Guiding Questions: Isaiah 3

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. What will be the result of the removal of normal leadership sources?
  2. In Isaiah 3:2 there are a number of categories of leaders. What is a gibor? A shofet? A navi? And a zaken(and is the latter to be understood chronologically)?
  3. How do Isaiah 3:5-6 indicate that the office is searching for the man and the man is not searching for the office?
  4. Why has all this happened to Jerusalem and to Judea (see Isaiah 3:8)?
  5. Does Isaiah 3:12 indicate an anti-female posture or indicate a total abnormalcy in terms of the era in which the prophet holds forth?
  6. Isaiah 3:14 strikes a familiar theme. What is the essential characteristic of the Divine and what is the essential failing of the people?
  7. Why is there persistent refrain about the poor? Is this an indication of prioritizing social justice — and, as such, simply put, central to the Jewish notion of justice?
  8. Does Isaiah 3:16 criticize female adornments or does it criticize pride in a particular context?
  9. Would Isaiah 3:18-23 indicate that our ancestors were unfamiliar with adornment, or the opposite?
  10. Does the Isaiah 3 end in any different mode than Isaiah 1-2? Is there a message of hope at the conclusion?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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