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Rav Kook\u2019s <\/span>Orot Hateshuva<\/span><\/em>, talks about returning to one\u2019s self. Rav Kook writes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When we forget the essence of our own soul \u2026 everything becomes confused and in doubt. The primary teshuva, that which immediately lights the darkness, is when a person returns to himself, to the root of his soul \u2013 then he will immediately return to God, to the soul of all souls.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In essence, <\/span>forgetting one's true self leads to confusion and doubt, and teshuva begins by reconnecting with the root of the soul and with God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rav Kook highlights this idea of sin resulting from a loss of self-awareness, by reminding us of the question God posed to Adam after he ate from the tree of knowledge: <\/span>\"<\/span>Ayekah<\/em> <\/span>\u2013 where are you?\u201d This wasn\u2019t a geographical question, but a spiritual one: \u201cWhere are you <\/span>spiritually<\/span><\/em>?\u201d In other words, \u201c<\/span>Who<\/span><\/em> are you, Adam?\u201d Adam had become estranged from himself, and that was the first step towards his sin.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rambam\u2019s <\/span>Hilchot Teshuva<\/span><\/em> describes four steps to repentance, one of which is confession. On Yom Kippur this is the v<\/em><\/span>idui<\/span><\/em> (prayer of confession) we recite over and over. But Yom Kippur marks the end of our <\/span>aseret yamei teshuva<\/span><\/em> (ten days of repentance). Why do we wait until day ten to say <\/span>vidui<\/span><\/em> instead of getting started on Rosh Hashanah?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Connecting with what Rav Kook said about Adam losing his sense of self as the root of sin, Rav Avigdor Neventzhal, former Chief Rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem, provides this analogy. There are two ways to demolish a building, with each floor being analogous to a particular sin, or level of sinning. The first way is from the top down, floor by floor until the building is completely razed. The second way is to undermine the foundation, or the supports of the building. In this bottom-up approach, once the supports of the building have been destroyed, the rest of the building crumbles in suit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Likewise, says Rav Neventzhal, the process of uprooting our sins during the <\/span>aseret yamei teshuva<\/span><\/em> should follow this foundation-first model. Rather than focus on each floor, we start our <\/span>teshuva<\/span><\/i> at the root of our sins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On Rosh Hashanah, our focus is not on sin and confession. Instead, we sing <\/span>Avinu Malkeinu<\/span><\/em>, we speak about <\/span>Malchuyot<\/span><\/em> (divine Kingship) and we re-coronate our King with the shofar blasts. We spend Rosh Hashanah returning to our authentic selves, effectively demolishing any estrangement from God that was at the root of our sins. 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At the beginning of the book, Jeremiah explains how he was selected in the womb to be a prophet for the people. Now the people have turned against him. The high priest Pashur has Jeremiah arrested and thrown into the stocks. Despondent and alone, the prophet revisits that day of his calling and turns what previously had been a blessing into a curse:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Accursed be the day that I was born! Let not the day be blessed when my mother bore me! (verse 14).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This curse comes after he spent the first part of the chapter cursing Pashur:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For thus said GOD: I am going to deliver you and all your friends over to terror: they will fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. I will deliver all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon; he will exile them to Babylon or put them to the sword (verse 4).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He also is angry at those around him who have turned on him:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I heard the whispers of the crowd\u2014 terror all around: \u2018Inform! Let us inform against him!\u2019 All my [supposed] friends are waiting for me to stumble: \u2018Perhaps he can be entrapped, And we can prevail against him And take our vengeance on him\u2019 (verse 10).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He then curses these inhabitants as well:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And I will deliver all the wealth, all the riches, and all the prized possessions of this city, and I will also deliver all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hands of their enemies: they shall seize them as plunder and carry them off to Babylon (verse 5).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Cursing the day he was born seems like Jeremiah\u2019s anger at how he is treated, but it may also be Jeremiah lamenting the role he has to play in cursing the people. Chapter 20, therefore, is the prime example of the conflicting feelings that Jeremiah has to deal with on his mission. On the one hand, he is the loyal servant of God sending a message of impending doom. On the other hand, he is the man from Anathoth, who has to isolate himself and curse the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The midrash Mechilta (Bo Pischa 1) explains that Jeremiah played this middle role in between the earlier prophets of Jonah and Elijah. Elijah, the fiery prophet, was zealous for God. Jonah, the reluctant messenger, was zealous for the people. Jeremiah is zealous for both. He is the prophet who in one chapter can curse the people and at the same time curse the day he was sent on his mission to curse them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Marathon runners learn to fear a certain point in the race, right around mile 20, known as \u201cThe Wall\u201d. At this distance, the body begins to shut down, and the mind quickly follows suit. There is a physiological reason runners start to despair at mile 20: it\u2019s the point where, if the runner has not been very careful about her fueling and rehydration, her body runs out of carbohydrates to fuel her muscles. It\u2019s like trying to drive a car with an empty gas tank. But even well-fueled athletes fear the wall, because it represents the greatest mental challenge of the race. With 20 miles behind them and 6.2 miles left to run, \u201cThe Wall\u201d is the point where the runner naturally despairs of how tired they already are, and how much longer they still have left to run. Their bodies are exhausted and in pain, the end is not yet in sight, and runner after runner approaches mile 20 and starts to \u201cbonk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter reads like Jeremiah\u2019s internal monologue as he hits \u201cThe Wall\u201d, and his motivation begins to bonk. He cries out in despair over the seemingly impossible task ahead of him, and bemoans his own birth. Not only does he want the pain to stop, but he regrets his very existence that has brought him this pain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite his pain and his desire to give up, Jeremiah describes a fire in his bones that forces him onward. His faith in God and the message he has to deliver push him through the pain and the struggle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s easy to read this chapter as a lament, or a cry for help from someone in desperate pain. That is, after all, the truth. This chapter comes from the depth of Jeremiah\u2019s pain, and expresses his real anguish and agony.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But it also is a testament to his strength. This lament is not the last chapter of his book. With God\u2019s help and urging, he perseveres through the suffering. The task before him is impossibly difficult and painful. But we hear, in this chapter, the internal monologue of someone who confronts \u201cThe Wall\u201d, the moment when they simply cannot put one foot in front of the other any longer, and keeps going.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We all have this capability. There will be moments when we just want to sit down, curl up and hope to disappear. And when those moments happen, we should feel welcome to lament, to cry out our pain, just like Jeremiah. 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The phrase <\/span>harat olam<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is familiar to us from the prayers on Rosh Hashanah. There is it generally translated as \u201cbirthday of the world\u201d, referring to the tradition that God created the world on the first day of Tishrei \u2013 Rosh Hashanah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But if we look at where the phrase was first used, we\u2019ll see that both words in the phrase originally meant something different.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The phrase originated in Jeremiah chapter 20, where the prophet curses the day he was born. In a particularly forlorn verse, he says:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cBecause he did not kill me before birth<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>So that my mother might be my grave,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And her womb big [with me] for all time.\u201d (Jeremiah 20:17)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Harat olam<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is the last section of the verse \u2013 which could perhaps be better translated as \u201cand her womb pregnant forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We can first note that <\/span>harat<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>does not mean birth (as understood above), but rather \u201cpregnant.\u201d The word for pregnancy is <\/span>herayon<\/span><\/em>. And so the use of that phrase in the Rosh Hashanah prayer, means that first day of Tishrei is the day the world was conceived (in God\u2019s plan), following the alternate rabbinic tradition that the world was actually created six months later in the month of Nissan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, in Jeremiah\u2019s lament, the word <\/span>olam<\/span><\/em>\u00a0doesn\u2019t mean \u201cworld\u201d \u2013 it means \u201cforever.\u201d That is the meaning throughout the entire Bible \u2013 it consistently means \u201ceternity\u201d or \u201calways.\u201d In this way it is related to the word for \u201chidden\u201d \u2013 <\/span>ne\u2019elam<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 meaning, \u201cthe hidden, unknown time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So how did it come to mean \u201cworld\u201d, which is the most common usage in Modern Hebrew? Apparently, between the meanings \u201ceternity\u201d and \u201cworld\u201d, there was a middle stage, where it meant \u201cage\u201d or \u201cera.\u201d This sense is still preserved in the phrases <\/span>olam hazeh<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and <\/span>olam haba<\/span><\/em>, meaning \u201cthis age\u201d or \u201cthe age to come\u201d respectively. They refer to either the current time we are living in, or a future time which in some way will be very different.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Those two eras are so different, that they could be understood to be entirely different worlds \u2013 and in fact, a more common translation for those phrases is \u201cthis world\u201d and \u201cthe world to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And so from the Rabbinic period onward, <\/span>olam<\/span><\/em> came to generally mean \u201cworld\u201d, and biblical verses like the one above were refitted to adjust to this new meaning. Another example can be found in Jeremiah 10:10, which describes God as <\/span>melech olam<\/span><\/em>. 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Ancient Israel had several modes of punishing criminals: whipping, stoning, fines, and others. But the most common punishment used today, imprisonment, is alien to ancient Israel. Criminals and wrongdoers were punished and released. The idea of constraining someone for a determinate sentence as a response to crime was out of place in Israel\u2019s culture of immediate consequences, repentance, and release.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact, the first time we hear of imprisonment for a crime is in the Joseph story, in Egypt. There, Joseph is accused of a sexual offense against his master (by allegedly attacking Potiphar\u2019s wife), and for that, he is thrown in prison, where he meets to servants to Pharaoh who are also facing trials and disfavor. Prison as a mode of punishment is entirely consonant with Pharaonic values: hierarchy, enslavement, degradation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So it comes as a surprise that Jeremiah is imprisoned having delivered a fiery prophecy in the Temple. The themes of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies are the rampant betrayal of God\u2019s covenant with Israel by the leadership of ancient Israel\u2019s society. The rich, the powerful, the clergy all conspire together to defraud the poor, abuse the weak, and spurn the ideal of equal human dignity that forms the bedrock of the covenant.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How ironic that the prophet whose strident voice accuses the elite of spurning the covenant is punished with a Pharaoh-style punishment!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That this was more than coincidence is indicated by the name of the man who imprisoned him. The priest who is identified as the chief officer of the Temple is Pashhur ben Immer. And it turns out the Pashhur is an Egyptian word meaning \u201cson of [the Egyptian deity] Horus. Another figure, Gedaliah ben Pashhur attempts to have Jeremiah executed for sedition. Perhaps that is Pashhur\u2019s son.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The battle is never just against outsiders. In every moment of human history, there are those who favor the \u201cPharaoh\u201d approach (hierarchy, coercive power, conscription and custody) and those open to hear the flowing breath of Being (covenant, persuasive power, education and responsibility).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We face that same choice today: do we give in to today\u2019s Pharaohs (including our own internal voice) or do we rise to the possibility of the One who is always inviting and becoming?<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70405,"alt":"","title":"jer20-prison cell","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell.jpg","width":1920,"height":1366,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-300x213.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":213,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-768x546.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":546,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-1024x729.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":729,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1093,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1366,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-1200x854.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":854,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-590x420.jpg","home_baner-width":590,"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":"Jeremiah Behind Bars","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A degrading Egyptian practice - not an Israelite one","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":70405,"alt":"","title":"jer20-prison cell","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell.jpg","width":1920,"height":1366,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-300x213.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":213,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-768x546.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":546,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-1024x729.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":729,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1093,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1366,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-1200x854.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":854,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer20-prison-cell-590x420.jpg","home_baner-width":590,"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":"20","chapter_main_number":"420","date":"20270408","wall_id":"420"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"469","name":"Egypt","old_id":"869"},{"term_id":"547","name":"Punishment","old_id":"947"},{"term_id":"840","name":"Jeremiah","old_id":"1240"},{"term_id":"991","name":"Prison","old_id":"1391"}]},{"order":7,"id":"70401","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Jeremiah In The Pillory ","post_title":"Jeremiah In The Pillory","slug":"jeremiah-in-the-pillory","old_id":"70401","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. 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Our chapter begins with a priest named Pashhur striking Jeremiah because of what he prophesied, and then placing him into something called a <\/span>mahpekhet<\/span><\/em> in which he was restrained until the morrow, whereupon Jeremiah makes a wordplay on his assailant\u2019s name (1-3). To clarify the identification of a <\/span>mahpekhet<\/span><\/em> and the meaning of Pashhur, we will compare the commentary of Shadal* to those of Rashi and Radak.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi followed the Aramaic Targum, interpreting <\/span>mahpekhet<\/span><\/em> as a place of confinement in which a prisoner is kept under physical duress. Radak added his father Joseph Kimhi\u2019s opinion that it is \u201csomething made of two pieces of wood with a hole cut out in which they place the prisoner\u2019s neck.\u201d In other words, a pillory. Shadal took note of Rashi\u2019s interpretation, and related it to the Talmudic jail, called a <\/span>kippah<\/span><\/em>, in which a recalcitrant lawbreaker was forced (<\/span>kafuy<\/span><\/em>) to lie flat because it had room for only one body. Because Jeremiah was \u201cremoved\u201d from it rather than \u201craised\u201d from it (3), Shadal deduced that it was not underground.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As for the name Pashhur, Rashi explained it as a contraction of <\/span>pash <\/span><\/em>(flowing) + <\/span>hur<\/span><\/em> (freely), signifying \u201ca great man,\u201d as did his student Yosef Kara, and therefore Jeremiah\u2019s wordplay (\u201cGod has not named you Pashhur, but fear-all-about\u201d) is a deliberate diminution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak\u2019s commentary here is outstanding in this respect: He treats the phrase \u201cGod has called your name\u201d not as an actual name giving, but as a euphemism for revelation. Since Pashhur took exception to Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy because he thought himself a prophet, God was telling him to beware the consequences of his folly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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20:14 \u201cCursed the day that I was born the day my mother bore me, let it not be blessed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is surely the beginning of a new poem of complaint because the preceding verses are a confident proclamation that God will defend the oppressed. The language of this poem throughout is strikingly similar to the death-wish poem in Job 3. The similarities are so extensive that one must conclude that the Job poet, writing more than a century after Jeremiah, was familiar with this text and reworked it, brilliantly, it must be said--for his own purposes.\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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Jeremiah's attack on Pashhur also stems from his loneliness and frustration, as we see in his accusation of God: \"You have seduced me, O Lord, and I was seduced.\" All his years of prophetic isolation have resulted from God's irresistible seduction. Mockery and shame have become his lot. Though he tries to ignore the word of God, he is unable to contain himself. It bursts from him \"like a burning fire trapped in my bones.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophet cannot escape his prophecies. Many such as Magor-missabib, Pashhur's symbolic new name, consider him a troublesome slanderer: \"Denounce, and let us denounce him!... Perhaps he will be seduced, and we will prevail over him and wreak our vengeance on him.\" This is the powerful lament of an afflicted soul that cannot escape its prophetic visions. One of its most impudent expressions is its accusation against God: \"But the Lord is with me like a mighty tyrant\" (20:11). Jeremiah feels that God is abusing him. His prophecy ensnares him from within; God's word traps him and beats him mercilessly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In his poem \"With My God, the Smith,\" Uri Zvi Greenberg expressed this tension between prophet and God, depicting the prophet as a mass of metal struck by the smith, God, in order to generate sparks:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Like chapters of prophecy my days burn, in all the revelations,\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>And my body between them is a block of metal for smelting,\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>And over me stands my god, the Smith, who hits hard:\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>Each wound that Time has opened in me opens its mouth to him\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>And pours forth in a shower of sparks the intrinsic fire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is my just lot \u2014 until dusk on the road.\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>And when I return to throw my beaten block on a bed,\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>My mouth is an open wound,\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>And naked I speak with my god:\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>You worked hard.\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>Now it is night; come let us both rest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. 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  1. This is how Magor-missabib looks<\/em>. Jeremiah calls Pashhur \u201cMagor-missabib\u201d (v. 3 - literally, \u201cfear, or terror, all around\u201d) - so that he fears punishment for all the fear he has been fomenting. What fears exactly are Pashhur and his cronies inciting? In v. 10, Jeremiah relates the plans he has heard to get rid of him: \u201c\u2018I heard the whispers of the crowd\u2014 Terror all around: Inform! Let us inform against him! All my [supposed] friends Are waiting for me to stumble: Perhaps he can be entrapped, And we can prevail against him And take our vengeance on him.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Returning to the prophetic dedication<\/em>. To curse the day of one\u2019s birth is a way of saying, \u201cI\u2019m sick and tired of living.\u201d That\u2019s what Job will say, too, in 331 chapters (Job 3), as a result of the terrible tragedies that befall him.\u00a0 But when Jeremiah curses the day of his birth and complains, \u201cWhy did I ever issue from the womb?\u201d (v. 18), in those words, the dedication of his prophecy, that we heard 19 chapters ago, reverberates: \u201cBefore I created you in the womb, I selected you; Before you were born, I consecrated you\u201d (1:5).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. How is the messenger guilty<\/em>? Jeremiah doesn\u2019t just curse the messenger who announced his birth (vv. 14-18). He also wishes him the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. Why? How is the messenger at fault? Perhaps by this curse, Jeremiah wants to communicate another message: That messenger is of course not guilty - he just brought the news of Jeremiah\u2019s impending birth. In the same way, Jeremiah is just a messenger, bringing the word of God. 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