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In 1975, there \u201cappeared\u201d in the antiquities market, a bulla, an inscribed clay seal, engraved with the name Baruch ben Neriah. This terracotta item, still displayed at the Israel Museum, apparently was a modern forgery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While the seal is probably a fake, the bearer of the name carved on it was quite real.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJeremiah instructed Baruch, \u2018I am in hiding; I cannot go to the House of the LORD. But you go and read aloud the words of the LORD from the scroll which you wrote at my dictation, to all the people in the House of the LORD on a fast day; thus, you will also be reading them to all the Judeans who come in from the towns\u2019\u201d (Jer. 36:5-6).<\/span><\/p>\n

A loyal friend of Jeremiah, Baruch is recorded to have received a mysterious oracle from God in the midst of Jerusalem’s destruction by the Babylonians. This scribe, assistant of the prophet, edited or even wrote the Book of Jeremiah and also left behind apocryphal works, worthy of our attention, that link together <\/span>many aspects of the Babylonian exile\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the words of the book which Baruch the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah\u2026wrote in Babylon, on the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people who came to hear the book,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

and in the hearing of the mighty men and the princes, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, small and great, all who dwelt in Babylon by the river Sud.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Then they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord\u201d<\/span><\/em> (1 Baruch 1:1-6)<\/span><\/p>\n

Quiet Baruch ben Neriah plays a crucial role in the exilic narrative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And I, Baruch, departed. And it came to pass after these things that the army of the Chaldees entered and seized the house, and all that was around it. And they led the people away captive and slew some of them, and bound Zedekiah the king, and sent him to the king of Babylon.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The word of God came to me, and said unto me: ‘Tell Jeremiah to go and support the captivity of the people unto Babylon. But you remain here amid the desolation of Zion, and I will show to you after these days what will befall at the end of days <\/span><\/em>(2 Baruch 9: 9-10)<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Talmud adds another dimension to the Baruch persona: \u201cStudying Torah is greater and more important that building the Temple. A proof of this is that for as long as Baruch ben Neriah was alive in Babylonia, Ezra, who was his disciple, did not leave him and go up to Eretz Yisrael to build the Temple\u201d<\/span> (Megillah 16b).<\/span><\/p>\n

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