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How does one alter the nature of another person\u2014for the better?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shakespeare confronts this problem in his play \u201cThe Taming of the Shrew.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Petruchio sets out to \u201ctame\u201d his new wife, the shrewish Kate. He bullies and brutalizes her, deprives her of food and sleep, makes her doubt her sanity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ostensibly, this regimen is effective. By the end of the play, \u201cKate the curst\u201d, \u201cwaspish\u201d Kate, has become docile and submissive. To prove it, Kate takes to the stage and proclaims to the other women:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper\u2026<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Such duty as the subject owes the prince,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Even such, a woman oweth to her husband\u2026<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> I am ashamed that women are so simple<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> To offer war where they should kneel for peace<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But we the audience are left feeling uneasy: Has Kate really been converted or is she shamming? Is she being passive-aggressive? Or, as some modern critics see her, is she the victim of \u201cStockholm Syndrome\u201d whereby her will is subsumed by her captors?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We wonder too about Petruchio: Does he really want a woman so broken in spirit as Kate now seems to be? Or has he extinguished in her the very qualities that made her attractive to him in the first place?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God\/Hosea in our chapter must also deal with the problem of converting a woman. The \u201cadulterous wife\u201d must be remade loyal and pure.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(And even if one considers that this incident never really happened but is only a \u201cmetaphor\u201d, still\u2026a metaphor must WORK!).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Like Petruchio, God\/Hosea devise a program of deprivation. (Has God also made some unrecorded cosmic wager, like He has regarding Job?):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cFor the Israelites shall go a long time without king and without officials, without sacrifice and without cult pillars, and without ephod and teraphim\u201d (verse 4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse is very odd. It contains both \u201cgood\u201d elements (king, prince, sacrifice, ephod) and \u201cbad\u201c (pillar, teraphim). Does God want the wayward wife to retain some of her flirtatiousness?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Further: To deprive a wife of affection is (if one is faithful) to deprive oneself as well. \u201cNo king without a kingdom.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One recalls that there is precedent in the Torah for deprivation therapy. In Deuteronomy 21, the captive war bride is made to wait for 30 days before being permitted to her husband. But there, the objective is to make HIM lose interest. It is really aversion therapy!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We appreciate now the enormous gamble that God here undertakes. After 2000 years of \u201chiding His face\u201d, will the groom still want the bride? Will the bride still want the groom? And will the bride that emerges be the same one that the groom wanted, the one that followed Him into the desert during the days of her betrothal?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We, the Jewish people, are in the role of the woman here. What are our feelings?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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After employing yet another marriage metaphor, God says, \u201cthe Israelites shall go a long time without king and without officials, without sacrifice and without cult pillars, and without <\/span>ephod<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>teraphim<\/span><\/em>. Afterward, the Israelites will turn back and will seek the LORD their God and David their king\u2014and they will thrill over the LORD and over His bounty in the days to come\u201d (3:4-5).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commentators clarify that the kings, officials, sacrifices, and <\/span>ephod<\/span><\/em> refer to the Temple in Judah while the cult pillars and <\/span>teraphim<\/span><\/em> relate to idol worship. Israel, the northern kingdom, will experience a long period of time without any authoritative religious or spiritual guidance. Rashi interprets this period of instability as the time the Jews will spend in exile without a Temple to worship God and an Israelite monarchy to decree religion. But in the next verse, God promises that after the exile, the Messiah will come and Israel\u2019s commitment to God will be renewed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God\u2019s prophecy of the absence of spiritual and physical stability are fulfilled in Jewish history. For thousands of years (until 1948,) Jews lived in exile without a Temple, land, or political power. Chaim Hazaz, a prominent Hebrew author viciously condemned what he coined the \u201cmoonlight psychology\u201d of the Jews during that time. In his irreverent short story, \u201cThe Sermon,\u201d Hazaz explains the \u201cpsychology of the night\u201d as the Jewish need for suffering: \u201csuffering is what protects and preserves us\u2026 without it, we\u2019d have nothing to live for\u201d (Chaim Hazaz, The Sermon and Other Short Stories, p.238). Hazaz cites \u201cexile, martyrdom, the Messiah\u2026 A threefold cord,\u201d (p.239) to convey that the Jewish diaspora mentality that he despises was forged from a dialectic of mourning and yearning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God\u2019s first prediction in Hosea: the destruction of the Temple and the absence of tangible divinity in exile, are the reasons for Jewish mourning. In \u201cThe Sermon\u201d Hazaz condemns the Talmud as \u201cour Book of the Dead\u201d (ibid, p.240) because it dictates obsolete laws and customs of a destroyed Temple. The Talmud, compiled and studied almost as if to eulogize the Temple, became the basis of non-Temple Judaism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God\u2019s second promise: the Messiah and the return to Israel, are the object of historical Jewish yearning. The exiled, \u201cwandering,\u201d Jews\u2014without a homeland or political autonomy\u2014centered their religion around praying for the Messiah so they could regain sovereignty in the Land of Israel. This yearning peppers our liturgy and molded the \u201cmoonlight psychology\u201d that encourages passivity in the face of suffering. Hazaz articulates that Jews are not allowed to interfere to bring the Messiah about sooner: We are forced to accept our exile until God decides to end it. 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At the start of this very brief chapter, God again instructs Hosea to do something untoward: \u201cGo, befriend a woman who, while befriended by a companion, consorts with others\u201d (1). The question, of course, is: is this a repetition of the previous instruction, or has Hosea been commanded to strike up a relationship with yet another woman of loose morals?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The two available answers correspond to the form and content of the two sets of instructions. In form, they were identical: an upright man\u2014a prophet no less\u2014is told to take up with a woman of questionable morality. In content, however, there were striking differences. One was that the woman\u2019s name is absent from the second set, another was that there no reference to producing children, and, finally, while the first woman was explicitly labeled a prostitute (<\/span>zenunim<\/span><\/em>), the second was clearly called an adulteress (<\/span>mena\u2019afet<\/span><\/em>), legally, if not morally, two different statuses. The consensus of the medieval exegetes, exemplified by Yosef Kara and Eliezer of Beaugency, is that this was a completely different woman.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak went further and provided the corresponding moral lessons for the two parables:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first parable was about Jeroboam ben Nebat and his followers, who were unfaithful to God, abandoned the Temple service, and worshiped the [golden] calves. Afterwards, there came Ahab, who continued the wickedness by establishing [cults] of Baal and Asherah. Now [in the second parable] He added the love God had for Israel of yore, similar to a man who is greatly in love with his dear wife\u2014since not all love between spouses is equal, as is stated that \u201cJacob loved Rachel\u201d [and not Leah], and David spoke of his love for his wives, meaning the two who were his beloved [Michal and Batsheva]. Despite all this, they turned to alien deities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just as the first marriage of Chapter 1 (symbolized by the names \u201cNot My People\u201d and \u201cNo Compassion\u201d) would turn positive in Chapter 2 (\u201cCall your brother \u2018My People\u2019 and your sister \u2018Compassion\u2019\u201d 2:3), this marriage, too, is destined to end on an upbeat note: \u201cAfterwards, the Israelites will turn back and will seek the Lord their God and David their king, and they will thrill over the Lord and over His bounty in the days to come\u201d (3:5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Hosea's third chapter is as enigmatic as it is short, only five verses long. Once again, Hosea is commanded to take a promiscuous woman, and he does so, paying 15 shekels and measures of barley. Hosea commands the unnamed woman to sit in solitude until he comes to her. The prophet then switches his message to describe how the Jewish people will ultimately be deprived of all of their idolatrous accessories and return to both God and the house of David in Judah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fundamental question that we have to answer is whether Gomer, whom Hosea married in chapter, and our unnamed women here in chapter 3 are the same person, or are they different women? If they are the same woman, then Gomer, whose adulterous behavior led to the birth of unwanted children led to the dissolution of her relationship with Hosea, has now reformed her behavior enough so that Hosea can envision a happy ending between the two of them. On a symbolic level, what Hosea portrays is the message that though the Jewish people may stray from God, as described in the first two chapters, they will ultimately return to Him in faithfulness and fidelity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, many of the commentators suggest that the woman here in chapter 3 is not Gomer, but a different person, unmarried, yet known for her promiscuity. The commentator Rabbi David Kimche (the Radak) suggests that the two women represent two different dynasties that ruled over Israel in the north. The first woman, Gomer, represented the evil house of Ahab, which was destroyed. The second woman of our chapter represents the house of Jehu, whose survival is dependent on their ability to reunite with the house of David in the south.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abrabanel presents an original interpretation that is worth mentioning, noting the difference between the manner in which Hosea relates to the two women. In chapter 1, Hosea is commanded to marry Gomer, creating a formal and defined relationship. Together, they have children, despite the questions of their paternity. The dissolution of the relationship represents Israel's eventual loss of land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, Abrabanel notes that the relationship with the second woman in chapter 3 is fundamentally different. Instead of marrying her, Hosea is simply commanded to love her. The money that he gives her is not enough to affect a legal change in her status. Indeed, once Hosea presents her with the gifts, he commands her to wait until he returns and is ready to consummate the relationship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This, suggests Abrabanel, reflects the relationship between God and the Jewish people while the latter are in exile. Despite having been proven to be unfaithful, God continues to love them, and waits for them to develop a level of constancy and trust in Him that would enable them to \u2018consummate\u2019 their relationship back in Israel. 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3:1 \u201c\u2018And the LORD said to me, \u2018Again, go love a woman beloved by a companion yet an adulteress, like the love of God for the Israelites when they turn to other gods and to lovers of cups of the grape.\u2019 And I loved a lusting woman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew of the received text looks quite suspect. The literal sense of the last two words is \u201craisin cakes\u201d (though others think that the meaning is \u201cgrape cups\u201d). The Revised English Bible tries to rescue some sense from this by translating \u201cthe cakes of the raisin offered to idols.\u201d The present translation adopts [and adds] the emendation proposed by Tur-Sinai: instead of the Masoretic <\/span>ohavey \u2018ashishey \u2018anavim<\/span><\/em>, he reads <\/span>wa\u2019ohav \u2018eshet \u2018agavim<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

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  1. A bargain<\/em>? How much does Hosea\u2019s wife cost? \u201cI hired her for fifteen [shekels of] silver, a <\/span>\u1e25omer<\/em> <\/span>of barley, and a <\/span>lethech<\/em> <\/span>of barley\u201d (v. 2). Is that a lot or a little? Depends on the exchange rate of the shekel, and which commentators you read.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Similarities and differences<\/em>. How is the story in this chapter of the marriage to the beloved but adulterous woman different from and similar to the story of the marriage to Gomer daughter of Diblaim in the previous chapters? Note in particular the answers to the question what will bring about a resolution of the crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Wins the prize for problematic symbolism<\/em>. In order to get his message across, in this chapter, Hosea, as in chapter 1, is obligated to do things that change his life. To marry a woman, have children with her, to buy a wife, and to separate from her. We have seen this sort of \u201cperforming\u201d the message in previous prophets: Isaiah went around naked and barefoot (Is. 20); Jeremiah wandered the streets of Jerusalem with a yoke around his neck (Jer. 27); and Ezekiel experienced on his person the process of destruction (Ez. 4). 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