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OOOOOOOH WAAAWAAA OOOOOH WAAAWAAA OOOOHHH WAAWAA OOOOHH. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

That\u2019s the opening line of the <\/span>Shlock Rock <\/span><\/a>hit song <\/span>Baruch Hagever<\/span><\/em> that pulls from verse 7. \u201cBlessed is the man who trusts in GOD, Whose trust is GOD alone\u201d (verse 7). The song is actually a remake of a 1979 song by the Amudai Shaish Boys Choir (which can <\/span>be heard here<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0 This well known verse also appears in the <\/span>Uva Letzion<\/em> <\/span>prayer and in the grace after meals. Verse 7 is the counter to the earlier verse 5:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus said GOD: Cursed is the man who trusts in mortals, Who makes mere flesh his strength, And turns his thoughts from GOD\u201d (verse 5).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God is angry that the people have decided that it is best to trust in man alone. This could be the misleading false prophets, the wayward rulers, their neighbors who entice them to sin or even the people themselves who trust their own ideas over God\u2019s. These people are cursed. The parallel of curses and blessings evokes the blessings and curses on Mt. Seir and Mt. Ebal in Deuteronomy 27.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It could be that God is trying to remind the people that their actions today violate these curses that were listed in that chapter. They worship idols, harass the poor, and have managed to check off every curse from that list. Interestingly, God does not provide the list of blessings in Deuteronomy. The commentators there explain that the blessings are implied. Those who do not do the cursed actions will be blessed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps Jeremiah here is explaining to the people that the blessings come from something much simpler. The people do not need to live perfect lives. With all the bad behavior exhibited by the people around him, Jeremiah reminds them that all they need to do is trust in God and then God will bless them. It is a simple message: in order to be blessed, all you have to do is trust in God. Badabada.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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If you do not obey My command to hallow the sabbath day\u2026 then I will set fire to the fortresses of Jerusalem and it shall not be extinguished (17:27).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners\u2026 It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners, because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness. It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention. -Hans Jonas<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Various benefits of the sabbath have been highlighted by many thinkers down to our own times: its sacred nature, communing with the divine, prioritizing of what is truly important, training in self-restraint, curtailing of desire, revival of family togetherness, cultivation of self-sufficiency, restoration of personal energy, psychological cushioning in the face of taxing work-life, temporary decrease in environmental harm, the intentional interruption of material accumulation, and so on. Even the most secular individuals increasingly appreciate these insightful and urgently relevant understandings of the beauties and benefits of the sabbath. We see more and more calls for \u201csabbaths\u201d from our screen-laden devices, cities implementing car-free days and the like.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbinic model not only provides a well thought-out framework for making sabbath truly ecological, it was the original such model: a system for coping with and providing spiritual and cognitive fortitude against what for the rabbis was already then the Anthropocene Era, a world altered by human activity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Today, sabbath observers might well consider committing not to build, operate or work in factories, do business, farm, produce clothes at home, drive cars, fly, use engines of any kind, spend money, hunt, etc. People might avoid using electricity. Cooking could be done in advance or one suffices with room-temperature food. Unplugged, with our distractions eliminated, Shabbat can serve us as a day for taking a walk, playing with our kids, reading on our own or reading out loud, conversing with friends or singing, and regenerating energy for fighting for justice. Green sabbaths can become a day to celebrate through local community activities without producing carbon emissions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our sabbath days must become a time of active avoidance of environmental vandalism, a time for congregational and individual reflection on how we are undoing creation. Green Sabbaths can digest anew the biblical prophets\u2019 warnings against the corruption of the rich and powerful, the oppression of the poor and the self-centered pursuit of short-sighted pleasures, understanding how relevant such warnings are to the ecological devastation wrought by hypercapitalism. Sabbath properly practiced offers a weekly interruption of the suicidal econometric fantasy of infinite growth, a weekly divestment from fossil fuels, a weekly investment in local community.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Excerpted from Observing Sabbath in the Anthropocene Era<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>See his<\/span> The Sabbath in an Era of Climate Change<\/span><\/a> in Tablet, and his project website -\u00a0www.greensabbathproject.net.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70241,"alt":"","title":"Jer17-nowork","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","width":300,"height":286,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork-300x286.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":286,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","medium_large-width":300,"medium_large-height":286,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","large-width":300,"large-height":286,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","1536x1536-width":300,"1536x1536-height":286,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","2048x2048-width":300,"2048x2048-height":286,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","post_full_size-width":300,"post_full_size-height":286,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer17-nowork.jpg","home_baner-width":300,"home_baner-height":286}},"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":"Is there nothing you can do about the environment?","tile_main_caption":"A Sabbath Of The World","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Nothing may be one of the best things you can do. 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Like a partridge hatching what she did not lay, so is one who amasses wealth by unjust means; In the middle of her life she will leave it and in the end he will be proved a crooked person (17:11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah is a product of Anathoth, a village of Jewish priests 20 kilometers north of Jerusalem. Anathoth borders on the Judean Desert. The naturalist Noga Hareuveni wrote an entire book explaining many of Jeremiah's prophecies based on desert and shepherding imageries. Jeremiah also uses the desert\u2019s fauna and flora to illustrate the messages of his prophecies. In chapter 17, Jeremiah uses the nesting habits of the sand partridge to teach a lesson about honesty and reputation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sand partridge is a typical desert bird that is found in the Judean Desert and Negev. At the approach of spring, the female searches for the perfect nesting place. After visiting dozens of potential sites, she picks a place to build her nest, lines it with grass and feathers, and lays 8-14 eggs.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Occasionally, two or more female birds will choose the same nest to lay their eggs.\u00a0 Eventually, one of the mothers will chase the other birds away from \"her\" nest. She will then try to incubate her own eggs, as well as the eggs of the female birds that she has driven off.\u00a0 However, the sand partridge does not have enough body heat to incubate such a large number of eggs, and as a result not even one egg can receive the necessary amount of warmth needed to develop the embryo. Upon realizing that the eggs will not hatch, the female partridge will abandon the nest and her unhatched eggs.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One can imagine Jeremiah coming across one such nest in the Judean desert. In his prophecy, he points to these unhatched eggs to show that \u201ccrime does not pay,\u201d and in fact will cause much embarrassment to the dishonest individual. The greedy partridge loses her own eggs, and her acts of deceit will become well known. So too, one who has taken money in a dishonest manner will end up losing one\u2019s money and will be publicly known as a crooked person.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In today's digital age where FOMO (fear of missing out) is so rampant, Jeremiah's parable can also teach us another lesson. Chasing all the current trends could cause one to lose one\u2019s own unique qualities. Perhaps before downloading another app or joining an additional group, we should take Jeremiah\u2019s advice and think about the partridge.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*FOMO - fear of missing out<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The faith of Israel doesn\u2019t promise that bad times won\u2019t come. It doesn\u2019t even promise us to be exempt from the fear, suffering, and sorrow such catastrophes bring in their wake. It just assures us that we will gain access to inner strength, deeper resilience, and the capacity to offer strength and succor to each other to get through our struggles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some can\u2019t internalize that complexity. They confuse religion with magic, expecting a sufficiently fervent faith to guarantee only smooth sailing ahead. If only we check our mezuzahs and wrap our tefillin tightly enough, then no bad things can possibly hurt us. Jewish history is filled with purveyors of such naive and dangerous sentiments, and we lost not one but two Temples despite the false assurances of those who clung to this profound distortion of religion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah weighs in with an image of astounding beauty and relevance. It is not, he says, that the challenges and assaults won\u2019t come. But when they do (and they inevitably will) Torah will ground you and make it possible to find meaning and purpose even as the world hurls its worst.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Blessed is one who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord alone. Such a one shall be like a tree planted by waters, sending forth its roots by a stream: it does not sense the coming of heat, its leaves are ever fresh; it has no care in a year of drought, it does not cease to yield fruit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Notice that Jeremiah recognizes that the days of blazing heat will come. There will be droughts. Religion doesn\u2019t avoid those difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But religion, rightly understood, changes our attitude, thereby throwing a lifeline. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t sense\u201d the heat that swelters, \u201cit has no care\u201d for the desiccating drought. Its rootedness in meaning, wisdom, and holiness allow it to retain its focus, to act with purpose even in such trying times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And so too must we. 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In our chapter, Jeremiah once again castigates the people's idol worship, faithlessness and perversity, and prophesies dire consequences. A string of specific failings are cited. Interestingly enough, Rashi repeatedly reads into these verses a sin that is not explicitly invoked, flouting the commandment of <\/span>shmita<\/span><\/em>, letting the land rest during the seventh year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi's textual peg for this reading is verse 4. \"You will forfeit by your own act, the inheritance that I have given you.\" The word for forfeit is<\/span>v'shamateta<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> the same root as shmita, which is here used in its literal sense of letting go of something. Rashi comments, \"You will, of necessity, let go of your land, which you did not allow to rest in the Sabbatical year, as I commanded you.\" Letting the land slip away from you, Rashi explains, is the direct result of not periodically letting go of your tight hold on the land as a source of livelihood and allowing its rest.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Having introduced <\/span>shmita <\/span>through this linguistic connection, Rashi runs with the theme in the following verses. He reads \"Cursed is he who trusts in man\" (17:5) apparently a general warning about where to place your faith, as \"by ploughing and reaping and saying, I will sow and eat in the shmita year.\" When the same verse decries one who \"turns his heart from God,\" Rashi elaborates, \"because I said I would command my blessing on the land,\" during the shmita year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does Rashi insist on this underlying theme? No doubt, the connection between losing the land and non-observance of <\/span>shmita <\/span>is partly rooted in the Torah. In Leviticus 26, the prophecies of exile are juxtaposed promises that when the people are gone, the land will enjoy its Sabbaths, making up those it missed because the people ignored <\/span>shmita<\/span>. Right use of the land means letting it rest and sharing its gifts with the poor. The Torah warns that if we treat the land just as a commodity for our own enrichment, we will lose it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the end of the chapter Jeremiah warns that observing Shabbat is a precondition for the preservation of Jerusalem. \u201cIf you do not obey My command to hallow the sabbath day and to carry in no burdens through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will set fire to its gates\u201d (17:27) Shabbat marks the weekly rhythm of work and rest, that shmita instantiates on a septennial cycle. This may support Rashi\u2019s concept, that respecting these rhythms is a theme running throughout the chapter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image: The Year of Jubilee, by Henry Le Jeune, c. 1900 \/ wikipedia<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70255,"alt":"","title":"jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee.jpg","width":800,"height":527,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee-300x198.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":198,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee-768x506.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":506,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":527,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":527,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":527,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":527,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer17-Le_Jeune_The_Year_of_Jubilee-638x420.jpg","home_baner-width":638,"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":"Rhythms Of Rest\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Every seven days and every seven years - 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An early verse in this chapter poses a singular lexical challenge. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

You will forfeit (<\/span>ve-shamt\u2019tah<\/span><\/em>), by your own act (<\/span>u-bekha<\/span><\/em>), the inheritance I have given you; I will make you a slave to your enemies in a land you have never known. For you have kindled the flame of My wrath which shall burn for all time\u201d (4). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite the ingenuity of the English translation\u2019s compensation (by your own act), the word <\/span>u-bekha<\/span><\/em> is superfluous, at best, and possibly even mistaken.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal listed some of the earlier attempts at its interpretation and offered his own:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word <\/span>u-bekha<\/span><\/em> is difficult. I have seen and heard and introduced many explanations but have not found any of them satisfying. Some emended the text to <\/span>yad\u2019kha<\/span><\/em>, [signifying] \u201cyou will withdraw your hand from your inheritance.\u201d Others have said that the word is completely superfluous, [signifying] \u201cyou shall be withdrawn,\u201d i.e., detached, \u201cfrom your inheritance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is possible that the extra <\/span>heh<\/span><\/em> at the end of <\/span>ve-shamt\u2019tah<\/span><\/em> was originally a <\/span>chet<\/span><\/em> [attached to the following word, yielding] \u201cyou shall retire your debts\u201d (<\/span>ve-shamat\u2019ta chob\u2019kha<\/span><\/em>)\u2026 A landowner resembles a lender who seeks to collect [the debt owed him] and the land is obliged to yield him produce annually. The Torah commanded us to withdraw our hands from those we collect from during the Sabbatical year as [it commanded to] withdraw our hands from the land during that year.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They did not act accordingly, so the prophet informed them that they would be exiled from their land and then they would be forced to retire any [outstanding] debts lest the land cease giving them its best. Conversely, they themselves, in their exile in another country, will be forced to serve their enemies without respite.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We recall that Shadal* based his commentary on three foundations: tradition, philology, and common sense. In a certain respect, this bold attempt at textual emendation combines all three\u2014rather than defying them, as it might appear. The given text made no sense, tradition itself recognizes several exchanges of similar looking consonants such as <\/span>heh<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>chet<\/span><\/em> (cf. Song of Songs 1:17), and the result is a text which is consistent both linguistically and thematically with the context in which it appears.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary,<\/span> see this introductory essay.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

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In 1870 the first Jewish youth village was established, south of Jaffa, on a plot of 750 acres, leased from the Ottoman Sultan. Charles Netter, of the French Alliance organization, who was the first headmaster and initiator of this unique \u201cstart-up\u201d project, introduced new progressive educational methods along with agricultural training. The purpose was to train the future farmers of the land.\u00a0<\/span>This school was quite a visionary breakthrough, considering it was founded more than a decade before the \u201cFirst Aliya\u201d, when there were only approximately\u00a0 20,000 Jews in the country, mostly traditional, living in the four holy cities Jerusalem, Tiberias, Tzefat and Hebron.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The school quickly took its place among the most prestigious sites of the country. In 1898, during Herzl's only visit to the Land of Israel, he met the German Emperor Wilhelm II at the main entrance of the school for a famous picture. For many years the school served as the main research center for the country, and today is still an active school, with close to 400 students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The name Mikveh Yisrael was taken from two passages in the Book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 14:8 and today\u2019s chapter 17:13: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

O Hope of Israel! O LORD! All who forsake You shall be put to shame, Those in the land who turn from You Shall be doomed men, For they have forsaken the LORD, The Fount of living waters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The name was proposed by Wolf Grinstein, one of the school's first students, who later became a teacher there. Today\u2019s verse is read in the haftara of the Torah portion Bechukutai, which was read during the week of the opening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word \u201cmikveh\u201d has a double meaning, both a source of water and of hope. The root of \u201cmikveh\u201d is the word <\/span>kav<\/span><\/em>, line, which implies drawing to one place, like the water in Genesis 1:9: \u201clet the water\u2026 be gathered into one area\u201d\u2026 This too, in a way, is the essence of hope: a gathering of wishes and aspirations to one focal point, from which actions are initiated, as opposed to \u201cday dreaming.\u201d The Talmud (Yoma 85:b) adds another layer of meaning: \u201cMikveh Yisrael\u201d, says Rabbi Akiva, is a way to describe God: water is everywhere and has been here since the beginning of time; and, just like water purifies those who were afflicted by some form of spiritual impurity, so too, God is our mikveh who will purify us by immersing ourselves in Him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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God is prepared to give His people one final chance for redemption, and the condition is this:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Guard yourselves for your own sake against carrying burdens on the sabbath day, and bringing them through the gates of Jerusalem. Nor shall you carry out burdens from your houses on the sabbath day, or do any work, but you shall hallow the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers (17:21-22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The latter part of this commandment, to refrain from work and sanctify the Sabbath surely includes the act of carrying burdens in and out of the gates of Jerusalem. So why is it necessary to specifically single out this particular act from all other laws of Sabbath? One would think that \u201csanctify the Sabbath\u201d as a whole would be more redemptive in nature than not carrying burdens. While we cannot put any of God\u2019s commandments into a hierarchy of importance, one is left to wonder about the placement and timing of this one.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In mentioning the sanctification of the Sabbath, Radak explains that Sabbath observance, in its entirety, is an expression of one\u2019s faith in God \u2013 the very thing that the people were lacking at that time. Alshich comments that by sanctifying the Sabbath we raise our general level of spirituality such that it will spill over into influencing our actions during the rest of the week. But neither of these explains the specific call to refrain from carrying.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir of OU Torah proposes a possible explanation. The prohibition for carrying is about moving something between private and public domains. In our private domain we have the ability to shape our environment, both physically and spiritually. It is within our capacity to invite the Divine Presence into our homes. By contrast, the public domain, which we share with others, is not an environment we have full control over. In our homes we decide what we wish to keep \u2013 that which enhances our physical and spiritual well-being, and what we wish to discard because it is detrimental. But the danger exists, argues Rabbi Meir, that although we may find something of value in the street and bring it home to enrich our lives, we may also find something harmful in a God-forsaken public place, and come to internalize it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rather than being isolationist, this directive for sanctifying the Sabbath - the day of heightened spirituality that carries us through the rest of the week \u2013 may be symbolic of taking extra care to protect what is good and reject what is bad.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Like many, when I think of Shabbat, I think of the sights and smells of the amazing food, the beautiful tunes in shul and the struggle to power through and stay awake while reading on the couch. To me, those positive aspects of Shabbat are the most special part of being Jewish. Within those 25 hours, it always feels like I belong to a secret club, isolated in time while the rest of the world goes on around me. And part of what makes it so special to me is that every person who observes Shabbat will do it just a little bit differently and for different reasons. I find it a privilege. Something I kept one way when I was younger and learned to love on a whole different level as I grew older. Shabbat is not just a time of the week; Shabbat is an experience.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And so, when I think of Shabbat, the furthest thing from my mind is reward and punishment. But in Jeremiah 17:21-27, we see God speaking through Jeremiah telling the people not to carry burdens on Shabbat. God is presenting a choice: either keep Shabbat... or don\u2019t. But keeping Shabbat is undoubtedly a much better option.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If the people keep Shabbat, they are promised that kings will enter through the gates of the city of Jerusalem - a city that will be inhabited for all times. But, if they do not keep Shabbat, then God warns them the gates and fortresses of the city will be burned and consumed in a tremendous fire that can\u2019t be extinguished.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Presented this way, it\u2019s a no brainer. It feels like less of a choice and more of an edict that they have to keep Shabbat. And this makes me feel uncomfortable. I would hate to feel forced to celebrate Shabbat and I am thankful that we can observe our foundational Jewish practice in our own terms. Shabbat provides a feeling of closeness with God and therefore should not be something we are forced to do, but something we feel in our hearts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cThe heart is deceitful above all things, and exceedingly frail; \u2014 who can know it?\u201d (Jeremiah 17:9)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

what is your favorite poison<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>that you inhale like cocaine<\/span><\/p>\r\n

inject like heroin<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> drink like acid<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> eat like arsenic<\/span><\/p>\r\n

what is your favorite poison<\/span><\/p>\r\n

which dissolves your blood cells<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till all that flows in your veins is sand<\/span><\/p>\r\n

which burns away your lungs<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till all that you breathe is smoke<\/span><\/p>\r\n

which warps your heart<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till all that beats is a rusty clock<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> unable to tell time<\/span><\/p>\r\n

what is your favorite poison<\/span><\/p>\r\n

which wakens dormant demons within your head<\/span><\/p>\r\n

they will run wild inside your eyeballs<\/span><\/p>\r\n

scratching your retina with their claws<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till you no longer perceive any light<\/span><\/p>\r\n

they will run wild inside your ears<\/span><\/p>\r\n

puncturing your eardrums with high-pitched shrieks<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till you no longer hear music<\/span><\/p>\r\n

they will run wild inside your nostrils<\/span><\/p>\r\n

biting you over and over again with their fangs<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till all you smell is urine<\/span><\/p>\r\n

they will run wild inside your mouth<\/span><\/p>\r\n

lacerating your tongue with their canine teeth<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till all you taste is vomit<\/span><\/p>\r\n

they will run wild over your fingers<\/span><\/p>\r\n

befouling every neuron<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till all you touch is filth<\/span><\/p>\r\n

so what is your favorite poison<\/span><\/p>\r\n

that pours venom into your soul<\/span><\/p>\r\n

till all that is left of your spirit<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> is the shadow of a shadow<\/span><\/p>\r\n

if you know what your favorite poison is<\/span><\/p>\r\n

take it quickly<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> take it now<\/span><\/p>\r\n

tomorrow may be too late<\/span><\/p>\r\n

tomorrow the Messiah may come<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>and you will have no choice but to<\/span><\/p>\r\n

live<\/span><\/p>\r\n

you will have no choice but to<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Heal<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In the early days of Josiah's reform, the culture promoted by his grandfather Manasseh is still palpable within Jerusalem. Ignorance and abandonment of the Torah are rampant. One of the most prominent signs of this neglect is the desecration of the Sabbath. The commercial culture of that era utilizes all seven days of the week for the rat race, regarding Sabbath observance as a symptom of laziness. When prophets and leaders draw attention to the Sabbath \u2014 particularly in the public sphere \u2014 their words express the very real crisis underlying the state of affairs in Israel. This chapter in Jeremiah imploring the people to resume their observance of the Sabbath is one such example...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It seems that the residents of Jerusalem are not yet meticulous about the prohibition of commercial dealings on the Sabbath, despite Josiah's initial religious enactments. The revolution is still in its early stages. In his early prophecies, Jeremiah still believes he has a receptive audience. His prophecy is not yet pessimistic, and he contrasts the blessings inherent in Sabbath observance with the curses stemming from its desecration.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah clearly invokes the language of Deuteronomy (<\/span>vehaya im shamoa tishme'u<\/span><\/em> - \"and it shall come to pass if you diligently hearken\"). He makes the novel claim that the consecration or desecration of the Sabbath is the key to the peace and glory of Jerusalem, or, God forbid, to its destruction. This insight is derived from the extent of Jerusalem's syncretism prior to Josiah's reformation, as described by the prophet Zephaniah in the first chapter of his book. Among other things, Zephaniah emphasizes the bustling trade that filled the streets of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, in which all the neighboring peoples participated. Sabbath observance will reunite Judah and Israel against the surrounding nations and symbolize a renewal of the covenant between God and His people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. 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17:21 \u201cThus said the LORD: Take care at the risk of your lives and do not carry a burden on the sabbath day and bring it through the gates of Jerusalem.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some scholars have claimed that the emphasis here on observance of the sabbath reflects a sixth-century B.C.E exilic setting, as in the late chapters of Isaiah. This is by no means a necessary inference because the sabbath is, after all, part of the Decalogue, and its violation in the Book of Exodus is considered to be a capital crime. The \u201cburden\u201d brought through the gates would be produce from the surrounding countryside and perhaps also merchandise transported from abroad.\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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\u201cBraving the Wilderness\u201d<\/a> by Ariel Milan-Polisar: Jewish wisdom about the wilderness.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cTrees, Torah and Humanity: A Shiur for Tu Bishvat\u201d<\/a> by Tzvi Sinensky: Explore sources about ourselves, our holy text, and the natural world.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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  1. The shrines (<\/span>bamot<\/span><\/em>)<\/em>. The cultic sins which run deep in Judah are the shrines and the altars: \u201cyour sins throughout your territory\u201d (verse 13). But are we talking here about total idolatry, or actually the service of God, just outside the Temple in Jerusalem. Jeremiah doesn\u2019t specify. Josiah\u2019s reform (622 BCE, 2 Kings 23), sought to purify the worship in Judah on both those grounds.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Regards from Psalms<\/em>. The hymn-like sections that appear in this chapter are reminiscent of psalms. But they are not from the book, they express the theological and existential grappling of Jeremiah and the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Good shabbes<\/em>! The Shabbat, and in particular its observance in the public sphere, is a condition for the peace of Jerusalem. We will hear more about the importance of Shabbat in another 55 chapters in Ezekiel (ch 20), and in the period of the return to Zion, Nehemiah too will work energetically to increase Shabbat observance (Nehemiah, chapters 10, 13).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. A dignified existence.<\/em> This is what a dignified existence looks like to Jerusalem: \u201cThrough the gates of this city shall enter kings who sit upon the throne of David, with their officers \u2014riding on chariots and horses\u2026 And people shall come from the towns of Judah and from the environs of Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Shephelah, and from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, meal offerings and frankincense, and bringing offerings of thanksgiving to the House of the LORD\u201d (verses 25-26). 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