Where are the vessels now?
Raiders of the Lost Ark clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TASlXWbMZyU
The message: The Jewish People can no longer rely on anyone to “let my people go” — “The Vessels” must be brought home, by us. The meaning is not complicated; how to do this is complicated. — According to the Mystics, this could very well be what shatters “the Vessels.”
Where is the Ark of the Covenant now? Where are the missing vessels? And for that matter, for the actual and intended parallel to Isaiah’s words:
Where are the remaining Jews of captivity — of Babylonia or of the Gaza?
“Bring them home” now has come to mean different things to different people.
This is no longer a situation of “let my people go! — as we saw in Egypt — it is now: “bring them home.”
Towards the end of the Raiders of the Lost Ark, we see that the Ark is either hidden away in Washington D.C. or perhaps it remains sequestrated in Vatican tunnels, continuously, to this day, both denied and lied about. The parallels are striking.
The hope for the Ark is our hope for our people. We understand that what has been seized, raped, stolen, or sequestered: anything or anyone held hostage in a subterranean hellish dungeon, like that of the Vatican or in the fetid tunnels and pits of Gazan Ghoulish Horror must be redeemed and brought home again — exactly as Isaiah states.
The hope (HaTikvah) for the redemption of the Jewish People, both in the indigenous homeland of Eretz Yisrael and around the world, appears at first blush to be elusive. The Prophetic reading of Isaiah sees it differently,
Isaiah always did, for us, then — and for us, now.
As we know, it will take time, painfully agonizing time, but the words and the meaning of Isaiah’s message will come about.
Am Yisarel Chai.
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ס֤וּרוּ ס֙וּרוּ֙ צְא֣וּ מִשָּׁ֔ם טָמֵ֖א אַל־תִּגָּ֑עוּ צְא֣וּ מִתּוֹכָ֔הּ הִבָּ֕רוּ נֹשְׂאֵ֖י כְּלֵ֥י יְהֹוָֽה׃
Turn, turn away, touch naught impure
As you depart from there;
Keep pure, as you go forth from there,
You who bear the vessels of GOD!
כִּ֣י לֹ֤א בְחִפָּזוֹן֙ תֵּצֵ֔אוּ וּבִמְנוּסָ֖ה לֹ֣א תֵלֵכ֑וּן כִּֽי־הֹלֵ֤ךְ לִפְנֵיכֶם֙ יְהֹוָ֔ה וּמְאַסִּפְכֶ֖ם אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ {ס}
For you will not depart in haste, (<- contrast this with our departure from Egypt)
Nor will you leave in flight;
For GOD is marching before you, (<- Let’s not for a moment forget this)
The God of Israel is your rear guard. (<-“assembled” i.e. “with you”)
*Cf. Ezra 1.7–8; 5.14–15.
