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The ancient prediction of imminent destruction in this chapter feels all too contemporary. <\/span>Bat-tzion<\/span><\/em>, Jeremiah calls the beloved treasure about to be destroyed, \u201cbeautiful and pleasing.\u201d He is terrified that she will be lost, and he sees it so clearly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading this chapter, all I can think of is Greta Thunberg, our modern day Jeremiah. Perhaps in the future we’ll call a prophetic environmental call-to-action a Gretiad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bat-tzion<\/span><\/em> literally means the Daughter of Jerusalem; today, how could it not mean \u201cMother Earth\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

Mother, daughter; Jerusalem, Earth. All microcosms of each other, all interrelated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mother Earth: our beloved home, not just for any single tribe, but for every single human being. Her green forests, her salty oceans, her caves and crevasses, her majestic slopes, and the enchanted atmosphere which surrounds her – clouds and wind and storms and stillness, ever changing in a circular drift. Like all living things, she has her moods; within her healthy state there are forces of extreme destruction, floods and fires and earthquakes and tornadoes, just as death is a part of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what is happening now is a different type of destruction. <\/span>Bat-Tzion’s<\/span><\/em> very existence is threatened as she is poisoned by her own children.<\/span><\/p>\n

And so, as Jeremiah warned the ancient Israelites, Greta Thunberg warns us. Yes, the rich will be able to escape for a while, but not forever; we are all part of a system. As Jeremiah says, the old and the young; the newly married, children in the street, and grandparents \u2013 none of us will be safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the point is not just that destruction is coming; it is that we can avert this destruction. It is the job of prophets to prophesy, and is the job of the people to listen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today our modern climate prophets come in many forms. In this chapter, Jeremiah is the equivalent of a \u201cdark green\u201d environmentalist, requiring wholesale reinvention of the existing systems in order to heal the ills he sees. I wonder if there were gentler, \u201clight green\u201d voices of his time which didn\u2019t make it into the canon – urging people to find their best selves, to change their lives for the sake of continuity and justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder at the fact that Jeremiah’s call seems to have worked; despite all the pain and suffering of the past two thousand years, we are still here to read his words around 2600 years later. Our tribe still exists, we still celebrate, still rejoice.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can only hope that we heed Greta and the other climate prophets enough that two and a half millennia from today, our species will still be able to breathe air, drink water, and see the stars above, until like us, they too will be laid to rest on this <\/span>Bat-Tzion<\/span><\/em>, our Mother Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":69233,"id":69233,"title":"jer6-destruction","filename":"jer6-destruction.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer6-destruction.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/daughter-jerusalem-mother-earth\/jer6-destruction\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer6-destruction","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69225,"date":"2020-01-27 21:25:21","modified":"2020-01-27 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