{"id":70295,"date":"2020-02-17T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=70295"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:01:44","slug":"the-ways-we-are-like-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-ways-we-are-like-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ways We Are Like Clay"},"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":[363,437],"acf":{"old_id":"70295","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"418","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"In the hands of The Potter\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter, Jeremiah is told by God to go to the house of the potter, to see how he forms clay vessels. The point of this story is that: \u201cJust like clay in the hands of the potter, so are you in My hands, O House of Israel!\u201d (18:6).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midrash Genesis Rabbah 72:6 applies this verse to what Leah says after she gives birth to her sixth son, Zebulun: \u201cGod has given me a choice gift; this time my husband will exalt me (<em>yizbeleni<\/em>, \u2018fertilize me\u2019 in rabbinic Hebrew), for I have borne him six sons\u201d (Genesis 30:20). This curious phrase is interpreted to teach that the more you fertilize (<em>mezabbel<\/em>) a field, the more fruit it produces (i.e. Leah implies that the more children I bear for Jacob, the more he will love me). Then, Leah \u201cbore him a daughter, and named her Dinah\u201d (Genesis 30:21). This illustrates that even when a woman is about to give birth, God can change the sex of the fetus, as it is written: \u201cJust like clay in the hands of the potter, so are you in My hands, O House of Israel!\u201d (Jeremiah 18:6). For, Dinah was initially conceived as a male, but at the moment of birth, God turned her into a female.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midrash Exodus Rabbah 46:4 asks: What is the meaning of \u201cBut, O Lord, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You are the Potter. We are all the work of Your hands\u201d (Isaiah 64:7). Israel said: Lord of the Universe! You have caused it to be written of us: \u201cJust like clay in the hands of the potter, so are you in My hands, O House of Israel!\u201d For this reason, do not abandon us though we sin, for we are but the clay and You are our potter. See now that if the potter makes a vessel and leaves in it a pebble, when it comes out of the furnace it will leak from the hole left by the pebble and lose whatever liquid is in it. Now, who caused the jar to leak and thus to lose its liquid? The potter who left the pebble in the vessel. Similarly, Israel pleads before God: You created in us an Evil Inclination from our youth, for it says, \u201cthe inclination of man\u2019s mind is evil from his youth\u201d (Genesis 8:21) and it is that which causes us now to sin\u2026 Remove it from us, we pray, in order that we may perform Your will. God replies: I will do this in the Time to Come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah\u2019s parable of clay in the hand of the potter is the Scriptural basis for the well-known medieval <em>piyyut<\/em> sung on Yom Kippur: \u201cLike clay in the hand of the potter, he expands it at will and contracts it at will. So are we in Your hand, O Preserver of kindness. 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