Tafsiran Yesaya 43:27: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi & Ibn Ezra

“Your first ancestor sinned” [43:27]. Your first ancestor, that is Adam, committed sins. Every person who is descended from Adam was created with the evil inclination, which causes each person to sin. How can you say that you have not sinned? The leaders and the rabbis, who should have punished you, themselves committed sins.⁷Radak, Isaiah, 43:27.

Your first father sinned by saying (Gen. 15:8), “How will I know...?”

Thy first father hath sinned. Jeroboam, when chosen by the Israelites, to be their king, without the consent of God.²⁵This statement is not quite correct, since the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh told Jeroboam that God had appointed him to be king over ten tribes (1 Kgs. 11:29—39). The idolatry of Jeroboam should rather be pointed at by I. E.

and your intercessors transgressed against Me You have none among all the intercessors upon whose merit you rely, in whom I have not found transgression. Isaac loved My enemy [Esau].