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'''[[Yom Kippur: Yonah, Prophecy, Teshuvah, and the Fear of Greatness]]''' The shiur opens with the mystery: how could a navi flee his mission? Classical answers are surveyed. Ibn Ezra (drawing on a yesod echoed in the Kuzari) distinguishes between naturally gifted prophets and those who achieve prophecy through painstaking cultivation; a ‘worked’ prophet can lose nevuah when conditions shift, offering a psychological-spiritual window into Yonah’s flight. Rashi resists this, presenting Yonah as fully prophetic but calculating consequences: if Nineveh repents easily, Israel’s stubbornness will look worse, creating a chilul Hashem, and Nineveh’s teshuvah may be transient while Israel’s, once earned, endures. Saadia Gaon’s view that Yonah did go but it wasn’t recorded is noted then set aside by Ibn Ezra and Rashi. This complex of motives reframes Yonah not as a cartoonish rebel, but as a conflicted servant of Hashem, weighing truth, optics, and the nature of lasting teshuvah.
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===Parashat Ha’azinu===
===Parashat Vayera===
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<div style="color:#555; font-size:0.9em; margin-top:-8px; margin-bottom:8px;">20 Cheshvan 5787 · October 31, 2026 · Genesis 18:1-22:24</div>


''Summary for Ha’azinu coming soon.''
''Vayera follows Avraham’s welcoming of guests, the promise of Yitzchak’s birth, the destruction of Sedom, the birth of Yitzchak, and the Akeidah.''


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'''Haftarah (Ashkenaz):''' Hosea 14:2-10; Joel 2:15-27 | Shabbat Shuva (with Ha'azinu)
'''Haftarah (Ashkenaz):''' II Kings 4:1-37
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[https://www.sefaria.org/search#query=Vayera Read on Sefaria →]
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Parashat Vayera

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20 Cheshvan 5787 · October 31, 2026 · Genesis 18:1-22:24

Vayera follows Avraham’s welcoming of guests, the promise of Yitzchak’s birth, the destruction of Sedom, the birth of Yitzchak, and the Akeidah.

Haftarah (Ashkenaz): II Kings 4:1-37

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