive on a whim.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Obviously, the Israelites and God are not a normal couple and they are definitely not contemporaries, but that just makes me wonder why the marriage metaphor is employed at all. Furthermore, there are theological questions raised by this metaphor. Can human beings know<\/span> God intimately? When bad things happen to the Israelites, would we rather attribute them to a jealous and vindictive God who is hurting His \u201cwife\u201d out of spite or would we rather conceptualize God as a distant, maybe apathetic, figure, or just a clumsy God who dropped the ball?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite the challenges with the metaphor, I understand why the prophets (through the word of God) employ it so often and why the Rabbis cling to it in the midrashim. Envisioning ourselves married to God is appealing. It\u2019s a beautiful image of monogamy and loyalty: God chose <\/span>us<\/span><\/i> out of all the other nations. And romantic love is the most passionate form of love. Marriage is the easiest way for us to visualize a deep and loving relationship with God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The abusive language in this chapter is without a doubt disturbing and leaves me seriously questioning the merits of the marriage metaphor. But there is a part of me that loves the intimacy it creates between us and God. Even when God is angry at Israel, God is still a husband reacting to His wife. There is more than cold comfort in knowing that God may yell and threaten Israel, but He will never be indifferent to us and He will never abandon us. 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When the 10 Sayings are carved into two tablets of stone, the second statement \u2018you shall have no other gods\u2019 on the first tablet is parallel with the seventh commandment against adultery, on the second. This is the primary analogy of the Book of Hosea: Israel is cast as God\u2019s unfaithful wife. God wishes to take her back, but only if she will renew their relationship and be faithful.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This brings up a particular issue in Torah law. According to the laws of adultery, a woman who has intercourse with another man is now forbidden to her husband. This throws the analogy into some confusion, because Hosea does take Gomer back, and the Divine also plans to renew His relationship with Israel. Commentators have long debated the place of Hosea\u2019s marriage - some saying that Hosea\u2019s relationship issues were a dream; others saying that he was given leniency around this law due to being a prophet - but fewer have dealt with the implications of the analogy. If adultery and idolatry are truly parallel, does this not mean that Israel is forbidden to God?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Clearly, the adultery\/idolatry parallel only takes us so far in understanding God\u2019s relationship with humanity. There is apparently no end to how far humans can go before <\/span>teshuvah<\/span><\/em> (repentance) is no longer acceptable. But it does call into question the reasoning for the Torah\u2019s stance on adultery: it seems to opine that the marriage is no longer salvageable in the aftermath. If that\u2019s the case, how is it that Israel\u2019s relationship with the Divine is salvageable?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 2 of Hosea describes the rebuking of Israel and her reunification with God. \u2018And it will be, on that day - declares the Eternal - you will call me Ishi [\u2018my man\u2019], and you will no longer call me Ba\u2019ali [my master]; for I will remove the names of the Ba\u2019alim from her mouth, and they shall nevermore be mentioned by name.\u2019 (verses 18-19). After we are reunified, there will be a change in the language Israel will use to refer to her husband. The text is clear that the reason for the change in language is a pun between <\/span>ba\u2019al<\/em> <\/span>(meaning \u2018master\u2019 or \u2018husband\u2019) and Ba\u2019al, the false god. Israel will so reject idolatry that she won\u2019t even use the word <\/span>ba\u2019al<\/span><\/em> in its non-idolatrous sense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, perhaps there is another layer of meaning here. <\/span>Ba\u2019ali<\/em> <\/span>and <\/span>ishi<\/span><\/em> are not equivalent references for a husband. <\/span>Ba\u2019ali<\/span><\/em>, my master, has connotations of servitude. <\/span>Ishi<\/span><\/em>, my man, has more equal connotations. Perhaps the result of the reconciliation is a fundamental shift in the workings of the relationship. Our previous relationship has crumbled and cannot be put back together in the same shape. Our relationship is only salvageable if we enter it on different grounds. Perhaps the underlying message of Hosea is that our reconciliation with the Divine cannot look identical to our previous relationship; this time, if we are to stay united, we must come to the Divine as a partner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As did many other prophets, Hosea uses the imagery of husband and wife to describe the relationship between Israel and God. When Israel is faithful to God, the love between them is strong. But when she betrays Him, He becomes jealous and angry:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cFor she is not My wife, and I am not her husband \u2026 I will also disown her children; For they are now a harlot\u2019s brood \u2026 Now will I uncover her shame in the very sight of her lovers, and none shall save her from Me\u2026 Thus will I punish her For the days of the Baalim, on which she brought them offerings; when, decked with earrings and jewels, she would go after her lovers, forgetting Me \u2014declares the LORD\u201d (Hosea 4-15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After this harsh depiction, Hosea predicts their future reconciliation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAnd in that day \u2014declares the LORD\u2014 You will call [Me] Ishi, and no more will you call Me Baali. For I will remove the names of the Baalim from her mouth, and they shall nevermore be mentioned by name\u201d (Hosea 18-19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hosea uses a play on words here. The word <\/span>baal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is the name of the Caananite deity, but also the Hebrew word for \u201chusband.\u201d So his prophecy describes a time when Israel will not even say the word <\/span>baal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0any more, using the alternative <\/span>ish<\/span><\/em> \u2013 \u201cman\u201d \u2013 instead.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, in recent generations, verse 18 has taken on new significance. In addition to <\/span>baal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0meaning \u201chusband,\u201d the word <\/span>baalut<\/span><\/em>\u00a0means \u201cownership.\u201d Understandably objecting to the idea that a husband \u201cowns\u201d his wife, and relying on Hosea\u2019s vision of the future, some Israeli wives prefer to call their husband <\/span>ishi<\/span><\/em>\u00a0instead of <\/span>baali<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While everyone should call their spouse by whatever term they like best, I think that we should be careful about deducing the nature of the relationship between husband and wife in Judaism based on the words used. This is particularly true here, since <\/span>baal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0means \u201chusband,\u201d but does not mean \u201cowner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word for owner in Hebrew is <\/span>baalim<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(as appears, for example, in Exodus 21:29 and Isaiah 1:3) While <\/span>baalim<\/span><\/em>\u00a0appears to be a plural, it is actually singular. Hebrew has a number of words with the <\/span>-im<\/span><\/em>\u00a0suffix that doesn\u2019t indicate plurality, but emphasis. (Another example is Yom HaKippurim<\/em>.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why the emphasis here? According to scholars, it is to show the complete mastery and possession by the owner over the object. So the owner of a company (or a pet) is the <\/span>ba\u2019alav<\/span><\/em>, but a woman\u2019s husband is <\/span>ba\u2019alah<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

Of course there is a connection between <\/span>baal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and <\/span>baalim<\/span><\/em>, but the fact that Hebrew is careful to always distinguish between them indicates a sensitivity to the status of the wife in that relationship. 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2:18 \u201c\u2018And it shall be, on that day, said the LORD, she shall call Me \u201cmy Husband\u201d and no longer call Me \u201cmy Baal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This line turns on an untranslatable pun: <\/span>ba\u2019al<\/span><\/em> is one of the two Hebrew words for \u201chusband,\u201d but it is also the name of the principal Canaanite deity; the Hebrew synonym, <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>ish<\/span><\/em>, is the word translated here as \u201chusband.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. The children pay the price<\/em>. As in many stories of divorce, ignoring the advice of psychologists, the battle is fought on the backs of the children. The father recruits them to his side to rebuke the mother (v. 4), and despises them in verse 6: \u201cI will also disown her children; For they are now a harlot\u2019s brood.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. She didn\u2019t know\u2026<\/em> He gave her abundance: \u201cAnd she did not consider this: It was I who bestowed on her The new grain and wine and oil; I who lavished silver on her\u201d (v. 10). But she thought all this was a gift from her lovers. But who is to blame for this \u201cmisunderstanding\u201d? Her insensitivity, or thanklessness? Or the anonymous sort of giving, and his\/His lack of presence in her life?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. There\u2019s just nothing like the desert<\/em>. There\u2019s nothing like the desert for unplugging, and taking stock. It\u2019s a great environment for couples therapy. And there are other layers: it was, after all, in the desert that it all began. There, after the Exodus from Egypt, the covenant was made. Plus, in the desert there is no agriculture, no rain or waiting for rain. And therefore, also no connection to Baal, the rain god, who is the female partner\u2019s chief lover.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. No more \u201cBaali.\u201d<\/em> The cult of the Baal gods is the \u201cpromiscuousness\u201d that disrupts the relationship between God and the people. Therefore, in the future repair, not only do they disappear, but their very names will too. That\u2019s the wider context. But there are not a few readers and commentators who wish to see in the verse not only the eradication of idolatry, but also the rejection of the oppression inherent in \u201cownership\u201d (<\/span>ba\u2019alut<\/span><\/em>) in human relationships.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Good to know<\/em>. To \u201cknow\u201d (lada\u2019at<\/em>) in the Bible is not just to acquire knowledge. It is the search for deep understanding, for closeness, for <\/span>devekut<\/em>, intimacy and union. Now you know the depth of the new connection: \u201cAnd I will espouse you with faithfulness; Then you shall be devoted (<\/span>veyada\u2019t) to the LORD.\u201d (verse 22).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":53645,"alt":"","title":"general-qs-points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1920,"height":603,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-300x94.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":94,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-768x241.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":241,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-1024x322.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":322,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":482,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":603,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-1200x377.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":377,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-1337x420.jpg","home_baner-width":1337,"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":"Hosea 2","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":53645,"alt":"","title":"general-qs-points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1920,"height":603,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-300x94.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":94,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-768x241.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":241,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-1024x322.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":322,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":482,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":603,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-1200x377.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":377,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/general-qs-points-to-ponder-1337x420.jpg","home_baner-width":1337,"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","chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"2","chapter_main_number":"502","date":"20270802","wall_id":"502"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":13,"id":"75857","color":"#eceffa","size":"1","name":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Hosea 2 ","post_title":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Hosea 2","slug":"sefaria-source-sheets-hosea-2","old_id":"75857","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":42228,"post_title":"Sefaria","slug":"sefaria","old_id":"42228","first_name":"","last_name":"Sefaria","description":"Sefaria is a non-profit organization dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. 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    \u201cThe Cold and Broken yet Holy Hallelujah\u201d<\/a> by Josh Franklin: King David\u2019s Broken Hallelujah.<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cShemitah as a Model for Debt Relief\u201d<\/a> by AJWS Staff: How do we help our community with financial troubles.<\/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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Hosea 2","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"2","chapter_main_number":"502","date":"20270802","wall_id":"502"},"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\/75809"}],"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=75809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}