Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yunus 2:10

Torah Academy of Bergen County student Avi Baer cogently asks on this approach - didn’t we find Yonah eager to die in Perek 1? How, then, can we explain Yonah as pledging to use his time well in Yonah 2:10? One may answer that this is precisely the point. Yonah in Perek 2 is retracting the desire to die that he expressed in Perek 1 (although he reverts to this desire in Perek 4). Yonah may be understood as saying that although he wished to die in Perek 1, he is no longer adopting this course. Rather he is eager to live, greatly valuing his life and the time Hashem has, in His kindness, granted. According to this approach, Yonah in Perek 2 has transformed and reoriented himself, and thereby performed a significant act of Teshuvah, while still in the belly of the fish⁶⁵One may wonder why Yonah uses such vague language in Pasuk 9. Perhaps it is in order to express each or many of the approaches articulated by the various commentaries to this Pasuk. There is great value to each approach and using somewhat vague language allows Yonah to express all these levels of interpretations simply by using one phrase. .