Bamidbar
The Prophetic Moral Imperative
From the Haftorah Series

The prophet Hosea's unhappy marriage to a woman of ill repute is an analogy to God's relationship with the Jewish people. Hosea spells out the bitter humiliation his wife will suffer as a result of her faithlessness, but in the end, changes his tone to one of hope of reconciliation, a parallel to the future Messianic Era.