This tells me nothing about your qualifications. Thus, I presume you have none to disclose.
Nope, it specifically states "my name," not power.
Do you not understand that idioms-- which every language has-- may be different in different languages?
Most English translations-- Jewish and non-Jewish alike-- are notorious for steamrolling over idiom, metaphor, colloquialism, irony, wordplay, internal allusion, and other common literary devices that the text employs. And that is true for the prose portions of the text, so all the more relevant for the poetic portions of the text-- which is a majority of the Tanach. This is one of the chiefest reasons why serious in-depth study should be done in Hebrew, with sufficient mastery of the language and the literary and homiletical arts to both understand how the text employs language and to contextualize the meaning of words not only within the traditional understandings, but just within the sense of the plain meaning of the text as well.
The habit of non-Jewish fundamentalists and the untrained (both Jewish and non-Jewish, unfortunately) of reading the text with ponderous word-for-word literalism, without adequate contextualization and, often as not, without any mastery of, or even facility with, the Hebrew language and its common use in Biblical literature.
Yes, the verse in Exodus literally says "my name." However, that is being employed idiomatically. I would hope that anyone could recognize that this is not a radical interpretation of the text, it is basic literacy. Excessive literalism doesn't lend a reader authenticity, it actually displays a lack of knowledge.
Yeshayahu- Isaiah - Chapter 2:1-5....
The House of Judah still does not believe that the end of days have arrived ...
Because they haven't. The Temple hasn't been rebuilt. The messiah hasn't come. The ten lost tribes have not been found and rejoined to the Jewish People. Elijah the prophet has not returned to resolve our disputes of Jewish law and custom. The world is not at peace, nor has war been eliminated. Poverty and oppression have not been eliminated. The Jewish People has not returned to dwell in peace in its ancestral borders. Pluralism and tolerance are not the dominant paradigm of world relations.
The end of days-- if indeed there is to be a literal end of days, which the Rabbis are not at all in agreement about-- would be the messianic era. Not a single thing prophesized to exemplify the messianic era has come to pass.
Then please explain from your point of view how the Northern tribes were "redeemed"[bought back] , seeing that you believe they have returned. Yirmiyahu - Jeremiah - Chapter 3:8...
Have YHVH married them again, and when did this happen "Levite" ?
Please note that the house of Judah was never divorced by YHVH.
So are you suggesting that the Northern tribes were married again to YHVH and that this happened when 10 Israel converted to Judaism , "Levite"?
So then if this is true it means that Judah was their[10 israel]'s redeemer
Again, this is poetic idiom. The books of the major prophets are composed in
poetry. Reading them with excessive literalism renders them virtually unintelligible. This is passionate poetry about the covenantal relationship between God and the Jewish People. Obviously, we don't literally believe that God literally married Israel or Judah, or anyone else for that matter. Nor do we believe that God ever gave anyone a literal writ of divorce. These are
metaphors.
Jeremiah is speaking to the Jews of his time. He is remonstrating with them, saying that after the destruction of the Northern Kingdom in 722 BCE, the Southern Kingdom did not adequately conform to the strictest rules of YHVHistic monotheism, and thus deserved the punishment of the Babylonian conquest and the loss of the Temple in 586 BCE.
We understand that when the Northern Kingdom was destroyed, and the overwhelming majority of the 10 tribes were lost and scattered in exile, the remnants joined themselves to the tribes of the Southern Kingdom. Thus, the Southern Kingdom contained inheritors of all 12 tribes, which is one reason we employ both the names "Yehudah" and "Yisrael" for the Jewish People.
We also understand that God ultimately forgives. The Babylonian Exile and the loss of the First Temple earned God's forgiveness for the sins of the First Temple Era. And the Exile and Loss of the 10 Tribes earns His forgiveness for their descendants; so at such time as the messiah comes and the last exiles are gathered in to return to the fold, they will also be held fully forgiven for the great sins of their ancestors.
26. Adultery - Sotah:
"If a woman is deliberately unfaithful to her husband she becomes forbidden to him and he must divorce her...."
Huh, what now?
I assume that you are randomly quoting the laws of Sotah because you think it has some bearing on the imagery used in the verse from Jeremiah you quoted above.
It would be an interesting point if we were all relentlessly and obtusely literal in our reading of every Tanach text. Fortunately, we are not.
