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\r\nDr. Rebecca Winter
\r\nRachel Sharansky Danziger
\r\nRabbi Nathaniel Helfgot
\r\nRabbi Chaim Strauchler
\r\nRabbi Joshua Berman
\r\nDr. Tammy Jacobowitz
\r\nDr. Beni Gesundheit
\r\nMiriam Krupka
\r\nRabbi Menachem Leibtag
\r\nDr. Dov Zakheim
\r\nRabbi Allen Schwartz
\r\nRabbanit Dena Freundlich
\r\nRabbanit Channa Lockshin Bob
\r\nDr. Aaron Koller
\r\nDr. Orit Avnery
\r\nRabbi Yaakov Beasley
\r\nRabbi Joshua Berman PhD
\r\nRabbi David Silber
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We are excited to announce the next installment of the 929 English Podcast! \u00a0<\/p>\r\n
The 929 English Podcast profiles influential and innovative figures from the 929 community and is hosted by Rabbi Adam Mintz. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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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. 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The Prophet Joel is mentioned by name only here, though ten other biblical personalities also bear the name Joel. Also, Pethuel is mentioned only here. Moreover, unlike most other Prophets, no specific information is given in Scripture about when the Prophet Joel lived. The current dominant view seems to be that the Book of Joel was composed in the Second Temple Period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n The paucity of definite dating information for the Prophet Joel ben Pethuel only served to stimulate the interpretive ingenuity of Jewish tradition. Rashi on Joel 1:1 states somewhat elliptically that Joel ben Petheul was the son of Samuel the Prophet, apparently identifying the Prophet Joel with Joel, the first-born son of Samuel (see I Sam. 8:2). Ibn-Ezra though states bluntly that \u201caccording to the <\/span>pshat<\/span><\/em>, he (i.e. the Prophet Joel) is not the son of the Prophet Samuel\u201d, because we have no way of knowing in what generation the Prophet Joel lived.\" Since we are told there that Samuel\u2019s two sons fell into wicked ways, Rashi's view seems to be a surprisingly pejorative comment on the character and behavior of the Prophet Joel. Indeed, Rashi goes on to state that he [the Prophet Samuel] \u201cseduced God with his prayer\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Rashi\u2019s source for this rather disconcerting comment is a no less curious midrashic tradition preserved in Midrash Tehillim 80:1 and in Numbers Rabbah 10:5. Why was he called Pethuel [Hebrew \u201cpetu<\/em> \u2013 seduce, el<\/em> \u2013 God)? Because he would seduce (mitpateh<\/em>) by curling his hair like a virgin maiden\u2026Because he seduced God with his prayer. 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We know little about Joel\u2013 yet we can easily close our eyes and envision dark clouds of locusts slowly approaching on the horizon, quietly blotting out the sun. Listen carefully and we hear the distant echo of approaching hooves and chariots, a dull, deep rhythmic sound that slowly gets louder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Joel contains a terrifying portrayal of approaching terrors, but he also manages to reinforce our belief in God's mercy, using some of the most magnificent expressions of comfort found in the prophetic works. Both philosophical and practical, Joel dares to ask the fundamental question - when catastrophe strikes, how do we react? Do we give in to despair in times of trouble, or do we find new reservoirs of faith, persevere, and grow? His 73 verses contain 43 separate commands to his listeners - weep, awake, lament, assemble, repent, sound an alarm, fast, return, and rejoice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Joel is traditionally read in synagogues worldwide on the Shabbat after Rosh HaShanah \u2013 <\/span>Shabbat Shuvah<\/span><\/i> \u2013 the Sabbath of Repentance. Our previous chapter in Trei Asar, Hosea 14, assures us that repentance is possible \u2013 Joel challenges us to seize that opportunity when it comes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Joel ranks among the hardest prophets to determine when he prophesied \u2013 the book references no specific historical event or figure. Rabbinic thought (TB Taanit 5a) equates the locust plague that Joel so vividly describes in chapter 1 with the famine depicted in 2 Kings 6:24-8:1 (between 850-800 BCE). This is the Radak's view as well:<\/span><\/p>\r\n [He] prophesied first about the locusts, [and then] about the future, the days of Messiah. Some say he presented this prophecy in the days of Jehoram ben Ahab, when there was a famine in the land, as it is written (Melachim II 8:1), \"For God has called for a famine, and it has come to the land for seven years.\" Four years were the four types of locusts, and three years were of drought.<\/span><\/p>\r\n However, the trend among modern commentators and scholars is to date Joel much later. In his commentary in <\/span>Daat Mikra<\/span><\/i>, Amos Hakham observes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n \u2026 Some say that Joel prophesied soon after the construction of the second Temple. There is evidence for this view: Joel used the name Judah even where the intent was certainly for the entire, promised land of Israel (4:20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n Also, in his appeal to the people to repent, he does not enumerate specific sins, neither does he mention idolatry - regarding which the prophets rebuked at length in the first Temple, but which was uprooted from Israel in the second Temple. 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Vast swarms of the voracious insects would eat everything in their path, leaving the fields bare of produce. Joel uses four different Hebrew synonyms for \u201clocust,\u201d and all the English versions, including the present translation, flounder to find or invent four equivalents. Some scholars think that these four terms indicate four stages in the metamorphosis of the insect, but that is uncertain. Three of the four Hebrew words show a transparent etymology: <\/span>gazam<\/span><\/em> (the word rendered here as \u201clocust\u201d), \u201cto cut back\u201d; <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>arbeh<\/span><\/em>, \u2018multitude\u201d; and <\/span>\u1e25asil<\/span><\/em>, \u201cto finish off or destroy.\u201d The last, <\/span>yeleq<\/span><\/em> might conceivably be linked with <\/span>laqaq<\/span><\/em>, \u201click.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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