Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.50

As Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo explains in his audio this imagery refers to the immediate context of the prophets message (daggers) and its message for future generations (arrows) - appropriate for the first Torah of a new decade(2020)!

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.49

Text for this chapters can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.47

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.46

Our first mention of Coresh, the Persian king who will allow Israel to return from their exile in Babylon. In my recording I focus on three verses: the significance of Coresh, the creation of evil, and God's determination that the world not be created in order to be a wasteland but rather for it to be populated. Text for this chapter can be found here:https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.45

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.44

Text can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.43

Considering the metaphors used for both Hashem and Israel. My audio, among other things, considers whether the image of a woman in childbirth is more of a fitting image for Israel (26:17) or for God (42:14). Text in Hebrew and English can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.41

Harris Lorie provides us with an exceptional introduction to the second half of the book explaining it's difference in context and theme to what has come before.

Text for this chapter can be found here:

https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.40

Hizkiyahu's illness, his recovery and his dangerous friendship with the Babylonians.

In my audio I try to consider the added significance these chapters take on if we view them as the end of Yishayahu prior to a new book starting in chapter 40. As to that claim as a whole, we'll examine it in depth pretty soon! Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.38