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The word \u201coven\u201d (<\/span>tanur<\/span><\/em>) appears only 15 times in the entire Tanakh, three in Hosea alone and all in this chapter. In v. 4, he compared the people\u2019s commission of adultery to \u201can oven fired by a baker, who desists from stoking only from the kneading of the dough to its leavening,\u201d* illustrating their intense preoccupation with their nefarious ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In v.6, \u201cThey approach their ambush with their hearts like an oven: through the night their baker has slept; in the morning, it flares up like a blazing fire,\u201d signifying their constant commitment to their sins. Finally, in v.7, referring to the general passion with which they act in even political affairs, Hosea said: \u201cThey all get heated like an oven and devour their rulers\u2014none of them calls to Me; all their kings have fallen [by their hand].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim explained the simile as follows:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He compared the impulse to commit adultery to a flame that heats up an oven just as passion inflames the desire for sex. The baker, who heats the oven, sits all night and tends to the flame, and if he falls asleep, there is someone who arouses him lest the oven get cold. Therefore, he gets to sleep only while the new dough is rising and is getting ready to be baked, because then the one who rouses him lets him be. [Similarly,] the passion does not leave them for even a moment and keeps awakening their desire anew, resting only briefly between bouts of adultery as they regain their strength.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The initial appearance of <\/span>tanur<\/span><\/em> is in Genesis 15:17: \u201cWhen the sun set and it was very dark, there appeared a smoking oven (<\/span>tanur<\/span><\/em>) and a flaming torch which passed between those pieces.\u201d Perhaps the association of an oven with that earlier covenant forged between God and Abraham led to its use here to symbolize its violation?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span>*Attending a bar mitzvah in Bnei Brak in 1964, I was taken home from shul by way of the local bakery. While I thought that we would be picking up a fancy cake, it turned out that we were there to retrieve the chulent pot that had been placed in the oven Friday afternoon. 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There is so much wrath and fury in Hosea's ongoing diatribe that describes, chapter after chapter in minute detail, the nation's horrible betrayal of their covenant with God, the ways they have hurt others, the perverse cult, and the split that will lead to disaster.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The words come fast and furious, as if they were breaking into pieces in his mouth, or shattering when they reach our ears. The syntax makes no sense, and the commentators suggest all sorts of corrections in the order of the words or the letters, and scholars emend the text \u2013 anything so that we might find some logic in the terrible waterfall of anger, where images upon images are flung at us, incomprehensible but horrific nonetheless. \"They commit adultery, all of them, Like an oven fired by a baker\" he exclaims in his wrath (verse 4). Committing adultery \u2013 like an oven!?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The only picture that I can conjure up is from my distant childhood, of the white bakery in the kibbutz of my youth, with the bakers, wearing white aprons around their waists, descending the stairs to slide large trays of the tastiest <\/span>challot<\/em> <\/span>that I have ever eaten, into the ovens: blazing, comforting, almost caressing with their heat. So how does the oven transform in Hosea's words into a terrible metaphor for evil schemes, treason and perhaps even murder?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the meaning of the image is lost in the mists of time. Or perhaps the meaninglessness of it is the point. Perhaps Hosea is trying with all his might to get the people to listen. He's using illogical metaphors to get them to finally stop, and listen, to ask themselves what has happened to them; to stop for a moment, and change. To remember that comforting oven that certainly existed some time in their childhood, to go back to that soft place, where an oven was not a despicable thing. And neither were they.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Hosea's masterful usage of language is on full display in chapter 7, with two colorful metaphors to describe the northern kingdom during its tumultuous final years (750-722 BCE). During this short period, six kings reigned (some likely simultaneously), murder and coups were common, and the country changed its foreign policy frequently, desperately grasping for some way to avoid ultimately being annexed by the growing neo-Assyrian empire. To describe this chaos, Hosea uses two allegories \u2013 an overheated oven and a foolish dove.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the first half of the chapter, Hosea describes Israel's political climate as an overheated oven \u2013 \"For they approach their ambush With their hearts like an oven: Through the night Their baker has slept; In the morning, it flares up Like a blazing fire\" (v. 6). Despite all their planning, they have waited too long to act. Now, everything rages out of control, without anyone in charge - \"They all get heated like an oven And devour their rulers\u2014 None of them calls to Me. All their kings have fallen...\" (v. 7).\u00a0 Hosea concludes by comparing Ephraim to a cake that has not yet been turned over. Like a loaf of bread left in the oven so long that one side is burnt yet the other side is still raw, Israel is not a viable entity anymore. The only logical fate for the country is to be disposed of.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In what is perhaps Hosea's most picturesque metaphor, he states that Israel \"was like a silly dove with no mind.\" Like a foolish bird that could not decide what it wanted to do, flitting aimlessly back and forth between two points, Israel couldn\u2019t decide whether it wished to ally itself with Assyria, or make a treaty with Egypt. It would go to one, but at some point, when the arrangement seemed too oppressive, it would leave for the other. In doing so, they would replace the leader who had tied his political fortunes with the success of his agreement with the superpower, only to be replaced (and murdered) when the country changed its mind again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak is more forgiving of Israel's behavior in the metaphor. He suggests that each of the superpowers, Egypt and Assyria, would try to entice smaller nations around them with bribes and promises, in the same way that bird hunters would lay out plates of tasty seeds for the birds to snack on, until they being accustomed to coming to the particular point without fear and become easy to ensnare. He interprets \u201cfoolish\u201d as na\u00efve, being too trusting. Rashi, however, suggests that the foolishness is a level of stupidity that is self-damaging. Israel behaved like a bird who returned to its nest repeatedly, even if it found its chicks missing. 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Beginning with this chapter, and until the end of the prophecies of Hosea (ben Be\u2019eri), we find ourselves in the days of the last king of Samaria, Hosea (ben Ela). We know this from the fact that Egypt is depicted as facing Assyria in battle - \"They have appealed to Egypt! They have gone to Assyria!\" (verse 11. See also 2 Kings 17:3-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The poor politics of an Egyptian-backed rebellion against Assyria was the direct cause of the destruction of Samaria (and, subsequently, the destruction of Judea, as well). Samaria could have survived as a small and submissive kingdom had it reconciled with the loss of Galilee and Gilead and Sharon, and waited for Assyria\u2019s descent from the world stage, as had been suggested by the prophets (from Isaiah to Jeremiah).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Anyone who was really expecting that to happen was making a serious error.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The death of Tiglath-Pileser III, the great Assyrian conqueror, gave many the sense that the Assyrian Empire had been weakened. Shalmaneser V did not appear to be a strong, global ruler, and many mistakenly thought that a strong union of many kingdoms, supported by massive Egyptian aid, would bring about an international changing of the guard.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

King Hezekiah, who ascended to the throne of the southern kingdom of Judah at that time, followed the teachings of Isaiah, and (in his early years) engaged in national moral, and religious rehabilitation without allowing himself to be drawn into the ideas of rebellion. Hosea ben Elah did not join Hezekiah\u2019s reform movement and became involved in Egyptian political intrigue, unable to foresee the impending disaster - \"This will<\/span> be their calamity in the land of Egypt\" (verse 16).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One could say about the king and his ministers that they \u201cfell asleep on duty\u201d. The metaphor used by Hosea presents Samaria as a bakery where the baker has a drunken feast. 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7:14 \u201c\u2018And they did not cry out to Me from their hearts, but they wailed upon their couch, over grain and new wine they gashed themselves, they swerved away from Me.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Masoretic Text has <\/span>yitgoraru<\/span><\/em>, meaning uncertain. This translation reads, with the Septuagint, <\/span>yitgodadu<\/span><\/em>, the shape of the Hebrew letters for <\/span>r <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>d <\/span><\/i>being quite similar. Gashing oneself was a form of imprecating the gods, as in the story of the prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel in 1 Kings 18.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Exposing the corruption and correcting it<\/em>. Verse 1 connects the two: \u201cWhen I would heal Israel...\u201d - \u201c...The guilt of Ephraim reveals itself.\u201d The doctor has to expose the wound to cure it.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. In today\u2019s news.<\/em> The prophecy rebukes the betrayal and frequent rebellions in the kingdom. The Book of Kings relates all the names and events. See II Kings, 15.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Like a cake\u2026<\/em> A variety of images in the chapter are taken from the world of baking. Adultery is like \u201clike an oven fired by a baker\u201d (4); the ministers behave as a baker to his dough (ibid); the ambush that the rebels deploy is like an oven, stoked at night: \u201cFor they approach their ambush With their hearts like an oven: Through the night Their baker has slept; In the morning, it flares up Like a blazing fire\u201d (6); and scorches. And Ephraim? He\u2019s part of the metaphor too. He is like a \u201ccake, incapable of turning,\u201d (8) - baked only on one side. Inedible.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. No heart - no head<\/em>. The heart in the ancient world was the seat of understanding, not of emotion (those are located either in the stomach or the kidneys). And so - \u201cEphraim has acted Like a silly dove with no mind (lev)\u201d (11). He\u2019s not heartless - he\u2019s lost his mind.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. When?<\/em> The political reality that\u2019s described in verse 11 \u201cThey have appealed to Egypt! They have gone to Assyria!\u201d is particularly apt for the period of King Hosea ben Ela, the last king of Samaria, who forges an alliance with Egypt and rebels against Assyria. 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    \u201cRafts and Runaways: The Diametrically Different Nautical Experiences of Noach and Yonah\u201d<\/a> by Benjy Gottesman: The two Jewish sailors\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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