 | Arie L. Eliav - Religion - 1988 - 266 pages
...see? When we starved our bodies, did You pay no heed? (58:3) And God's answer, through the prophet: Is such the fast I desire, a day for men to starve...favorable? No, this is the fast I desire: To unlock fetters of wickedness, and untie the cords of the yoke To let the oppressed go free; To break off every... | |
 | Roland Bertram Gittelsohn - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1989 - 188 pages
...all your laborers! Because you fast in strife and contention, And you strike with a wicked fist! ... Is such the fast I desire, A day for men to starve...I desire: To unlock the fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke. To let the oppressed go free, To break off every yoke. It is to share... | |
 | Alan M. Dershowitz - Religion - 2000 - 414 pages
...you strike with a wicked fist! Your fasting today is not such as to make your voice heard on high. Is such the fast I desire, a day for men to starve...favorable? No, this is the fast I desire: To unlock fetters of wickedness, and untie the cords of the yoke to let the oppressed go free; to break off every... | |
 | Michael Katz, Gershon Schwartz - Religion - 1998 - 388 pages
...dwell in peaceful homes, In secure dwellings, In untroubled places of rest. (Isaiah 32:17-18). • Is such the fast I desire, A day for men to starve...favorable? No, this is the fast I desire: To unlock fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke To let the oppressed go free; To break off every... | |
 | Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, Hendrik M. Vroom - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 426 pages
...the feelings of the worshippers confronted by the prophetic rebuke against all their best efforts! : Is such the fast I desire, a day for men to starve...and ashes? Do you call that a fast, a day when the I^ord is favorable? No, this is the fast I desire: to unlock fetters of wickedness, and untie the cords... | |
 | Yekhezkel Kotik - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 564 pages
...H and so on, and so on. And more: "Is such the fast I desire . . . ," — Do you call that a fast? "Is it bowing the head like a bulrush, and lying in...call that a fast, a day when the Lord is favorable?" — To wear a sack and put ashes on your head? Is this the kind of fast God wishes? "No this is the... | |
 | Jerald D. Gort, Henry Jansen, H. M. Vroom - History - 2002 - 422 pages
...such the fast 1 desire, a day for men to starve their bodies? 1s it bowing the head like a hulrush and lying in sackcloth and ashes? Do you call that a fast, a day when the t,ord is favorable? No, this is the fast 1 desire: to unlock fetters of wickedness, and umie the cords... | |
 | Aharon Lichtenstein - Religion - 2003 - 300 pages
...apply to other mitzvot as well. There is another chapter in Yeshayahu, which we read on Yom Kippur: Is such the fast I desire, a day for men to starve...favorable? No, this is the fast I desire: to unlock the shackles of wickedness and untie the cords of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free and to break off... | |
 | Paul Steinberg, Janet Greenstein Potter - Religion - 2007 - 270 pages
...words of the prophet Isaiah, selected as the haftarah reading on this most ritually laden day of all: Is such the fast I desire, A day for men to starve...day when the LORD is favorable? No, this is the fast desire: To unlock fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke To let the oppressed go free;... | |
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To unlock the fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke To let the oppressed go free; To break off every yoke. It is to share your bread with the hungry, And to take the wretched poor into your home; When you see the naked, to clothe him,... 