Yonah and Prayer

Found 6 Search results

1. The Book of Yonah

   Rabbi Yaakov Beasley

2. He Who Answered Yona

   HaTanakh.com Staff

3. Shallow Teshuva in Deep Waters -Real or Ideal

   HaTanakh.com Staff

4. Prophet on the Run: Yonah and Yom Kippur

   Rabbi David Fohrman |

   This class raises two major questions on the book of Yonah: 
   1) Why does Yonah run? Doesn't he know that running from God is futile, especially as he's a prophet?
   2) What message does he learn at the end of the book (with the story of the tree)?

   A close examination of these questions reveals an entirely new approach to the book of Yonah: din and rachamim related to past and potential, and the meaning of true teshuva. 

5. Yonah 1-2

   Matan Al Haperek

   Rabbi David Sabato

   Perek 1 opens with an introduction (1-3), which describes Yonah's mission and how he runs away from it, and includes the central question of the book: why does Yonah evade his mission to prophesy to Nineveh and decide to run away from God? The text does not give any explanation in the beginning of the book, and only toward the end we find an allusion to the reason. In the continuation of the perek we are told how Yonah's plan to run away from God goes awry, and God chases him into the ocean using His messengers- the storm and the fish. 

   After Yonah was brought to the depth of the sea in perek 1, Yonah is trapped in the belly of a fish. In the middle of perek 2 we find Yonah's prayer to God from the belly of the fish. This prayer is a turning point in the plot, and represents Yonah's return to God. 

    

6. Yonah in the Stormy Sea

   HaTanakh.com Staff