Menashe and the Death of Yeshayahu

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How could Yeshaya write that he saw Hashem on His throne, when the Torah says no living person can see Hashem? Menashe used this kasha and two others to put his grandfather Yeshaya on trial as a false prophet, and Yeshaya let the charges stand. We learn that Yeshaya's death came because of what he said about Klal Yisrael, a message to take home about how we speak.

Key points

• Yeshaya told the sick king that foreseeing bad children was no excuse for not marrying.
• Yeshaya stayed silent so Menashe would kill him believing he was a false prophet.
• The Gemara answers that Moshe asked for perfectly clear vision, while Yeshaya saw less clearly.
• The Gemara's answer: the king's fifteen years were taken as punishment and then given back.
• The Gemara ties Yeshaya's death to calling Klal Yisrael a people of unclean lips.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The kasha of seeing Hashem
2. 3:20The king still single at 39
3. 8:56The twins and Menashe's reign
4. 13:05Menashe's greatness in Torah
5. 15:11Yeshaya on trial as a false prophet
6. 20:03The Gemara's answers to the kashas
7. 23:24Yeshaya hidden in the tree
8. 25:38Why Yeshaya was punished

Topics

• Menashe
• Lashon Hara