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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> concludes with the<\/span> third<\/span><\/a> of seven laments by the Prophet Jeremiah (chapters 11-20). This lament begins with Jeremiah moaning:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me\u2014A man of conflict and strife with all the land! I have not lent, and I have not borrowed; yet everyone curses me (15:10).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This lament continues with Jeremiah accusing God of abandoning him:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why must my pain be endless, my wound incurable, resistant to healing? You have been to me like a spring that fails, like waters that cannot be relied on (15:18).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

Immediately<\/span><\/a>, God offers Jeremiah the possibility of repentance and returning to God:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Assuredly, thus said the Lord, if you turn back [<\/span>tashuv<\/span><\/em>], I shall take you back [<\/span>ve-ashivekha<\/span><\/em>]. And you shall stand before Me. If you produce what is noble out of the worthless, you shall be My spokesman. They shall come back to you [<\/span>yashuvu<\/span><\/em>] and you will not return to them [<\/span>tashuv<\/span><\/em>].\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The multiple repetition of the Hebrew verb<\/span> shuv<\/span><\/a> <\/em>(turn back, return, repent) makes this verse a key Biblical basis for the Jewish concept of<\/span> teshuvah<\/span><\/a> <\/em>(repentance).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbinic sages understood that teshuvah also included bringing others back to God. According to<\/span> Talmud Bavli Bava Metzia<\/span><\/a> anyone who teaches Torah to the son of another merits to sit and study in the heavenly academy, as God says to Jeremiah: \u201cIf you turn back, I shall take you back. And you shall stand before Me\u201d (15:19).\u00a0 This verse indicates that if Jeremiah can cause the Jewish people to return to God, he himself will be brought back to stand before God. And anyone who teaches Torah to the son of an unlearned person (<\/span>am ha-aretz<\/span><\/em>) achieves such an exalted status that even if the Holy One, Blessed be He, were to issue a harsh decree, God may nullify it for his sake, as it is stated in the continuation of the verse: \u201cAnd you shall stand before Me. If you produce what is noble out of the worthless, you shall be My spokesman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Mishlei<\/span><\/a> interprets: \u201cFor the Lord grants wisdom. Knowledge and discernment are by His decree\u201d (<\/span>Proverbs 2:6<\/span><\/a>). The Holy One, blessed be He, said: \u201cIf you produce what is noble out of the worthless, you shall be My spokesman<\/span>\u00a0-- like the mouth that blew breath into the first Man. From here, Rabbi Meir expounded, anyone who can bring forth words of Torah from what is worthless, he is considered like that mouth (of God) that grants knowledge and discernment.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In<\/span> Midrash Tehillim<\/span><\/a>, God says to the righteous: \"If you turn back, I shall take you back. And you shall stand before Me. If you produce what is noble out of the worthless, you shall be My spokesman. They shall come back to you, and you will not return to them\u201d (15:19). 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In Jeremiah 11, God told Jeremiah not to pray on behalf of the people because God will not listen. God doubles down at the start of chapter 15:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

GOD said to me, \u2018Even if Moses and Samuel were to intercede with Me, I would not be won over to that people. Dismiss them from My presence, and let them go forth!\u2019 (verse 1).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses and Samuel were two of the greatest prophets. Moses interceded many times on behalf of the people, saving them from assured destruction during their time in the wilderness. Samuel helped guide the first two kings of Israel. If these two towering individuals could not persuade God to change the verdict, how could Jeremiah?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does God single out these two prophets? There were others who prayed on behalf of the people. Perhaps the answer appears later in the chapter from Jeremiah himself. Jeremiah finds another connection to these great prophets- they were all rejected by the people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me\u2014 A man of conflict and strife with all the land! I have not lent, and I have not borrowed; yet everyone curses me (verse 8).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah complains that the people attack him when he has done nothing to harm them. This complaint echoes similar ones made by Moses and Samuel. During Korach\u2019s rebellion, Moses makes a simple yet powerful declaration to God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses was much aggrieved and he said to God, \u2018Pay no regard to their oblation. I have not taken the ass of any one of them, nor have I wronged any one of them\u2019 (Numbers 16:15).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses wanted to make sure that God would not accept the offerings of the insurrectionists. His reasoning is actually more of a complaint. These individuals reject Moses and yet Moses has done nothing to harm them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When the people approach Samuel to appoint a king, the prophet is insulted. Is his leadership not enough? Samuel borrows from Moses\u2019s playbook. He confronts the people:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here I am! Testify against me, in the presence of GOD and in the presence of this anointed one: Whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded or whom have I robbed? From whom have I taken a bribe to look the other way? I will return it to you (I Samuel 12:3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At first it may seem that God is trying to demotivate Jeremiah. Moses and Samuel were harassed by the people and both cried out to God to complain. Jeremiah does the same and should therefore not intercede on behalf of the people. Perhaps, though, God is trying to send a message to Jeremiah that despite God\u2019s request and the demotivation of the people, Jeremiah should take the lesson from these other rejected leaders that he should never actually stop trying to pray for the people. Moses and Samuel never stopped, and Jeremiah should also not cease his intercessions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There\u2019s a classic Jewish joke about a man who falls into a pit. He calls out for help to all who pass by, but everyone refuses. The lawyer says there\u2019s no legal issue to fix so he cannot help and the doctor sees no illness so she cannot prescribe medicine. Finally, the man calls out to his best friend to help him. And to his surprise, his friend jumps into the pit with him. \u201cWhy did you do that?!\u201d The man demands. \u201cNow we\u2019re both stuck down here in this pit!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAh, yes,\u201d says the friend, \u201cbut I\u2019ve been down here before, and I know the way out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter promises all kinds of suffering for the Israelites. They will know physical and emotional pain, anger and grief. And yet, there is one verse in this chapter that is not like the rest. Amidst God\u2019s promises of physical destruction, death and the sins for which the Israelites are being punished, one verse stands out as particularly poignant. In verse 5, the prophet asks a rhetorical question: \u201cBut who will pity you, O Jerusalem, Who will console you? Who will turn aside to inquire about your welfare?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Between mothers bereaved of their children, bodies eaten by scavengers and the prophet in incredible physical pain, we might think that this chapter is all about physical suffering. But this verse tells a different story. To suffer is inevitable. To suffer alone is a true curse. The verse cuts deeper than a physical wound, claiming that not only will the Israelites suffer tremendous loss and pain, but no one will know or care.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When we feel at our most downtrodden and alone, the last thing we want to hear is a pronouncement that we are, indeed, completely alone. That is why Jewish law insists that mourners spend the first seven days after the death of a loved one surrounded by visitors. We are commanded to visit the sick and comfort the bereaved because we want to ensure that these people do not feel alone in their pain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Centuries of Jewish law and practice teach us that the curse of verse 5 is in fact the worst thing that could happen, that we could be suffering with no one to console us or ask how we\u2019re doing. So we show up. Even when it is not comfortable or easy or convenient, we make an effort to check in on friends who have lost someone, bring meals to people who are sick, and spend time with members of our community who are otherwise isolated. Because we learn from Jewish tradition what we all know intrinsically: that everything's better when you have someone to do it with.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me\u2014 A man of conflict and strife with all the land! I have not lent, and I have not borrowed; yet everyone curses me (15:10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Accursed be the man\u00a0 Who brought my father the news\u00a0 And said, \u201cA boy Is born to you,\u201d\u00a0 And gave him such joy! (20:15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

During moments of national decline, to prophesy one\u2019s own people\u2019s destruction is to invite accusations of betrayal and calls for one\u2019s death (26:11). In the marketplace of ideas, hope sells better than its opposite. Jeremiah\u2019s countrymen despise him for the negativity that he invites.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To be a prophet is to be lonely, to be a prophet of destruction even more so. \u201cYou are not to marry and not to have sons and daughters in this place\u201d(16:2). Jeremiah\u2019s role as prophet precludes even the companionship and comfort of family. Jeremiah\u2019s loneliness is perhaps most evocatively captured in Rembrandt\u2019s \u201cJeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem.\u201d Rembrandt portrays the distraught lone figure of the prophet, in a cave, with downcast eyes. Positioning Jeremiah in regal dress while leaning upon the Bible, Rembrandt casts an otherworldly light upon his subject\u2019s overwhelming sorrow.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rembrandt\u2019s portraits (including his self-portraits) depict his subjects (often modeled by Amsterdam\u2019s Jewish population) without vanity and with utmost sincerity. On view at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, \u201cJeremiah\u201d is a relatively small painting measuring 22.8 x 18.1 inches. Rembrandt captures this weathered and beaten man, not as a prophet defiantly declaiming God\u2019s word, but as a lonely figure suffering from that very word\u2019s realization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cI am the man who has known affliction under the rod of His wrath\u201d (Lamentation 3:1).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah, while creating interpersonal distance in the prophetic exhortations towards his sinful brothers and sisters, embodies the everyman who must witness ultimate tragedy. In Rembrandt\u2019s handling, Jeremiah internalizes the suffering of his people, alone without anything but the Torah to lean on. Rembrandt conveys something of the loneliness of the exilic experience in this portrayal: not simply the human suffering in the painting\u2019s background, but the soul-scorching contemplation of the why. Jeremiah is alone, only one man; and at the very same time a symbol for all the Jews who must inhabit the loneliness of Jewish existence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jeremiah frequently laments to God about his precarious situation as a social outcast prophesying Judah\u2019s destruction. In verse 16 of our chapter, he reminisces to God about happier times. He says:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When your words were offered, I devoured them;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Your word brought me the delight and the joy <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of knowing that Your name is attached to me,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>O LORD, God of Hosts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a lot that is strange about this verse. Here are three things that stand out:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

1)\u00a0 Jeremiah eats God\u2019s words<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When we consider mouths, we normally think of them as having two main functions. Mouths speak words and eat food. Words come out of mouths, unlike food that goes in. However, here Jeremiah eats words, as if words were food. He does not eat just any words, but he eats God\u2019s words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This passage calls to mind the famous instance of Ezekiel eating God\u2019s scroll and finding it as sweet as honey (Ezekiel 3:1-3). Both passages allude to Deuteronomy 8:3, the verse that famously teaches that Israel does not only live on bread, but on whatever comes out of God\u2019s mouth. However, Jeremiah discovers that such a diet can lead to unexpected consequences\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2) Jeremiah turns into what he eats<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Because he ate God\u2019s words, God\u2019s name is attached to Jeremiah and he speaks God\u2019s prophetic words to others. Not only has he consumed and been nourished by God\u2019s words, but he also appears to have become a living embodiment of these words. He regurgitates God\u2019s words through his prophecies. This leads to serious complications in Jeremiah\u2019s life\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

3) Jeremiah regrets his eating choices<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah speaks this verse within a lament. He complains that while he initially enjoyed eating God\u2019s words, as time has passed he believes doing so has threatened his life. He had thought God\u2019s word would sustain his life, but instead people want to kill him because of his unpopular prophecies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God responds to Jeremiah\u2019s complaint. He says that Jeremiah will continue to serve as God\u2019s mouth (verse 19) and that God will strengthen Jeremiah, protecting him from all danger (verses 20-21). However, God will not reverse the decree against Judah. God\u2019s mind has been made up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What are we to take from this? It appears that digesting God\u2019s words can sometimes be a very unpleasant experience. It can generate conflict in our relationships with others and with society. Ezekiel\u2019s scroll may have tasted sweet, but it seems that Jeremiah\u2019s meal left a bitter aftertaste.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, ingesting God\u2019s words and remaining in conversation with God about his troubles is what ultimately saves Jeremiah\u2019s life. Jeremiah will survive both the threats against his life and the Babylonian conquering of Jerusalem.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Eating God\u2019s words may not always be a pleasant experience. However, doing so can save our lives.<\/span>
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In the previous chapter, Jeremiah joins the nation's communal prayer and its accusatory confrontation with God. Chapter 15 presents Jeremiah's own personal confrontation with God over his fate as a prophet. In the wake of God's second, stern rejection of prophetic intercessory prayer, \"Even Moses and Samuel\" would not be able to change God's mind (15:1), Jeremiah is left with no recourse. Under normal circumstances, like his illustrious prophetic forbearers, Moses (Exodus 32, Numbers 14) and Samuel (1 Samuel 15:11), Jeremiah, too, would have mounted a defense on behalf of the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to Ezekiel 22:30, this is God's expectation from true prophets, and, quite likely, the reason that God communicates with them: \"I (=God) sought a man among them to repair the wall or to stand in the breach before Me in behalf of this land, that I might not destroy it.\" Now, the prophet's hands are tied. He is privy to impending disaster, but cannot employ prayer, his only means of averting that disaster.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Tensions between the prophet and the community reinforce Jeremiah's sense of personal failure.\u00a0 At the beginning of his argument to God, he bemoans his very birth and characterizes himself as \"a man of conflict and strife with all the land,\" a man whom \"everyone curses\" (10).\u00a0 \"Bearing insult\" (15), he \"sits lonely . . . filled with gloom\" (17). Jeremiah's only request from God is vengeance against the tormentors (15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Faced with communal ostracism and personal frustration, Jeremiah accuses God. Like the nation in Chapter 14:8, 9, and 19, the prophet's own accusation comes in the form of a \"Why\" question: \"Why must my pain be endless, my wound incurable, resistant to healing?\u00a0 You have been to me like a spring that fails, like waters that cannot be relied on\" (18). The negative water metaphors here express the sense of failed hope made explicit earlier in Jeremiah's speech, in the contrast between verses 15 and 16. Once, Jeremiah felt good about being a prophet and the concomitant closeness to the Divine: \"knowing that Your name is attached to me\" was a source of \"delight and joy\" (16).\u00a0 Now, those feelings have long since faded, leaving Jeremiah to lament: \"Consider how I have borne insult on Your account\" (15) and \"I have sat lonely because of Your hand upon me, For You have filled me with gloom\" (17).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70098,"alt":"","title":"jer15-faucet","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet.jpg","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-200x300.jpg","medium-width":200,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-683x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":683,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-683x1024.jpg","large-width":683,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-800x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-280x420.jpg","home_baner-width":280,"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":"You Have Filled Me With Gloom","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"You have been to me like a spring that fails...","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":70098,"alt":"","title":"jer15-faucet","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet.jpg","width":1280,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-200x300.jpg","medium-width":200,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-683x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":683,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-683x1024.jpg","large-width":683,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1920,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-800x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-faucet-280x420.jpg","home_baner-width":280,"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":"15","chapter_main_number":"415","date":"20270401","wall_id":"415"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"386","name":"Psychology","old_id":"786"},{"term_id":"394","name":"Emotions","old_id":"794"},{"term_id":"437","name":"Prayer","old_id":"837"}]},{"order":9,"id":"70074","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Who You Gonna Call - When It\u2019s Unseasonably Dry? 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He is the author of TANAKH: An Owner\u2019s Manual (Jerusalem: Urim\/Ktav, 2015).\r\n\r\n","short_description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":34244,"alt":"","title":"sokolow","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","width":302,"height":300,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","medium_large-width":302,"medium_large-height":300,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","large-width":302,"large-height":300,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","1536x1536-width":302,"1536x1536-height":300,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","2048x2048-width":302,"2048x2048-height":300,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","post_full_size-width":302,"post_full_size-height":300,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","home_baner-width":302,"home_baner-height":300}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"415","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Moses and Samuel - the rainmakers","post_main_content_content":"

The very first verse of our chapter states: \u201cThe LORD said to me, \u201cEven if Moses and Samuel were to intercede with Me, I would not be won over to that people. Dismiss them from My presence and let them go forth!\u201d Moses, of course, was the master of intercession; of all the other Israelite prophets, why did God use the example of Samuel?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This question, quite naturally, engaged the earlier exegetes. Rashi stipulated that \u201cboth had to seek compassion for Israel, which they did by restoring them to a better condition before praying on their behalf.\u201d Radak saw it as an <\/span>a fortiori<\/span><\/i> argument: If God, on this occasion, would reject the prayers of Moses and Samuel who were greater than Jeremiah, then surely his prayers would not avail. Neither explanation, however, accounts for the specific choice of Samuel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal*, too, recognized Moses and Samuel as exemplars of leaders who prayed on behalf of their people and defended them, citing Psalms 99:6: \u201cMoses and Aaron among His priests, and Samuel, among those who called His name; they call to the Lord who answers them.\u201d He then added a most astute insight, which he credited to his student, Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Usemo:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses extracted water from a flint rock, and Samuel brought about an unseasonal rain, and here they were situated in a time of drought and a scarcity of rain.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We can learn two lessons from Shadal, one exegetical and one ethical. The exegetical lesson, linking Moses and Samuel to the state of drought in which Jeremiah was situated, is that the more an interpretation suits the details of its immediate context, the more effective it is. The ethical lesson is that teachers should not withhold credit from their students even though they themselves are likely responsible for their successes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary,<\/span> see this introductory essay.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70075,"alt":"","title":"jer15-dancing-in-the-rain","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain.jpg","width":1920,"height":1265,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-300x198.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":198,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-768x506.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":506,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-1024x675.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":675,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1012,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1265,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-1200x791.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":791,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-637x420.jpg","home_baner-width":637,"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":"Who You Gonna Call - When It\u2019s Unseasonably Dry?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Moses and Samuel - the rainmakers","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":70075,"alt":"","title":"jer15-dancing-in-the-rain","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain.jpg","width":1920,"height":1265,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-300x198.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":198,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-768x506.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":506,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-1024x675.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":675,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1012,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1265,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-1200x791.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":791,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer15-dancing-in-the-rain-637x420.jpg","home_baner-width":637,"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":"15","chapter_main_number":"415","date":"20270401","wall_id":"415"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"},{"term_id":"780","name":"Rain","old_id":"1180"},{"term_id":"839","name":"Samuel","old_id":"1239"}]},{"order":10,"id":"70094","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Who Shall Live And Who Shall Die? 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Two themes comprise this chapter of the prophetic book: <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>1) (v. 1-9) The dire fates that await the Jewish people for not repenting, notwithstanding their having received repeated warnings to do so. <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>2) (v. 10-21) God\u2019s promise to protect His prophets, despite their deeply unpopular predictions and adjurations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Verse 2 is reminiscent of a passage in the liturgy of the Days of Awe that is intended to give one pause every time we encounter it: \u201cAnd if they ask you, \u2018To what shall we go forth?\u2019 answer them, \u2018Thus said the LORD: Those destined for the plague, to the plague; Those destined for the sword, to the sword; Those destined for <\/span>famine<\/span>, to famine; Those destined for captivity, to captivity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prayer that parallels Jeremiah\u2019s pronouncement, is known by its opening words: \u201cU\u2019Netanah Tokef<\/em>\u201d (\u201cWe shall ascribe holiness [<\/span>to this day<\/span><\/i>]\u201d). The section of this particular liturgical poem that invariably strikes fear in the hearts of the congregation reciting it, describes what might occur to relatives, friends, even oneself, during the upcoming year:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026 Who shall perish by water and who by fire,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who by sword and who by wild beast,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who by famine and who by thirst,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who by earthquake and who by plague,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who by strangulation and who by stoning \u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(<\/span>See <\/span><\/i>Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cWho By Fire?<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u201d for a contemporary rendition of \u201cU\u2019Netanah Tokef\u201d<\/span><\/i>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But two aspects of \u201cU\u2019Netahah Tokef\u201d distinguish it from Jeremiah 15:2. Firstly, whereas the prophet appears to assume that the society\u2019s continuing to transgress is a \u201cgiven\u201d and the fates of the sinners are effectively sealed, the prayer optimistically offers methodologies, based upon Genesis Rabbah 44:12, that suggest that it is never too late to avert such terrifying consequences: \u201cBut repentance, prayer and righteousness avert the evil decree\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And secondly, while the mortality of the human condition makes us all susceptible to the vagaries of life that include hardship and even violent death, the liturgist maintains that such experiences are not unavoidable, contrary to Jeremiah:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How many shall pass away and how many shall be born,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who shall live and who shall die,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who shall reach the end of his days and who shall not \u2026 <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u2026 Who shall have rest and who shall wander,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who shall be at peace and who shall be pursued,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who shall be at rest and who shall be tormented,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who shall be exalted and who shall be brought low,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Who shall become rich and who shall be impoverished ...\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In light of the ultimate destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish people\u2019s being exiled from their land, Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies regrettably came to fruition, and they even appear fatalistic in their inevitability. Yet, in light of \u201cU\u2019Netanah Tokef,\u201d we can view these prophecies as cautionary tales that we can choose to obviate, if only we have the resolve to do so.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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15:10 \u201cWoe to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of quarrel and a man of strife to all the land. I have not lent nor did they lend to me, yet all of them curse me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These words mark the beginning of another autobiographical passage. (The translation, in order to distinguish between Jeremiah\u2019s first-person speech and God\u2019s words, puts the latter in quotation marks.) More than any other prophet, Jeremiah repeatedly complains about the destiny of bitter contention that his calling has imposed upon him. It were better, he says here, had he never been born.\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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\u201cLecha Dodi\u201d<\/a> by Josh Franklin: Explore the background of this well-known Shabbat prayer.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cPaying For Your Father's Sin\u201d<\/a> by Shoshana Lehman: Biblical instances of children responsible for their parents\u2019 actions.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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  1. It\u2019s not you. It\u2019s me. It\u2019s them<\/em>. \u201cThe LORD said to me, \u201cEven if Moses and Samuel were to intercede with Me, I would not be won over to that people\u201d (verse 1). Even if these titans of the people were to ask for mercy now for the people, they would fail. That\u2019s how God tries to \u201cconsole\u201d Jeremiah. Why specifically Moses and Samuel? These are two great prophets who were known to have had success with their prayers. Moses, after the sin of the Golden Calf (333 chapters ago - Ex. 32), and Samuel, leading up to the sacrifice at Even Ha\u2019ezer (176 chapters ago, in 1 Samuel 7).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Fixing the royal blame<\/em>. Who\u2019s to blame for the destruction? When was the verdict sealed, after which it was not possible to repair the damage? The Book of Kings ascribes the destruction to the sins of King Menashe. In the chapters we have seen so far of Jeremiah, we have seen a different approach, wherein in the early stages of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy (the days of Josiah, Menashe\u2019s grandson, and the early days of the reign of Jehoiachim) there was still an opportunity for repentance. Verse 4 already moves towards aligning with Kings: \u201cI will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, on account of King Manasseh son of Hezekiah of Judah, and of what he did in Jerusalem.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Tower and stockade<\/em>. Back in Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy of dedication, he was galvanized in advance of confronting his opponents: \u201cI make you this day A fortified city, And an iron pillar, And bronze walls Against the whole land\u201d (1:18). As the chapters go by and the situation worsens, there is need for reinforcing: \u201cAgainst this people I will make you As a fortified wall of bronze: They will attack you, But they shall not overcome you...\u201d (verse 20).<\/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 15","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":"15","chapter_main_number":"415","date":"20270401","wall_id":"415"},"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\/69562"}],"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=69562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}