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Much of Amos's prophecy rails against the well-heeled and indulgent, who \"are not concerned about the food\/ruin (<\/span>shever<\/span><\/em>) of Joseph\u201d (6:6). Yet in Amos\u2019s climactic prophecy, he shifts his focus from the starving poor to spiritual nourishment: \u201cA time is coming\u2014declares my Lord GOD\u2014when I will send a famine upon the land: not a hunger for bread or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the LORD\u201d (8:11).\u00a0 Amos\u2019 shift is shocking: how can he worry about the spirit when the poor are being crushed by debt and lack their daily bread?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This dilemma is strikingly resonant now.\u00a0 Alongside the tragic loss of life, COVID-19 has blazed a trail of economic destruction.\u00a0 Yet in its wake, this pandemic has also unleashed a storm of intellectual content-- Zoom conferences, webinars, podcasts, and more. It is clear that this wave of content is meeting a groundswell of demand. One example: the Pardes Institute where I teach has had hundreds join weekly virtual classes, our summer program has unprecedented participation, and applications for the fall are pouring in. The Jewish world is clearly thirsty for Torah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And yet, what about the economic distress and physical want? Rabbi Yisrael Salanter\u2019s (1810-1883) critique is relevant: we worry too much about our own stomachs and other people\u2019s souls, rather than worrying about other people\u2019s stomachs and our souls. In addition to demanding that our governments provide relief, we can heed Jewish law\u2019s call that a person give <\/span>tzedakah<\/span><\/i> to the extent possible (Shulchan Arukh YD 249:1). Rabbi Moses Isserles (1530-1572) even adds that <\/span>tzedakah<\/span><\/i> not be used \u201cfor anything else like candles for the synagogue, etc. It should be given to the poor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, the community should buckle down on the luxuries of the spirit for everyone to be able to provide their basic needs in these tough times. Each of us who possibly can should give more, perhaps with some of our sadly unused entertainment or vacation budgets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Jewish community, however, is also stepping up to relieve the thirst of which Amos speaks. The Pardes Institute is offering major scholarships including living stipends to eligible students to spend the coming year studying Torah in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg (1215-1293) helped relieve the spiritual thirst of which Amos speaks. He permitted using a portion of one\u2019s <\/span>tzedakah<\/span><\/i> for books (as long as they are lent to others). More recently, Rabbi Eliezer Waldenburg (1915-2006, Tzitz Eliezer 706:2) justified this for we must provide \u201cwhatever is lacking to the poor person\u201d (Deut. 15:8). Spiritual nourishment is no less important than physical nourishment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Given the contemporary crisis of meaning, it is not surprising that the Jewish world is crying out for spiritual nourishment. We still must also provide physical nourishment. 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In this series on economic inequality in the book of Amos, we\u2019ve seen how officials, judges and priests are all implicated in the plight of the poor. Today\u2019s chapter brings together these ideas in a striking text when the prophet describes the schemes of the rich to increase their wealth:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cListen to this, you who devour the needy, annihilating the poor of the land, saying, 'If only the new moon were over, so that we could sell grain; the sabbath, so that we could offer wheat for sale, using an ephah that is small, and a shekel that is big, tilting a dishonest scale, and selling grain refuse as grain!\u2026'\u201d (verses 4-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For Ibn Ezra, this is a statement of the storehouse administrators. They wish for a famine so they can sell stored food for more money. He notes that in time of famine, food sellers will benefit from an increase in prices.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The plain meaning of the Hebrew <\/span>matai ya'avor hachodesh<\/span><\/em> is that the speaker is eager for the New Moon to be over \u2013a day of rest where commerce was not allowed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, Malbim reads the verb <\/span>ya'avor<\/em> <\/span>as though it is \u2018to make <\/span>me'ubar<\/span><\/em>\u2013 i.e., to make a leap year. These speakers hope the court will extend the calendar year with a leap month. Why? Because the new grain cannot be eaten until after the Omer is offered on the second night of Pesach, so extending the calendar year would mean that the current grain would have to last an additional month. Here, too, prices would increase, benefiting the rich landowners and administrators.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim also reads the word \u201cthe Sabbath\u201d as referring to the Sabbatical year. During the sabbatical year, the ordinary working people don\u2019t till their fields. They go to storehouses to purchase food, says Malbim. There, they can be sold small quantities for large amounts of money, with dishonest measurements.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In 2:10, we saw reference to God taking the Jews from Egypt through the desert for 40 years. God\u2019s goal \u2013 to create a nation of people loyal to God\u2019s laws and compassionate to strangers and the subservient \u2013 should have been realized during that time of embryonic national development. The agricultural, legal and religious systems set up were designed to protect the weak (as much as possible in the Ancient Near East). Courts, holidays, sabbatical years: all of these should be creating a more just and equal society. Instead, the privileged have begun to hope for famine and hunger so as to line their own pockets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It's clear overall, that the prophet does not object to wealth itself. Societies need judges, priests, administrators and landowners. If they become wealthy at the expense of the poor, if they use their positions to push others down, rather than lifting them up \u2013 it is then that their wealth and power are illegitimate. As a result, God swears, \"I will never forget any of their doings.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Reading the second verse of the chapter in English is puzzling. In the New JPS translation, Amos reports that he sees \u201cA basket of figs,\u201d and God then tells him \u201cThe hour of doom has come for My people Israel; I will not pardon them again\u201d (Amos 8:2). More literally, the prophet sees \u201csummer fruit\u201d and God announces the people\u2019s impending \u201cend.\u201d On a technical level, this is a word play, revolving around the similarity in the sound of the words \u201csummer,\u201d <\/span>kayitz<\/span><\/i>, and \u201cend,\u201d <\/span>ketz<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But I think something more is happening here. Beyond the phonetic similarity, the visual contrast between juicy, ripe fruit and the approaching disaster is stark. And yet it is strangely appropriate, echoing the bounty enjoyed by the wealthy and the contrasting poverty of their depleted neighbors. Amos scathingly describes prosperous merchants waiting impatiently for the markets to reopen at the end of Shabbat or the New Moon festival. They would not consider violating the strictures of the day, but openly disclose their eagerness to exploit their poor customers, using undersize containers to measure out poor quality grain, and oversize weights when receiving payment. Someone could be impoverished just by virtue of being their customers. It\u2019s hard to make ends meet when the market is run by cheats.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God cares about this, immensely, and Amos knows it. These verses are the first that Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel quotes in <\/span>The Prophets<\/span><\/em>, as paradigmatic acts \u201cthat horrified the prophets\u201d that \u201ceven now [are] daily occurrences all over the world.\u201d It matters not how small the infraction, for \u201ca single act of injustice\u2013cheating in business, exploitation of the poor\u201d is nothing less than a disaster for the prophets. (1962 JPS edition, pp. 3-4). Amos\u2019s eyes see the basket of figs, the bounty present here-and-now, but \u201cwhat the prophet\u2019s ear perceives is the word of God\u201d and he knows that God is indeed concerned with \u201cthe affairs of the marketplace\u201d (Heschel p. 364).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to Jewish tradition, prophecy ended with Malachi (coming to 929 on Sept. 10). None of us are prophets. We cannot hear what Amos heard. 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In the 4th chapter of Amos, the prophet speaks of the standard triumvirate of punishments- pestilence, famine, and war. 4:9 \"I have smitten your crops with wind blasts and withering...\" 4:10 \"I have sent you pestilence on the way to Egypt,\" and \"I have killed your youths by the sword.\" In Samuel II:24, God, through the prophet Gad, offers King David a choice between these three punishments. David chooses pestilence, as that comes from God, who shows mercy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now the nation will have to endure all three. Famine is the external mover of people: when famine hits, people must move to survive. Plague, on the other hand, traps people in quarantined houses and isolates them from others (as we know only all too well). Finally the sword brings forth a foreign enemy to mete justice on its own terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But in chapter 8 of Amos, the prophet focuses on the first punishment- famine. 8:11 \"behold the day is coming says God that I will send forth a famine in the land, but not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but a hunger for the word of God.\"\u00a0 Instead of traveling around searching for food elsewhere, the people will return to the land with a hunger for God. What was once a means of exile will now be a mode of redemption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(This post is in memory of Great Zayde Mendel Trachtman who had a hunger for the words of Torah, and had a front row seat at our shul\u2019s 929 shiurim).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":77557,"alt":"","title":"amos8-hunger","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger.jpg","width":1920,"height":1317,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-300x206.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":206,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-768x527.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":527,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-1024x702.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":702,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1054,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1317,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-1200x823.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":823,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-612x420.jpg","home_baner-width":612,"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":"A Redemptive Hunger","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The same can\u2019t be said for plague or war","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":77557,"alt":"","title":"amos8-hunger","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger.jpg","width":1920,"height":1317,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-300x206.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":206,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-768x527.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":527,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-1024x702.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":702,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1054,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1317,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-1200x823.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":823,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/amos8-hunger-612x420.jpg","home_baner-width":612,"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":"8","chapter_main_number":"526","date":"20270905","wall_id":"526"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"77559","color":"#faeed8","size":"2","name":"A Famine - But Not For Bread ","post_title":"A Famine - But Not For Bread","slug":"a-famine-but-not-for-bread","old_id":"77559","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. 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The beginning of our chapter is a continuation of the previous one. 8:1-3, the basket of summer fruit, belongs together with three previous sections that are all visions of impending doom: 7:1-3 foreseeing locusts; 7:4-6, fire; and 7:7-8, the plumb line.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

8:4-10 then consists of another description of misconduct and its consequences. Verse 11 of this chapter marks the beginning of the end of the Book of Amos, continuing through Chapter 9, and comprises five subdivisions: the disappearance of prophecy and nullification of idolatry (8:11-14), the destruction of the Temple (9:1-4), praise to God (9:5-6), destruction of the monarchy (9:7-12), and the promise of future restoration (9:12-15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The disappearance of prophecy harks back to the outstanding portion of Chapter 7, vs. 10-17, during which Amaziah had cautioned Amos, \u201cDo not prophesy to Israel and do not lecture the House of Isaac\u201d (7:15). Now, the prophet retorted by saying that the days will come when there will be a hunger and thirst in the land \u201cto hear the words of the Lord\u201d (11). However, as much as \u201cthe people will wander from sea to sea and from north to east\u201d in search of it, \u201cthey will not find it\u201d (12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The term \u201csend (<\/span>vehishlachti<\/span><\/em>)\u201d (11) used to forecast the hunger and thirst is notable linguistically. Ordinarily, the verb <\/span>sh-l-ch<\/span><\/em>, to send, is used in the Pi`el<\/em> (<\/span>shilachti<\/span><\/em>); the use of the Hiph`il<\/em> form occurs only two other times in Tanakh: once to predict a horde of wild animals (Leviticus 26:42) and once to portend another famine (Ezekiel 14:13). The (metaphorical) use of famine and thirst are consistent with the equation of the word of God to food (Jeremiah 15:16) and to refreshing drink (Deut. 32:2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Assuming that the intention of v.12 is to indicate that the people will go futilely in all directions seeking the word of God, and yet only north and east are mentioned explicitly, would suggest that \u201cfrom sea to sea\u201d implies the remaining two cardinal directions, south and west. It calls to mind one of the earliest delineations of the boundaries of the Land of Israel as extending \u201cfrom the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines\u201d (Exodus 23:31), which are situated in those two directions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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8:12 \u201c\u2018On that day the lovely virgins shall faint and the young men, too, with thirst.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These are young people in their prime, and the pride and joy of the nation. If even they faint away, one may infer that elders and children will scarcely be able to withstand the distress of this famine for the word of the LORD. Thus the idea of such a famine is made vividly concrete because people grow faint and perish, as if they were deprived of actual food and water.\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. Institutionalized injustice.<\/em> Widespread deception in weights and measures hints at a rotten system: \u201cwe could offer wheat for sale, using an ephah that is too small, and a shekel that is too big, tilting a dishonest scale\u201d (verse 5).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The poor for the price of shoes<\/em>. Selling the poor into slavery for minor debts, sums as small as the price of shoes, was part of Amos\u2019s first indictment of the people in chapter 2. Verse 6 returns to this accusation regarding the prevalence of slavery in the kingdom.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The soundtrack of the destruction<\/em>. You can find it in verse 3: \u201cAnd the singing women of the palace shall howl on that day\u2014declares my Lord GOD: So many corpses Left lying everywhere! Hush!\u201d\u00a0 - The singing becomes a keening howl, that becomes the silence of grief.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. From admonition to aspiration<\/em>. The searching and the spiritual thirst \u201cto hear the words of the LORD (verses 11-12) was, according to the context, part of the punishment. But in subsequent generations, the awakening of spiritual searching has been seen as good news, and the beginning of repentance, and <\/span>tikkun<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Wonky compass<\/em>. In the orienteering of the search for the divine word, there\u2019s a bit of a problem. The hunt goes on \u201cfrom sea to sea\u201d (west, the Mediterranean, and east, the Dead Sea) and from \u201cnorth to east\u201d (verse 12). What happened to south? Is it perhaps because to the south of the Northern Kingodm lies Judah, which is Amos\u2019s home, and there one can find God\u2019s word?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. The 4th Temple<\/em>. In previous chapters, we heard about the temple at Beit El, at Gilgal and at Beer Sheva. In verse 14, we read about a temple at Dan, and the fate of those who swear by it: \u201cSaying, \u201cAs your god lives, Dan.\u201d 228 chapters ago (I Kings 12) we read how Jeroboam son of Nevat founded the kingdom of Israel, and put up a golden calf at Dan. 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