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The main theme of chapter three can be summarized in one word: return. The word \u201creturn\u201d appears in 7 verses:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now you have whored with many lovers: can you return to Me?\u2014says GOD (verse 1);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The One who conveys legitimacy and provides support, in return for loyalty (verse 4);\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I thought: After she has done all these things, she will return to Me. But she did not return; and her sister, Faithless Judah, saw it (verse 7);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And after all that, her sister, Faithless Judah, did not return to Me wholeheartedly, but insincerely\u2014declares GOD (verse 10);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Go, make this proclamation toward the north, and say: Return, O Rebel Israel\u2014 declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am compassionate\u2014 declares the LORD; I do not bear a grudge for all time (verse 12);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Return, rebellious children\u2014declares the LORD. Since I have espoused<\/span> you, I will take you, one from a town and two from a clan, and bring you to Zion (verse 14);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I had resolved to adopt you as My child, and I gave you a desirable land\u2014the fairest heritage of all the nations; and I thought you would surely call Me \u201cFather,\u201d and never cease to be loyal to Me (turn away from me) (verse 18);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Turn back, O rebellious children, I will heal your afflictions! (verse 22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew word \u201creturn\u201d is also part of the word for repentance. God\u2019s request here is simple: If the people want to return to me, the people should repent. This seems like an obvious message, but God goes one further. God does not simply ask the people to repent. God shows them exactly how to repent:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here we are, we come to You, for You, O LORD, are our God! Surely, futility comes from the hills, confusion from the mountains. Only through the LORD our God is there deliverance for Israel\u2026 Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us; For we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our ancestors from our youth to this day, and we have not heeded the LORD our God\u201d (verses 22-25)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God provides a cheat sheet to the people: I want you to return to me, and this is how you do it. 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what we\u2019re accused of,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>we who worship the moon:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>committing adultery with stone & wood.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>sitting by the roadside waiting for lovers.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>and maybe you are right,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>we <\/span>are<\/span><\/i> open to whatever arises,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>we <\/span>have<\/span><\/i> ravished & been ravished<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>on every inch of desert.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>you've made your demands,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I've listened patiently.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>now it's my turn:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>when you say \u201cyou defile the land,\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>do you mean \u201cyou have more pleasure <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>than any woman should?\"<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>when you say \"covered in shame,\"<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>do you mean \"I desire you?\"<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>when you say \u201creturn to me,\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>do you mean \"submit\"?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I submit only to the moon and sun,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>to stone, wood & water,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>to the mystery which sparks each<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>heartbeat in my chest and in<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>the chest of every lover-- <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>and I welcome my lovers <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>of stone or wood, flesh<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>or celestial orb - I welcome<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>them whenever I want, if they want <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>me too, and as for you, if you still <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>want me,\u00a0 I'll take you back <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>in a couple thousand years <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>but only on my own terms. <\/span>
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In the opening verses of this chapter, the prophet compared the Israelites to a prostitute and accused them of \u201cdefiling the land with their debauchery\u201d (2). The idea that the physical Land of Israel can be affected by the actions of its inhabitants is, of course, as old as the Torah, particularly the second paragraph of Shema`, which declares that \u201cIf you obey My commandments\u2026 I will bring rain to your land in a timely fashion\u2026 [while] beware lest your hearts stray and worship idols\u2026 He will restrain the heavens and there will be no rain\u201d (Dt. 11:13 ff.).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah, too, linked the fate of the land to the people\u2019s wanton behavior, proclaiming \u201cAnd when showers were withheld and the late rains did not come, you had the brazenness of a street woman, you refused to be ashamed\u201d (3). Shadal* focused on the passive form of the verb \u201c[showers] were withheld (<\/span>va-yiman`u<\/span><\/i>),\u201d which implies something that happened automatically rather than something someone was actively initiating.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It does not state that God punished them, but that this occurred by itself, and this is the meaning of \u201cdefiling the land\u201d of the previous verse. This is the profundity of the defilement of the land that results in its unnatural behavior towards its inhabitants in withholding its produce. Similarly, Isaiah said that \u201cthe land was defiled on account of its inhabitants who transgressed the Laws\u2026 the new wine fails, the vine languishes\u201d (24:5 ff.). And likewise, \u201cYou shall not pollute the land in which you live\u201d (Numbers 35:33) \u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In his continuation, however, Shadal took a rather bold step by suggesting that the reluctance of Jeremiah to attribute the situation directly to God was due to a universal recognition of its premise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He did not attribute the matter to God\u2014saying \u201cwere withheld\u201d rather than \u201cI withheld\u201d\u2014because it appears that even the [gentile] nations believed that ponderous sins cause the defilement and destruction of the land; this is not something specific to the God of Israel. Perhaps this belief was a derivative of the Flood or of the belief in God\u2019s righteousness, that He would neither err nor act whimsically.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If Shadals\u2019 assumption is historically accurate, it makes the ancients appear considerably more religious than many moderns who are loathe to see the damages of climate change as the product of human error or foible.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, see our introduction.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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One of the most defining features of Judaism is the role played by law. We conceive of our relationship to God primarily as a <\/span>brit<\/em> <\/span>(a legal contract) and the study of law has for centuries been considered one of the most important, if not the most important, of religious activities. For much of the last two thousand years, this point has played a major role in Jewish-Christian polemicizing. Christians have often accused Jews of a cold-hearted legalism, a dependence on rules which cannot fathom the necessary role of God\u2019s unmerited love and forgiveness \u2014 known as grace \u2014 in salvation. Jews, for their part, have sometimes tended to see the Christian preoccupation with grace as a kind of spiritual vapidity and a deliberate turning-away from the revealed law which is the concern of so much of the Bible. Indeed, it is not rare to hear Jews claim that grace itself is an un-Jewish concept.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But in reality, the idea of grace does play an important role in Jewish thinking, beginning, of course, with the Bible itself. The third chapter of Jeremiah provides an excellent example of a moment in which the prophet proclaims a divine love which sets aside the strictures of the law in order to forgive the people Israel, even when they do not deserve it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The relationship between God and Israel is, as so often here imagined, as a marriage. The prophet, seemingly referring to Deuteronomy 24:1-4, notes that according to Israelite law, a woman who has divorced her husband and married another man is forbidden, in the event that she divorces the second man, from returning to her first husband. Israel, the spouse of God, has abandoned the relationship and \u201cwhored with many lovers\u201d \u2014 that is, worshiped other gods. Thus, the metaphor goes, the law seems to require that God and Israel remain estranged. But, insists the prophet, such an estrangement is not Israel\u2019s fate: \u201cSince I have espoused you, I will take you, one from a town and two from a clan, and bring you to Zion.\u201d Although Israel thinks of its relationship to God along the lines of a marital contract, God\u2019s gracious love overflows the bounds of this legal structure.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maimonides, in <\/span>Guide<\/span><\/i> 3:53, writes that most of the uses of the term c<\/em><\/span>hesed<\/span><\/em> (mercy, grace, or lovingkindness) in the prophetic books have the sense of \u201cpracticing beneficence toward one who has no right at all to claim this from you.\u201d When, in Jeremiah 3:12, the prophet reports God saying \u201cI will not look on you in anger, for I am compassionate (c<\/em><\/span>hasid<\/span><\/em>),\u201d <\/span><\/i>this seems to be the sense intended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although by rights Israel has forfeited its claims on God by engaging in idolatry, God nevertheless promises to accept the people if they return. In moments like these, it is clear that, far from being a deviation, grace is a crucial concept for Jewish theology, one without which we would be unable to make sense of much Biblical teaching.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jeremiah's first prophecy leads him straight to the territories of the former northern kingdom, Samaria and the Galilee.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah wishes to outline the process of return to Jerusalem for the remnants of the Israelite kingdom. What can make the people of Ephraim accept the tidings that they are to come back to Jerusalem, having mocked Hezekiah's invitation eighty years before?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Young Jeremiah must repackage and market an old, unwanted product. He expects the Ephraimites to reject his invitation for three reasons: As descendants of Rachel, who believe that Joseph was Jacob's chosen son, they are unwilling to embrace the Davidic dynasty; they do not view Jerusalem as the ultimate capital \u2014 Mount Ephraim, and within it, Bethel, is nearer and dearer to them; and the Temple is no holier to them than the places of worship that have served their ancestors for over three hundred years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah must overcome these prejudices, so he emphasizes new \"selling points.\" Jeremiah announces to the children of Ephraim that the Jerusalem to which they will return is not the same one abandoned by Jeroboam centuries before. Jeremiah is careful to strike the House of David from his vocabulary, for the Ephraimites are obviously uninterested in that product. He promises that their return to Zion will be guided by faithful shepherds who will lead the people wisely. In his heart, Jeremiah certainly means Josiah, but to his audience, he remains deliberately vague.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah saves the real surprise for last: he tells the people remaining in the north that when they return to a reunited Kingdom of Israel, the Ark of the Covenant will no longer be so important.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ever since Solomon had built the Temple, the Ark had resided in the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctum of the Temple. But before David came to rule in Jerusalem, the Ark of the Covenant was in Shiloh. But after a war with the Philistines, the Ark was never returned to the territory of the northern tribes (see I Sam. 5-6).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Ark became a symbol of the power and glory of the House of David \u2014 and of the weakness and inadequacy of the early Israelite kingdom. Jeremiah acts on his awareness of the Israelites' sensitivity. The northerners are loath to trust a Judean prophet, so Jeremiah uses five different phrases negating the centrality of the Ark: \"people will no longer mention the Ark of the Lord's covenant or yearn for it; it will be neither remembered nor recalled, and another shall not be made.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah, enticing the northerners back to Jerusalem, \"liberates\" them from any Temple-object fetishism and inspires them to rise from idolatry to the worship of God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. 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3:12 \u201cGo and call out these words to the north and say, Turn back, Rebel Israel, said the Lord, and I will not set My face against you, for I am faithful, said the LORD. I will not bear a grudge forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The likely location is not the kingdom of Israel, long destroyed and its population largely replaced by the people brought in from elsewhere in the Assyrian sphere, but the northern reaches of the Assyrian empire, to which the inhabitants of Israel have been exiled. This prophecy, enunciated a century after the destruction of the northern kingdom, surely expresses what is no more than a utopian hope, for by Jeremiah\u2019s time the exiles would have been assimilated into the surrounding people and would have lost their national identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. By permission of the author.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cShavuot: Renewing Our Vows\u201d<\/a> by Chana Brauser: The marriage metaphor in Jewish sources.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cNature of Childhood and Parenthood\u201d<\/a> by Tamara Beliak: Biblical sources about parents and children.\u00a0<\/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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Jeremiah 3","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"3","chapter_main_number":"403","date":"20270316","wall_id":"403"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"69097","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Jeremiah 3 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Jeremiah 3","slug":"points-to-ponder-jeremiah-3","old_id":"69097","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"403","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. Return again and again and again, fifteen times<\/em>. The root <\/span>sh-u-b\/v <\/span><\/i>(\u201creturn\u201d \u201cagain\u201d) appears 15 times in this chapter, in different forms, and show that return (<\/span>shiva<\/span><\/i>) and repentance (<\/span>teshuvah)<\/span><\/i> are the central themes here. By the way - not just of this chapter. This root appears 121 times in the 52 chapters of Jeremiah. Many more than with any other prophet.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The days of Josiah<\/em>. Verse 6 connects the prophecy with the days of Josiah, the first king in the days of Jeremiah. What\u2019s the connection? Dealing with questions of loyalty and betrayal in cultic matters is appropriate for the period of Josiah\u2019s religious retreat, which rooted out idolatry, and centralized the cult in the Temple in Jerusalem (for those who want a quick refresher - see 2 Kings 23). Also, the reference to the remnants of the Kingdom of Israel, fits the expansion of the Kingdom of Judah in the days of Josiah, in the direction of Israel.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Rebellious and faithless<\/em>. Two sinful sisters. But there\u2019s a difference between \u201cRebel Israel\u201d and \u201cFaithless Judah.\u201d The sin of Israel may be rebelliousness of the moment. But Judah who didn\u2019t learn their lesson from them - they are faithless.<\/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 3","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":"3","chapter_main_number":"403","date":"20270316","wall_id":"403"},"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\/68850"}],"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=68850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}