Download the whole parashah guide for Parashat Korach<\/a><\/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":"Family Study Materials","tile_main_caption":"How Not To Argue","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"for Parashat Korach","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42816,"alt":"","title":"covenant and conversation - Sacks","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks.jpg","width":723,"height":426,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks-300x177.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":177,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks.jpg","medium_large-width":723,"medium_large-height":426,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks.jpg","large-width":723,"large-height":426,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks.jpg","1536x1536-width":723,"1536x1536-height":426,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks.jpg","2048x2048-width":723,"2048x2048-height":426,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks.jpg","post_full_size-width":723,"post_full_size-height":426,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/covenant-and-conversation-Sacks-713x420.jpg","home_baner-width":713,"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":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1102"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":5,"id":"76460","color":"#efefef","size":"1","name":"Korach: Moses vs. Korach - A Showdown of Biblical Proportions ","post_title":"Korach: Moses vs. Korach - A Showdown of Biblical Proportions","slug":"korach-moses-vs-korach-a-showdown-of-biblical-proportions-2","old_id":"76460","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":37754,"post_title":"BimBam","slug":"bimbam","old_id":"37754","first_name":"","last_name":"BimBam","description":"BimBam sparks connections to Judaism through digital storytelling for learners of all ages.","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":37755,"alt":"","title":"bimbam","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam.png","width":218,"height":217,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam.png","medium-width":218,"medium-height":217,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam.png","medium_large-width":218,"medium_large-height":217,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam.png","large-width":218,"large-height":217,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam.png","1536x1536-width":218,"1536x1536-height":217,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam.png","2048x2048-width":218,"2048x2048-height":217,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam.png","post_full_size-width":218,"post_full_size-height":217,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/bimbam.png","home_baner-width":218,"home_baner-height":217}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"1102","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"Ready for a rumble? It's Korach versus Moses.<\/p>\r\n
ONE NIGHT ONLY! At the TABERNACLE! Who will prevail as the leader....who will face God's fury?<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LnpkLycLUiQ","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"By: Joseph Telushkin","tile_main_caption":" Korach: Moses vs. Korach - A Showdown of Biblical Proportions","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A Bimbam Video","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LnpkLycLUiQ","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":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1102"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"76186","color":"#f2e9df","size":"1","name":"Doing And Hearing; Knowing And Understanding ","post_title":"Doing And Hearing; Knowing And Understanding","slug":"doing-and-hearing-knowing-and-understanding","old_id":"76186","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":46656,"post_title":"Molly Morris","slug":"molly-morris","old_id":"46656","first_name":"Molly ","last_name":"Morris ","description":"Molly Morris holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Community Engagement. Her particular area of interest is biblical leadership. Molly participates in the 929 initiative with a dedicated group from the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto congregation. \r\n\r\n","short_description":"Molly Morris holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Community Engagement. Molly participates in the 929 initiative with a dedicated group from the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto congregation. \r\n\r\n","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":92561,"alt":"","title":"molly morris","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris.jpg","width":2192,"height":2488,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-264x300.jpg","medium-width":264,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-768x872.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":872,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-902x1024.jpg","large-width":902,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris.jpg","1536x1536-width":1353,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris.jpg","2048x2048-width":1804,"2048x2048-height":2048,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-1057x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1057,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-370x420.jpg","home_baner-width":370,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"506","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"How can we truly understand something?\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"
At the beginning of chapter 6 of the book of Hosea, the prophet describes the spirit of repentance that will be expressed by the Jewish nation with the words, \u201cLet us know, let us <\/span>strive<\/span><\/em> to<\/em> know God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nThis double expression of knowing and striving to know is the basis for a significant discussion about how we develop a relationship with God. Is it through blind obedience, through extensive study, through philosophical evaluation, or some combination of all three?<\/span><\/p>\r\nThink about the well-known passage from Exodus 24:7 when the Jewish people accepted the covenant with God at Mount Sinai with the words, \u201c<\/span>na\u2019aseh<\/span><\/em>- <\/span><\/i>we will do, <\/span>v\u2019nishma<\/span><\/em>\u2019 <\/span><\/i>\u2013 and we will hear.\u201d Our sages are unified on the meaning of the word <\/span>na\u2019aseh<\/span><\/em>, agreeing that it refers to doing that which we are commanded. However, there are different explanations of the intended meaning of the word <\/span>nishma<\/span><\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/i>. While literally \u201cwe will hear\u201d is from the same root in the oft-recited <\/span>Shema Yisrael<\/em> <\/span>\u2013 Hear O Israel, some sages posit that it may be interpreted as \u201cwe will obey\u201d while others define it as \u201cwe will understand\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\nHow do we <\/span>strive<\/span><\/i> to know God? Today we attend yeshivas and seminaries, listen to shiurim <\/em>(lectures) in person (at least we will again soon, God willing) and through video and audio presentations, and are privy to voluminous amounts of learning material, including our very own 929. There are more avenues to feed our striving for understanding than ever before.<\/span><\/p>\r\nBut how do we <\/span>know<\/span><\/em> God? And why does \u201cknowing\u201d come before \u201cunderstanding\u201d? Just as when we accepted the Torah by expressing that we would act first (<\/span>na\u2019aseh<\/span><\/em>) and then hear or understand (<\/span>nishma<\/span><\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/i>), so too was Hosea affirming in his prophecy that we would again begin with the active and follow with the reflective. We will know because we will do; we will strive to know because we will endeavour to understand. Yes, we are bound to increase our knowledge through study, but inevitably there will be some things we never come to understand intellectually. Nevertheless, as Rabbi Jonathan Sacks expresses so eloquently in Covenant and Conversation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\u00a0\u201cThere are certain things we can only understand by doing. We only understand leadership by leading. We only understand music by listening. Reading books about these things is not enough. So it is with faith. We can only truly understand Judaism through living by its commands. You cannot comprehend a faith from the outside. Doing leads to understanding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76192,"alt":"","title":"hos6-seeing doing","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing.jpg","width":1920,"height":1178,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-300x184.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":184,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-768x471.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":471,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-1024x628.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":628,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":942,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1178,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-1200x736.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":736,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-685x420.jpg","home_baner-width":685,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Doing And Hearing; Knowing And Understanding","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"How can we truly understand something?","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76192,"alt":"","title":"hos6-seeing doing","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing.jpg","width":1920,"height":1178,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-300x184.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":184,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-768x471.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":471,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-1024x628.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":628,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":942,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1178,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-1200x736.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":736,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-seeing-doing-685x420.jpg","home_baner-width":685,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"6","chapter_main_number":"506","date":"20270808","wall_id":"506"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":7,"id":"76174","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"Treif! ","post_title":"Treif!","slug":"treif","old_id":"76174","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":64450,"post_title":"David Curwin","slug":"david-curwin","old_id":"64450","first_name":"David ","last_name":"Curwin ","description":"David Curwin is a writer living in Efrat, and the author of the Balashon blog www.balashon.com","short_description":"David Curwin is a writer living in Efrat, and the author of the Balashon blog www.balashon.com","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":64452,"alt":"","title":"david curwin","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin.png","width":427,"height":464,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin-276x300.png","medium-width":276,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin.png","medium_large-width":427,"medium_large-height":464,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin.png","large-width":427,"large-height":464,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin.png","1536x1536-width":427,"1536x1536-height":464,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin.png","2048x2048-width":427,"2048x2048-height":464,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin.png","post_full_size-width":427,"post_full_size-height":464,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/david-curwin-387x420.png","home_baner-width":387,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"506","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"The back-story\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"Chapter 5 of Hosea ended with God declaring He will punish the kingdoms of Israel (Ephraim) and Judah:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\u201cNo, I will be like a lion to Ephraim,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Like a great beast to the House of Judah;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I, I will attack and stride away,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Carrying the prey that no one can rescue.\u201d (Hosea 5:14)<\/span><\/p>\r\nBut the last verse of chapter 5 and the beginning of chapter 6 predict that the people will repent:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\u201cAnd I will return to My abode\u2014 till they realize their guilt. In their distress, they will seek Me and beg for My favor. \u2018Come, let us turn back to the LORD: He attacked, and He can heal us; He wounded, and He can bind us up.\u2019\u201d (Hosea 5:15-6:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\nBoth the prediction of punishment and promise of repentance use the word \u201cattack.\u201d However, a more literal translation of the Hebrew <\/span>taraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0would be \u201ctear\/torn.\u201d It is usually used to describe animals tearing up their prey. An animal whose flesh was torn by beasts in the field is a <\/span>terefah<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(Exodus 22:30). In Talmudic Hebrew the meaning of <\/span>terefah<\/span><\/em> was extended to mean \"a clean animal inflicted with an organic defect, a mortal injury, or a fatal disease.\u201d Later, the term expanded to include all non-kosher food, and this eventually led to the Yiddish <\/span>treif<\/span><\/em>, which can mean anything not \"kosher\", even non-food items.<\/span><\/p>\r\nHowever, there are also verses (like Psalms 111:5 and Proverbs 31:15), where <\/span>teref<\/span><\/em>\u00a0means food in general. It probably originally meant \u201cfood carried off\u201d, and then became simply \u201cfood.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nAnother way that <\/span>taraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0diverged from its original meaning doesn\u2019t involve food. From \u201cto tear away\u201d it came to also mean \u201cto mix, confuse.\u201d A person who is mixed up, disturbed, confused is <\/span>metoraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0- which in Modern Hebrew means \"insane\". And just as in English, where the word \"mad\" means insane, but \"like mad\" means \"with excitement or enthusiasm\", so too does <\/span>metoraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0mean in Israeli slang not only \"crazy\", but \"excited, exceptional, unbelievable\" and <\/span>b'teruf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0means \"with excitement.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\nConsidering the ultimate disaster that befell both kingdoms, it would certainly be <\/span>metoraf<\/span><\/em>\u00a0to think that they would ever return. But as the people understood, if He tore us up, he can certainly heal us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\u00a0Image: \u201cTreif\u201d happens to (also) be the name of a German food processing machine company (no connection to the Jewish category). This is their logo \/ wikicommons<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76181,"alt":"","title":"hos6-TREIF_Logo2","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","width":701,"height":488,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2-300x209.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":209,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","medium_large-width":701,"medium_large-height":488,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","large-width":701,"large-height":488,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","1536x1536-width":701,"1536x1536-height":488,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","2048x2048-width":701,"2048x2048-height":488,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","post_full_size-width":701,"post_full_size-height":488,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2-603x420.jpg","home_baner-width":603,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Treif!","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The back-story","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76181,"alt":"","title":"hos6-TREIF_Logo2","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","width":701,"height":488,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2-300x209.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":209,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","medium_large-width":701,"medium_large-height":488,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","large-width":701,"large-height":488,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","1536x1536-width":701,"1536x1536-height":488,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","2048x2048-width":701,"2048x2048-height":488,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2.jpg","post_full_size-width":701,"post_full_size-height":488,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-TREIF_Logo2-603x420.jpg","home_baner-width":603,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"6","chapter_main_number":"506","date":"20270808","wall_id":"506"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":8,"id":"76183","color":"#e0e9ef","size":"1","name":"Does God Want Sacrifices? ","post_title":"Does God Want Sacrifices?","slug":"does-god-want-sacrifices","old_id":"76183","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. He is the author of TANAKH: An Owner\u2019s Manual (Jerusalem: Urim\/Ktav, 2015).\r\n\r\n","short_description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":34244,"alt":"","title":"sokolow","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","width":302,"height":300,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","medium_large-width":302,"medium_large-height":300,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","large-width":302,"large-height":300,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","1536x1536-width":302,"1536x1536-height":300,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","2048x2048-width":302,"2048x2048-height":300,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","post_full_size-width":302,"post_full_size-height":300,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","home_baner-width":302,"home_baner-height":300}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"506","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Perhaps. But goodness is always more important\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"This chapter features a call to repentance (1), but the people fail to capitalize on this opportunity. Although He has the capacity \u201cto heal\u201d and \u201cto bind\u201d (2), and although the people express their intent \u201cto pursue obedience to the Lord\u201d (3), the goodness (<\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>) they display is as transient \u201cas morning clouds\u201d and as short-lived \u201cas morning dew\u201d (4). \u201cFor I desire goodness (<\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>), not sacrifice,\u201d says God, \u201cobedience\u2026 rather than burnt offerings\u201d (6).<\/span><\/p>\r\nThis last verse has often been cited in the argument that the sacrificial order will not be renewed in a rebuilt Temple with the concomitant elimination of that order from the present liturgy. However, when seen in the context of similar prophetic declarations, it appears to be an expression of preference (God desires goodness <\/span>more than<\/span><\/em> sacrifice) rather than total rejection.<\/span><\/p>\r\nThe first such declaration was made by Samuel. After King Saul disobeyed his instructions to destroy Amalekite sheep and cattle, he attempted to justify his disobedience by claiming that they had been spared for the purpose of sacrifice. Samuel\u2019s retort was: \u201cDoes the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to the Lord\u2019s command? Surely obedience is better than sacrifice, compliance than the fat of rams\u201d (1 Samuel 15:22).\u00a0 There is clearly no complete rejection of sacrifice, just the observation that it takes a backseat to obedience.<\/span><\/p>\r\nA similar declaration was made by Jeremiah. In condemning those who sought sanctuary in the Temple while continuing their perverse ways, he stated: \u201cFor when I freed your fathers from the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offerings or sacrifice. But this is what I commanded them: Do My bidding, that I may be your God and you may be My people; walk only in the way that I enjoin upon you, that it may go well with you\u201d (7:22-23).<\/span><\/p>\r\nAmbivalence over the ritual of sacrifice is further reflected in the contradictory positions taken by Maimonides. In the Guide (3:32), he explained sacrifice as a way to sublimate the desire to serve God materially, implying that they have no intrinsic value and would, eventually, be replaced with a purely intellectual form of worship. However, in his Mishneh Torah, describing the Messianic era, he stipulated that \u201c<\/span>all the laws will be reinstated as they were before: sacrifices will be offered, and [the people] will keep the sabbatical and jubilee years in the form they are described in the Torah\u201d (Laws of Kings and their Wars 11:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\nImage: Roni Levit, Leviticus Infographics<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76184,"alt":"","title":"hos6-sacrifices","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","width":547,"height":675,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices-243x300.jpg","medium-width":243,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","medium_large-width":547,"medium_large-height":675,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","large-width":547,"large-height":675,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","1536x1536-width":547,"1536x1536-height":675,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","2048x2048-width":547,"2048x2048-height":675,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","post_full_size-width":547,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices-340x420.jpg","home_baner-width":340,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Does God Want Sacrifices?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Perhaps. But goodness is always more important","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76184,"alt":"","title":"hos6-sacrifices","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","width":547,"height":675,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices-243x300.jpg","medium-width":243,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","medium_large-width":547,"medium_large-height":675,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","large-width":547,"large-height":675,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","1536x1536-width":547,"1536x1536-height":675,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","2048x2048-width":547,"2048x2048-height":675,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices.jpg","post_full_size-width":547,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos6-sacrifices-340x420.jpg","home_baner-width":340,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"6","chapter_main_number":"506","date":"20270808","wall_id":"506"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":9,"id":"76204","color":"#faeed8","size":"1","name":"Needed: Sincere, Lasting, Meaningful Change ","post_title":"Needed: Sincere, Lasting, Meaningful Change","slug":"needed-sincere-lasting-meaningful-change","old_id":"76204","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":73524,"post_title":"Yaakov Beasley","slug":"yaakov-beasley","old_id":"73524","first_name":"Yaakov ","last_name":"Beasley ","description":"Yaakov Beasley is the Tanakh Coordinator at Yeshivat Hesder Lev haTorah, the host of the TanachTalks podcast, and the author of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley (Maggid Press, 2020). ","short_description":"Yaakov Beasley is the Tanakh Coordinator at Yeshivat Hesder Lev haTorah, podcast host and author. ","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":73525,"alt":"","title":"yaakov beasley","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley.jpg","width":409,"height":484,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley-254x300.jpg","medium-width":254,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley.jpg","medium_large-width":409,"medium_large-height":484,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley.jpg","large-width":409,"large-height":484,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley.jpg","1536x1536-width":409,"1536x1536-height":484,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley.jpg","2048x2048-width":409,"2048x2048-height":484,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley.jpg","post_full_size-width":409,"post_full_size-height":484,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/yaakov-beasley-355x420.jpg","home_baner-width":355,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"506","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Oh yes, and lovingkindness, not sacrifices\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"The previous chapter ended with the devastating aftermath of the wars that would plague Israel and Judah. God claimed that he would deal with Ephraim and Judah in the manner that a lion treats its prey. How would Hosea's listeners respond to his rebuke? In chapter 6, Hosea tells us their answer.<\/span><\/p>\r\nThe chapter begins with the people's speech: \"\u201cCome, let us turn back to the LORD: He attacked, and He can heal us; He wounded, and He can bind us up.\". Apparently, they have taken Hosea's message to heart. Not only do they acknowledge their guilt and that He is the sources of their tribulations, they answer Hosea's previous claim (4:1, 4:6, 5;4) that the land lacks knowledge of God by declaring \"And let us know, let us strive to know the Lord: like the dawn whose going forth is sure, and He will come to us like rain, like the latter rain which satisfies the earth.\" Surely God will lovingly welcome His people back!<\/span><\/p>\r\nHosea quickly supplies God's disappointing response. \"What shall I do for you, Ephraim? What shall I do for you, Judah? For your loving-kindness is like a morning cloud and like the dew that passes away early.\" The commentator Malbim states that what Hosea is suggesting is that just like the morning cloud contains no rain, as whatever moisture that reaches the ground will dry up in the heat of the day, so too God is not fooled by the people's response \u2013 even if it is sincere, the change is not lasting enough or permanent enough to be meaningful.<\/span><\/p>\r\nHowever, the main crux of Hosea's argument is found in verse 6: \u201cFor I desire loving-kindness, and not sacrifices, and knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nWith these words, Hosea joins a long list of prophets who castigate the Jewish people for their reliance on sacrifices as opposed to making fundamental changes in their behavior. However, the rabbis found a message of optimism in Hosea's words:<\/span><\/p>\r\nRabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was once walking with his disciple, Rabbi Joshua, near Jerusalem after the destruction of the Holy Temple. Rabbi Joshua looked at the Temple ruins and said, \u201cAlas for us the place which atoned for the sins of the people Israel lies in ruins.\u201d Then Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai spoke to him these words of comfort, saying, \u201cDo not grieve, my son.\u00a0 There is another way of gaining atonement even though the Temple is destroyed.\u00a0 We must now gain atonement through deeds of lovingkindness.\u201d\u00a0 As it is written in the words of the prophet Hosea, \u201cFor I desire loving-kindness, and not sacrifices (6:6)\u201d\u00a0 (Avot de Rabbi Natan, ch. 4).<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":52313,"alt":"","title":"dt32-change","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Needed: Sincere, Lasting, Meaningful Change","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Oh yes, and lovingkindness, not sacrifices","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":52313,"alt":"","title":"dt32-change","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dt32-change-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"6","chapter_main_number":"506","date":"20270808","wall_id":"506"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"76303","color":"#e6f5f3","size":"1","name":"Committing Adultery Like An Oven ","post_title":"Committing Adultery Like An Oven","slug":"committing-adultery-like-an-oven","old_id":"76303","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33942,"post_title":"Hagit Bartuv","slug":"hagit-bartuv","old_id":"33942","first_name":"Hagit","last_name":"Bartuv","description":"Hagit Bartuv is the project and content leader of the Srigim initiative on Israeli moshavim whose goal is to enrich moshavim with more Jewish-Israeli culture. In 2013, as a modern Orthodox woman, she challenged the conversion court in Israel after she refused to accept their demand that she send her adopted child to an ultra-Orthodox pre-school. In the end, the court ruled in her favor and agreed to convert the child even though he would be educated in a secular preschool.\r\n","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"short_description":"Hagit Bartuv is the project and content leader of the Srigim initiative on Israeli moshavim","link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":33944,"alt":"","title":"\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea \u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1.jpg","width":335,"height":335,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1.jpg","medium_large-width":335,"medium_large-height":335,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1.jpg","large-width":335,"large-height":335,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1.jpg","1536x1536-width":335,"1536x1536-height":335,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1.jpg","2048x2048-width":335,"2048x2048-height":335,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1.jpg","post_full_size-width":335,"post_full_size-height":335,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/\u05d7\u05d2\u05d9\u05ea-\u05d1\u05e8\u05d8\u05d5\u05d1.jpg","home_baner-width":335,"home_baner-height":335}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"507","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Making sense of the non-sense\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"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\nThe 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\nThe 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\nPerhaps 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 <\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76304,"alt":"","title":"hos7-nonsense","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense.jpg","width":1920,"height":1343,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-300x210.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":210,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-768x537.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":537,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-1024x716.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":716,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1074,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1343,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-1200x839.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":839,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-600x420.jpg","home_baner-width":600,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Committing Adultery Like An Oven","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Making sense of the non-sense","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76304,"alt":"","title":"hos7-nonsense","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense.jpg","width":1920,"height":1343,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-300x210.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":210,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-768x537.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":537,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-1024x716.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":716,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1074,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1343,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-1200x839.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":839,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos7-nonsense-600x420.jpg","home_baner-width":600,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"7","chapter_main_number":"507","date":"20270809","wall_id":"507"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"76328","color":"#f7e9e9","size":"1","name":"Eagles\u2019 Wings ","post_title":"Eagles\u2019 Wings","slug":"eagles-wings","old_id":"76328","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":57331,"post_title":"Josh and Leora Blechner","slug":"josh-and-leora-blechner","old_id":"57331","first_name":"Josh and Leora ","last_name":"Blechner","description":"Josh and Leora Blechner have been learning Tanach together since Leora was five years old. Josh is an in-house attorney in New Jersey and Leora is a middle school student at SAR academy.","short_description":"Josh and Leora Blechner have been learning Tanach together since Leora was five years old. Josh is an in-house attorney in New Jersey and Leora is a middle school student at SAR academy.","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":57484,"alt":"","title":"blechner","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1.jpg","width":501,"height":509,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1-295x300.jpg","medium-width":295,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1.jpg","medium_large-width":501,"medium_large-height":509,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1.jpg","large-width":501,"large-height":509,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":501,"1536x1536-height":509,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":501,"2048x2048-height":509,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1.jpg","post_full_size-width":501,"post_full_size-height":509,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blechner-1-413x420.jpg","home_baner-width":413,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"508","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"The symbol of love and protection has now become terrifying\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"
Chapter 8 begins with an image of an impending attack.<\/span><\/p>\r\nThe watchmen rush to the towers to sound the shofar alarm as \"the enemy swoops like an eagle\". This dramatic image of terrifying birds swooping down on the fortified cities is strong by itself. However, Hosea could also be providing a secondary allusion. Way back in Exodus 19:4 during the giving of the Torah, God provides a striking image of the Exodus from Egypt: \"You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I bore you on eagles\u2019 wings and brought you to Me.\"\u00a0 In this metaphor, God uses majestic eagles to whisk the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\r\nThis phrase \"wings of Eagles\" (kanfei nesharim<\/em>) was so powerful, it was used as the name of one of the missions to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel. It is therefore no wonder that Hosea turns this image on its head in this chapter. The eagles that at one time saved the Israelites will now lead the attack against the nation. Instead of a tool of God's protection, the eagles have now become agents for God's destruction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76329,"alt":"","title":"hos8-eagle","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-1024x682.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1023,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1279,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-1200x799.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":799,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Eagles\u2019 Wings","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The symbol of love and protection has now become terrifying","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76329,"alt":"","title":"hos8-eagle","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-1024x682.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1023,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1279,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-1200x799.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":799,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos8-eagle-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"8","chapter_main_number":"508","date":"20270810","wall_id":"508"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":12,"id":"76352","color":"#f7f7f5","size":"1","name":"Paradigms of Deep Corruption ","post_title":"Paradigms of Deep Corruption","slug":"paradigms-of-deep-corruption","old_id":"76352","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":49926,"post_title":"Binyamin Cohen","slug":"binyamin-cohen","old_id":"49926","first_name":"Binyamin ","last_name":"Cohen ","description":"Binyamin Cohen is a Jewish Studies teacher at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in Deerfield, IL. He completed his Master\u2019s in Jewish Education through Pardes Day School Educators Program in conjunction with Hebrew College. He is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently lives in Chicago.","short_description":"Binyamin Cohen is a Jewish Studies teacher at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in Deerfield, IL. ","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":49927,"alt":"","title":"binyamin cohen","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen.jpg","width":800,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen-240x300.jpg","medium-width":240,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen-768x960.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":960,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/binyamin-cohen-336x420.jpg","home_baner-width":336,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"509","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"The punishment? To be wanderers among the nations\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"
The structure of Tanakh often plays a role in zeroing in on the main ideas a passage is trying to convey. This chapter\u2019s midmost verse, and its midmost word, hold special significance. The verse is verse 9, and the word is \u05d4\u05b6\u05e2\u05b0\u05de\u05b4\u05d9\u05e7\u05d5\u05bc, <\/span>he\u2019emiku<\/span><\/em> \u201cthey have deeply\u201d. Throughout this chapter, the prophet describes the sinfulness and waywardness of Ephraim, and his eventual destruction. These two midpoints tell us why: \u201cThey have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFirstly, they are corrupt. Secondly, this is not a new corruption; they have failed to learn from the past. Thirdly (and this is emphasized by this word being the midpoint), their corruption is deep; these are not some superficial mistakes or inadequacies, this is deep-seated rot. The Tanakh is not frequently lent to hyperbole or extraneous adverbs, so the use of <\/span>he\u2019emiku<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> \u201cdeeply\u201d, is even more notable.<\/span><\/p>\r\nThe prophet also tells us the nature of this deep corruption: it is just like the corruption \u201cin the days of Gibeah\u201d. Rashi notes that this could mean two different things. It could mean the corruption exemplified by the story of the <\/span>pilegesh<\/span><\/em>, concubine, of Gibeah, which is told in Judges 19-21. Or it could mean the corruption exemplified by Gibeat Shaul, the home of Saul, and, in Rashi\u2019s understanding, a stand-in for the Israelites\u2019 demand for a king in I Samuel 8.<\/span><\/p>\r\nThese two stories offer different paradigms of corruption, which the prophet is saying are both at play in Ephraim\u2019s demise. The story of the <\/span>pilegesh<\/span><\/em> of Gibeah is a violent, chaotic, story, full of rash decisions, disregard for human life, and immorality (if you don\u2019t know it, go read it; you won\u2019t be disappointed). The prophet is telling Ephraim that they have become deeply corrupt on an interpersonal, human-to-human level. They have, simply put, forgotten how to be human.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn I Samuel 8, the Israelites are on seemingly firm ground when they demand Samuel give them a king. But Samuel and God try to remind them of two things, to no avail: that there is only one true King; and that what they think a king is supposed to be, the kind of leader they want, is not really the kind of leader they need. They ask for a king to judge\/govern them, like all the nations. In doing so, they\u2019re both rejecting God\u2019s rule, and forgetting that they <\/span>aren\u2019t<\/span><\/i> like all the nations.<\/span><\/p>\r\nThe prophet is telling Ephraim that their deep corruption is a corruption of what it means to be human, what it means to be God\u2019s treasured people, and what it means to be a unique people. Ephraim\u2019s own actions have led them to fade into the morass of history; \u201cthey shall be wanderers among the nations\u201d (v.17).<\/span><\/p>\r\nImage: Amnon Beker, Concubine of Gibeah, 2000, by courtesy of the artist.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76354,"alt":"","title":"hos9-becker - pilegesh","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh.jpg","width":1024,"height":846,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-300x248.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":248,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-768x635.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":635,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-1024x846.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":846,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":846,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":846,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh.jpg","post_full_size-width":1024,"post_full_size-height":846,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-508x420.jpg","home_baner-width":508,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Paradigms of Deep Corruption","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The punishment? To be wanderers among the nations","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76354,"alt":"","title":"hos9-becker - pilegesh","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh.jpg","width":1024,"height":846,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-300x248.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":248,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-768x635.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":635,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-1024x846.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":846,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":846,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":846,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh.jpg","post_full_size-width":1024,"post_full_size-height":846,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-becker-pilegesh-508x420.jpg","home_baner-width":508,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"9","chapter_main_number":"509","date":"20270811","wall_id":"509"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":13,"id":"76356","color":"#effaea","size":"1","name":"Malaise Without Reason ","post_title":"Malaise Without Reason","slug":"malaise-without-reason","old_id":"76356","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":72765,"post_title":"George Daniel Frankel","slug":"george-daniel-frankel","old_id":"72765","first_name":"George Daniel","last_name":"Frankel","description":"Danny Frankel lives in New York City. He is the author of \u201cDan Shall Judge His People: 5 Essays on Torah im Derech Eretz and the Breuer Community Today.\u201d\r\n","short_description":"Danny Frankel lives in New York City. He is the author of \u201cDan Shall Judge His People: 5 Essays on Torah im Derech Eretz and the Breuer Community Today.\u201d\r\n","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":72766,"alt":"","title":"danny frankel","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel.jpg","width":1822,"height":2743,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel-199x300.jpg","medium-width":199,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel-680x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":680,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel-680x1024.jpg","large-width":680,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel.jpg","1536x1536-width":1020,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel.jpg","2048x2048-width":1360,"2048x2048-height":2048,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel-797x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":797,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/danny-frankel-279x420.jpg","home_baner-width":279,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"509","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"To forget the source of our unhappiness\u2026and our happiness\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"Never to be happy because we are in Galut (exile).<\/span><\/p>\r\nNever to enjoy a meal without feeling: this bread is unconsecrated!<\/span><\/p>\r\nNever to drink a cup of wine without ruing the fact that it cannot be poured out on the altar as a libation to God.<\/span><\/p>\r\nNever to observe a holiday in its proper fashion.<\/span><\/p>\r\nNever to celebrate a wedding or a birth without thinking: our children are doomed!<\/span><\/p>\r\nNever to feel God\u2019s closeness.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAlways to view ourselves as \u201cwanderers\u201d among the gentiles (the root word for \u201cwanderers\u201d here is the same as that used to describe Cain\u2019s curse back in Genesis).<\/span><\/p>\r\nThat is how Hosea foresees the lot of the Jewish people in exile.<\/span><\/p>\r\nBut is that an accurate depiction of American Jewry today?<\/span><\/p>\r\nOr has Hosea perhaps omitted the most terrible curse of all: to feel the malaise without understanding the reason for it?<\/span><\/p>\r\nTo run to psychiatrists. To overeat. To abuse alcohol\u2026or one\u2019s spouse. To jump from woman to woman, bed to bed. To kiss the mezuzah a hundred times. To take one\u2019s family to an overpriced European hotel for Passover. To work and find no satisfaction in it. To learn the \u201cdaf\u201d every day\u2026and then to feel hollow inside afterwards. To participate in every \u201csocial justice\u201d cause\u2026except our own.<\/span><\/p>\r\nTo forget the source of our unhappiness\u2026and our happiness.<\/span><\/p>\r\nTo forget that we are exiles.<\/span><\/p>\r\nImage: Grae Dickason \/ pixabay<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":76357,"alt":"","title":"hos9-depressed","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-1024x682.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1023,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1279,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-1200x799.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":799,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Malaise Without Reason","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"To forget the source of our unhappiness\u2026and our happiness","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":76357,"alt":"","title":"hos9-depressed","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-1024x682.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1023,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1279,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-1200x799.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":799,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hos9-depressed-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Hosea","chapter":"9","chapter_main_number":"509","date":"20270811","wall_id":"509"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":14,"id":"76437","color":"#eceffa","size":"1","name":"If You Sow The Seeds Of Righteousness\u2026 ","post_title":"If You Sow The Seeds Of Righteousness\u2026","slug":"if-you-sow-the-seeds-of-righteousness","old_id":"76437","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). In 2006, Bregman was appointed the Herman and Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, where he also headed the program in Jewish Studies, until 2013. Bregman retired from UNCG as of July 31, 2017. He has now returned to Jerusalem where he is continuing his research and teaching activities.","credit":"","image_url":"","short_description":"Marc Bregman is the Herman and Zelda Bernard Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies emeritus, at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":33878,"alt":"Marc Bregman","title":"Marc Bregman","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","width":361,"height":488,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-222x300.jpg","medium-width":222,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","medium_large-width":361,"medium_large-height":488,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","large-width":361,"large-height":488,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","1536x1536-width":361,"1536x1536-height":488,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","2048x2048-width":361,"2048x2048-height":488,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman.jpg","post_full_size-width":361,"post_full_size-height":488,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Marc-Bregman-311x420.jpg","home_baner-width":311,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"510","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"\u2026 then you will reap the fruit of goodness\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"In our chapter, Hosea continues his prophecies against Israel\u2019s apostasy and foretells their resulting punishment. In the midst of this prophecy of impending doom, Hosea urges his fellow Israelites: \u201cSow righteousness (tzedaqah<\/em>) for yourselves! Reap the fruit of goodness (chesed<\/em>). And break up your unplowed ground! For it is time to seek the Lord, until He comes and showers His righteousness on you\u201d (Hosea 10:12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n