Word: hosea
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wiesel embarked upon a spirited discourse upon the strange prophet Hosea, whom God commanded to marry a prostitute. Why would God require such an unseemly thing...
...Wiesel explicated with a sweetness and urgency that made the question seem infinitely more interesting and immediate than the presidential question before us now. Breaking away from Hosea for a moment, Wiesel suggested that instead of talking politics, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Barak and Arafat, ought to sit down and study together...
...Wiesel, as he came to the end of his discourse on the minor prophet Hosea, discussed Maimonides' interpretation of the marry-a-harlot theme. Maimonides, the greatest of Judaism's medieval philosophers, explained the entire business (God's commandment to marry a whore, Hosea's predicament) as a vision, a fiction, a fantasy, a daydream. Maybe so. If only this campaign were merely a daydream, an error of the American psyche, correctable by waking...
...happens, I woke in the middle of the night, and it came to me that there may have been, after all, some hilarious parable at work in my evening, some occult line drawn between the prophet Hosea and the coming election. For surely, said I to myself, our presidential politics (given the necessities of fund-raising) has become a form of harlotry. The Constitution commands us to choose a president as God commanded Hosea to choose a wife. Our predicament as voters has something in common with Hosea...