AZAMRA Bible: Hosea 3-4

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

AZAMRA and Rav Avraham ben Yaakov?

So that through them The האור Light, The רפואה Healing and The אהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

 

BS"D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: Hosea 3-4
Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov

HOSEA CHAPTER 3

"Having completed his words of comfort, he now returns to words of reproof to the people of his generation. This is the way of the prophets – to intermingle reproof and comfort" (RaDaK on v 1).

V 1: Having previously commanded Hosea to marry an adulterous woman, God now commands Hosea to love such a woman in spite of her disloyalty. This adulterous woman is a prophetic metaphor for the people of Israel, whom God loves – albeit seemingly from afar – despite their disloyalty. How now is God to show His love to His people? In the coming verses the prophet takes a "long view" from the beginning of Israel's nationhood until the very "end of days" (v 5), revealing that God's love will take the form of the lengthy suffering of exile, which will eventually bring the people back in search of what they have lost.

V 2: The PSHAT (literal meaning) appears to be that the prophet acquired his wife as commanded through giving her KIDDUSHIN gifts of 15 silver coins and a sizeable quantity of barley. As explained by Rashi based on Midrash, all this alludes to God's acquisition of the people of Israel as His "wife" through the redemption from Egypt on the FIFTEENTH of Nissan, and through giving them the redemptive commandments of (1) each individual's silver half-shekel contribution to the Temple and (2) the barley Omer offering brought on 16th Nissan. Rashi himself as well as numerous other midrashim also darshen this verse in many ways "…that the Torah be made great and glorious".