{"id":72206,"date":"2020-03-22T23:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T21:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=72206"},"modified":"2020-03-22T23:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T21:22:26","slug":"jeremiah-between-victimhood-and-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/jeremiah-between-victimhood-and-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremiah Between Victimhood And Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Feminist, writer and literary critic Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was determined to excel. She would receive recurrent criticism of her exceptional drive, often mistaken for arrogance and in reaction to her unstoppable desire for learning, would respond: \u201cIn an environment like mine, what may have seemed too lofty or ambitious in my character was absolutely needed to keep the heart from breaking and the enthusiasm from extinction\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The environment was hostile for this woman, who in her precocious girlhood was determined to make of the stumbling blocks ahead of her opportunities to overcome challenges as she expressed: \u201cnothing more widely distinguishes man from man than energy of will.\u201d This ambitious woman made a difference in many people\u2019s lives through writings and political involvements and so did our Prophet, Jeremiah. Jeremiah, whose life was not calm, separates his own identity for the greater good. He feels defeated and tired of trying to make people change their course of lives, nevertheless he doesn\u2019t give up. Some people are scared, the inhabitants of Jerusalem fear the consequences of the exilic period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The prophet tells them:<\/span><\/p>\n

If you remain in this land, I will build you and not overthrow, I will plant you and not uproot; for I regret the punishment I have brought upon you. Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you fear; do not be afraid of him\u2014declares the LORD\u2014for I am with you to save you and to rescue you from his hands. I will dispose him to be merciful to you: he shall show you mercy and bring you back to your own land. (Jer. 42:10-12)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah invokes the sense of belonging to the Land. He invokes the strong connection to God\u2019s promises. The prophet hopes for a better future knowing that the stories we tell ourselves about our past shape how we come to see our personhood and who we ultimately become. There is a <\/span>thin line between agency and victimhood<\/span><\/a> as the prophet wanders between those fields.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah knows his destiny, exiled and spiritually impoverished, and he attempts to rescue those who want to pave a different path, seeking an alternative fate to destruction and exile. The prophet looks for a future that transcends the current state and finds a way to craft a chance for redemption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick learned from Goethe: \u201cIn reading some of Goethe\u2019s sayings, so worshipped by his votaries, I came across this, \u2018Live in the All\u2019. That is to say, your separate identity is but a wretched one, but get out of yourself, spread and expand yourself, and bring to yourself the tinglings of life that are felt in the flowers and the woods\u201d. In this chapter, Jeremiah tries to follow the teachings of the vastness of the universe and to explore the many opportunities that life might present even in times of peril. The prophet is ready to embrace other paths.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Jeremiah Between Victimhood And Agency","main_caption":"Jeremiah knows his destiny, and he attempts to rescue those who want to pave a different path, seeking an alternative fate to destruction and exile","main_caption_size":"2","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72207,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72206\/revisions\/72207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}