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The previous chapter deployed the image of the creation of a vessel. There the potter is able to remake and reform damaged clay. In chapter 19, God instructs Jeremiah to purchase a finished hardened clay pot and bring it to the valley of Gehenom where the people would worship the hated idolatry of Molech. The worship of Molech is done by passing children through fire (or by sacrificing them in fire). This evil idol worship is detested by God most likely because it involves harm to the most innocent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The potter in chapter 18 would need to take his clay pot fashioned on the wheel and pass it through fire in a kiln to bake it. That makes chapter 19 the perfect companion metaphor for chapter 18\u2019s moldable clay. God\u2019s message to the people is that the worship of Baal takes them one step beyond that clay. By passing their children through the fire the people have made themselves unfixable just like a finished clay jar that is broken cannot be fixed. Attempts to glue a broken vessel will still leave cracks and deformities. There is no way to remold such a vessel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If the people do not mend their ways and stop worshiping Molech, they themselves will be unfixable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":79224,"alt":"","title":"zech3-fire","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"Kith And Kiln","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"By passing their children through the fire the people have made themselves unfixable just like a finished clay jar","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":79224,"alt":"","title":"zech3-fire","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/zech3-fire-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"19","chapter_main_number":"419","date":"20270407","wall_id":"419"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"429","name":"Idolatry","old_id":"829"},{"term_id":"571","name":"Repentance","old_id":"971"},{"term_id":"680","name":"Symbolism","old_id":"1080"},{"term_id":"854","name":"Metaphor","old_id":"1254"}]},{"order":3,"id":"70370","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Relationship In Shards ","post_title":"A Relationship In Shards","slug":"a-relationship-in-shards","old_id":"70370","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":39778,"post_title":"Aliza Libman Baronofsky","slug":"aliza-libman-baronofsky","old_id":"39778","first_name":"Aliza Libman ","last_name":"Baronofsky ","description":"Aliza Libman Baronofsky is a first-year student in the Advanced Kollel at Yeshivat Maharat and teaches at Charles E. 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In yesterday\u2019s chapter, the prophet Jeremiah visited a potter at work on his wheel. The image of the potter grabs the reader. The potter, when recognizing his piece-in-progress is faulty, starts from scratch with the same lump of clay, taking the original material and forming it into something better.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Today\u2019s chapter ups the ante by using the same image in a more powerful \u2013 and final - way. Today\u2019s chapter promises immediate fireworks. In verse 1, God commands Jeremiah to buy a bottle and take it to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, the notorious site of the worst idolatry: child sacrifice. God gives Jeremiah a message of doom, condemning the people for \u201cthey have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.\u201d At the end of the speech, God commands Jeremiah to break the bottle in view of all the people there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This demonstration is designed to garner attention. Jeremiah is going to a public gate. He is taking with him spectators, but curiously the text of verse 1 does not have a verb pertaining specifically to the elders. The JPS translation renders it: \u201cThus said the LORD: Go buy a jug of potter\u2019s ware. And [take] some of the elders of the people and the priests.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word \u2018take\u2019 appears in brackets since it does not appear in the Hebrew. Read simply, it almost seems as though in one fell swoop, Jeremiah must go and acquire a jug and the elders. The omission of the verb puts the elders on the same level as the jug: they are objects, ingredients in Jeremiah\u2019s grand demonstration.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After Jeremiah is to break the bottle, he is to tell the people that God will break them just as Jeremiah broke the bottle. Here, the demonstration gives us meaning. What happens when an earthenware bottle breaks? Is it broken into large pieces, or is it smashed to smithereens? Can it be repaired with some ancient substance or would the shards of pottery be useful for nothing, ever again?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In verse 11, the text is clear: the pottery cannot be made whole again. There is an irrevocability in the breaking of pottery that is supposed to touch us, deep inside.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Talmud in Berachot 30b related the story of two different sages, Mar and Rav Ashi, who made weddings for their sons. At each wedding, the people got carried away with their rejoicing. The host of the wedding brought a glass and smashed it in front of the group. The Talmud tells us <\/span>ee\u2019atzivu<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/em> \u2013 \u201cthey became sad.\u201d This was the desired impact of the symbolic action of Jeremiah. The people have gotten carried away with sinful conduct, and they should respond to the breaking of the pottery by figuratively \u2018sobering up\u2019: A glass shatters. There is noise. There is mess. Something has broken that can never be fixed. 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One verse in this chapter is so significant that it is worth taking a brief recess from Shadal in order to examine the implications of its talmudic interpretation. Jeremiah was instructed to inveigh against the cult of child sacrifice that was situated on a site called Tophet in the Valley of Ben-hinnom (6) in proximity to the Temple. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

They have built shrines to Baal, to put their children to the fire as burnt offerings to Baal\u2014which I never commanded, never decreed, and which never came to My mind (5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Talmud assigned each of the three \u201cnever\u201d clauses to a specific instance featuring a child sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c\u2018<\/span>I never commanded<\/span><\/em>\u2019\u2014refers to the son of Mesha, King of Moab, of whom it states: \u2018He took his eldest son who would have succeeded him and raised him as a pyre offering.\u2019 \u2018<\/span>I never decreed<\/span><\/em>\u2019\u2014refers to Jephthah [who \u201csacrificed\u201d his daughter]. \u2018<\/span>It never came to my mind<\/span><\/em>\u2019\u2014 refers to Isaac son of Abraham\u201d (Ta'anit 4a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God, then, took equal exception to Mesha\u2019s actual sacrifice of his son (2 Kings 3), Jephthah\u2019s treatment of his daughter (Judges 11, see <\/span>our comments there<\/span><\/a>), and Abraham\u2019s preparation to slay Isaac (the Akedah). But was God not the one who instructed Abraham: \u201cTake \u2026 Isaac and take him up there for an <\/span>olah<\/span><\/em> on a mountain I will indicate to you\u201d (Genesis 22:2)?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This talmudic passage offers the enticing (albeit disturbing) possibility that our customary reading of the Akedah is erroneous. Indeed, Ralbag (Gersonides, Genesis 22:1), read that same instruction as \u201cbring him up there to make an offering, in order that Isaac should be educated in the Lord\u2019s service,\u201d and suggested that it was Abraham who misinterpreted it, perhaps when the sacrificial lamb he expected to find (22:8) failed to appear. Thus, God stayed his hand and Abraham slaughtered the ram that was the intended sacrifice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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19:9 \u201cAnd I will feed them the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and each man shall eat the flesh of his fellow man in the siege and in the straits that their enemies and those who seek their life shall press upon them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although cannibalism under the duress of starvation in sieges is often invoked in the Bible, and evidently actually sometimes occurred, in this instance it is measure-for measure justice: the paganizers murdered their own children in a macabre ritual; now they will be driven by extremity to eat their children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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Chapter 19 concludes with Jeremiah's repetition of his Topheth prophecy in the Temple courtyard. This prophecy, his first about actual destruction, is important to Jeremiah, so he repeats it to the people in the courtyard. Unlike the previous time, when he stood in the courtyard and proclaimed, \"if you do not heed,\" this time it makes no difference whether the people obey God or not. The vessel has been shattered; Jerusalem's fate is sealed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As with Jeremiah's previous prophecy in the Temple courtyard, his words here immediately reverberate throughout the city. This time they reach Pashhur son of Immer, one of the wardens of decorum at the Temple. Not only is Pashhur the chief disciplinarian, but he also carefully monitors all that is said in the vicinity of the Temple. He is loyal to Jehoiakim and will not tolerate prophecies of doom by Jeremiah and his ilk. Because the Temple draws all sorts of people who have something to say, strict ground rules are necessary. Pashhur has the authority to keep people in line by using moderate physical force as well as the mahpekhet - an onsite jail or torture chamber. This is the tactic he uses with Jeremiah:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet and placed him in the cell in the upper gate of Benjamin by the House of the Lord. (20:2)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For an entire day, Jeremiah is imprisoned in the cell, his spirit churning. For over twenty years, his first prophecy has echoed in his mind: \"From the north will disaster break loose\" (1:14). Now, as he sees the king and his lackey prophets pledging allegiance to Egypt, these familiar words become clear. He suddenly understands what God wants from him. Loyalty to Egypt will lead the king and his followers to annihilation. All these loyalists will fall into the hands of Babylonia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is the first time Jeremiah explicitly invokes Babylonia. In a flash of revelation, the mystery of the identity of northern terror is solved. He now realizes that the King of Babylonia will conquer the land, overthrow the king loyal to Egypt, and plunder the city. It is hard to remain indifferent to Jeremiah's audacious curse of Pashhur. Immediately upon his release from the cell, Jeremiah taunts the very Temple official who imprisoned and then freed him, dubs him \"Defeat All Around,\" and curses him most damningly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. 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  1. Soft clay vs. finished jug<\/em>. In the previous chapter we encountered the jug, the vessel, when it was still \u201cclay in the hands of the potter,\u201d and it could still be kneaded to become a new object, with a new future. Here, the jug represents a finished vessel that can no longer change or be changed, only broken. That\u2019s the situation of the people - and that\u2019s the future of Judah and Jerusalem.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Living hell<\/em> (<\/span>topheth<\/span><\/i>). The place known as Topheth (which means something like conflagration or hellfire) plays a central role in Jermiah\u2019s prophecy here. It is the scene of the crime, where apparently the cult of human sacrifice in Jerusalem occurred. Topheth becomes also the image of punishment (v. 12), and the physical place where the dead, victims of the destruction, will be buried, because of a lack of space in the city itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Hard to watch<\/em>. Parents harm their own children, in both the description of the crime and of the punishment. In the crime, the sin: \u201cThey have built shrines to Baal, to put their children to the fire as burnt offerings to Baal\u201d (v. 5), and in the punishment, \u201cAnd I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters\u2026 in the siege\u201d (v. 9).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Place-based prophecy.<\/em> There are actually two prophecies in the chapter: the one in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and the other in the Temple. The messages are similar - sin will bring destruction. Can one actually say the same things that one says in Valley of Ben-hinnom, at the Temple. 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    \u201cHuman Beings In The Presence Of God Assertion vs. Submission\u201d<\/a> by Barry Gelman: What posture should we have before God?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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