פרשת דברים תשכ"ו - הפטרה לשבת חזון

Your new moons and your appointed seasons My soul hateth; They are a burden unto Me; I am weary to bear them.

When ye come to appear before Me, Who hath required this at your hand, To trample My courts?

Bring no more vain oblations; It is an offering of abomination unto Me; New moon and sabbath, the holding of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity along with the solemn assembly.

I release you: do not bring Me any longer your empty meal-offerings, whose rising smoke is an incense of disgust to Me, and not of pleasure.

This is like, "Lest He become sated with you and hate you" (Mishlei 25:17).

לא תוסיפו Ye shall not continue. A prohibition (comp. Deut. 4:2); not a mere future.

לא אוכל I cannot bear. Supply the word נְשאׁ, ‘to bear.’ Comp. חמור לחם an ass laden with bread (1 Sam. 16:20). עצרה Restraint. Comp. עׂצֶר ‘prison’ (53:8). Restraint from doing any work. עצרת (Lev. 23:36) has the same meaning. Iniquity and restraint.³⁶A. V., Even the solemn meeting. God cannot bear iniquity coupled with the observance of holy days; for of what use is it to keep holy days and to do evil at the same time.

And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you.

The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;