Jonah believed the mission was futile, convinced that the people of the large city of Ninevah would never repent and so he took a ship sailing from Jaffa to Tarshish in Spain in an effort to ...

Hence Jonah seeks to escape God by boarding a ship bound for Tarshish. A raging storm develops at sea, and a drawing of lots makes it clear that Jonah is responsible for the storm .

Jonah, the son of Amitai, is asked to go to Nineveh and tell the people there, “If they do not repent, God will destroy their city.” Jonah decides to run away to Tarshish on a boat.

This anxious prophet tried to escape God’s request by boarding a ship headed to a faraway place called Tarshish. This plan, though, did not work, as God demanded Jonah’s attention by causing a ...

Jonah, the son of Amitai, is asked to go to Nineveh and tell the people there, “If they do not repent, God will destroy their city.” Jonah decides to run away to Tarshish on a boat.

The soul paid a huge price in spirituality, רוחניות, for payment to be on the ship to Tarshish, where it could indulge in the material delights of this world, גשמיות.

Llike the story read on Yom Kippur, the novel is about lessons learned in the belly of a great fish, writes a scholar at Yeshiva University.

In the Bible God asked Jonah to go to Nineveh but Jonah 1:3 says “Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish.” Jonah was running from God. Nineveh was about 550 miles east of Jonah but Tarshish was 2,500 ...