Neziv distinguishes Yesharim from Zaddikim [righteous] and Hasidim [pious]. God’s world cannot survive on these alone as demonstrated in the rabbinic view that the Second Temple was destroyed despite the fact that many Jews were Zaddikim and Hasidim and assiduous students of Torah study. This was not enough to prevent them from unwarranted hatred towards each other which led to rampant murder and all types of evil. This hatred was based on different views of piety and suspected others who differed from them as being Sadduccees and heretics.
Yesharim are distinguished by their commitment to correct living in the daily affairs of the world. They truly strive to live at peace with others even though this may be difficult? and not always successful. However, through theYesharim the creation will be influenced to the move forward in the will of God. So the advent of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a fundamental part of the creation story. Without this new direction in human history the creation almost did not survive the violent generation of the Flood, the tower of Babel and the other challenges described in Genesis. God’s hope for the creation came to rest on Abraham as the ‘father of many nations.’ The blessing of Abraham had to continue in order for the universe to continue. The Torah records the history of the development of Yesharim, the truly righteous and correct people who declarethe paths of God throught he power of the Holy Spirit to the mankind through their life style and also through his word. They are the ones God was looking for from the beginning. Isaiah : 61:4-9 Promises are here made to the Jews returned out of captivity, which extend to all those who, through grace, are delivered out of spiritual thraldom. An unholy soul is like a city that is broken down, and has no walls, like a house in ruins; but by the power of Christ's gospel and grace, it is fitted to be a habitation of God, through the Spirit. When, by the grace of God, we attain to holy indifference as to the affairs of this world; when, though our hands are employed about them, our hearts are not entangled with them, but preserved entire for God and his service, then the sons of the alien are our ploughmen and vine-dressers. Those whom He sets at liberty, he sets to work. His service is perfect freedom; it is the greatest honour. All believers are made, to our God, kings and priests; and always ought to conduct themselves as such. Those who have the Lord for their portion, have reason to say, that they have worthy portion, and to rejoice in it. In the fulness of heaven's joys we shall receive more than double for all our services and sufferings. God desires truth, and therefore hates all injustice.Yes being his children we might have undergone unprecedented painful experiences in our lives but that is not the end there is a beginning.There is a reason for every pain & tear we shed on this palnet earth.God is sovereign and control everything happens in our lives.He allowed the pain so that we are transformed to the image of christ unless we could have lost even more what we had experienced.God's ways and thoughts are totally diffferent, incomprehesible and unbelievable.
For your shame - That is, instead of the reproach and humiliation which you have been called to experience.
You shall have double - A double inheritance or reward .
And for confusion - The word 'confusion' here means the same as a blush of shame, and refers to the scenes of humiliation and sorrow which the nation had passed through on account of its sins.
They shall rejoice - There is here a change from the second to the third person - a change which is not unfrequent in Isaiah. The same persons, however, are intended.
Therefore in their land - This is to be regarded as addressed to the exiles in Babylon, and the promise is, that the people of God would be restored again to their own land, and to more than their former privileges and blessings there.
The double - Double of what they formerly possessed; that is, their blessings would be greatly increased and multiplied. Applied to the times of the Messiah, to which the prophet undoubtedly refers, it means that the privileges of the friends of God would be far greater than had been enjoyed even in the most favored times under the former dispensation.
Everlasting joy - (Isaiah 35:10).
Be part of the blessings double portion of yesharim to protect and manage the environment where you are living!
"There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heaven for thy help, And in his excellency on the skies"![Deut 33:26] .
Bibliogrpahy:
1.Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
2.Arnes' Notes on the Bible
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