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There are images of utter desolation: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My tents are ravaged, all my tent cords are broken. My children have gone forth from me and are no more, no one is left to stretch out my tents and hang my tent cloths. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amidst this immense loss, Jeremiah pleads urgently with the Holy One to keep these horrors away from us. And then we arrive at: \u201cPour out your wrath on the nations who do not heed you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This thunderous verse is perhaps better known in Hebrew: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shefokh khamatkha al hagoyim<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from traditional Passover haggadahs. On our way to redemption during the seder, the text calls down divine revenge on Israel\u2019s enemies, God\u2019s opponents. This is a dramatic, and to many, uncomfortable low point during the seder. Do we really want to conjure up divine ire on people who do not believe in the God of Israel? Perhaps those are people sitting right here with us. What is this quote doing here? In fact, some people reject the very idea and omit the text. And some haggadot offer thoughtful alternatives. One work amends to: \u201cPour out your love on the nations who know You and on kingdoms who call Your name\u2026.\u201d Similarly, the haggadah long associated with the Maharal of Prague (1525-1609) introduces an Elijah who will \u201creconcile parents with children and children with parents.\u201d In the end of times, this love will prevent the destruction of the land. Beautiful, especially when we consider how much angst and social anxiety is often associated with big family gatherings!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though both texts claim to be many centuries old, they are, we now know, products of the twentieth century. Does it matter? Only to historical purists. It is perhaps significant that modern Jews felt the need to change these lines, while pre-modern Jews for the most part seem to have been content to engage in revenge fantasies during one of the most dramatic moments of the seder.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, some people choose to quote Jeremiah proudly, perhaps even defiantly, while others spiritualize the vengeance and point out that the avenger is God alone. So will Jeremiah\u2019s <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shefokh khamatekha<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> experience a renaissance in today\u2019s age of growing antisemitism? I hope not, but in the end, this is up to each and one of us when we open our Haggadah this Passover.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: \u201c<em>Shefoch Ahavatacha<\/em> &#8211; Pour Out Your Love Upon The Nations,\u201d photo by zeeveez of graffiti in the Katamonim neighborhood of Jerusalem, 2010 \/ flickr<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":69741,"id":69741,"title":"","filename":"jer10-shfoch.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer10-shfoch.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/pouring-out-wrath-and-love-in-an-age-of-anti-semitism\/digital-camera\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"digital-camera","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69738,"date":"2020-02-05 13:55:22","modified":"2020-02-05 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