Sunday Devotions: "Comfort My People"
Isaiah 40, Isaiah 61
“What manner of man is the prophet?”, asked Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, at the beginning of his classic 1962 study. Out of “breathless impatience with injustice” and “deep sensitivity to evil,” the prophet “feels fiercely” and speaks boldly, with “the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor, to the profaned riches of…
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