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His everyday experiences in the leadup to catastrophe, such as going to a potter&#8217;s house (Jer. 19), make him live the prophecies he is called on to convey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today&#8217;s chapter is one of the most intense examples. Unlike the rest of the book, it is told in first person, from Jeremiah&#8217;s perspective. His personal experience is central to the meaning of the episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the height of Babylonian siege on Jerusalem, when the fall of the city was imminent and Jeremiah languished in prison for his seditious warnings, God called him to buy his cousin Hanamel&#8217;s field, as Hanamel&#8217;s nearest relative. This command was based on the law of the redeemer, which we also see in the book of Ruth. If a person becomes so poor that he has to sell his field, his next of kin has the right of first refusal, keeping the field in the family. This practice is rooted\u00a0 in the laws of the Jubilee in Leviticus chapter 25, where fields that are sold by poor owners are redeemed and returned to their owners every 50 years, during the Jubilee year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah instructs his faithful scribe Baruch to do the deal, saying: &#8220;Take these documents, this deed of purchase, the sealed text and the open one, and put them in an earthen jar, so that they may last a long time.&#8221; This act of faith in the long-term future, when Jerusalem is on the brink of annihilation, seems crazy. Yet Jeremiah assures his amanuensis, &#8220;For thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, &#8220;Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be purchased in the land&#8221; (14-15).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The future fate of Jeremiah&#8217;s field is not just a family drama. It is also a metaphor for the nation. The Jubilee principle underpinning the story that all the dispossessed will return to their land is held out here as a promise to the Jewish people. The reason for the Jubilee redemption is,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;The land shall not be sold forever; for the land is Mine&#8221; (Lev. 25:23). As Rabbi David Sabato writes, &#8220;Here the principle moves from the individual to the national plane.&#8221; Jeremiah himself is not only the redeemer of his needy cousin&#8217;s field. 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