Hi,
Part II -
Zecharyah 9:9 predicts, "Your king will come to you, a pauper, riding on a donkey." Who is this predicted king?
"'Behold your king comes to you' – This refers to your true king, the shoot from the trunk of Yishai [i.e. the Davidic line]. He will come to you – not a kohen from the seed of Aaron and not from another family, but the true king.
"Ibn Ezra thought, following his corrupt intent, to explain this section about the Second Temple… I am shocked by his evil intent, which blinded his intellect! Yehudah the Hasmonean was never called a 'king', let alone a King of Zion as was David who conquered Zion! And if Zecharyah prophesied about the Hasmoneans, how did this relate to Ephraim? The kingdom of Ephraim was not present in the Second Temple! Further, Yehudah the Hasmonean did not speak peace to all of the nations, and did not reign from sea to sea. In his day the vision of 'I have filled a bow for Ephraim' was not fulfilled, for the kingdom of the ten tribes, meaning 'the kingdom of Ephraim', did not return until now. The entire rest of the portion denies his view entirely...
"Also, he will explain all of the prophecies regarding the Second Temple, as though he did not believe in the salvation of Gd and His future redemption!...
(Abarbanel to Zecharyah, pg. 226-227)
Have a great day,
Mordechai
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There is an idea that this is an allusion to the present messianic period (atchalta degeulah or reishit tzmichat geulateinu). The chamor is the chomriut of the secular Zionist movement. The aniyut is the poverty of the first years of the State of Israel. Needless to say secular Israelis do not like this interpretation.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, although my understanding is that Rav Kook did not mean it as they took it.
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