Friday, March 11, 2011
Navi Class and Some Random Thoughts
Ok. So in Navi we have been talking about the three or possibly four sons Yeshayahu has and will have who are named certain names as a sign to Achaz and also to the nation. They will be two different kinds of signs: a sign of what will happen, and a reminder to Achaz of something because whenever he will say their name he will be saying what HaShem and Yeshayahu want him to know and understand. Like with Sha'ar Yashuv, his name means "the remainder will return" the implication of this though, is that the nation would have to leave in the first place, and some of them would have to perish for there to be a remainder who would return.
Also, a sort of random thought, but I think there may be a connection between the Navi saying that Immanuel would be eating butter and honey and the fact that the land of Eretz Yisrael is referred to as the "land flowing with milk and honey". (I can't take full credit for this, as Emma helped me come up with the part about the butter from milk part below.) When we talk about the land flowing with milk and honey, some people say that the honey is referring to date honey. Also, butter comes from milk. So regardless of whether the honey is date honey or bees' honey, it seems like there is a connection between Immanuel eating butter and honey and Eretx Yisrael being referred to as the "land flowing with milk and honey". Maybe this is a reference to/ emphasis on the fact that we will for sure get the land of Israel back to keep forever.
Ok! Let me know what you think!
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That's an interesting approach. I think of it as honey being sweet- G-d will always save us and milk can get bad when it is spoiled so G-d will always redeem us after a time of bad or on the other hand that we can't handle do much of good times (from history we see that we aways go bad after we have a long period of good) so that maybe He is predicting that maybe G-d knows already that we always cause bad times when we have too much of a good time.
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That makes a lot of sense, actually. At first, I also agreed with your assessment of the honey about it being sweet. I can see where you're coming from with your point, but at first I thought of the butter/ milk as good. In all the books I've read about life a long time ago, it said that milk and butter were luxuries not afforded to most people. It was very expensive to own a cow, much less having to feed it or having enough time to churn the milk into butter. Of course, now after we learned that the butter and honey was bad because that is all the nation had available to them for food, we know that neither of them were good. I can see your point though, and in another context, I think that that would be pretty correct.
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