{"id":70765,"date":"2020-02-26T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T11:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=70765"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T10:28:32","slug":"god-roars-like-a-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/god-roars-like-a-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"God Roars Like A Lion"},"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":[384,437],"acf":{"old_id":"70765","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"425","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But also coos like a dove...","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter, Jeremiah is told by God to prophecy to the sinful inhabitants of Jerusalem their coming punishment: \u201cYou are to prophesy all those things to them, and then say to them: The LORD roars from on high, He makes His voice heard from His holy dwelling; He roars aloud over His [earthly] abode\u201d (25:30). Jeremiah\u2019s words are parallel to similar declarations made by two other prophets: \u201cThe Lord will roar from Zion. He will make His voice heard from Jerusalem\u201d (Amos 1:2, Joel 4:16). Significantly, these prophets describe God as roaring from Zion, His dwelling place, the Temple in Jerusalem. But Jeremiah describes God as roaring \u201cfrom on high\u201d (i.e. from His heavenly abode) over Jerusalem that is about to be destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The amazing depiction of God \u201croaring\u201d figures significantly in the opening discussion in the Talmud Bavli (Berakot 3a), on the proper times for reciting the evening and the morning Shema. Rabbi Eliezer holds that the evening Shema may be recited \u201cuntil the end of the third watch\u201d. It should be noted that in ancient times, the hours of the day and night were divided into \u201cwatches\u201d (<em>ashmurot<\/em> &#8212; see for example Psalms 90:4) marked by the watchmen calling out the changing of the guard. In the Gemara, it is God who \u201ccalls out the watches\u201d. Rabbi Eliezer adds that at each watch the Holy One, blessed be He, sits and roars like a lion. For it is written: \u201c\u2018The Lord will roar [<em>yish\u2019ag<\/em>] from on high. He will make His voice heard from His holy dwelling. He will surely roar [<em>sha\u2019og yish\u2019ag<\/em>] over His abode\u201d (Jeremiah 25:30). Rashi suggests that Rabbi Eliezer learns that the night is divided into three watches from the repetition of the verbal root Sh-\u2019A-G (\u201cshout\u201d) in our verse from Jeremiah. The Gemara adds a tradition that at each of the three watches of the night the Holy One, blessed be He, sits and roars like a lion and says: Woe to the children, on account of whose sins I destroyed My house and burnt My temple and exiled them among the nations of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This discussion concludes with a remarkable narrative that confirms this tragic depiction of divine pathos. Rabbi Yose, while praying in the ruins of Jerusalem, hears a divine voice cooing like a dove, saying: \u2018Woe to the children, on account of whose sins I destroyed My house and burnt My temple and exiled them among the nations of the world!\u2019 Surprisingly, the Prophet Elijah appears and explains that this actually happens three times every night. However, whenever Kaddish is recited in the synagogue and the congregation responds: \u201cMay His great Name be blessed!\u201d, the Holy One, blessed be He, shakes His head and says: \u2018Happy is the King who is so praised in His house!\u2019 But what remains for the Father who banished His children?\u00a0 And woe to the children who have been banished from the table of their Father!<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":70766,"id":70766,"title":"Jer25-lion","filename":"Jer25-lion.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer25-lion.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/god-roars-like-a-lion\/jer25-lion\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer25-lion","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70765,"date":"2020-02-26 11:12:49","modified":"2020-02-26 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