Ep.458: Yonah Ch.1 by Calev Ben Dor | The prophet who runs away, is swallowed by a big fish, who grudingly gives prophecy to a gentile nation, and then to his horror is massively successful!

Yes, we have arrived at the book of Trei Asar that we all know and love. The prophet who runs away, is swallowed by a big fish, who grudingly gives prophecy to a gentile nation, and then to his horror is massively successful!Calev Ben Dor starts us on our Yonah journey - considering the context of when Yonah lived and the king he served, and concluding with suggesting a number of frames with which we can consider Yona, and how the message of the book connects to Yom Kippur, when the story is traditionally read. Most profoundly of all, I found, is the suggestion that the opposite of fleeing (what Yonah does) is to stand before God, understood as the embrace of uncertainty. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jonah.1