Perek ט- This Perek talks about the destruction of Shomron. Why? Isn't Yeshayahu talking to the people of Yehuda? Yeshayahu is describing the destruction of Shomron so that the people of Yehuda can see that sins get you destroyed. The people of Shomron also had pride and arrogance stemming from their hubris, and as punishment the nations surrounding Shomron will attack.
First there was a warning, the people didn't listen, so now the leaders will be attacked- the leaders and false prophets, who cause the people to sin. But everyone will be subject to G-d's anger, everyone is doing wrong. They will be treated as a nation, and no one will be spared- there is no running away.
Yeshayahu emphasizes tzedek and mishpat to show the people of Yehuda that Shomron lacked tzedek and mishpat, and they were destroyed, and you (yehuda) lack tzedek and mishpat, so you will be destroyed as well. there is potential punishment.
Perek י- This perek is addressed to the people of Ashur, but the audience is the Jews. To Ashur the message is: Yes, Ashur, you're powerful, but through G-d. You are His rod of anger. His tool. After Shomron, Yehuda is next... This Perek shows that Hashem is in control, a message for both Ashur and Yehuda.
After that we zoomed through to perek Lamed Vav! The other prakim were messages for nations of the world, and as the year is kind of almost over we must stay with out story!
Well, if anyone wants to add something I missed or comment on how the people of yehuda seem not to get the message.... other than Chezkiyahu!
First there was a warning, the people didn't listen, so now the leaders will be attacked- the leaders and false prophets, who cause the people to sin. But everyone will be subject to G-d's anger, everyone is doing wrong. They will be treated as a nation, and no one will be spared- there is no running away.
Yeshayahu emphasizes tzedek and mishpat to show the people of Yehuda that Shomron lacked tzedek and mishpat, and they were destroyed, and you (yehuda) lack tzedek and mishpat, so you will be destroyed as well. there is potential punishment.
Perek י- This perek is addressed to the people of Ashur, but the audience is the Jews. To Ashur the message is: Yes, Ashur, you're powerful, but through G-d. You are His rod of anger. His tool. After Shomron, Yehuda is next... This Perek shows that Hashem is in control, a message for both Ashur and Yehuda.
After that we zoomed through to perek Lamed Vav! The other prakim were messages for nations of the world, and as the year is kind of almost over we must stay with out story!
Well, if anyone wants to add something I missed or comment on how the people of yehuda seem not to get the message.... other than Chezkiyahu!
I just want to say that I think it was very smart of God to speak to the people of Yehuda about Shomron to show them how they shouldn't act. I think Yehuda was lucky since they had an example of something they shouldn't do, or else they would be punished.
ReplyDeleteAbout perek yud: I still don't fully like the idea of God showing Ashur that he is in control and that Ashur is a puppet of God because first of all, if I were an emperor I would also be proud of things I did and wouldn't go walking around saying it is all God, since I contriubuted too. I would like to believe that I change and have an effect on things too, and this seems to show that it is possible that we are puppets of God. I don't like that very much since then the whole idea on free will and improving yourself and the world you live in, is not really true since God controls you anyway...
ReplyDeleteI feel like we've been arguing about the whole puppets of G-d, not having control over ourselves issue for a long time. I don't think that there is any one answer that will satisfy everyone, but I know that we have come up with many options. I don't think that when we give HaShem credit for something we are saying that we did not do anything to help it come about. It's a joint effort. HaShem tries not to interfere with our lives and decisions for the most part, but things need to happen and though we do the physical actions needed for that to happen, it's really HaShem who gives us the tools we need to do it so He gets the credit. He can do anything without our help, but we can't do a single thing without His.
ReplyDeleteThat was nicely said, and I agree with some points that you made. I think it's sometimes very difficult though to give him credit for everything if we worked so hard to achieve something. I think it's weird how God gets mad when we don't only always recognize him, do for him, worship him.. I feel like since he is God he's supposed to understand that it might not always be about God but that humans need that self appreciation too especially since it can get very difficult to remember.
ReplyDeletei concur with both statements. i agree with what you said mirel, but thats a very far fetched notion. people arent like that. human nature isnt like that. and G-d is the one who made us how we are...
ReplyDeletesharon i agree that is it difficult.
oh, and about ashur being a puppet, and you saying if you were an emperor you'd be proud too- i would be too but i think its more the fact that you shouldnt be rude about it...
In what way was Ashur rude about it?
ReplyDeleteI don't think God made us who we are, but we make of ourselfs what we are by our decisions and our beliefs in life.
Well when we learned about Assyria with Dr. kennon they weren't nice. maybe what i mean to say is they shoudln't have acted like tyrants... which is cool you know, i mean, it is a huge accomplishment to overthrow an empire, take control, and then conquer more land. but we learned that they made people slaves and everything and caused rebellions.. something like that. anyways they were just not so nice.
ReplyDeleteoh, and about your last statement: i didn't mean G-d makes us decide that we want to grow up like this and live like that, and dress like this and that. i believe it's up to us. i meant, G-d makes human nature. just like G-d made cats these cute little creatures who just do stalk birds and mice. who knows why? that's just their nature- tense stalk and pounce. likewise, for some reason we always want people to notice us, we always want love, and sometimes we're a bit selfish. we just tend to be that way
i understand the point you made Zahava and that could be very possible.
ReplyDeleteThen my question is, how do we know what are true nature is and how we are supposed to live it? Maybe it is right that we have to humanly attributes.
hmm
ReplyDeletei have no idea.
but while we do have humanly attributes, we're also supposed to get over the faults that we have?