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Watch: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. \"I Have A Dream,\" Aug. 28, 1963 <\/a><\/p>\r\n

Following are excerpts from his prophetic, historic speech:<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\r\n

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.<\/p>\r\n

We have come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.<\/p>\r\n

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God\u2019s children.<\/p>\r\n

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, \u201cWhen will you be satisfied?\u201d \u00a0We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.<\/p>\r\n

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.<\/p>\r\n

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.<\/p>\r\n

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.<\/p>\r\n

I have a dream today.<\/p>\r\n

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

This is our hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.<\/p>\r\n

And when this happens, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God\u2019s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, \u201cFree at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!\u201d<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":65063,"alt":"","title":"mlk","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk.jpg","width":1920,"height":1919,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk-1024x1024.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1919,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk-1200x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mlk-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vP4iY1TtS3s","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Prophets Of Today","tile_main_caption":"Rev. 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\u201cReunion\u201d is a 1989 movie about a Jewish and German boy who become friends in Germany in 1933. As the film develops, the two boys must confront the rise of Hitler and their two divergent backgrounds. In one scene, the Jewish boy\u2019s father discusses the ascendant Nazi party. He is convinced that Germany will not fall for the Nazi propaganda. \u201cThis is the land of Goethe and Schiller and Beethoven. They won't fall for that!\u201d he proclaims. There was a na\u00efve belief that German culture provided inherent protection that would prevent the rise of Hitler.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah describes a similarly na\u00efve situation in Jerusalem. The prophet warns the people that they should not rely on the comforting words of the false prophets:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Don\u2019t put your trust in illusions and say, \u2018The Temple of GOD, the Temple of GOD, the Temple of GOD are these [buildings]\u2019 (verse 4).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The false prophets promise the people that everything will be fine. This is the land of God\u2019s Temple. Nothing will happen here. It is easy for the people to fall for this comforting message. The Temple had been around for hundreds of years. The North was destroyed but they had no Temple. Through all the downturns, Jerusalem was always safe. Why would it be different now?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later in the chapter, Jeremiah gives the perfect answer:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Do you consider this House, which bears My name, to be a den of thieves? As for Me, I have been watching\u2014declares GOD. Just go to My place at Shiloh, where I had established My name formerly, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel (verses 11-12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The people quickly forgot that there was another location where God had established his name, the Tabernacle at Shiloh. The Tabernacle stood there for hundreds of years as well. When Eli the high priest and the people sinned, God sent the Philistines who ransacked the Tabernacle and destroyed it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The residents of Jerusalem should be wary. It happened in Shiloh, and it can happen in Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In this chapter, God directed Jeremiah to position himself on a specific site on the Temple Mount and to address all those who passed him on their way in, saying: \u201cMend your ways and your actions, and I will let you dwell in this place\u201d (3). He also added a word of caution: \u201cDon\u2019t put your trust in illusions and say, \u2018The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord are these [buildings]\u2019\u201d (4).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why the threefold repetition?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi, relying on the Aramaic Targum, connected it to the three annual pilgrimage festivals, and was followed in this interpretation by his younger colleague Yosef Kara. Radak, however, on the authority of his father, Yosef, identified it with three specific chambers in the Temple: the outermost (\u2018<\/em><\/span>ulam<\/span><\/em>), the middle (<\/span>heikhal<\/span><\/em>), and the innermost (<\/span>d\u2019vir<\/span><\/em>). Shadal concurred in Radak\u2019s identification, adding, in the name of Ludovico, a Christian exegete, that it is conceivable that as Jeremiah referred to each of the three halls, he pointed to it with his finger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These interpretations to v.4 link up with vs.10-11, in which the prophet denounced the people who thought the Temple would provide them with sanctuary from the enemy and who said: \u201cWe are safe\u2014to do all these abhorrent things.\u201d He asked them, rhetorically, \u201cDo you consider this House, which bears My name, to be a den of thieves? As for Me, I have been watching\u2014declares the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What had God been watching? The earlier exegetes assumed that Jeremiah was simply reporting to the people that while they may have been fooling themselves about the security offered by the Temple\u2014they were not fooling Him; He \u201csaw\u201d through them. Shadal,* however, saw in it something more consequential:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If it appears to be a den of thieves to you, then I, too, regard it as such. Therefore, I no longer consider it sacred and I will give it over into the hands of the enemy. It will not provide you with cover.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction.<\/span><\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":69442,"alt":"","title":"jer7-temple3","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3.jpg","width":1278,"height":314,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-300x74.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":74,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-768x189.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":189,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-1024x252.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":252,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3.jpg","1536x1536-width":1278,"1536x1536-height":314,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3.jpg","2048x2048-width":1278,"2048x2048-height":314,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-1200x295.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":295,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3.jpg","home_baner-width":1278,"home_baner-height":314}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The Temple! 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Robert Fulghum, a minister in Utah, once wrote an essay called \"All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten\". People enjoyed it so much that they made copies of it and send it out to their friends. Together with other essays, it became a #1 best-selling book. Here is part of the essay which was the book's catalyst:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

All of what I really need<\/span> t<\/span>o know about how to live\u2026I learned in kindergarten\u2026<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>These are the things I learned:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Share everything.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Play fair.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don't hit people.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Put things back where you found them.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Clean up your own mess.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don't take things that aren't yours.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah, a prophet from Anatoth, lived 2500 years before Robert Fulghum. At that time, many people thought that by bringing sacrifices, God's love and protection were guaranteed. In response to this idea, Jeremiah said the following prophecy:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat meat\u201d (7: 21).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah was saying that sacrifices don\u2019t have any religious value in the eyes of God, if they are giving prior to the correction of one's actions. The implication of this prophecy is that God doesn't wish for the people to bring sacrifices to the Temple, until they repent.\u00a0<\/span>Jeremiah explains God's reasoning:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices (7:22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The people who heard Jeremiah proclaim this prophecy were undoubtedly confused. In the Torah, particularly in the book of Leviticus, God clearly commands that the people bring sacrifices. What does Jeremiah mean when he says that God didn't ask their fathers to do so? To clarify his message, Jeremiah continues to prophesize:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u2026but this thing I commanded them, saying: 'Hear my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and walk in all the ways that I command you, that it may be well with you' (7:23).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah wasn't saying that God is against sacrifices.\u00a0 Rather, Jeremiah was giving a similar message to the above essay of Robert Fulghum:\u00a0 First work on the basics. Promote justice, show kindness, and give charity. These are the items which the people of Israel should have \"learned in kindergarten.\" After having fulfilled these fundamental items, Jeremiah agrees that sacrifices should be given, as we can see from his prophecy about the redemption:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You will again say\u2026'Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, because His mercy endures forever', while bringing thanksgiving sacrifices into the house of the Lord (33:10-11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah's ideas were not at all popular in his time. The people refused to listen to his prophecies, and did not pass them on to their friends. 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Chapter 7 of Jeremiah opens with God again admonishing the people about their behavior and its consequences. \u201cImprove your ways and your deeds and I will cause you to dwell in this place (7:3).\u201d Unlike previous passages in which the prophecy focuses on the threat of exile and destruction as a result of idol worship, here God reframes it in the positive, stating the reward should the people heed His word. \u201cI will cause you to dwell in this place\u201d, meaning they will earn the privilege of living in the land of Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is never a question about possessing the land, because that was already promised, reiterated and detailed multiple times throughout Torah. But owning something and having the merit to use it for good are two different things. The former is given, the latter is earned.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God goes on to tell us how we earn the right to dwell in our land, describing how to fulfill the directive to \u201cimprove your ways and deeds (7:3-6).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. \u201cDo not trust the false statements that say, The Sanctuary of the LORD, the Sanctuary of the LORD, the Sanctuary the LORD are they (7:4)!\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Truly do justice between man and his fellow;<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Do not oppress strangers, orphans or widows;<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Do not shed innocent blood; and<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Do not go after other gods.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Interpretations on the triple use of the phrase \u201cthe sanctuary of the LORD\u201d include that it refers to the three temple services (Targum); three parts of the inner sanctuary (Radak); the previously destroyed three temples at Shilo, Nob and Gideon (Midrash); and the three Temples that will be given to us, the first two of which are temporary (Talmud Nazir 32b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Malbim\u2019s take on this verse suggests that a different syntax defines the real meaning. It is not a triplicate repetition but a duplicate \u201cthe sanctuary of the LORD\u201d followed by a clarification. The intent of this verse, says Malbim, is to be read as, do not trust the false prophets who say that it is the physical Temple of the LORD that causes God to reside there. Rather, \u201cThe Sanctuary of the LORD are THEY!\u201d \u2013 the Jewish people themselves. It is the people and their good deeds that bring God\u2019s presence to the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The agency for God\u2019s dwelling in the Temple and our dwelling in our land is our own: our good deeds, and relationships with others and with God. And the road map for that is provided in five steps. Perhaps we\u2019re doing something right because we are dwelling in the land. Now we need to work toward being the sanctuary in which God can reside.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    In this chapter, Jeremiah rails against the appearance of piety among the people of the Judean kingdom, addressing them from the gates of the temple. Jeremiah is commanded by God to call out to those who enter the temple, with a mocking refrain:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Don\u2019t put your trust in illusions and say, \u201cThe Temple of the LORD, the Temple of the LORD, the Temple of the LORD are these [buildings]\u201d (7:3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What is the illusion of these people? They appear to believe that God will always protect God\u2019s Temple. They assert that their actions in the Temple are sufficient to save them from God\u2019s wrath.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah comes to the very gates of the temple to reject this notion:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    No, if you really mend your ways and your actions; if you execute justice between one man and another; if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow; if you do not shed the blood of the innocent in this place; if you do not follow other gods, to your own hurt\u2014 then only will I let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers for all time (7:4-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah suggests repeatedly in this chapter that murder, theft and oppression of the weak are commonplace (as are idolatry and others). In this chapter, we begin to see Jeremiah as a social justice crusader as well as a crusader for fidelity to God. The people, it appears, serve false gods, oppress the weak, and come to the Temple to seek salvation through their service of the true God, but this service is loathsome to God coming from murderers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Where does this false sense of security come from? Rabbi Alex Israel points to the miraculous salvation of Jerusalem in 2 Kings 19. In his book, <\/span>II Kings: In A Whirlwind<\/span><\/em>, he writes that \u201cironically, the wondrous miracle of Jerusalem\u2019s rescue from Sennacherib\u2019s attack made it almost impossible for subsequent generations to believe the words of the prophet as he threatened the impending demise of the city.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In our chapter, God threatens \u201cmy anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place\u201d but it does not make an impression on the people. In subsequent chapters, we continue to see Jeremiah chastise them for the same sins. We know from 2 Kings, though, that nothing changes. Their faith in the invulnerability of Jerusalem is apparently unshaken.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In financial advertisements, you may have seen the following disclaimer: \u201cPast performance is not a guarantee of future results.\u201d The same is true today. Like the Jews of Jerusalem should have asked, we too should wonder: on which laurels are we resting? 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    The Talmud in Bava Metzia teaches that God always hears the prayers of the broken- hearted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Indeed, much of the Jewish prayer service, especially on the High Holidays, is dedicated to reminding God to listen to our prayers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    So what do we do when God doesn\u2019t want to listen?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In verse 16, God tells Jeremiah not to pray on behalf of the Israelites, because God will not listen. On those \u201cglass half full\u201d kind of days, this verse provides some comfort that God does indeed heed the pleas of the brokenhearted. But on glass half empty days, those days in which we are particularly likely to want to cry out for help or even just for God\u2019s attention, this verse could be terrifying. Sure, God might hear our prayer, but what do we do if God has turned away from us, or decided to meet our prayers with obstinate rejection?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It seems the verse contains its own answer. God has to tell Jeremiah not to pray specifically because God will be moved by Jeremiah\u2019s prayer if Jeremiah offers it. In the case of the disobedient Israelites, God was determined to enact their punishment. But the verse seems to imply that God needs to take the extra step of forbidding Jeremiah\u2019s prayer because it might interfere with God\u2019s plan. It seems God learned from Moses, that God cannot help but listen to pleas for mercy on God\u2019s people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    To those who doubt God\u2019s attentiveness to our needs, this chapter of Jeremiah delivers a strong message: God hears our pleading and prayer, and God is moved by it, even when God would rather not have mercy on us. God\u2019s default is listening. This, of course, does not guarantee any answer, let alone an answer we want. But at least we can know that, like the Talmud claims, the gates of prayer are always open to the brokenhearted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    image: \"One\" - statue of prayer in the three monotheistic relgions, Nes Ammim, sculptor: Tova Halperin, photo by Dr. Avishai Teicher, 2013 \/ wikicommons CC2.5<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":69447,"alt":"","title":"jer7-prayer","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":600,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Don\u2019t Pray - God Just Might Listen","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Especially if you are brokenhearted and pleading for mercy","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":69447,"alt":"","title":"jer7-prayer","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":600,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-prayer-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"7","chapter_main_number":"407","date":"20270322","wall_id":"407"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":9,"id":"69452","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"It\u2019s Not About God ","post_title":"It\u2019s Not About God","slug":"its-not-about-god","old_id":"69452","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34250,"post_title":"Sarah Rudolph","slug":"sarah-rudolph","old_id":"34250","first_name":"Sarah ","last_name":"Rudolph","description":"Sarah Rudolph is a freelance Jewish educator, writer, and editor. 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    \u201cWhy does God need our prayers?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I\u2019ve been asked this question numerous times by adolescents who either just don\u2019t feel like reciting ancient liturgy or maybe are truly troubled by the philosophical issue. If God is perfect, why does He care what we do? More, isn\u2019t it a little much for Him to demand that we tell Him how great He is? He doesn\u2019t need it, and it seems beneath Him to want it!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Good questions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In a sense, God raises the same issue Himself in Jeremiah chapter 7 \u2013 not about prayer, but about general conduct that may not match His demands.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201c\u2018Is it Me they are vexing?\u2019 says the LORD. \u2018It is rather themselves, to their own disgrace.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    No, God says, human sins don\u2019t really anger Him; they don\u2019t affect Him in any way. But they affect us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Back to prayer: I once read a fantasy series in which a high premium was placed on taking blood oaths to a monarch. For much of the series, I thought it was weird: why were these characters so desperate to attach themselves to another person? Especially as I saw the negative reasons behind some of these oaths: individuals tricked into swearing themselves to an evil queen, or so depressed that handing their lives over to another (even if they knew she was evil) seemed like an excellent escape.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    As I read on, however, I came to appreciate the deep longing of several characters to attach themselves to another queen, whose kingdom was described as \u201ca beacon of light and learning.\u201d I came to appreciate their wish to add meaning to their lives by declaring dedication to the good represented by that kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I came to see that blood oath as a metaphor for prayer \u2013 an opportunity to proclaim oneself devoted, entirely and perhaps (though without magical compulsion) irrevocably, to the ultimate Good, the ultimate Beacon of light and learning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Though the queens in the book benefited from the oath, God isn\u2019t affected by our prayers \u2013 but we are. We stand taller and prouder, having attached ourselves to what we respect most highly.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And returning now to Jeremiah: The prophet points out that injunctions against idolatry and other sins are not truly about God, but about the people. God may do angry things (as in verse 20), but He isn\u2019t really angry; they haven\u2019t hurt Him. It\u2019s the people themselves who suffer when they engage in behavior that is beneath them, shaming themselves with atrocities like theft and murder (verse 9) and displays in honor of other gods (verse 18) when they could instead have raised themselves up to be better, to connect with something greater.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Perhaps it is confusion about this very point that is the problem \u2013 similar, in a way, to modern distinctions between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. 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    After recounting Judah\u2019s sins God warns Jeremiah \u201cPray not for this nation.\u201d (Jer.7:16)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    He doesn\u2019t. When he prays, it is to call for revenge on Judah\u2019s tormentors (9:25), or pitiably complaining of his humiliation that his doom-prophecy is unfulfilled (20:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah treads in Moses\u2019s paths in many ways - reluctant prophets, in conflict with the people they direct, each proposing a new covenant with the nation. Moses leads the nation for the 40 years preceding their entry into the land, Jeremiah leads them for the 40 years preceding their exit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Yet while Moses pleads for mercy for the people, even to his own detriment, Jeremiah pleads for himself to the detriment of the nation. This is not a simple reflection on their contrasting characters, but a window into the Tanach\u2019s plan for history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Judah\u2019s punishment for their failure to meet their obligations, within the context of the theology of the Tanach, is bittersweet. The cause and effect, crime and punishment, emphasizes the message of ethical monotheism. The suffering of the exiles allowed them to inculcate Moses\u2019s song (Deut.32:5) \u201cDo not ascribe corruption to Him, the defect is His sons\u2019.\u201d This message stood in clear contrast with the corresponding pagan view - that capricious gods were to blame.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It was at this moment - exile - that the new idea of monotheism was released to the world. For the first time in history, a nation was expunged from their territory but their belief system endured. Their very particular theology that allowed their culture not just to endure the systematic suppression efforts of their captors, but to ultimately wield huge influence over all future human thought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Good and evil exist independently of God, yet they do have have consequences: life or death, reward or punishment, peace or exile. Death, punishment and exile are not to be taken to impugn God\u2019s omnipotence - on the contrary, they vindicate not just His existence but reaffirm His moral nature. For the first time in history, there was a God removed from the idea of place, available to all people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When Israel sinned with the calf, Moses argued that God needed to defend His own name in the eyes of the Egyptians - this argument was persuasive, the people were saved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The goal of Israel\u2019s journey isn\u2019t nationhood, land or righting wrongs - it\u2019s enlightenment of mankind. Egypt is used as a placeholder for all as-yet-unenlightened non-Israelites. Though Israel had committed the most brazen of all possible sins, at the most auspicious moment their punishment must be limited since Israel is an indispensable tool for a greater purpose.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah couldn\u2019t use Moses\u2019 defense - God\u2019s abilities were revealed by Israel's initial establishment. But God\u2019s morality was not revealed. Much more than Joshua\u2019s conquest, exile for their sins would reveal the true nature of God to the world. Behold the God of morality, something heretofore unknown.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Tanach\u2019s theology prevents Jeremiah from praying for the people if this would retard the inexorable progress of humanity.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Exile Of Israel Enlightens The World","tile_main_caption":"Behold the God of universal morality! For the first time in history, there was a God removed from the idea of place, available to all people","tile_main_caption_size":"2","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"7","chapter_main_number":"407","date":"20270322","wall_id":"407"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"374","name":"Humanity","old_id":"774"},{"term_id":"384","name":"God","old_id":"784"},{"term_id":"436","name":"Morality","old_id":"836"},{"term_id":"832","name":"Theology","old_id":"1232"}]},{"order":11,"id":"69407","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Between Love And Accusation, Hope And Despair ","post_title":"Between Love And Accusation, Hope And Despair","slug":"between-love-and-accusation-hope-and-despair","old_id":"69407","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38552,"post_title":"Benny Lau","slug":"benny-lau","old_id":"38552","first_name":"Benny","last_name":"Lau ","description":"Rav Benny Lau is the founder and co-head of the Israeli initiative 929 along with Gal Gabbai. In addition, he is the rabbi of the Ramban synagogue in Jerusalem and is a community leader, activist, author, and public speaker.","short_description":"Rav Benny Lau is the founder and co-head of the Israeli initiative 929 along with Gal Gabbai.","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":1708,"alt":"","title":"","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","medium-width":150,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","medium_large-width":150,"medium_large-height":150,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","large-width":150,"large-height":150,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":150,"1536x1536-height":150,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":150,"2048x2048-height":150,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","post_full_size-width":150,"post_full_size-height":150,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8-1.jpg","home_baner-width":150,"home_baner-height":150}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"407","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"A look into Jerusalem\u2019s backyards\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

    Just as Jeremiah's first prophecy heralded the coming of both destruction and rebuilding, just as his first visions were of a flowering almond branch as well as a wind-blown tumbleweed, the prophet constantly oscillates between hope and despair. There are many indications that these chapters relate his early forays into prophecy, while he is yet discovering the nation's impatience and the Godless leadership that is lulling the people to sleep. Jeremiah perceives Josiah as a genuinely righteous leader, but he alone is not strong enough to extricate the people from the mire of idolatry. On the one hand, Jeremiah wishes to emulate Moses, who implored God even after the sin of the Golden Calf, begging Him to rescind His anger. On the other hand, he feels that Israel's fate has been sealed and that the gates of prayer have been locked before him. Despite the constant updates on the purging of all idolatry from the land, Jeremiah portrays Jerusalem's backyards, where almost every family still participates in the worship of heavenly bodies:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    As for you, do not pray for this people; do not utter a cry or prayer for them, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you. Do you not see what they are doing throughout the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers build fires, and the women knead dough in order to make cakes to offer to the queen of heaven, and they pour libations to foreign gods in order to provoke Me.... Tell them: This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord, their God, and has not accepted correction; truthfulness has perished, cut from their mouths (7:16-18, 28).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    7:18 \u201cThe children gather wood, and the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of the Heavens and to pour libations to other gods, so as to vex Me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Queen of the Heavens is the Assyro-Babylonian fertility goddess Ishtar, associated with the evening star Venus. The Canaanite equivalent is Astarte. The cult of astral deities was especially popular in the last two centuries of the First Temple period. There is archaeological evidence that sweet cakes, shaped in the image of the goddess, were used in the cult of Ishtar. One should note that the Masoretic Text has <\/span>melekhet<\/span><\/em>, \u201cwork of,\u201d instead of <\/span>malkat<\/span><\/em>, \u201cqueen of,\u201d but that is almost certainly a pious euphemistic alteration by the Tiberian grammarians in order to avoid the suggestion that there could be a Queen of the Heavens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    1. 6 out of 10<\/em>. In verse 9 it is possible to find 6 out of the Ten Commandments - both ritual ones, between people and God, and the ethical ones, between people. Seems that idolatry and corruption go hand in hand.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. To pray or not to pray<\/em>. When God says to Jeremiah: \u201cAs for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry of prayer on their behalf, do not plead with Me\u201d (verse 16) - what does He mean? Is this an invitation to the prophet to respond, as it was 325 chapters ago, in the dialogue between God and Moses after the sin of the golden calf: \u201c\u2018Now, let Me be, that My anger may blaze forth against them and that I may destroy them, and make of you a great nation.\u2019 But Moses implored the LORD his God...\u201d? Or does He really mean it, that there is no room at all for prayer?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. Like Shiloh<\/em>. The tabernacle at Shiloh, which was destroyed hundreds of years (and 171 chapters ago - 1 Sam. 4), is etched in the historical memory as the Temple that was destroyed. Even the epithet \u201cden of thieves\u201d (verse 11), is appropriate for what went on their on the eve of its destruction.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    4. Prophets 24\/7<\/em>. That\u2019s the impression from verses 25-26: \u201cfrom the day your fathers left the land of Egypt until today. And though I kept sending all My servants, the prophets, to them daily and persistently, they would not listen to Me or give ear...\u201d No break - but also no success...<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    5. How did it all end<\/em>? In this chapter we heard the things that Jeremiah was commanded to say in the gates of the Temple. The things were said, and the audience did not remain indifferent. If you\u2019re curious to know how it all turned out, check out Jeremiah 26.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Jeremiah 7","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"7","chapter_main_number":"407","date":"20270322","wall_id":"407"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/68845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}