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  1. A Terrible Father, But a Good Jew<\/a>\u00a0by Shira Hecht-Koller. \"Did Abraham do good in preparing to slaughter his son? Did he do right? Some ancient Jewish texts are not sure...\" Modern ones too: from El'azar be-Rabbi Qillir to Nicole Krauss, Hecht-Koller asks, and answers these troubling questions.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Did They Walk Together?<\/a>\u00a0by Deena Cowans. \"With this one extra word (yachdav<\/em>, \"together\") the Torah teaches us to pay attention to the burdens others carry... Abraham may have willingly obeyed God\u2019s command, but he went to fulfill it just like his son, slowly making his way up the mountain, painfully aware of the weight on his shoulders.\"<\/li>\r\n\t
  3. \u00a0The Akeidah is Not Our Story<\/a> by Jeremy Benstein. \"We do not define ourselves primarily as Bnei Abraham. We are Bnei Yisrael, the children, the spiritual descendants, of Jacob who became Israel: 'for you have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed...' Our central characteristic is not submission or surrender, but struggle, wrestling with God and with people to fulfill our destiny.\"<\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Haftarah (Jeremiah 31): See here<\/a> for engaging pieces about the haftarah for the second day of Rosh Hashanah by, among others: Analia Bortz, Shalom Holtz, Sarah Rudolph, Thalia Rodis and Benny Lau.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Want a helpful overview of the whole chapter? 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    On the meaning of the shofar of Rosh HaShana there are two radically different interpretations. The first is that of Rabbi Abahu in the Talmud: \u201cThe Holy One, blessed be He, said: Blow before Me a ram\u2019s horn that I may remember for you the binding of Isaac, son of Abraham, and I shall account it to you as if you had bound yourself before Me\u201d (<\/span>Rosh HaShana<\/span><\/i> 16a). The shofar recalls the ram, caught in a thicket by its horns, sacrificed in Isaac\u2019s place. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In this view the shofar is a cry from earth to heaven, from us to God. It represents Jewish faithfulness and sacrifice. For millennia Jews suffered for their faith yet, for the most part, they did not abandon it. The shofar, Rabbi Abahu is suggesting, is a way of saying, \u201cMaster of the Universe, we may have faults and failings, but we stayed true to You and to our covenant with You. We come before You with a history that began with Abraham and Isaac\u2019s <\/span>
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    Maimonides gives the opposite interpretation: \u201cEven though the blowing of the shofar on Rosh HaShana is a scriptural decree, nonetheless it contains an allusion, as if to say: Wake, sleepers, from your sleep, and slumberers wake from your slumbers. Examine your deeds and turn in <\/span>teshuva<\/span><\/i>. Remember your Creator, you who forget the truth in the vanities of time, spending the year in vanity and emptiness that neither helps nor saves. Look to your souls and improve your ways and deeds\u201d (Maimonides, Laws of Repentance 3:4). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In this alternate view the shofar is not a cry from earth to heaven, but a call from heaven to earth, God\u2019s call to us to return to Him. Both views are true. In the tekia<\/em>, the powerful clarion, we hear God\u2019s call to us. In the <\/span>terua<\/span><\/em>, the broken tones of weeping, we hear our ancestors\u2019 tears.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    On Rosh HaShana the primary sound is the <\/span>terua<\/span><\/em>, for that is how the Torah names the day. It is \u201cthe day of the <\/span>terua<\/span><\/em>\u201d (Num. 29:1) or \u201cthe remembrance of the <\/span>terua<\/span><\/em>\u201d (Lev. 23:24). On the basis of Judges 5:28, the sages understood terua <\/em>to be the sound of weeping, as the mother of Sisera wept when her son failed to return from battle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Excerpted from the Koren Rosh Hashanah Mahzor<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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    We are in the month of Elul, a month for taking stock \u2013 looking back on our past year\u2019s spiritual journey and considering what\u2019s next. One autumn, when I was involved in some exhaustive (and exhausting) strategic planning initiatives while also struggling with mentally preparing for Yom Kippur, I had a lightbulb moment. \u201cIsn\u2019t doing <\/span>teshuva<\/span><\/i> (repentance) basically spiritual strategic planning?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    There are three key elements to strategic planning and they align with the work required of us from Elul through Yom Kippur and continuing until the next cycle. First, we evaluate where we stand now. Have we met our goals? What worked and where did we fall short? What were our impediments, pain points and wins? Then, we pinpoint our goals for the next cycle. Are there goals we failed to reach that are still relevant? Are there new goals? And finally, we determine our path to goal-reaching. This is where we roll up our sleeves, and articulate and commit to how we will achieve our goals for the coming cycle. Our pathway, as in any good program design, includes check-in points and opportunities for recalibration. Personally or organizationally, we won\u2019t get from 0 to 100 immediately. We\u2019ll need smaller incremental goals to get us to the finish line - where we will start all over with a new plan for continued growth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Regarding Elul, one of the most important steps in our strategic path to teshuva is asking forgiveness from those we have wronged. We can\u2019t do teshuva in isolation \u2013 it involves three parties. I can regret my behavior and declare my intent to change, but I then need to admit my wrongdoing to, and beg forgiveness from, the victim. Likewise, there are sins that only hurt ourselves, and self-forgiveness is even harder to obtain. We also are required to forgive those who ask us, and forgiving can be even harder than asking for forgiveness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    We also need to ask God for forgiveness, which is often easier than asking for human forgiveness, because God has shown us His predilection for large-scale forgiveness. When the Israelites sinned with the golden calf, God first gave them a chance to repent, and then, on the tenth of Tishrei, Yom Kippur, \u201cbecame reconciled with Israel in joy and perfect affections and said to Moses, \u201cI have forgiven\u201d (<\/span>Rashi on Ex 33:11<\/span><\/a>). God\u2019s model of forgiveness in joy and wholeheartedness informs my own teshuva. I need to include improving how I forgive in my strategic plan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The final step is what comes after Yom Kippur, and God has shown us the road for that as well. In the same Rashi source, we are told that immediately after granting forgiveness, God commands the building of the <\/span>Mishkan<\/span><\/i> (Tabernacle). We repented, God forgave us, and now we don\u2019t waste any time navel-gazing or congratulating ourselves. We jump right into executing the plan. We begin building the Mishkan, ourselves and our nation, always looking forward.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    \"And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sacred convocation; you shall do no manner of servile work; it is a day when the shofar is blown.\" (Numbers 29:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

     <\/p>\r\n

    The play will soon begin \u2014 <\/span>eleven<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>ten<\/span><\/i>,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Nine<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>eight<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>seven<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>six <\/span><\/i>\u2014 soon the chatter dies,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Quite soon you'll stand upon the stage, all eyes<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>On you alone. You read the script again<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>In hope you won't forget its wording when<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>The spotlight shines \u2014 <\/span>five<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>four<\/span><\/i> \u2014 it is unwise <\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>To worry, but your costume can't disguise<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Your trembling, so you say a prayer, amen. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    A shofar blows. \u00a0The curtains rise. \u00a0Within<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>The confines of a narrow stage, you go<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>To say your lines the best you can. The sun<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And moon, the day, the night, are actors in<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>The drama of your life \u2014 <\/span>three<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>two<\/span><\/i> \u2014 you know<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>You stand before an Audience of One.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":96484,"alt":"","title":"ecc1-setting the stage","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage.jpg","width":1920,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage-1024x1024.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1920,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage-1200x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ecc1-setting-the-stage-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":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"Rosh Hashanah","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A shofar blows. 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    Chapter 21 takes place close to the destruction of the city and Temple. King Zedekiah sends messengers to Jeremiah (one named Pashur, which probably brought back bad memories for the prophet). The request is lame and almost cynical. The king asks Jeremiah to pray to God so that perhaps God will be able to go back to his bag of tricks, and bring forth a miraculous redemption as in the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    God sees right through this cynical plea. Instead of reaching into the past for a miracle, God reaches into the past and comes up with something else: \u201cSee I place before you the blessing and the curse\u201d (Deut. 11:26). God tells Jeremiah to tell the people:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Thus said GOD: I set before you the way of life and the way of death (verse 8).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Those that remain in the city will fall victim to the way of death, that triumvirate of punishments: pestilence, sword, and hunger. If the enemy does not kill, then hunger will, if hunger does not, then disease will. The alternative is not much better. The life option means capture by the invading Babylonians and life in captivity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah\u2019s message to Zedekiah\u00a0 and the people is clear: you had your chance. You want God to turn towards the past, but you need to remember that in the past, God offered the people a choice between life and death. Instead of choosing the path to life, the people chose the path to death. The only reaching into the past that should be happening is repentance by the people. Short of that, the two paths in the fork in the road up ahead lead to the same place. There is a hint of hope for the people that also comes from the past. In Deuteronomy 30, Moses promises the people:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When all these things befall you\u2014the blessing and the curse that I have set before you\u2014and you take them to heart amidst the various nations to which your God has banished you.\u00a0 But instead of the pure choice, this life and death sets an impossible choice for the people and you return to your God, and you and your children heed God\u2019s command with all your heart and soul, just as I enjoin upon you this day then your God will restore your fortunes and take you back in love. [God] will bring you together again from all the peoples where your God has scattered you\u201d (Deuteronomy 30:1-3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Even in exile the people will have a chance to repent and change the path in front of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    In Jeremiah 21, a plea for social justice appears towards the end of the chapter:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Render just verdicts morning by morning; rescue him who is robbed from him who defrauded him (verse 20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    If the Israelites would reform their society so that thievery would no longer happen, destruction and exile of their nation could be avoided.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Other prophets expressed similar messages. Isaiah (1:17) focuses upon the victims of such corruption, rather than the crime itself:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Learn to do good. Devote yourselves to justice; aid the wronged.<\/span> Uphold the rights of the orphan; defend the cause of the widow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Since the orphan and the widow are typically the victims of physical exploitation, it is indicative of an improvement in the overall society if its weakest members are deliberately protected from exploitation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    According to Ezekiel (18:6-8), righteous individuals, whose efforts serve to create and maintain a proper society, in addition to working to avoid overt transgressions between man and man, also devote themselves to good works:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    If he has not defiled another man\u2019s wife or approached a menstruous woman; if he has not wronged anyone; if he has returned the debtor\u2019s pledge to him and has taken nothing by robbery; if he has given bread to the hungry and clothed the naked. If he has not lent at advance interest or exacted accrued interest if he has abstained from wrongdoing and executed true justice between man and man.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Malachi (3:5) adds other reprehensible activities, including an additional victim of ill treatment within biblical society, i.e. the convert, due to overt xenophobia:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Who commit adultery, who swear falsely, who cheat laborers of their hire and who subvert the widow, orphan, and stranger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It would appear from the continued destruction and exile of large swaths of the Jewish people, that despite the best efforts of generations upon generations of \u2018prophets\u2019 to reinforce the laws that were written in the Torah, Jewish society has continued to consist of \u201chaves\u201d and \u201chave nots,\u201d \u201cexploiters\u201d and \u201cexploited,\u201d \u201cperpetrators\u201d and \u201cvictims.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Torah states categorically that:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    There will never cease to be needy ones in your land, which is why I command you: open your hand to the poor and needy kin in your land (Deut. 15:11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    However, instead of viewing such a pronouncement as the opportunity for myriad chesed<\/em> projects (acts of lovingkindness), at least some people seek ways to enrich themselves at the expense of others. 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    By this point in the book, it is clear to us readers that Jeremiah is a tortured man, burdened by a message nobody wants to hear. In this way, he is like many of the other prophets, who are called to deliver messages of warning and impending doom to an obstinate people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But without minimizing the challenges that other prophets faced in fulfilling their prophetic roles, we might feel that Jeremiah stands out among them for his uniquely embodied, traumatic physical experience. In other prophets, the threat to the people, and the prophet himself, reads as a metaphor. In Jeremiah, the body itself is under attack. Just last chapter, we read about God\u2019s words burning Jeremiah from the inside, and he will also be made to eat the curses he delivers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The trauma of his prophecy is not just promised to the Israelites. As their prophet, Jeremiah himself is made to suffer repeatedly and explicitly. In Jeremiah, nothing is off limits. The body is treated as a legitimate victim of war. Four times in his book, the body is referred to as a spoil of war (21:9, 38:2, 39:18, 45:5). Each time, the context promises destruction and death to all those surrounding the prophet or who are the subject of the prophecy. In this chapter, verse 9 promises that anyone who surrenders to the conquerors will be allowed to escape with his life as a spoil of war.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Surrender, the verse says, and your very physical existence will be saved. In modern parlance, we might phrase this as \u201cescaping with your life\u201d. To some readers, this seems like a pragmatic message to a people who are suffering at the hands of a superior military power. However, the mention of famine and pestilence remind us that God ultimately controls life and death. Pestilence and famine are indiscriminate-- they strike all levels of society. They are divinely inflicted punishments to cause suffering and death. Mentioning pestilence and famine in a trio with the sword shows us that God also controls the Chaldeans, and indeed any enemy of the Israelites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The message here is that God seems intent on bringing down the entire Israelite society, and is willing to let those who surrender to God\u2019s power, enacted through the army of the Israelites\u2019 enemy, live. The threat is concrete; Jeremiah bears no mere metaphor. 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    The essence of this chapter, whose theme is the futility of defending Jerusalem against the Babylonians (4-7), can be summed up in the words of two of its verses: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And to this people you shall say: Thus said the LORD: I set before you the way of life and the way of death. Whoever remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but whoever leaves and goes over to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live; he shall at least gain his life (8-9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Israelites have forfeited God\u2019s help on account of their perversion of justice, so Jeremiah was instructed to address the royal household and urge them to \u201crender just verdicts morning by morning; rescue him who is robbed from him who defrauded him\u201d (12). The translation of the word <\/span>la-boker<\/span><\/em> here as \u201cmorning by morning,\u201d follows the commentary of Shadal*: \u201cDaily, i.e., perpetually\u2026 meaning every morning.\u201d An alternative translation, \u201cexecute justice in the morning,\u201d is consistent with the commentary of Radak who assumed that courts went into session in the morning, as evidenced by Moses who \u201csat in judgement of the people, who stood about Moses from the morning until evening\u201d (Exodus 18:13).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The warning continued by addressing the people\u2019s false sense of security: \u201cI will deal with you, O inhabitants of the valley, O rock of the plain\u2014declares the LORD\u2014 You who say, \u201cWho can come down against us? Who can get into our lairs?\u201d (13). To the inhabitants of which valley did Jeremiah speak? Rashi said it was Jerusalem, \u201cwhich is situated in a valley.\u201d Since anyone who has visited Jerusalem knows that it is not exactly so, we can only assume that Rashi, who had never been there, was influenced by Psalm 125:2: \u201cJerusalem is surrounded by mountains.\u201d Shadal*, however, argued that \u201cthe [exegetes] all got it wrong because the prophet is not addressing Jerusalem but the royal family, which he compared to someone standing on an elevated point from which he presumes that an enemy cannot overthrow him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    *For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    With Nebuchadnezar approaching the city, the King sends emissaries to ask Jeremiah to intercede with God to miraculously save them. Jeremiah informs the King that this will not happen, and has a separate message for the people:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I set before you the way of life and the way of death: Those who stay in the city will die\u2026Those who leave\u2026 will be captured by the Chaldeans (21:8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    We have seen similar words before: \u201cI\u00a0set before you this day life and prosperity, death and adversity.\u201d (Deut 30:15).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    There is no more explicit expression of the overriding moral imperative of the Tanach - the free agency of humankind - than these words. Here at the moment we are first introduced to Judah\u2019s destroyer, who will drive them into the wider world, we are reminded of Moses\u2019 words when the nation made their previous transition, from their desert cocoon into independence in their homeland.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The text echoes these words with a bitter irony. There are two paths, and you must choose, but there is no longer a\u00a0 good choice since \u201cI have set my face against this city for evil and not for good.\u201d (21:10) This, implies the text, is because \u201cThey have headed down the ancient (i.e. pagan) pathways, going on the unprepared tracks\u201d (18:15). There is no way back since they chose neither the path of good <\/span>or<\/em> <\/span>evil, they rejected the entire paradigm that is the upshot of monotheism - that we have agency to choose. So emphatically did they reject their ability to choose good or evil, to impact the world with their actions, that they sacrificed their own children to Baal (19:5), thereby asserting that since they are as helpless in the world as leaves in the breeze they must appease the gods at all cost, even their own seed. This is the final straw, and in the next verse God lays out their doom, that now begins to unfold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The previous chapters end with Jeremiah\u2019s lament (20:7-18) regretting the day he was born. We can now see he recognized what his compatriots couldn't: \u201cSince life is about agency, and I am helpless, is not my life pointless?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Until the last moment God left an opening for repentance. In chapter 18 Israel is compared to a malformed lump of clay on God\u2019s potter\u2019s wheel. God can recycle it into a new container, if the people will reform - but that reformation is beyond His control. We see perhaps the clearest scriptural exposition of the rabbinic principle that \u201call is in the hands of Heaven but the fear of Heaven.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Now, instead of reformation as a pristine vessel, they must be smashed (19:11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Judah has rejected the covenant, the final words and essential principle of which are echoed here, that monotheism both enables and demands a belief in personal agency in equal measure. 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    In chapter 21, Jeremiah tells King Zedekiah, and the other besieged residents of Jerusalem, that under these dire circumstances it\u2019s in their interest to surrender to the Babylonians.\u00a0<\/span>He presents the alternatives in this way: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Whoever remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; but whoever leaves and goes over to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live; he shall at least gain his life.\u201d (Jeremiah 21:9)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The final part of the verse is somewhat cryptic \u2013 \u201che shall at least gain his life.\u201d An alternate translation, found in the Koren Jerusalem Bible is \u201chis life shall be to him for booty.\u201d Those translations don\u2019t appear to be synonymous. What is the source of the debate?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The difficult word in the original is <\/span>shalal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201chis life will be for <\/span>shalal<\/span><\/em>.\u201d That word has a number of meanings, and the translations follow the different opinions found in the commentators.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    As a noun, <\/span>shalal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0generally means \u201cspoils, booty, plunder.\u201d This is how the medieval commentator Radak understands the verse \u2013 those that stay will gain their lives as if they plundered them. The Koren translation follows Radak\u2019s explanation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    However, the root of <\/span>shalal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0has an additional, different meaning. In modern Hebrew it means \u201cto negate\u201d, and so something <\/span>shelili<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is negative. In a broader sense, this root means \"to remove; to refuse, to negate, to deny.\" And in this way it is connected to spoils of war - when an army took the spoils, they \"removed\" them from those they defeated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    This is how the commentator Rashi understands our verse. He says just like a plunderer takes the booty and goes away, so too will your death be \u201cremoved\u201d from those of the slaughtered. This seems to be the basis of the first translation \u201che shall at least gain his life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    One other form of that verb is <\/span>hishtolel<\/span><\/em>. Today it means \"to misbehave, to act unruly\", but it originally meant \"to be deranged\", and in his dictionary, the linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda indicates it therefore meant \"to be lacking sanity\u201d (i.e. the sanity is negated). \u201cActing unruly\u201d would certainly have been an accurate description of the Babylonian invaders.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Image: Gaspero and Sayce,\u00a0 History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria<\/em>, 1903 \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70540,"alt":"","title":"jer21-spoils","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","width":800,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils-300x216.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":216,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils-768x553.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":553,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":576,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":576,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils-583x420.jpg","home_baner-width":583,"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":"The Spoils Of War: Your Life\u00a0","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Saving lives through surrender","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":70540,"alt":"","title":"jer21-spoils","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","width":800,"height":576,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils-300x216.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":216,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils-768x553.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":553,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":576,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":576,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":576,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer21-spoils-583x420.jpg","home_baner-width":583,"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":"21","chapter_main_number":"421","date":"20270411","wall_id":"421"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"361","name":"Hebrew language","old_id":"761"},{"term_id":"401","name":"Life","old_id":"801"}]},{"order":13,"id":"70515","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Forests Too Will Burn ","post_title":"The Forests Too Will Burn","slug":"the-forests-too-will-burn","old_id":"70515","type":"no","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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    21:14 \u201cAnd I will exact judgement from you according to the fruit of your acts, said the LORD. And I will light a fire in her forest, and it will consume all around her.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Lundbom proposes that the reference is to the royal palace, in which there was a hall called the Lebanon Forest House because of its extensive use of Lebanese cedar paneling. It seems more likely that what is to be burned is an actual forest--there were wooded areas in and around Jerusalem--and \u201cit will consume all around her\u201d thus plausibly invokes the destruction that extends beyond the city to the surrounding countryside. Through this entire prophecy, one readily sees why Jeremiah was a scorned or even hated figure in the eyes of his countrymen, here predicting the total destruction of Jerusalem and the kingdom of Judah--a catastrophe that in fact was about to occur--at the very moment the city was under siege.\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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    Through asking Jeremiah, King Zedekiah hopes to reproduce the miracle that saved Jerusalem from the wrath of Sennacherib.\u00a0 Jeremiah ignores the request to pray, instead sending the king and the people a prophetic portent of doom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The first part is addressed to the king and his courtiers, and the second part to the people. The king and his proxies do not know why Jeremiah has refused their request; they have no idea that God is staying the prophet's hand. To them, Jeremiah simply does not love his people as much as Isaiah, who acquiesced to Hezekiah's plea and enlisted in the effort to stop Assyria. Jeremiah, in contrast, intensifies his doom-saying. He watches the military buildup in Jerusalem, the bravery of the soldiers, their devotion to the cause \u2014 and it all seems futile. God is about to turn their own weapons of war against them as the battle reaches the city's streets. Jeremiah knows there will be a catastrophe. And after the initial massacre when the Babylonians breach the city, the leaders \u2014 the king and his entourage, and the rest of the survivors \u2014 will be delivered into the hands of the King of Babylonia, who will slaughter them mercilessly. The second part of the prophecy addresses the people as they quake in terror before the Babylonians. Jeremiah instructs them unambiguously: Surrender. Give yourselves up to the Babylonians. He does not beat around the bush: \"Whoever leaves and surrenders to the besieging Chaldeans shall live.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah generates an atmosphere of defeat among the people. His words hit home and many indeed throw themselves to the mercy of the Babylonian king:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The remainder of the people in the city \u2014 those who surrendered to the King of Babylonia and the remnant of the population \u2014 were exiled by the commander Nebuzaradan. (II Kings 25:11)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In the list of exiles at the end of the Book of Jeremiah, we find that a group of people indeed went into exile \u2014 apparently willingly \u2014 before the destruction. This list includes those who were not connected to the main exile: \"In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, from Jerusalem, 832 people\" (Jer. 52:29). That year (587 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year in power), the destruction had not yet taken place; this is an earlier exile. According to II Kings 25:8, the destruction occurred in Nebuchadnezzar's nineteenth year. Moreover, the number of exiles listed (832) makes no sense in the context of Jerusalem's destruction. Apparently, this figure refers to deserters who opposed Zedekiah's bellicosity and surrendered to the Babylonians for ideological reasons. This theory is supported by Zedekiah's own words. As the Babylonians tighten their siege of Jerusalem, Jeremiah suggests that the king give himself up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i>. 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    1. Out of order?<\/em> The background of our story is the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, in the years 588-586 BCE. The next prophecy that carries a date will appear in chapter 25: \u201cin the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah, which was the first year of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon,\u201d that is, 604 BCE - 16 years before today\u2019s chatper. Why does this prophecy from the days of Hezekiah appear specifically here? Good question. Perhaps there is a connection to the previous chapter, being the realization of the prophecy to Pashhur about exile and destruction. Or perhaps it is connected to the next theme, which emphasizes the responsibility of the political leadership for the national catastrophe. Or perhaps something else? Worth looking into.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. The king and the prophet<\/em>. Zedekiah turns to Jeremiah with a plea for help. As far as he is concerned, Jeremiah is a true prophet, and therefore,\u00a0 the right person to ask. This is not an obvious conclusion, given the recent relationships between the kings of Judah and Jeremiah.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. No time for prayer I<\/em>. This isn\u2019t the first time in Jeremiah that God explains that prayer worn\u2019t work. BAck in chapter 5 he instructed the prophet: \u201cAnd the LORD said to me, \u201cDo not pray for the benefit of this people\u201d (v. 11).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    4. No time for prayer II<\/em>. 50 chapters (Is. 37) and more than a hundred years previously, during King Sennecharib of Assyria\u2019s siege on Jerusalem, Hezekiah, the king of Jerusalem, sent a delegation to the prophet Isaiah with the request to pray. That was a time for prayer. But no longer.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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