{"id":69987,"date":"2020-02-11T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=69987"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:08:30","slug":"a-parable-of-an-angry-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-parable-of-an-angry-king\/","title":{"rendered":"A Parable Of An Angry King"},"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":[418,432,513],"acf":{"old_id":"69987","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"414","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Moses and Rachel get into the act...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter, in a period of severe drought, Jeremiah turns to God and asks: \u201cHave You then rejected Judah? Have You spurned Zion? Why have You smitten us, so that there is no cure?\u201d (Jeremiah 14:19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midrash Pesiqta Rabbati 31 concretizes this question with a parable of a king who became angry at his royal consort, whom he loved very much. But because she knew full well that the king loved her so much, she took liberties with his honor and willfully disobeyed his orders. One time she angered the king so much that he ordered his servants to drag her to him by her hair. When the consort\u2019s advisor saw what was happening, he immediately came before the king. He pleaded: O my master, the king! Tell me whether you might eventually want to return her to your good grace. If so, as any man, you should control your wife. But if you have no intention of returning to her, you should legally divorce her so that she might marry another man. <br \/>\nSimilarly, Jeremiah said before the Holy One, blessed be He: O Master of the Universe! \u201cHave You, then, rejected Judah? Have You spurned Zion?\u201d If You have any intention of returning to her: \u201cWhy have You smitten us, so that there is no cure?\u201d God answered Jeremiah: Go to your master, and to the master of your master, Moses the master of all the prophets, so I said to him at the conclusion of all the admonitions: \u201cAnd yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God\u201d (Leviticus 26:44).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lamentations Rabbah Proem 24 dramatizes our verse. When the Temple was destroyed, Abraham came weeping before the Holy One, blessed be He, plucking his beard, tearing his hair, striking his face, rending his garments, with ashes upon his head. He walked about the Temple, lamenting and crying\u2026When the Ministering Angels saw him, they arranged themselves in rows like mourners, saying before the Holy One, blessed be He: \u201cHave You, then, rejected Judah? Have You spurned Zion? Why have You smitten us, so that there is no cure?\u201d But this was of no avail. Then, the Matriarch, Rachel, came and demanded of God: Why should You, a King, who lives eternally and are merciful, be jealous of idolatry in which there is no reality? So, why should you exile my children for their sin of worshipping other gods?! Only then, was the Holy One, blessed be He stirred to mercy. He said: For your sake, Rachel, I will restore Israel to their place. 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