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God\u2019s advice to remain in place, as delivered by Jeremiah in the previous chapter, was rejected by the inciters of the mob. They could not accuse him of outright falsification because they had acknowledged his veracity by summoning him. Instead, they accused him of \u201cspinning\u201d his message to concur with the political views of Baruch ben Neriah. They then forced all the remnant\u2014including Jeremiah\u2014to accompany them, as they made their way to Tahpanhes, which Shadal* identified as Tophna Pelusiaca, on Egypt\u2019s easternmost border.<\/span><\/p>\n

There, God gave Jeremiah the following instructions: <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Get yourself large stones and embed them in mortar (<\/span>melet<\/span><\/i>) in the brick structure (<\/span>malben<\/span><\/i>) at the entrance to Pharaoh\u2019s palace in Tahpanhes, with some Judeans looking on\u201d (9). The precise meanings of the words <\/span>melet<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>malben<\/span><\/i> are the subject of some exegetical disagreement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashi saw the root of the word <\/span>melet<\/span><\/i> as L-U-T and the <\/span>mem<\/span><\/i> as a prefix and translated it with the Old French <\/span>envelopement<\/span><\/i> (\u05d0\u05e0\u05d5\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05e4\u05de\u05e0\u05d8), i.e., \u201cwrap it in the clay of the bricks.\u201d His student Yosef Kara used the same Old French and translated <\/span>malben<\/span><\/i> as <\/span>mortar<\/span><\/i>. Radak said that \u201cL-U-T is the material from which bricks are made, or some other substance such as plaster or sand, and <\/span>malben<\/span><\/i> is where the bricks are fired or manufactured.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Shadal questioned whether a furnace for firing bricks would be situated alongside a royal palace, and offered, instead, an interpretation he credited to his student, Yitzhak Pardo.<\/span><\/p>\n

A <\/span>malben<\/span><\/i> is a stockpile of bricks and of other things that are required for construction. Such a stockpile was situated next to Pharaoh\u2019s palace, or it was placed there [temporarily] to strengthen the wall and the palace out of fear of the Babylonians. That stockpile also contained a lot of mortar for all the construction and that is where Jeremiah deposited the stones.<\/span><\/p>\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":72250,"id":72250,"title":"jer43-bricks","filename":"jer43-bricks.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer43-bricks.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/bricks-and-mortar\/jer43-bricks\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer43-bricks","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":72249,"date":"2020-03-23 21:19:14","modified":"2020-03-23 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