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Why does God tell Jeremiah to bury an <\/span>azor<\/span><\/em>, a belt, or loincloth? Why couldn\u2019t God tell Jeremiah to bury socks or shoes or pants? The answer begins with the specific use of <\/span>azor<\/span><\/em>, which only appears four other times in Tanach.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>azor<\/em> <\/span>as something good:<\/span><\/p>\n

1) The belt identifies Elijah in the book of\u00a0 Kings II 1:8. Achaziah’s search party recognizes Elijah because of the <\/span>azor <\/span><\/em>he is wearing.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) In Isaiah 11, it describes the messiah’s two <\/span>azorim<\/span><\/em>, one being <\/span>tzedek<\/span><\/em>, “justice,” and one being emunah<\/em>, “faith.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The bad <\/span>azor<\/span><\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

3) In Isaiah 5:27, it says that a warrior coming to fight Israel will not loosen his <\/span>azor<\/span><\/em>. Meaning, the warrior will keep fighting Israel to punish them and he won\u2019t rest.<\/span><\/p>\n

4) In Ezekiel 23:15, a woman falls in love with the sons of Babylonia because she sees their turbans and <\/span>azorim<\/em> <\/span>and that’s how she identified them.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what is the connection?<\/span><\/p>\n

God is the <\/span>azor<\/span><\/em>. By having Jeremiah bury and abandon the <\/span>azor<\/span><\/em>, he is explaining to the Israelites what happens if they do not take care of this connection to God. If left buried under a rock the protection of God will disintegrate, and instead the <\/span>azor<\/em> <\/span>will be passed along to the warrior and the Babylonians who will take care of it, and cause harm to Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, if Israel takes care of the <\/span>azor<\/em> <\/span>– their connection to God – they will merit the <\/span>azor<\/em> <\/span>of Elijah, but also the Messiah who will bring a double <\/span>azor<\/em> <\/span>of <\/span>tzedek<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>emunah<\/span><\/em>, justice and faith.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"The Good And Bad \u201cAzor\u201d\u00a0","main_caption":"If Israel takes care of the azor - their connection to God - they will merit the Messiah who will bring a double azor of tzedek and emuna, justice and faith","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117593,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69943\/revisions\/117593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}