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Yona was the most successful 'prophet' because the destruction he
> > prophesied did NOT take place, it was prevented by people listening
> to his
> > message; nevuah is not 'propehcy' = 'prediction of the future' as in
> English
> > but rather is a special level of connection to God.
> > But what about: וְכִי תֹאמַר, בִּלְבָבֶךָ: אֵיכָה נֵדַע אֶת-הַדָּבָר,
> > אֲשֶׁר לֹא-דִבְּרוֹ ה ... כב אֲשֶׁר יְדַבֵּר הַנָּבִיא בְּשֵׁמִ ה …,
> > וְלֹא-יִהְיֶה הַדָּבָר וְלֹא יָבֹא--הוּא הַדָּבָר, אֲשֶׁר לֹא-דִבְּרוֹ.ה:
> > בְּזָדוֹן דִּבְּרוֹ הַנָּבִיא, לֹא תָגוּר מִמֶּנּוּ.
> > Actually Yona said "od arba'im yom veninveh nehepoches" and indeed
> it did,
> > 'venahafoch hu', people all changed their hearts, so the original
> > interpretation was incorrect, the prophecy was that all Ninveh would
> change
> > to be the reverse of what it was (ha'hepech').
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just like i want to run away on YK, and to pretend i don't need god, so too Yonah....
towards the end of YK, when i am weak and bowed do i feel like appealing to god, so too yonah after 3 days in the fish
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Yonah was in the fish 3 days before starting to pray, it wasn;t a whale, and it wasn;t in some empty hollow comfortable space, it was the intestine of a fish, so it must have been torture, extreme discomfort, no food or drink, inability to do bowel movement, So after 3 days of that, Yonah understood that death would not be available as an escape, and capitualted.
the sailors picked him up in yafo, so his saying he is an ivri would not be a surprise.
they fead the god of the land and the sea when he said it, but perhaps they rodinarily worshipped more monor deities, not daring to appeal directly to the boss, and were intimidated and frightneed when Y said he worships THAT god, and tha the was running form THAT god! what do you do when a powerful renegade seeks your help in escaping from a more powerful overlord?!
So they asked him what to do with him.
who wrote sefer yonah? was it someone who knew him? who was part of the sotry? or maybe y himself, but if so why in the third person?
קוּם לֵךְ אֶל-נִינְוֵה,... וַיָּקָם יוֹנָה לִבְרֹחַ: Y did the first part, 'kum'.and then: וַיִּקְרַב אֵלָיו רַב הַחֹבֵל, וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹ מַה-לְּךָ נִרְדָּם; קוּם, קְרָא
But it doesn;t indicate that Yonah did indeed pray.
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Isn;t Tarshish on the way if one uses the sea route to the max, with the fertile crescent passage for the rest?
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"לְכוּ וְנַפִּילָה גוֹרָלוֹת, וְנֵדְעָה, בְּשֶׁלְּמִי הָרָעָה הַזֹּאת לָנוּ" however they didn't assume that the goral tells then who is to blame, only whom to ask who is to blame: "וַיִּפֹּל הַגּוֹרָל, עַל-יוֹנָה. ח וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֵלָיו--הַגִּידָה-נָּא לָנוּ, בַּאֲשֶׁר לְמִי-הָרָעָה הַזֹּאת לָנוּ" so this is the meaning of "ve-nay-da beshelmi"
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Three times 'vayir'u': ה וַיִּירְאוּ הַמַּלָּחִים, וַיִּזְעֲקוּ אִישׁ אֶל-אֱלֹהָיו, וַיָּטִלוּ אֶת-הַכֵּלִים אֲשֶׁר בָּאֳנִיָּה אֶל-הַיָּם, לְהָקֵל מֵעֲלֵיהֶם;.... אֲשֶׁר-עָשָׂה אֶת-הַיָּם, וְאֶת-הַיַּבָּשָׁה. י וַיִּירְאוּ הָאֲנָשִׁים יִרְאָה גְדוֹלָה, וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֵלָיו מַה-זֹּאת עָשִׂיתָ: ו וַיִּשְׂאוּ, אֶת-יוֹנָה, וַיְטִלֻהוּ, אֶל-הַיָּם; וַיַּעֲמֹד הַיָּם, מִזַּעְפּוֹ. טז וַיִּירְאוּ הָאֲנָשִׁים יִרְאָה גְדוֹלָה
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וְנֵדְעָה, בְּשֶׁלְּמִי הָרָעָה הַזֹּאת לָנוּ
יא וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֵלָיו מַה-נַּעֲשֶׂה לָּךְ, וְיִשְׁתֹּק הַיָּם מֵעָלֵינוּ: כִּי הַיָּם, הוֹלֵךְ וְסֹעֵר. יב וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם, שָׂאוּנִי וַהֲטִילֻנִי אֶל-הַיָּם, וְיִשְׁתֹּק הַיָּם, מֵעֲלֵיכֶם: כִּי, יוֹדֵעַ אָנִי, כִּי בְשֶׁלִּי, הַסַּעַר הַגָּדוֹל הַזֶּה עֲלֵיכֶם.
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Why didn;t he just jump in? why didn;t they ask him to do so?
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fish vomited him out, קִיא,same letters as word: , וְאַל-תִּתֵּן עָלֵינוּ, דָּם נָקִיא:
לַדָּג; וַיָּקֵא אֶת-יוֹנָה, אֶל-הַיַּבָּשָׁה
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Three times(?) 'kro'
קוּם לֵךְ אֶל-נִינְוֵה, הָעִיר הַגְּדוֹלָה--וּקְרָא עָלֶיהָ1.
2 מַה-לְּךָ נִרְדָּם; קוּם, קְרָא
3 וּקְרָא אֵלֶיהָ אֶת-הַקְּרִיאָה, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי דֹּבֵר אֵלֶיךָ. ג וַיָּקָם יוֹנָה, וַיֵּלֶךְ אֶל-נִינְוֵה ... וַיִּקְרָא, וַיֹּאמַר
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The people of Ninveh believed in a powerful God, who catred about justice, who was ablw to destroy the largest power of the itme, who used human prophets to spread his message, and they believed in the possibility of teshuva (and fasting as part of it). This is amazing. It seems to imply that there was a covenant between them and God, that they had been told what to keep, and were aware that they had violated the covenant. That implies that there had been previous prophets to tell them of all this. So this implies that various nations had prophets sent to them by God.
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Y makes a hut to protect huimself fromt he sun, so why did he need the kikayon!?
וַיַּעַשׂ לוֹ שָׁם סֻכָּה, וַיֵּשֶׁב תַּחְתֶּיהָ בַּצֵּל, עַד אֲשֶׁר יִרְאֶה, מַה-יִּהְיֶה בָּעִיר. ו וַיְמַן ...קִיקָיוֹן וַיַּעַל מֵעַל לְיוֹנָה, לִהְיוֹת צֵל עַל-רֹאשׁוֹ, לְהַצִּיל לוֹ, מֵרָעָתוֹ; וַיִּשְׂמַח יוֹנָה עַל-הַקִּיקָיוֹן, שִׂמְחָה גְדוֹלָה.
and when the kikayon was eaten: וַתַּךְ הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ עַל-רֹאשׁ יוֹנָה, וַיִּתְעַלָּף; why did the sukkah not protect him? and if it wasn;t sufficient, let him create a bette rone given that he is so industrious.
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Y says he worships the god of the land and sea: but since the sea and land seem to struggle against each other, how can they be subject to the same god? this type of monotheism is difficult to conceive, the concept was frightnening to the sailors, and so "vayir'u".
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Y was in the fish 3 days so there probably enough time for the sailors to get to Tarshish and spread the word, so if yonah showed up alive in Tarshish, they would be frightened, but did he show up there? and did word spread all the way to ninveh? if so, it makes sense that they were frightened into teshuva. If so, then ironically, his disobedience and running away, may well have been what tipped the scales for them to believe.
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Yom Kippur: teshuva-related based on mayim kodmu and music; purpose of torah is to get us back to same as gan eden, we left but have etz hachayim; vayar vayera
To machlis, spoke, (he gave me a long build up that I can speak in a way that is interesting for people at didff levels and etc)
spoke on parsha & YK.
Torah written without vowels, Vayera can be fear/awe or 'see': letters same.
Says lo tirah twice re war, bec God is with us so don’t fear, then fear god twice, which enforces the voweled reading of the letters as in 'awe, fear' not 'to see'. But in middle is re succos, yovel, hakhel says "layro’os panai", which can be both, and again re anan "vayera". So it has segued from one meaning to the other. This ties it into same theme, when see god’s presence (vayera) it induces awe (yirah).
How does one get to see Gods presence?
MR was anav, gave over in public the reins to Yehoshua, and this lowered ego state brought the shchinah, anan manifested, and this is lir’os panai which induces yirah, and in that state we need not be afraid of anything bec God is with us.
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Sh: to machlis. spoke at v end. YK parallel to G Eden
and then also re:
Yom Kippur: purpose is re-connecting, and kaparah is guaranteed, not like in world where people judge based on results achievement not effort, so if make the internal effort kaparah is guaranteed, hence it is called YK and is a day of joy.
then leading to succos, joy after YK reconnection (and the parsha[vayalech] mentions succos and annan)
People liked it.[ Afterwards, the (religiojs) guy who is very straight asked me to repeat outside where no noise and then he criticized every phrase so I gave up and walked away]
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To Machlis, spoke, mayim kodmu, tune vs w words, have to liberat the real essence, the tune, from the inpure song, so too:inside ourselves not to throw out the bad only the bad part of it; and the matsav, our quest is to eventually have yishmealand us both be what we shouldbr/.
Sh
Seudah shlishis at Brodt, he had told me there was a j for j couple and that maybe I should say something if they did, so I crafted a dvar torah designed for them and motioned to shulem and he inited me to speak (though they hadn’t), it was good, people didn’t realize it was design to be anti misionay chrisitan:
humanity god-forbid not cursed, out of garden bec not eat from etz hachayim not bec we ate form etz hada’at, God wanted us to eat form it; torah is etz hadaat, kruvim on tree and on luchos in ark, ramchal conneciotn via torah then afterwards is dveykut, joy.