{"id":69751,"date":"2020-02-05T23:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=69751"},"modified":"2023-09-04T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:09:28","slug":"god-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/god-is-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[384,429,463],"acf":{"old_id":"69751","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36277,"related_cahpter":"410","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Unlike those wooden idols...\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Lord God is Truth (10:10) is probably the second most famous line of today&#8217;s chapter (after the door-opening Seder night moment in verse 25 of &#8220;pour out your wrath&#8230;). Our recital of the Shema runs on into the next chapter to include the word truth, so that we can declare Jeremiah&#8217;s affirmation that God is truth (Talmud Berachot 14b).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what does it mean? The context helps us understand. The God of truth is contrasted with the blocks of wood that surrounding peoples worshipped. Jeremiah denounces the ways of neighboring nations as &#8220;dull and foolish; &#8220;following a doctrine that is but delusion&#8221; (Jer 8:10). Serving something that&#8217;s fixed and finite, like a piece of wood, makes even smart people stupid, the prophet implies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As opposed to this stultifying error, &#8220;The Lord God is Truth.&#8221; (10:10) Rashi picks up on the context commenting, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why? Because He is the Living God and King forever and therefore can stand behind His words; unlike people, who say they will do something, then they die, or become weak or lose their money and they cannot do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since God is not limited as human beings are, God&#8217;s words and commitments are backed by reliable truth, whereas people&#8217;s promises even if they mean them sincerely, are subject to human contingency and failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Talmud grasps the depths of Jeremiah&#8217;s meaning in a beautiful passage from Taanit 5a that urges us to open our minds to the possibility that &#8220;there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy,\u201d as Hamlet said. Quoting our verse, &#8220;with one thing they are made foolish their doctrine is delusion, a piece of wood,&#8221; the Talmud interprets the &#8220;one thing&#8221; that makes you foolish as idol worship. But, citing an early verse in Jeremiah, this one thing was really two things: &#8220;they have abandoned Me, a source of living waters and hewn out broken cisterns that can hold no water,&#8221; the prophet accuses (Jeremiah 2:13.). Not merely did the people abandon God, a source of ever renewing life, but they also quarried for themselves Gods who, like broken water pits, leached away the very life that was poured into them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike the wooden idols whose fixed nature cramps and limits the worldview of those who believe in them, the God whom Jeremiah affirms as true is alive, infinite and the grounds of endless\u00a0 possibility.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":69752,"id":69752,"title":"jer10-idol1","filename":"jer10-idol1.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer10-idol1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/god-is-truth\/jer10-idol1\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer10-idol1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69751,"date":"2020-02-05 21:11:53","modified":"2022-03-19 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