Halakhah su Isaia 1:7

“In that their mother has played the harlot, she that conceived them has acted shamelessly.”⁴⁴Hosea 2:7. The prophet compares Israel’s pursuit of idolatry to an adulterous woman’s pursuit of lovers. Even the most holy images engraved on the face of the people became toxic: “Your new moons and fixed seasons fill me with loathing. They have become a burden to me, and I cannot endure them.”⁴⁵Isa. 1:7. In this passage, God rejects the people’s ritual worship when their moral life is full of oppression and cruelty. When national life became defiled, the power of ethics increased,⁴⁶This statement might appear paradoxical in the context of a passage about the moral collapse of the people. The meaning appears to be that, with the decline of the national, political life of the Jewish people, there were outbursts of moral intensity, but these were unsustainable in the absence of supporting political institutions. Rav Kook may have been thinking of a phenomenon analogous to the proliferation of ascetic Jewish sects toward the end of the Second Temple period. but with the surrounding political turmoil, the result was simply inner anguish and confusion. These two elements—the people and the land, which, when healthy, had given each other so much grace and power for good—made each other sicker and more corrupt. Finally, they had to take the cruel-kind medicine, the dreadful surgical operation of separating the people from the land—“Because of our sins, we were exiled from our country and distanced from our land.”⁴⁷Taken from the musaf prayer for the new moon and festivals.