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In the opening section of chapter 2, God wistfully remembers Israel when they were young:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Go proclaim to Jerusalem: Thus said GOD: I accounted to your favor the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride\u2014 how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown\u201d (verse 2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This beautiful and fraught declaration is part of the silent prayer said on Rosh Hashanah. as part of the \u201cremembrances section.\u201d Jeremiah returns to this theme of youth a few times in the next chapter as well:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just now you called to Me, \u201cFather! You are the Companion of my youth\u201d (3:4);\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For the shameful idolatry has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. Let us lie down in our shame, let our disgrace cover us; for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers from our youth to this day, and we have not heeded the LORD our God (3:21-22).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God remembers the \u2018youthful\u2019 nation, but a<\/span> cursory review of the wilderness years shows that things were not smooth sailing between God and the Israelites. God and Moses constantly had to fight with the people. The people openly rebelled several times, including two devastating moments with the Golden Calf and the spies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why would God choose to mention the wilderness years here if they were so far from perfect?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When a child grows up, a parent often fondly remembers them as young children growing up at home. These fond memories overtake the daily fighting to go to bed on time, tantrums, screaming, and slammed doors that happen in all households.\u00a0 This does not mean that the parent is lying to themselves. It means that the parent realizes the growing pains that are part of any child\u2019s life. God's message to Israel here is that God can forgive and forget past transgressions. Israel as \u201cyouth\u201d were responsible for painful rebellions against God, but God still remembers them fondly. It is not too late for Israel now to repent. God will just as easily forget their transgressions and remember them fondly as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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If God is a parent, and the Jewish people are God\u2019s children, then I read Jeremiah 2 as a lesson: you can\u2019t expect your children to worship you, even if you\u2019re God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Babies are originally quite helpless, and therefore blameless. But they eventually grow, and start thinking for themselves: they develop agency. If we are not careful, we feel righteously justified in our anger when they do not act as we wish.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or, in God\u2019s case, when they do not worship us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Jeremiah chapter 2, the very fact of human agency seems to anger God, who longs for the helpless baby days, when the Israelites were newly freed slaves with no self-determination. The metaphor used in Jeremiah is of a newlywed rather than a baby, but the two share a disturbingly similar guilelessness and dependency. \u201c\u2018I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me \/ and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown\u201d (2:2-3).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And, whipping into a froth, God continues, sounding like an overbearing Jewish mother, berating her adult children: \u201cWhat fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves\u201d (2:5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I will just come out and say it: God has a lot to learn here. Putting aside the incessant metaphors of wanton, misbehaving women \u2013 another area in which the God of Jeremiah could use some growth \u2013 there is the basic character flaw of trying to control others. The Israelite people are growing out of their childlike relationship to God, and rather than rejoicing, God is wild with rage.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is the sort of thing that annoys people about the Biblical God. And given passages like this, I find it fascinating that we are still in conversation with this God after all these years.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the case of my particular family, our trajectory manifests the little painting my mom has hanging in her bathroom: \u201cFamilies are for growing up in, growing away from, and returning to.\u201d My family left their relationship with God, probably in part because of passages like this. Who would want to keep a conversation going with a domineering, inflexible deity who has no power but plenty of complaints?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But then I came back. And so did God. And being a parent has made me much more compassionate about God\u2019s foibles and weaknesses. I think that God and I are both learning \u2013 on the job \u2013 how to love well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The God I see here is made in our image, just as we are said to be made in God\u2019s. An imperfect God, whose imperfect creatures are in a mirrored process: the slow, uneven story of growth. Over a lifetime, over centuries, over millennia. A parent-God, a God-in-progress, Being what God Will Be. 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At the beginning of Chapter 2 of the book of Jeremiah God decries, \u201cI brought you to this country of farmland to enjoy its fruit and its bounty, but you came and defiled My land and made My possession abhorrent\u201d (2:7). The focus of much of the remaining verses in this chapter is on the people\u2019s abandonment of God and their propensity for idol-worship. How do these spiritual failings become a defilement of the physical land?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Jewish idea of the connection between physicality and spirituality is part of our daily lives. Kippot<\/em> (skullcaps) and tzitzit<\/em> (fringes) are a reminder that God is ever-present; modest clothing elevates our spiritual awareness; a tallit<\/em> (prayer shawl) helps to focus prayer. Shabbat and holiday candles bring light to the world and wine for kiddush sanctifies our holy days. We refrain from wearing leather on Yom Kippur, and we use food we to symbolize and remember our relationship with God and take care in ensuring the kashrut<\/em> of what we put in our bodies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Evidence of the relationship between physicality and spirituality permeate almost every aspect of Jewish life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Likewise, many studies have indicated the direct positive relationship between spiritual and physical health. In fact, neurotheologists began showing us, over a decade ago, how prayer rewires the brain and improves cognitive function in multiple ways. Similarly, the connection between physical and mental health is universally recognized in the medical world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But this complaint from God goes much further. \u201cYou defiled My land\u201d by worshipping idols implies that our spiritual activity has a tangible impact not just on our bodies and minds, but on the physical space in which we dwell.\u00a0 To make the point even more clear, the consequence of turning away from God and toward idols is prophesied as eviction from the land and devastation of the land itself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When we speak of our obligation for \u201ctikkun olam \u2013 repairing the world\u201d we mean both spiritual and physical restoration. At the conclusion of our daily prayers in the Aleinu<\/em> prayer, we beseech God to bring us to the time where we will behold banishing idolatry from the earth (<\/span>leha'avir gilulim min ha'aretz<\/span><\/em>), and false gods will be utterly exterminated (<\/span>ve'haelilim karot yikaretun<\/span><\/em>), to perfect the world (<\/span>letaken olam<\/span><\/em>.) 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God then instructed Jeremiah to proclaim to the inhabitants of Jerusalem in His name: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I have accounted to your favor (<\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>) the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown (2). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The classic exegetes agreed that the reference is to Israel\u2019s earliest time as a nation and that the import of the recollection is that their devotion to God would be a favorable mitigating factor when God comes to mete out their deserved punishment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal* explained why God chose to speak of His relationship with youthful Israel in terms of favor (<\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Favor is [granted] on the part of the lover while the beloved exhibits grace (<\/span>chen<\/span><\/em>). The intention here is that God recalled the favor and attachment that He bestowed [on Israel] in its youth and His love [for Israel] as a bride. Therefore, even if He must now punish them, He will remain devoted to them, for \u201cIsrael is sacred to Him\u201d (3). Nevertheless, He is obliged to rebuke them frontally and to say, \u201cWhat wrong did your fathers find in Me that they abandoned Me?\u201d (4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal also drew a contemporary religious moral from this distinction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It appears to me that [man\u2019s] devotion to God is not \u201ca favor\u201d (<\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>). Even though those who love Him are called \u201cfavored\u201d (Ps. 50:5, 52:11, etc.), <\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em> really applies only in matters between people, or between God and people\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophets taught the people that God preferred favor to sacrifice (Hosea 6:6) and that \u201cknowing\u201d God was to know that He acts with favor, justice, and righteousness and that is what He desires, since His \u201cway\u201d is \u201cto act righteously and justly\u201d (Gen. 18:19). After prophecy ceased, the Israelite masses fell into great error and considered matters between man and God to be \u201cfavors\u201d [which man, then, could terminate at will].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It appears that Shadal was taking a veiled swipe at the Reform movement, which had proclaimed the precedence of social justice over ritual. He pointed out that we do not \u201cfavor\u201d God with our devotion to Him, but by adhering to His ways, which happen to include\u2014but are not limited to\u2014acting \u201cjustly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, see our introduction<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":69092,"alt":"","title":"jer2-devotion","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion.png","width":950,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-223x300.png","medium-width":223,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-760x1024.png","medium_large-width":760,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-760x1024.png","large-width":760,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion.png","1536x1536-width":950,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion.png","2048x2048-width":950,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-891x1200.png","post_full_size-width":891,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-312x420.png","home_baner-width":312,"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 Do Me Any Favors","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Human devotion, like God\u2019s favor - is not a favor","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":69092,"alt":"","title":"jer2-devotion","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion.png","width":950,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-223x300.png","medium-width":223,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-760x1024.png","medium_large-width":760,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-760x1024.png","large-width":760,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion.png","1536x1536-width":950,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion.png","2048x2048-width":950,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-891x1200.png","post_full_size-width":891,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer2-devotion-312x420.png","home_baner-width":312,"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":"2","chapter_main_number":"402","date":"20270315","wall_id":"402"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"387","name":"Sacrifice","old_id":"787"},{"term_id":"391","name":"In\/Justice","old_id":"791"},{"term_id":"910","name":"Chesed","old_id":"1310"}]},{"order":8,"id":"69257","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Religious Social Criticism ","post_title":"Religious Social Criticism","slug":"religious-social-criticism","old_id":"69257","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. 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Jeremiah's prophecy describes a pagan society whose chain of command has completely lost its way:\u00a0
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The priests have not asked \u2018Where is the Lord?\u2019 The handlers of the Torah know Me not, the shepherds have sinned against Me, and the prophets prophesy by Baal and follow what is worthless (2:8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse explains why each group of potential leaders deserves Jeremiah's criticism. First, we should note that the king is not explicitly mentioned here. On the contrary, Jeremiah greatly esteems Josiah and his efforts to cure Judean society's spiritual ills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The priests are the first in Jeremiah's line of fire. He does not address the Temple, but seeks out those responsible for the spiritual deterioration of the people. Teaching the people Torah requires the priests to wander among the cities of Israel. Yet it emerges that Jeremiah's priestly contemporaries have been cloistered in the Temple and singularly focused on its service, living off public funds and neglecting their primary role \u2014 teaching Torah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Next, Jeremiah attacks the \"handlers of the Torah,\" who \"know Me not.\" Rashi explains that this censure is aimed at the judges. They are the Torah's handlers, running the Torah-based judicial system, but without really knowing God. Knowing God does not mean simply grasping the Torah intellectually--it emerges through action. As God says of Abraham: \"For I know him, that he will instruct his children and household after him to keep the way of the Lord, to do what is right and just\" (Gen. 18:19). Here too, it appears that the \"way of the Lord\" is doing what is right and just. This radical idea removes the religious act from the realms of meditation and seclusion and places it squarely within the sphere of social action and concern for others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

By \"shepherds,\" Jeremiah generally means the leaders who direct the people and their behavior. Relating to such leaders as shepherds is a favorite metaphor of his; after all, he grew up on the edge of the desert. Throughout his childhood, he watched the shepherds and determined that the behavior of the flock depends on the shepherd.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophet wanders among his people, shouting at all sectors of society about their rejection of God. He is met with total indifference: \"I am not defiled.\" For the first time, the young prophet adds social criticism to his religious reproach. \"In addition, your garments are stained with the lifeblood of the innocent destitute\" \u2014 this refers to overt, shameless social violence. After this great prophetic reprimand regarding the spiritual prostitution spreading across Israel, its painful conclusion is presented at the opening of chapter 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>.<\/em> Maggid Books, 2013. \u201cJudah Has Abandoned God.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":69252,"alt":"","title":"jer-lau2","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","width":884,"height":635,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2-300x215.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":215,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2-768x552.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":552,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","large-width":884,"large-height":635,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","1536x1536-width":884,"1536x1536-height":635,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","2048x2048-width":884,"2048x2048-height":635,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","post_full_size-width":884,"post_full_size-height":635,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2-585x420.jpg","home_baner-width":585,"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":"Religious Social Criticism","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Castigating those responsible in society: teachers, judges, leaders, prophets","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":69252,"alt":"","title":"jer-lau2","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","width":884,"height":635,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2-300x215.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":215,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2-768x552.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":552,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","large-width":884,"large-height":635,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","1536x1536-width":884,"1536x1536-height":635,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","2048x2048-width":884,"2048x2048-height":635,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2.jpg","post_full_size-width":884,"post_full_size-height":635,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jer-lau2-585x420.jpg","home_baner-width":585,"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":"2","chapter_main_number":"402","date":"20270315","wall_id":"402"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"402","name":"Leadership","old_id":"802"},{"term_id":"631","name":"Priests","old_id":"1031"}]},{"order":9,"id":"69081","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Your Own Evil Chastises You ","post_title":"Your Own Evil Chastises You","slug":"your-own-evil-chastises-you","old_id":"69081","type":"event","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. 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2:19 \u201cLet your evil chastise you and your rebellion reprove you, and mark and see that it is evil and bitter, your forsaking the LORD your God. The fear of Me is not upon you said the Master, LORD of Armies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some translators understand the noun <\/span>ra\u2019ah<\/span><\/em> here as \u201cmisfortune,\u201d but the parallelism with <\/span>meshuvotayikh<\/span><\/em>, which can only mean \u201crebellion\u201d or \u201cbacksliding,\u201d argues against that construction. What the line rather says is: you have committed yourself to your wayward path, and that will eventually bring upon you dire consequences that may compel you to reflect on what you have done.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cLGBT Tanach Texts\u201d<\/a> by Rachel Davidson: Explore Biblical texts with queer resonances.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cHow the prophets interpreted the Exodus for their generation\u201d <\/a>by Beni Romm: What was the reception of the Exodus?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Formative memories.<\/em> Both memory and forgetfulness return us to the story of the exodus from Egypt, the wandering in the desert, and entering the Promised Land. It\u2019s the story of the courtship and new relationship between God and Israel (verses 2 and 7).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The pit and the spring<\/em>. What would you prefer in your yard? A spring of fresh water, or an old cracked pit that you had dug in order to collect rainwater? That\u2019s how teh prophet describes the foolishness of exchanging faith in the Living God, for foreign beliefs: \u201cFor My people have done a twofold wrong: They have forsaken Me, the Fount of living waters, And hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, Which cannot even hold water\u201d (verse 13).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Spot and stain remover<\/em>. Is there a way to cleanse the stain of sin? According to verse 22 - no. At least not yet: \u201cThough you wash with natron And use much lye, Your guilt is ingrained before Me.\u201d Both natron and lye, the bleach of the ancient world, won\u2019t help. If you remember, though, 67 chapters ago, Isaiah was more optimistic abou the possibilities of real purification and whitening: \u201c\u2018Be your sins like crimson, They can turn snow-white; Be they red as dyed wool, They can become like fleece\u2019\u201d (Is. 1:18).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. A lot is a lot<\/em>. What is the scope of idol worship in Judah? \u201cFor your gods have become, O Judah, As many as your towns!\u201d (verse 28). And of course, when their help was needed, they were nowhere to be found...<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Looking for love in all the wrong places<\/em>. The prophecy gives voice to the frustration of the betrayed. But we can also get a sense of the beloved who is disloyal. She is young, and so hungry for love, that she is willing to give everything to receive it. Even when it becomes self-destructive.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. Homeland<\/em>. A picture of the landscape of the prophet\u2019s homeland arises from the prophecies. The edge of the wilderness, the northern, Judean Desert. In verse 12 you\u2019ll find the spring, and in verses 23-24 some of the characteristic fauna, wandering around:\u00a0 \u201cLike a lustful she-camel, Restlessly running about, Or like a wild ass used to the desert...\u201d <\/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 2","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":"2","chapter_main_number":"402","date":"20270315","wall_id":"402"},"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\/68851"}],"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=68851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}