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Robert Fulghum, a minister in Utah, once wrote an essay called “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”. People enjoyed it so much that they made copies of it and send it out to their friends. Together with other essays, it became a #1 best-selling book. Here is part of the essay which was the book’s catalyst:<\/span><\/p>\n

All of what I really need<\/span> t<\/span>o know about how to live\u2026I learned in kindergarten\u2026<\/span>
\n<\/span>These are the things I learned:<\/span><\/p>\n

Share everything.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Play fair.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Don’t hit people.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Put things back where you found them.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Clean up your own mess.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Don’t take things that aren’t yours.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody…<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah, a prophet from Anatoth, lived 2500 years before Robert Fulghum. At that time, many people thought that by bringing sacrifices, God’s love and protection were guaranteed. In response to this idea, Jeremiah said the following prophecy:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat meat\u201d (7: 21).<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah was saying that sacrifices don\u2019t have any religious value in the eyes of God, if they are giving prior to the correction of one’s actions. The implication of this prophecy is that God doesn’t wish for the people to bring sacrifices to the Temple, until they repent.\u00a0<\/span>Jeremiah explains God’s reasoning:<\/span><\/p>\n

For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices (7:22).<\/span><\/p>\n

The people who heard Jeremiah proclaim this prophecy were undoubtedly confused. In the Torah, particularly in the book of Leviticus, God clearly commands that the people bring sacrifices. What does Jeremiah mean when he says that God didn’t ask their fathers to do so? To clarify his message, Jeremiah continues to prophesize:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2026but this thing I commanded them, saying: ‘Hear my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and walk in all the ways that I command you, that it may be well with you’ (7:23).<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah wasn’t saying that God is against sacrifices.\u00a0 Rather, Jeremiah was giving a similar message to the above essay of Robert Fulghum:\u00a0 First work on the basics. Promote justice, show kindness, and give charity. These are the items which the people of Israel should have “learned in kindergarten.” After having fulfilled these fundamental items, Jeremiah agrees that sacrifices should be given, as we can see from his prophecy about the redemption:<\/span><\/p>\n

You will again say\u2026’Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, because His mercy endures forever’, while bringing thanksgiving sacrifices into the house of the Lord (33:10-11).<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah’s ideas were not at all popular in his time. The people refused to listen to his prophecies, and did not pass them on to their friends. 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