The Book of Obadiah is the fourth book of the Trei-Asar, the 12 prophets who are grouped together because of their brief books – Obadiah being the briefest, with one chapter of 21 verses. His prophecy focuses on the eventual downfall of the neighboring kingdom of Edom, who were complicit in the destruction of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n","static_cube_color":"","updates_last_update":"19\/04\/2020","posts":[{"order":1,"id":"75925","color":"#f8ebe3","size":"1","name":"Introduction To The \"Trei-Asar\" (The 12 Latter Prophets) ","post_title":"Introduction To The \"Trei-Asar\" (The 12 Latter Prophets)","slug":"introduction-to-the-trei-asar-the-12-latter-prophets","old_id":"75925","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":"501","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Small only in the size of their books\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"
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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We were briefly introduced to Obadiah in the Book of Kings 1, when the evil King Ahab and his degenerate queen Jezebel sought to destroy prophecy. They thought they\u2019d been successful in their mission by murdering all the living prophets with the exception of Elijah, who they managed to lose track of. But in fact, their housemaster Obadiah had taken it upon himself to personally save 100 prophets, hiding them in caves and keeping them fed and protected from harm.<\/span><\/p>\r\n When Elijah asked Obadiah to announce to Ahab that he was returning from hiding, Obadiah risked reprisal from Ahab to unequivocally demonstrate his allegiance with no hint at dual loyalty. Obadiah, in both rescuing the prophets and facing down Ahab, knew where and for what he stood, and decisively acted on his convictions. For this, Obadiah merited having his prophecy of Edom\u2019s destruction canonized in the Tanach.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Our sages relate three reasons that the biblical nation of Edom, the descendants of Abraham\u2019s son Esau and ancestors of the Roman empire, deserve to be destroyed. When the Babylonian\u2019s came to destroy the First Temple in Jerusalem in the 6<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE, the Edomites stood back and offered no assistance to their supposed brother-nation of Israel. Though perhaps they didn\u2019t side with the Babylonians, they also stood idly by and didn\u2019t stand up to support the victims. They descended from complacency to complicity when they later helped the Babylonians loot Jerusalem, rejoiced at its destruction and blocked the way of the refugees trying to escape. Ultimately, 500 years later, the next iteration of Edom, the Roman empire, wasn\u2019t just the complicit sidekick but the leading aggressor in the destruction of the Second Temple and the exile from which we have yet to recover.<\/span><\/p>\r\n The example of the Edomites who came from the most righteous of stock and devolved through the stages of complacent to complicit to antagonist is perhaps an object lesson for all nations. And Obadiah is the example of good citizenship. Standing by and doing nothing while evil is being perpetrated around you is standing at the top of a precipitous slippery slope. Obadiah exemplifies the ideal \u2013 know what you stand for, act decisively to defend and protect others, with no apology and no delusion about dual loyalties.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Evil <\/span>will<\/span><\/i> fail. 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All the nations that stood against Jerusalem will share Edom's fate - however, his singling out of Edom is crucial. Rabbinic thought has succinctly encapsulated the tricky relationship between the Jewish people and Edom in a well-known Midrash that describes the reunion of Esau and Jacob after decades of separation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n And Esau ran toward him [Jacob] and embraced him, and he fell on his neck, and he kissed him, and they wept (Genesis 33:4). \"<\/span>And he kissed him<\/span><\/em>\" is dotted (in the Torah, there is a dot over each letter) because he did not kiss him sincerely. R\u2019 Shimon bar Yochai said: It is a known principle of law (<\/span>halacha<\/span><\/em>) that Esau hates Jacob, but at that moment, he kissed him with all of his heart.<\/span><\/p>\r\n For many, Esau's attitude reflects the attitude of the other nations to the Jewish people in general. As Rabbi Moshe Lichtenstein has noted, rabbinic thought identified Edom with the Roman Empire. However, this identification was one-directional:<\/span><\/p>\r\n Pagan Rome never had any pretensions about a special relationship with Israel, but rather it viewed Israel as a nation like all others \u2026 their attitude towards us was not one of competition or rejoicing over our misfortune \u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n However, history intervened, and suddenly a new entity appeared, who appeared to fit the criterion of Edom perfectly:<\/span><\/p>\r\n However, the ascendancy of Christian Rome replaced this model with an entirely different one. Christianity claims to have replaced Israel and finds itself in constant competition with it. Its attitude toward us is one of happiness over our misfortune and the pretension of having replaced us as the chosen people who received special blessings\u2026 Christianity is Edom, who claims to have inherited Israel's role and no longer recognizes Israel as the chosen people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n For many, the past two millennia of exile in Christian Europe were full of animosity and misery. To them, Obadiah's vision of a future in which the \u201cEdoms\u201d of the world will be decimated, Mount Seir destroyed, and Mount Zion raised, was a source of comfort and hope.<\/span><\/p>\r\n We can understand Obadiah differently, however. The Midrash stated \"It is <\/span>halacha<\/span><\/em> that Esau hates Jacob\" \u2013 yet no law commands that Jacob hate Esau. The animosity is not inevitable. The rabbis understood that even Edom was worthy of respect and dignity:<\/span><\/p>\r\n Although the prophecy here declares, \"There shall be no remnant of the house of Esau\" (1:18), Rabbi (TB Avoda Zara 10b) interprets this as follows: \"(This applies to) those who act like Esau.\" This implies that an Edomite may still be redeemed from the fate of Esau. If he abandons the tradition of evil, then he no longer belongs to Esau's descendants. 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Edom has failed to act as a brother to Israel in Israel\u2019s time of distress, and this will be revisited upon the nation. It is interesting that Edom\u2019s role draws so much focus; it is not one of the mega-powers of the era, such as Assyria and Babylonia, who are denounced for their overwhelming misuse of power. Rather, it is a small neighboring state who has betrayed us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n One of the charming elements of this most minor of prophetic books is Obadiah\u2019s puns. Two of the major cities of Edom turn up as puns: in verse 3, \u2018you who dwell in clefts of the rock,\u00a0<\/span>sela<\/span><\/em>\u2019, is a reference to the city Sela; in verse 3, \u2018if vintagers came to you,\u2019\u00a0<\/span>botzrim,<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is a reference to the Edomite city Botzrah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Alongside these puns, we see a play on Edom as a mountainous land with their arrogant, lofty views. 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\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/span> You who dwell in clefts of the rock.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> In your lofty abode, you think in your heart,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> \u201cWho can pull me down to earth?\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Should you nest as high as the eagle,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Should your eyrie be lodged among the stars,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Even from there I will pull you down,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> declares the Eternal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n