Guiding Questions: Isaiah 58

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Who is told to constantly send forth the message?
  2. What is the plaint of the Israelites (Isaiah 58:3)?
  3. And, what is the answer (Isaiah 58:4)? When, in the current annual liturgy, does Isaiah 58 appear as a haftarah?
  4. What is the purport of Isaiah 58:5 in terms of externals and internals in observance?
  5. What does the prophet indicate is the “true fast” that is the preference of Divinity?
  6. How do Isaiah 58:6-7 indicate a social justice proclivity of the most basic nature?
  7. And if, indeed, justice is provided to those who need it, what does Isaiah 58:8 predict as the result?
  8. How does Isaiah 58:9 affirm this yet further?
  9. But, in addition, there is the matter of personal social justice as reflected in the need to observe the Sabbath. In what verses does this appear?
  10. In sum, if this pattern will obtain, what does Isaiah 58:14 predict as the yield?

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