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In many ways, nations resemble people. Just like human beings, nations go through mood swings. Sometimes their populations are ecstatic, and at other times a psychological malaise hovers over the land ...

Hosea lived during the 8th century BCE, and prophesied for over 60 years. He was the last prophet of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called in his prophecies, “Ephraim.” Hosea the prophet lived during ...

“Brothers and sisters, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Let us therefore join our hearts together in prayer. . . .” With these words, I invite my ...

This brief yet stirring passage from the prophet Hosea is paired with selections from Joel and Micah (in many Ashkenazi communities, though there are different customs), forming a tapestry of ...

of the Prophet Hosea and his prostitute wife, is published. When Rabbi Milton Steinberg died suddenly and tragically in 1950 at the age of 46, there was a keen awareness that the Jewish community had ...

It is not every biblical book that opens with God commanding his prophet to go marry a prostitute. But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The ...