![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Boldly forward, only that way leads to the heights" resounds from the mouths of the others, and "My People" who had systematically been kept in ignorance of the Torah throughout generations, they stand in doubt in the middle, do not know whom to believe, do not know where in truth the direction to the heights lies. "Back, ye stand at the edge of the abyss”, cry the prophets of God. What the prophets of God designate as a return to God and thereby to Truth and salvation, the leaders and the priests of Baal call a "backsliding" into the old slavery in the chains of the Torah. Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch - Commentary on the Haftoroth 11:7 Rav Hirsch translates the second half of verse 7, “and they call out to the ‘heights’, but there is no union in what are ‘the heights’”. The people are baffled, disoriented, wavering on where to turn. It is a tough message to hear, difficult to internalize. Some suggest this refers to the failure of their political strategies in conjunction with their moral failings of serving other gods and abandoning the worship of God (Metzudot/Abarbanel). The prophet prompts them to connect the destruction to their own failings in strategy. Their branches, either referring to the bars of the gates, their mighty warriors (Metzudot), or their villages (Radak) are destroyed. And my nation wavers whether to return to me, and to above they call, together they are not uplifted. ![]()
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