- What are the characteristics of the blessed man?
- How can one relate “observing the Sabbath” and “keeping one’s hand from doing any evil”?
- Is there an attempt here to embrace in a merism (such as “from head to toe”) any and all aspects of the mitzvah pattern?
- What constituencies are addressed in Isaiah 56:3 and continued in Isaiah 56:4-5?
- How does this reflect a noteworthy universalism on the part of the prophet’s teaching?
- Isaiah 56:7 appears in the mahzor of the High Holy Days. To what group or groups does it actually refer?
- Who are the “dogs” to which reference is made in Isaiah 56:10-11 and how do these verses relate to what appears to be an entirely different thrust in Isaiah 56?
- And, is there any reference to return? Is there any reference to Israel? Is there any reference to Babylonia? Is there any reference to exile?
