The book of Hosea is the first of the “Trei – Asar,” the 12 ‘minor’ prophets. They are minor only in the sense that their respective books are relatively short.<\/p>\n
Hosea son of Be’eri prophesied in the second half of the 8th century BCE, in the kingdom of Israel. His prophecies mainly consist of rebukes to the kingdom of Israel, but there are also those that are addressed to the kingdom of Judah.<\/p>\n
In the background to his prophecies is political instability, where kings rise and fall in quick succession, and the external threat from the kingdom of Assyria. Amidst all this, Hosea stands out in that his personal life was turned into a symbol of the relations between God and the Israelite people.\u00a0<\/p>\n","static_cube_color":"","updates_last_update":"16\/03\/2020","posts":[{"order":1,"id":"76705","color":"#f8ebe3","size":"2","name":"Ethical Giants - The Hebrew Prophets ","post_title":"Ethical Giants - The Hebrew Prophets","slug":"ethical-giants-the-hebrew-prophets","old_id":"76705","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"2015","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"They did not believe that conscience is a still, small voice: it thunders or it does not speak at all","post_main_content_content":"
\u201cWhen silence threatens to take the power of decision out of our hands \u2026 one looks into history for the courage to speak even in an unpopular cause. Looming as ethical giants are those extraordinary of men, the Hebrew prophets.<\/p>\r\n
They did not believe that conscience is a still, small voice. They believed that conscience thunders or it does not speak at all. They were articulate, passionate, and fearless, attacking injustice and corruption whether the guilty be kings or their own unrepentant people. Without physical protection, scornful of risks evoked by their unpopular messages, they went among the people with no shield other than truth.<\/p>\r\n
Today we particularly need the Hebrew prophets because they taught that to love God was to love justice; that each human being has an inescapable obligation to denounce evil where he sees it and to defy a ruler who commands him to break the covenant. The Hebrew prophets are needed today because decent people must be imbued with the courage to speak the truth, to realize that silence may temporarily preserve status or security but to live with a lie is a gross affront to God.<\/p>\r\n
The Hebrew prophets are needed today because we need their flaming courage; we need them because the thunder of their fearless voices is the only sound stronger than the blasts of bombs and clamor of war hysteria\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
-From Rev. 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This last book of Prophets (Nevi\u2019im) is an anthology of twelve books, which were grouped together allegedly in order to ensure that they would not get lost due to their relatively small size (Baba Batra 14b). For purposes of comparison, Ezekiel, the smallest of the three larger prophetic books, contains 1,273 verses. Obadiah, the smallest of the twelve, has only 21, and the entire anthology, just 1,050.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n While it colloquially bears the Aramaic name <\/span>Trei Asar<\/span><\/em> (for twelve), there are a few Hebrew references to it in rabbinic literature as <\/span>Shneim Asar<\/span><\/em>. Its canonization (inclusion in the Bible) as an anthology occurred relatively early in the Second Temple period (i.e., prior to the Hasmonean dynasty) as attested to by the Book of Ben Sirach 49:10<\/span>: \u201c<\/span>Then, too, the Twelve Prophets\u2014may their bones flourish with new life where they lie\u2014they gave new strength to Jacob and saved him with steadfast hope.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n The twelve prophets included herein span an era of about 300 years, from the decline of the northern kingdom of Samaria through the earliest years of the Second Temple. Among the earlier of these prophets were Hosea and Amos, who, along with Isaiah and Micah, prophesied at roughly the same time. Among the latest were Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. The order in which they are arranged within Trei Asar corresponds, overall, to their chronological order; however, since the time frames of several are either unknown or highly speculative (e.g., Joel and Obadiah), it is also possible that there are thematic links between adjacent books, such as Obadiah following Amos because of their mutual focus on Edom , and Jonah following Micah on account of a shared prophecy about Assyria.<\/span><\/p>\r\n A curious halakhic consequence of the organization of Trei Asar<\/em> is that while reading a <\/span>haftarah<\/span><\/em> it is prohibited to skip from one prophetic book to another\u2014such as Joshua to Judges or Isaiah to Ezekiel\u2014in the case of the books of Trei Asar it is permissible. 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God instructs Hosea to marry a harlot and build a life with her. Hosea, the prophet, follows God's command without dispute. But this beginning to a prophetic text proves puzzling. Why does God ask such a bizarre and personal commitment of Hosea?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Our rabbis teach that God wants Hosea to put himself in God's shoes-- to know what it is like to be in a relationship with someone who is constantly unfaithful, someone who he knows has a propensity to hurt him, but whom he nevertheless loves and is committed to. God asks Hosea to do this so God has a partner, a person who gets the deep pain God feels about His beloved, Israel. We, like the adulterous spouse, constantly deceive and disappoint God. We turn to idols and false gods instead of to God. And God is left waiting for us with a broken heart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n And yet...despite all of the heartache and moments of separation and exile along the way...He cannot bring Himself to truly leave us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Getting personal with Hosea is the only means for God to have a partner in His loneliness. This is a heartbreaking and radical way to view our God, King of kings. And it can even be disturbing to imagine God wanting his creation to suffer just as He suffers. What good can there be in adding another member to the list of the brokenhearted?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n When we suffer, we likely feel the same sense of injustice and ask the same question-- why would God make this personal? Why would God ask me to go through this? It is hard to relate or pray to a God Who wants us to suffer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n I would like to believe that to read our text-- and our personal sufferings-- this way is to miss the point. 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This is the primary analogy of the Book of Hosea: Israel is cast as God\u2019s unfaithful wife. God wishes to take her back, but only if she will renew their relationship and be faithful.<\/span><\/p>\r\n This brings up a particular issue in Torah law. According to the laws of adultery, a woman who has intercourse with another man is now forbidden to her husband. This throws the analogy into some confusion, because Hosea does take Gomer back, and the Divine also plans to renew His relationship with Israel. Commentators have long debated the place of Hosea\u2019s marriage - some saying that Hosea\u2019s relationship issues were a dream; others saying that he was given leniency around this law due to being a prophet - but fewer have dealt with the implications of the analogy. If adultery and idolatry are truly parallel, does this not mean that Israel is forbidden to God?<\/span><\/p>\r\n Clearly, the adultery\/idolatry parallel only takes us so far in understanding God\u2019s relationship with humanity. There is apparently no end to how far humans can go before <\/span>teshuvah<\/span><\/em> (repentance) is no longer acceptable. But it does call into question the reasoning for the Torah\u2019s stance on adultery: it seems to opine that the marriage is no longer salvageable in the aftermath. If that\u2019s the case, how is it that Israel\u2019s relationship with the Divine is salvageable?<\/span><\/p>\r\n Chapter 2 of Hosea describes the rebuking of Israel and her reunification with God. \u2018And it will be, on that day - declares the Eternal - you will call me Ishi [\u2018my man\u2019], and you will no longer call me Ba\u2019ali [my master]; for I will remove the names of the Ba\u2019alim from her mouth, and they shall nevermore be mentioned by name.\u2019 (verses 18-19). After we are reunified, there will be a change in the language Israel will use to refer to her husband. The text is clear that the reason for the change in language is a pun between <\/span>ba\u2019al<\/em> <\/span>(meaning \u2018master\u2019 or \u2018husband\u2019) and Ba\u2019al, the false god. 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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). 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For the Lord has a case against the inhabitants of this land, because there is no truth and no goodness and no knowledge of God in the land\u201d (Hosea 4:1). The word translated here \u201cgoodness\u201d is the key Hebrew term <\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>, which appears five more times in Hosea (2:21, 6:4 and 6, 10:12 and 12:7) and in a positive sense 246 times altogether in the Hebrew Bible. In 1927, the noted archaeologist Nelson Glueck published his German doctoral dissertation on this one term, which appeared in English as <\/span>Hesed in the Bible<\/span><\/em> (1967). Glueck emphasized that <\/span>chesed<\/em> <\/span>often expresses a covenantal relationship, perhaps best defined as \u201ccovenantal loyalty\u201d, particularly between God and man, a translation that well suits the use of <\/span>chesed<\/em> <\/span>in the context of Hosea 4:1. However, the Hebrew word <\/span>chesed<\/em> <\/span>is so multivocal that its meaning and translation is highly dependent on the specific context in which this term appears (see Brown, Driver and Briggs, pp. 338-339; Ben-Yehudah, <\/span>Dictionary<\/span><\/em> [1959], pp. 1661-1663).<\/span><\/p>\r\n Midrash Leqah Tov to Deuteronomy 11:13 (ed. Buber, p. 31) preserves a surprising tradition based on an interpretation of <\/span>chesed<\/em> <\/span>in Hosea 4:1. Israel was punished more severely for neglect of the study of Torah than for the neglect of the performance of the commandments. For it says: \u201cThe Lord has a case against the inhabitants of this land, because there is no truth and no goodness and no knowledge of God in the land\u201d (Hosea 4:1). \u201cTruth\u201d (<\/span>emet<\/span><\/em>) refers to Torah, as it says: \u201cBuy truth and never sell it\u201d (Proverbs 23:23). \u201cGoodness\u201d (<\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>) refers to Torah, as it says: \u201cYour goodness (<\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>), O Lord, fills the earth. Teach me Your laws\u201d (Psalms 119:64). \u201cKnowledge\u201d (<\/span>da\u2019at<\/span><\/em>) refers to Torah, as it says: \u201cMy people suffered exile for their lack of knowledge (<\/span>da\u2019at<\/span><\/em>)\u201d (Isaiah 5:13)\u2026And just as Israel was punished more severely for neglect of the study of Torah than for the neglect of the performance of the commandments, so too the reward for study (<\/span>talmud<\/span><\/em>) precedes the reward for performance (<\/span>ma\u2019aseh<\/span><\/em>), as it says: \u201cAnd you shall teach them to your children\u2026\u201d (Deuteronomy 11:19). 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After a whole book of Ezekiel\u2019s bleakness, I just don\u2019t have any more optimistic things to say about God punishing Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n This chapter felt particularly harsh. God proclaims that even when Israel brings sacrifices \u201cTo seek the LORD, they will not find Him. He has cast them off\u201d (5:6). God describes Himself as a \u201clion to Ephraim, Like a great beast to the House of Judah; I, I will attack and stride away\u201d (5:14). What happened to the God that <\/span>protects<\/span><\/i> the people \u201cAs a lion\u2014a great beast\u2014 Growls over its prey?\u201d (Isaiah 31:4) Where is the God who will not abandon us even as we \u201cwalk through the valley of death?\u201d (Psalms 23:4)<\/span><\/p>\r\n When I began writing for 929 a little over a month ago, I was happy to read between the lines of Ezekiel for the \u201cpositive take\u201d on God hating us. 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There\u2019s even comfort in the notion that amidst tragedy, God may be punishing us, but He hasn\u2019t deserted us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n I cannot imagine creating a narrative around the pandemic that portrays God unleashing COVID-19 onto the world out of anger, jealousy, or spite. But that doesn\u2019t mean I think God is out of the picture. Perhaps there\u2019s a way to combine the Prophet\u2019s perspective<\/span>\u2014<\/span>God cares, albeit that caring manifests in punishment<\/span>\u2014<\/span>with my modern sensibilities that refuse to judge the character of the entire world based on the pandemic that plagues us. 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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\n Both 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\n However, 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\n Another 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\". 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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. 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\r\n<\/span>Like a great beast to the House of Judah;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I, I will attack and stride away,<\/span>
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