Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yesaya 11:13

The fourth question is the phrase "She has fallen and will rise no more, virgin of Israel" (Amos 5:2). This makes it seem that the tribes won't return from their exile. Which is in direct contradiction to many other prophecies including Isiah who described the ingathering of the exiles of Israel and the scattered ones of Judah as it says (Isaiah 11:13) "and Efraim will not be jealous of Judah..." and this concept of the ingathering of Israel is repeated in detail and explained in Ezekiel (Ezekiel 37:19) "I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in the hand of Ephraim—and of the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place the stick of Judah upon it and make them into one stick; they shall be joined in My Hand" and then says "And I will make them into one nation in the land in the hills of Israel and they will have one king and will not longer be two nations or divided into two kingdoms again. And in the end of the book the prophet discusses the division of the land of Israel to each and every tribe. So how could these prophecies be accurate if the tribes of Israel were not be returned.

The Torah of the Lord is more precious than pearls, for if one has gold and many pearls, as they increase, so do one’s inheritance and sickness increase. All day one is distressed and worried about not achieving double what one already has, and the person will not rest until they have wasted their days in vanity and their years in terror, as is the way of all who are hasty for wealth, who bear many troubles and bundled tribulations on their shoulders. Not so with the word of the Lord, for they provide rest to the weary, like cold water to a tired soul — they neither tire nor grow weary. And this is the comfort: for her breasts will satisfy you at all times, finding in her new insights that no ear has heard and no eye has seen, and the words of love are sweet to those who seek to be covered in a new garment, until the observer says “Look! This is new!” — something the ancients did not conceive. And if, due to the poor order of this perverse generation, one’s heart burns within them, seeing that they cannot repair and patch the breaches in the House of Israel for they are too many, this is my comfort in my affliction: to seek from the book of the Lord, to make it my daily delight, and to divert worry from the heart away from worldly vanities and transfer it to the labor of Torah which gladdens the human heart, and thus the envy of Ephraim shall depart (Isaiah 11:13).

ויבתר אותם בתוך, both what he cut in half and what he did not cut was at the command of G’d, even though the Torah did not mention this specifically, The reason for cutting something in half was to show that G’d was making a covenant with Avram, as we already explained on verse 9. G’d hinted to Avram, by means of these carcasses being cut in half, that all the nations exiling the Jewish people, would suffer a fate as that suffered by these sacrificial animals. They would successively fight wars, the younger one against the older one, one wiping out the other eventually. All those nations represented different cultures, both in their secular outlook as well as in their religious orientation. All of this would be caused due their competitive spirit, each nation trying to achieve dominance over the others. Such behaviour is not typical of the Jewish people, although, for a brief period in our history, the tribe of Ephrayim competed violently with the tribe of Yehudah for pre-eminence among the 12 tribes of the Jewish people. Even during such periods, these tribes would not remain divided culturally or religiously. (compare Isaiah 11,13) אפרים לא יקנא את יהודה ויהודה לא יצר את אפרים, “Ephrayim will not be jealous of Yehudah, nor will Yehudah oppress Ephrayim.” To signify this difference between competition among the gentile nations, and tribal warfare in Israel, G’d told Avram not to cut the bird in half, seeing that it represented the nation that would emerge with Avram as their founding father. Therefore, the Torah reported ואת הצפור לא בתר, that Avram did not cut the bird in half. The word הצפור includes both the pigeon and the turtle dove, תור וגוזל, seeing that the Jewish people are scattered in the four directions of the globe and have yet remained a single people, clinging to their Torah and their faith in spite of being scattered all over the world. The people of Israel did not trade their religion for another in spite of the heavy burden involved in enduring exile.