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\u201cThus said the LORD, the God of Israel: As with these good figs, so will I single out for good the Judean exiles whom I have driven out from this place to the land of the Chaldeans\u201d (verse 5).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a whole, the congregation of Israel lived an inauthentic life outside of Israel\u201d (Rabbi Abraham Isaak Kook, Orot Hatorah 13:7).<\/span><\/p>\n

In many of its forms, modern Zionism has involved a rejection of exilic life. Likewise, exilic life, at its outset, required a rejection of a certain form of Jewish nationalism. Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies reorient the center of Jewish life from Israel to Babylon, even as Jeremiah himself remains fixed in Jerusalem. The process begins with the legitimization of Jewish life in Babylon as a viable national identity, separate from the national identity embodied by the monarchy of Zedekiah and the city of Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah utilizes the metaphor of two baskets of figs to first equate the Jewish people living in Babylon (after their removal with King Jehoiachin in 597 BCE) with those who remain under Zedekiah\u2019s rule in Jerusalem (1-10). The structures of state and those of exile are simply containers, which hold no more meaning than their ability to organize the people. In comparing these two baskets of figs, Jeremiah denigrates those who stay in Jerusalem as a disgrace, horror and curse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By contrast, Jews living in Babylon will experience divine favor, will be built up, and will be graced with knowledge of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

In moving the Jewish \u201ccenter of gravity\u201d from Jerusalem to Babylon, Jeremiah theologically decouples the Jewish people from its land, so that it might survive as \u201ca people without a land.\u201d This constitutes a crucial move in the Jewish story – allowing the Jewish people to remain connected to the land in their dreams and prayers, while residing on foreign soil. This too might be considered a form of Zionism – an inverse Zionism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: The Ptolemaic geocentric model of the Universe according to the Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho (detail) \/ 1568\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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