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In the Bible: Hosea - The Strange Tale of a Prophet and His Wife

The Faith to Repent, Reconcile and Begin Again

Nov 09, 2000

Professor Wiesel examines the bizarre story of Hosea, tasked by God to wed a prostitute. He explains that Hosea was the first prophet to speak of the relationship between God and the people of Israel as a marriage. Hosea was ordered to replicate in his private life how the people of Israel were treating God in public. Professor Wiesel locates the key to this tale in the word teshuva. Hosea and his wife are reconciled, as are God and Israel. Professor Wiesel teaches us that in Jewish history, no breakup is eternal and that the words we recite every weekday morning of God’s promise to Israel “And I shall betroth thee forever” come from Hosea’s book.

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Every one of them [the biblical prophets] was involved in the stormy events of our people, whose faith they tried to shake by orienting it towards redemption. (00:06:00)

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The principal goal of our common endeavor - it is simply, as always, to celebrate the Jewish passion for learning by illustrating the beauty of its quest for meaning and truth. (00:07:00)

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To enter a text is to be warmed by its ancient flame. (00:07:00)

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So cherished is the scholar in our tradition that his pupil is duty-bound to ransom him before his father. Unless the father is a teacher, his teacher. (00:09:00)

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If the voice brings you back to yourself, it is not God’s. It is God’s only if and when it brings you closer to your fellow human being. (00:14:00)

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He [the prophet] is inevitably persecuted either by heaven or by the people. And he’s never satisfied, rewarded, at peace with himself and his social environment. (00:18:00)

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A Jewish monarchy is not something to boast about. It’s enough to read what the prophets say about it to measure the magnitude of its moral decline. (00:23:00)

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And it [the relationship of God and Israel] is the story of a wedding, of a marriage. It took place at Sinai, and the Torah was and remains the marriage contract, the Ketubah. (00:26:00)

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It is no accident that that particular chapter of Hosea, Shuvah Yisrael, Repent Israel, is read in the synagogues on the Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Shabbat Shuvah. (00:42:00)

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[God to Hosea] “Rather than plead for yourself, why not plead for Israel?” That is how Hosea, the prophet of anger, became the defender of his people, and ours. (00:51:00)

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Books:

Wise Men and Their Tales

Subthemes:

1) The Unenviable Nature of the Biblical Prophet
2) Hosea’s Prostitute Wife
3) The Symbolic Names of Hosea’s Children
4) Repudiation of God’s Laws in Judea and Samaria C. 750 BCE
5) Joy and Memory Through Study
6) God’s Logic
7) Obedience of the Reluctant Prophet
8) From Rebuke and Harsh Premonitions to Teshuvah and Redemption in Hosea’s Prophecies
9) Hosea’s Prostitute Wife – Fact, Fantasy or Parable?
10) The Long Life of the Prophet Hosea
11) Relationship of God and Israel // Husband and Wife
12) The Key to Hosea’s Message - Relationship of God and Israel: Arasti li l’olam – I will be betrothed to you forever
13) Symbolic Names of Hosea’s Wife and Children

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Names:

Hosea – son of Be’eri King Uzziah King Yotam King Ahaz King Hizkiyahu King Jeroboam Ezekiel Isaiah Jeremiah Amos Haninah ben Teradion Rashi Abraham ibn Ezra Hitler Abraham Isaac Jacob King Zachariah King David King Solomon Maimonides Freud Don Yitzhak Avravanel Rav Shmuel Gomer – wife of Hosea Yezreel Lo-Ruhama Lo-Ami – children of Hosea Rabbi Yochanan Noach Moses Rabbi Eleazar ha-Kappar

Key Words:

Talmud Midrash Twelve Minor Prophets Torah Middle Ages Kristall Night Pogrom idolatry Teshuvah Seder HaDoroth - the Book of Generations lapsus – slip of the tongue Tractate Pesachim

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