According to y. Taanit 1:1, 64a: “In the scroll of R. Meir they found written, instead of 'The burden of Dumah' (Isa. 21:11), 'The burden of Roma [Rome]'.”For those who have ears to hear, let him hear. I should also note that as I was going through Isaiah 21 I couldn't help but think I had heard these words somewhere before. Sure enough, I looked up a biography of Bob Dylan and found it was the inspiration for ...
To begin to understand the theological implications of this passage here is a useful passage from the Jerusalem Talmud. Will transcribe it here shortly.
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."
