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In today's world, every person and every religion is fully exposed to every other one. As a result, the full humanity of all has become an experienced emotional reality. The outcome is a growing commitment to the equality of every person - no matter skin color, gender or religion. Thus the powerful shift in public opinion from accepting racist treatment of African Americans to repugnance at their mistreatment, and widespread calls for systemic reform to eliminate racism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a growing moral consensus that all humans are, in the Torah\u2019s language, created in the image of God. Thus all are entitled to be treated with equal dignity. But how do we reconcile this universal equality with the classic Jewish belief that we are special because we are chosen? How can our commitment to the Torah as the word of God allow us to give equal dignity to non-Jews and their religions?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer is in today's chapter, one of the most remarkable passages in Tanach - a teaching thousands of years ahead of its time:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cSays the Lord: \u2018Are you not as [precious] to me as the children of Ethiopians, children of Israel? True, I brought Israel up From the land of Egypt, But also the Philistines from Caphtor [Crete] and the Arameans from Kir\u2019\u201d (9:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We understand that we are \u2018chosen\u2019 because we have experienced God\u2019s love: a loving God took us out of slavery and degradation, into the full dignity of freedom, to live in our own homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amos confirms that we are beloved by God. However, he tells us that we have had the same experience as other people - because God loves them no less. We are beloved, chosen, but we are not alone. The Ethiopians [\u201cchildren of Ethiopians,\u201d just as we are \"children of Israel\"] are also beloved and chosen by God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And so were the Philistines. They were brought up from Crete to live a life of dignity - in the Land of Israel! Similarly, God took the Arameans from their land to a good life in Aram.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We have experienced God\u2019s love and deliverance. But God\u2019s infinite love is not exhausted by us and our experience. It is surely no coincidence that Amos mentions Philistines (chief antagonists of Judah) and Aram (major enemies of Israel). If God loves and redeems our biggest enemies, then we can rest assured that God will redeem all the nations of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amos teaches us that, in our Torah, we don\u2019t have an exclusive truth that invalidates every other one. Rather, we have the record and the experience of God\u2019s redeeming love for us. That God extends this love equally to others, says Amos, should comfort us. Our experience is not an illusion, or self-delusion, but one that others have had and is universally true.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amos teaches us that Ethiopians and Philistines are beloved and redeemed images of God. Equal, and equally precious. 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The last prophecy in the Book of Amos 9:11-15 is one of hope and restoration; God says, \u201cI will set up again the fallen booth of David\u201d (9:11). This phrase, \u201cthe fallen booth of David\u201d appears nowhere else in Tanakh. What could it mean?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Medieval commentators Rashi and Radak both understand this to refer to the kingdom of David, as in, the continuation of the Davidic dynasty. Radak writes: \u201csince he said the kingdom of Ephraim would be nullified, he says that the kingdom of David will be reinstated. And the \u2018booth\u2019 is a parable, for it protects the nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With this understanding of the verse, the prophecy of hope we described does not seem to be aimed at an Israelite audience, but rather at Judean listeners. Modern Bible scholars tend to date this prophecy to a post-monarchic period, when both the northern and southern kingdoms had already been destroyed and the Davidic dynasty was no longer in power.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Still, as readers of the Bible, we are more familiar with the expression \u201cHouse of David\u201d to refer to the Davidic dynasty. If the prophet wanted to communicate the reestablishment of the Davidic dynasty, why not use the more common phrase?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the \u2018booth\u2019 instead of \u2018house\u2019 metaphor is the key to providing hope in this prophecy. Indeed, the House of David no longer rules, and yet this verse claims the metaphorical \u2018house\u2019 has not completely been destroyed (even though the physical \u2018house\u2019 i.e. Temple has been). There is still a booth that for the time being preserves a vestige of the once great dynastic structure. This booth is temporary, as the exile is temporary, but \u201cin that day\u201d of redemption it will be rebuilt \u201cas in the days of old.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though not directly related to the holiday of Sukkot, or Festival of Booths, this phrase \u201cthe fallen booth of David\u201d is used in the special insert for the holiday in the Grace after Meals. Perhaps the greater connection, beyond the use of the word \u2018booth,\u2019 is that the phrase invokes a feeling of hope for future stability in times of insecurity. Just as the Israelites\u2019 booth-dwelling journey in the desert for forty years was characterized by the unknown, and by faith that they would reach stability in the land of Israel, so too the Judean exiles were encouraged to have faith in a period of uncertainty that their \u2018fallen booth\u2019 would be rebuilt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Today, when we say those words, they inspire similar comfort for us, arousing hope for strength and protection in uncertain times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":77649,"alt":"","title":"amos9-house hut","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-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":"When Is A House A Booth?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Hope for future stability in times of insecurity","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":77649,"alt":"","title":"amos9-house hut","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-house-hut-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":"Amos","chapter":"9","chapter_main_number":"527","date":"20270906","wall_id":"527"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":4,"id":"119375","color":"#effaea","size":"1","name":"Buber\u2019s Binationalism","post_title":"Buber\u2019s Binationalism","slug":"bubers-binationalism","old_id":"119375","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":92960,"post_title":"Calev Ben-Dor","slug":"calev-ben-dor","old_id":"92960","first_name":"Calev ","last_name":"Ben-Dor ","description":"Having grown up in London, Calev Ben-Dor now lives in Jerusalem with his family. 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Verse 7 of Chapter 9 is striking:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Are you not like the children of Cush to Me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor (Crete), and Aram from Kir?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Philistines and Arameans were historic enemies of the Israelites. Why do we need to know they too experienced divine liberation?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jewish theologian Martin Buber, one of the ideological founders of the notion of binationalism before the State of Israel was established, was inspired by this verse.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Binationalism never came close to being implemented. In its initial framework of Brit Shalom, and later Ichud, it was deeply opposed by the majority in the Zionist movement. As more within the Yishuv internalised the deep Arab-Palestinian opposition to Jewish immigration, the idea became increasingly peripheral. Moreover, no Palestinian leaders with gravitas were willing to seriously consider it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For Buber, Amos\u2019 statement was significant. \u201cInstead of imagining a universal exodus\u201d Buber writes \u201cAmos imagines a series; and the fact that he can specify the details of only one of the series does not deter him from acknowledging the value of the others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In \u2018Martin Buber\u2019s Myth of Zion\u2019, Daniel Breslauer writes that pointing to the prophet Amos, Buber \u201caverred that Jews never claimed that their history <\/span>precluded<\/span><\/i> the history of other nations - they never offered their uniqueness as a reason for disparaging even their enemies.\u201d Yet for Buber, such recognition was imperative: \u201cfor other nations, even those hostile to us, are also acquainted with a divine deed of liberation, such as our history reveals\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of Buber\u2019s biographers, Paul Mendes-Flohr, explains that for Buber, the heartbeat of Judaism which he sought to amplify, was that God is also the God of the Cushites [the ultimate other], \u201cnot only the God of the Jews, but also the God of the Palestinians\u201d Mendes-Flohr says. \u201cBuber felt that Zionism cannot be at the expense of the people living here for hundreds of years, and he sought to alert the Zionist leadership that their understandable efforts to create a home for the Jewish people should not be at the expense of the Palestinians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Breslauer writes that \u201cBecause national history also implies personal choice and the ethics of decision making for all nations, not just Israel, Buber insisted on a Zionism respecting the history of the Palestinians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I\u2019d argue that respecting this history of the Palestinians doesn\u2019t necessarily need to result in the creation of a binational state. Nor does it mean opposing the Balfour Declaration (as Buber did) because it neglected the political, cultural and human reality of the Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But it\u2019s worth remembering that the Land of Israel \u2013 a land that vomits out inhabitants who don\u2019t act morally \u2013 doesn\u2019t necessarily belong to one people only.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And as Amos reminds us, we are not the only ones who may feel we have a unique relationship with the Sovereign of the entire Universe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In this final chapter (which, <\/span>as we have noted<\/span><\/a>, actually commenced with 8:11), Amos relayed yet another vision: \u201cI saw my LORD standing by the altar, and He said: Strike the capitals (<\/span>kaftor<\/span><\/em>) so that the thresholds (<\/span>sipim<\/span><\/em>) quake, and make an end of the first of them all. And I will slay the last of them with the sword; not one of them shall escape, and not one of them shall survive.\u201d Eliezer of Beaugency explained, concisely, that \u201cevery protrusion of a tool or an edifice is called a <\/span>kaftor<\/span><\/em> (knob?); the question is what was bulging on what to cause what to quake?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi\u2019s interpretation that: \u201cthe <\/span>kaftor<\/span><\/em> is atop the roof,\u201d seems to be at the heart of the JPS translation, \u201ccapitals,\u201d although one is hard-pressed to see how striking the top of a column would cause the threshold to quake. Kara placed the <\/span>kaftor<\/span><\/em> \u201cin the middle of the roof, which could eliminate some of the problem, and Eliezer of Beaugency situated it along the columns themselves and would have the lintel quaking rather than the threshold. Ibn Ezra appeared to have understood it similarly, saying: \u201cIt is customary to place a <\/span>kaftor<\/span><\/em> above an entrance, shaped like an apple, on which the doorposts rest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak summed up the latter interpretation neatly:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sipim<\/em> <\/span>are the two doorposts (<\/span>mezuzot<\/span><\/em>) of the gateway, and the <\/span>kaftor<\/span><\/em> is the lintel above them. It is so-called because it is decorated with knobs and flowers. He instructed him to strike the knob, and from that blow the doorposts would shake.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This interpretation would seem to be behind the King James version of the Bible, which translated this phrase as: \u201c<\/span>Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since Amos prophesied \u201ctwo years before the earthquake\u201d (1:1), which, as we noted there, was traditionally understood as a reference to the earthquake that greeted King Uzziah of Judah when he attempted to offer incense in the Temple, it is most noteworthy that the description of that event recorded by Amos\u2019s contemporary Isaiah reported that \u201cthe doorposts shook\u201d (6:4).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":77656,"alt":"","title":"amos9-vibrate","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate.jpg","width":1920,"height":1293,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-300x202.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":202,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-768x517.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":517,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-1024x690.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":690,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1034,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1293,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-1200x808.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":808,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-624x420.jpg","home_baner-width":624,"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":"The Doorposts Shook","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"From the lintel down to the very threshold","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":77656,"alt":"","title":"amos9-vibrate","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate.jpg","width":1920,"height":1293,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-300x202.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":202,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-768x517.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":517,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-1024x690.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":690,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1034,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1293,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-1200x808.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":808,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos9-vibrate-624x420.jpg","home_baner-width":624,"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":"Amos","chapter":"9","chapter_main_number":"527","date":"20270906","wall_id":"527"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"77659","color":"#e0e9ef","size":"1","name":"Of Sukkot, Clouds, Donkeys - And The Messiah ","post_title":"Of Sukkot, Clouds, Donkeys - And The Messiah","slug":"of-sukkot-clouds-donkeys-and-the-messiah","old_id":"77659","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. 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The Book of Amos ends on a positive note -- the restoration of the Kingdom of David: \u201cIn that day, I will set up again the fallen Sukkah of David\u201d (9:11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse is cited at the beginning of an extensive discussion of when the Messiah will come, ushering in the Messianic Era. According to Talmud Bavli Sanhedrin 96b-98a, Rav Nachman asked Rabbi Yitzchaq: Have you heard when Bar-Nafli will come? Rabbi Yitzchaq asked: Who is Bar Nafli? The Messiah, answered Rav Nachman. Rabbi Yizchaq asked: Why do you call the Messiah Bar Nafli? Rav Nachman replied: Because it is written: \u201cIn that day, I will set up again the fallen Sukkah of David\u201d (\u2018et sukkat David ha-nofelet \u2013 the Messiah will reestablish the \u201cfallen\u201d Davidic dynasty). Rabbi Yitzchaq then said to Rav Nachman: This is what Rabbi Yochanan taught: In the generation in which the son of David will come, the number of Torah scholars will decrease\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yochanan also said: If you see a generation upon which many troubles come, expect the coming of the Messiah\u2026The son of David will come only in a generation that is either altogether righteous or altogether wicked\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yehoshua noted a contradiction between two verses. In one verse it is written: \u201cone like a human being, will come with the clouds of heaven\u201d (Daniel 7:13). While in another verse it is written: \u201cLo, your king is coming to you. He is victorious, triumphant, yet humble, riding on an ass\u201d (Zechariah 9:9). The contradiction is resolved by adding that if Israel are meritorious, the Messiah will come with the clouds of heaven. But if they do not merit it, the Messiah will come riding on an ass. King Shapur of Persia said to the Babylonian Rabbinic Sage Shmuel: You teach that the Messiah will come riding on an ass! I will send him my swiftest horse. Shmuel replied: Do you have a horse of a hundred colors?!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi met the Prophet Elijah standing by the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Rabbi Yehoshua asked him? When will the Messiah come? Elijah replied: Go and ask him.. Rabbi Yehoshua asked: Where would I find him? Elijah replied: At the entrance to Rome. Rabbi Yehoshua asked:\u00a0 And how may I recognize him? Elijah replied: He is one of the lepers. All of them untie and retie their bandages all at once, but the Messiah unties and reties each bandage one at a time, for he says, when my time to come arrives, I must not be delayed. So, Rabbi Yehoshua went and greeted him, saying: Peace be upon thee, Master and Teacher. The Messiah replied: Peace be upon thee, O son of Levi! Rabbi Yehoshua then asked the Messiah his question: When will you come, O Master? The Messiah replied: I will come today! When Rabbi Yehoshua returned to Elijah, the Prophet explained how the Messiah could come today: \u201cToday! If you but hear His voice!\u201d (Psalms 95:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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During the grace after meals on Sukkot, the Festival of Booths, we add an additional line unique to this holiday. On Passover and Pentecost\u00a0 in the thanksgiving section of the grace after meals we simply add the line \"May the All-merciful let us inherit the day which is altogether good.\" However, on Sukkot we also add the line \"May the All-merciful raise up for us the fallen booth (<\/span>sukkah<\/span><\/i>) of David.\" This line comes from the 9th chapter of Amos, verse 11: \" On that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why is the Temple called the booth of David? What is the connection between Sukkot and the return of the kingdom of David and the rebuilding of the Temple?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While Passover may get all the hype as the holiday celebrating freedom from slavery, and one where most Jews gather with family and friends for the seder, these events happen inside the home. Passover is very much a holiday about the Jewish people for the Jewish people. Sukkot is not celebrated indoors. Every fall, with a chill in the air, we set up a booth outside our homes. Anyone who walks by can see this outward symbol of the Jewish people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah reading on Sukkot is about the dedication of the Tabernacle with a series of sacrifices symbolically referencing the nations of the world. As Solomon prays in I Kings 8:41-43, God should hear the prayer of the foreigner who prays at the Temple. That is what Amos says will be rebuilt. This booth of the house of David is not merely an internal symbol for the Jewish people, but also an outward symbol for the entire world of God's presence among His people.\u00a0<\/span><\/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":"The Hut of David","tile_main_caption":"The sukkah outdoors thus is not merely an internal symbol for the Jewish people, but also an outward symbol for the entire world","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","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":"Amos","chapter":"9","chapter_main_number":"527","date":"20270906","wall_id":"527"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":8,"id":"77627","color":"#e6f5f3","size":"1","name":"Stooping To Reward And Punishment ","post_title":"Stooping To Reward And Punishment","slug":"stooping-to-reward-and-punishment","old_id":"77627","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":62571,"post_title":"Yaakov Bieler","slug":"yaakov-bieler","old_id":"62571","first_name":"Yaakov ","last_name":"Bieler ","description":"Rabbi Yaakov Bieler has been involved in Jewish education and the synagogue Rabbinate in New York, NY and Silver Spring, MD since being ordained by Yeshiva University in 1974. He has lectured and written extensively on Modern Orthodoxy, and blogs daily at https:\/\/yaakovbieler.wordpress.com ","short_description":"Rabbi Yaakov Bieler has been involved in Jewish education and the synagogue Rabbinate in New York, NY and Silver Spring, MD since being ordained by Yeshiva University. ","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":62572,"alt":"","title":"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler.jpg","width":141,"height":180,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler-141x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":141,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler.jpg","medium-width":141,"medium-height":180,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler.jpg","medium_large-width":141,"medium_large-height":180,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler.jpg","large-width":141,"large-height":180,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler.jpg","1536x1536-width":141,"1536x1536-height":180,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler.jpg","2048x2048-width":141,"2048x2048-height":180,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler.jpg","post_full_size-width":141,"post_full_size-height":180,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yaakov-bieler.jpg","home_baner-width":141,"home_baner-height":180}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"527","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"The prophet stops at nothing\u00a0\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

In Chapter 9, Amos mentions how those whom God has targeted as evildoers will adopt two divergent strategies when they realize \u201cit is time to pay the piper.\u201d Some will engage in a futile attempt to escape and hide from punishment, (v. 1-4.) The geographic extremes to which such individuals will unsuccessfully go, are reminiscent of verses in Deuteronomy that describe how God\u2019s Torah is very \u201caccessible\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Deuteronomy 30<\/span><\/p>\r\n

12 <\/b>It (<\/span>the Torah<\/span><\/i>) is not in the heavens, that you should say, \u201cWho among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us...?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

13 <\/b>Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, \u201cWho among us can cross to the other side of the sea and get it for us...<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Amos 9<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2<\/b> ...[I]f they ascend to heaven, from there I will bring them down.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n

3 <\/b>[I]f they conceal themselves from My sight At the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n


\r\n<\/span>Others, instead of fleeing, will engage in denial, again reminiscent of a portion of Deuteronomy describing individuals who believe that they will be able to blithely stare punishment in the face and emerge unharmed \u201con the other side\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Deuteronomy 29<\/span><\/p>\r\n

17 <\/b>Perchance there is among you some man or woman, or some clan or tribe, whose heart is even now turning away from the LORD our God...<\/span>18 <\/b>When such a one hears the words of these sanctions, he may fancy himself immune, thinking, \u201cI shall be safe, though I follow my own willful heart\u201d\u2014to the utter ruin of moist and dry alike. <\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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Amos 9<\/span><\/p>\r\n

10<\/b> All the sinners of My people shall perish by the sword, who boast, \u201cNever shall the evil overtake us or come near us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While invoking the dynamic of \u201creward and punishment\u201d is hardly a religious ideal, since in order to encourage group conformity with spiritual expectations, one is promoting a blatantly ulterior motive rather than idealist compliance, the prophet apparently stops at nothing in order to advance his program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps he hopes that the Rabbinic dictum stated in Pesachim 50b: \u201cRav Yehuda said that Rav said: A person should always engage in Torah study and performance of the Commandments, even if he does so not for their own sake, as through the performance of Commandments not for their own sake, one gains understanding and comes to perform them for their own sake\u201d will ultimately come to pass, and therefore states that God sees fit to guarantee the Jewish people\u2019s ultimate preservation: <\/span>\u201c<\/b>I will not wholly wipe out the house of Jacob \u2014declares the LORD. 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9:7 \u201c\u2018Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O Israelites? Said the LORD. Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Crete and Aram from Kir?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Cushites are the Nubians, perhaps invoked here because as black Africans, they would seem to be an ultimate other to the Israelites (a presence of individual Nubians among the Israelites is attested to in several biblical narratives, with no suggestion of racial prejudice). The idea, then, is that God oversees all nations and peoples, however different they might seem from Israel. But from what follows in the next line of poetry, one would expect a mention of God\u2019s having brought the Cushites to Nubia from another land, and that is absent.\u00a0<\/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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  1. Quaking revelation<\/em>. Just like Isaiah\u2019s prophecy from 187 chapters ago (Is. 6), the divine revelation causes a great trembling, \u201cthe thresholds quake\u201d (verse 1). Perhaps this is the earthquake that was mentioned in Amos\u2019s dateline, who began to prophesy \u201ctwo years before the earthquake\u201d (Amos 1:2).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Local record<\/em>. The highest place in the kingdom of Israel is\u2026 the Carmel. See verse 3.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Between the kingdom and the people<\/em>. Amos prophesies about the downfall of the kingdom, but not about the destruction of the people. Note the fine distinction in verse 8: \u201cBehold, the Lord GOD has His eye Upon the sinful kingdom: I will wipe it off The face of the earth! But, I will not wholly wipe out The House of Jacob \u2014declares the LORD.\u201d And also the imagery of verse 9 - being exiled is likened to being shaken in a sieve. It\u2019s a massive upheaval, but it preserves the seeds...<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. David\u2019s Sukkah.<\/em> What is a consolation regarding the House of David (the kingdom of Judah) as the conclusion to a book that focused on reproofs and prophecies of destruction for the kingdom of Israel? Commentators and scholars suggest different answers - check them out.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. For dessert<\/em>. 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    \u201cGentiles (a.k.a. \u201cThe Nations\u201d) in Tanakh<\/a>\u201d by Jonathan Lasko: A look at the different nations which appear in the Bible and how they are viewed.<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cTorah vs. Racism\u201d<\/a> by Eli Garfinkle: The ways in which the Torah teaches equality.<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cFallen Sukkah\u201d<\/a> by Rabbi Elana Zelony: A deep dive into the term \u201cthe Fallen Sukkah of David.\u201d<\/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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Amos 9","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"Amos","chapter":"9","chapter_main_number":"527","date":"20270906","wall_id":"527"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":"","link_teaser":"","listen_link":"","other_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/77113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}