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Due to their worshiping other gods, the Jews are informed of their impending exile:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Because your fathers deserted Me\u2026 and followed other gods and served them and worshiped them (16:11).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They will be transported to other lands, where they can readily worship the gods that their families first adopted in Israel:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Therefore, I will hurl you out of this land to a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods, day and night (16:13).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Ten Commandments, idolatries are describes as (Exodus 20:3) \u201c<\/span>elohim acherim<\/span><\/em>\u201d, a phrase understood by Rashi to connote that they are the \u201cgods of others,\u201d (<\/span>elohim shel acherim<\/span><\/em>) or, because the gods are \u201cother\u201d to those who worship them.\u00a0<\/span>Jeremiah, however, appears to assume a more objective position:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Can a man make gods for himself? \u201c<\/span>Lo elohim<\/span><\/em>\u201d (<\/span>no-gods<\/span><\/i>) <\/b>are they! (verse 20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophet maintains that these deities are not worthy of being served at all, by anyone, regardless of their being claimed by non-Jews or their inaccessibility and unresponsiveness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal understands v. 20 as a question that is immediately answered, with the reason for the god\u2019s \u201cnon-existence\u201d being that a human being has made it:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Can a man make for himself a god? Absolutely not, and should he attempt to make gods, in fact they are non-\u201creal.\u201d<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If a \u201cgod\u201d is in essence merely the projection of personal beliefs, then rather than being an object of worship and emulation, it will merely be a super-human being, who will never be taken seriously with respect to matters of life and death, or morality. In order to serve as an \u201cobjective imperative\u201d to human beings, God must have formed humanity (Genesis 1:26-7), rather than being formed by us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

R. Elchanan Wasserman, in his Kovetz Shiurim<\/em>, wonders how someone brought up in an idolatrous world, can be expected to turn their back on their beliefs, in order to be in conformity with the seven Noachide commandments, that includes the prohibition against idolatry. He answers that worshiping idols is extremely illogical and therefore any sane individual should recognize the folly of his actions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A line in the \u201cAleinu\u201d prayer of daily Jewish liturgy has been the object of discomfort by some traditionalists. 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The very first stories of the Torah describe the world of humanity in terms of relationships.\u00a0 The Holy One recognizes quickly that it is not good for the first Adam to be alone; Noah and his extended family go into an Ark into which even the animals enter in pairs.\u00a0 Avram and Sarai\u2019s relationship is disclosed even before they are called to journey together to an unknown destination. And the first commandment of the Torah is to increase and multiply.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps it is this background that makes the opening of this chapter such agonizing reading.\u00a0 Jeremiah is told in no uncertain terms that he must not marry or raise a family. But that might be a preferable future to the one predicted to be coming - partnerships and families wiped out by disease, by the sword, by famine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This dire passage culminates with a particular woe: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

For thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to banish from this place, in your days and before your eyes, the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of bridegroom and bride (verse 9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The payback for the people\u2019s infidelity will be measure for measure - the cessation of the very rites that celebrate partnership in the first place. And afterwards? If we follow this description to its logical conclusion, only Jeremiah will be left - utterly alone, forbidden even to mourn.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet the chapter also contains an image that stands in stark contrast to all of this predicted disaster.\u00a0 We are told that <\/span>many fishermen<\/span><\/em> are to be sent to bring the people back from exile and <\/span>many hunters<\/span><\/em> will drive them home from where they are hidden among the hills and the rocks.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why fishermen?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The image is echoed in all four of the Gospels as meaning a call to act as disciples, to draw together a new community. But is it too much of a stretch to imagine that our author has in mind the image of Jacob blessing his grandsons with the wish that they will be <\/span>teeming multitudes upon the earth<\/span><\/em> [Gen. 48:16]?\u00a0 The Hebrew word there is <\/span>vayidgu <\/span><\/em>- <\/span><\/i>literally, that the people should be like fish.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In our chapter, Jeremiah foresees that, in the days to come, the nations shall abandon their idolatrous worship of foreign gods: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

O Lord\u2026To You nations shall come from the ends of the earth and say: \u2018Our fathers inherited utter delusions, things that are futile and worthless\u2019 (Jer. 16:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Exodus Rabbah 27:4 preserves the following circular proem [a homiletical unit that begins and ends with the same verse]: It is written: \u201cO Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a day of trouble! To You nations shall come from the ends of the earth and say: \u2018Our fathers inherited utter delusions, things that are futile and worthless\u201d (Jeremiah 16:19). Israel said to the Holy One, blessed be He: \u2018When You performed miracles for us at the Crossing of the Red Sea, we said to You: \u201cThe Lord is my strength and song. He is become my deliverance. This is my God and I will enshrine Him, the God of my father, and I will exalt Him\u201d (Exodus 15:2). Did not Rahab, when she heard of the oncoming Israelites, cleave unto You, as it says: \u201cShe said to the men, \u2018I know that the Lord has given the country to you, because dread of you has fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land are quaking before you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the Sea of Reeds for you when you left Egypt\u2019\u201d (Joshua 2:9-10). And when You performed miracles in the days of Solomon, as it says: \u201cThe foes of the Lord shall be shattered. He will thunder against them in the heavens. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give power to His king, and triumph to His anointed one\u201d (I Samuel 2:10), even the Queen of Sheba praised You (see I Kings 10:1). For she says: \u201cPraised be the Lord your God, who delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel\u201d (I Kings 10:9). When You took us out of Egypt and gave us the Torah, Jethro, the Midianite father-in-law of Moses, came and offered praise unto You (see Exodus 18:9-12). All of these illustrate the verse: \u201cTo You nations shall come from the ends of the earth and say: \u2018Our fathers inherited utter delusions, things that are futile and worthless\u2019\u201d (Jeremiah 16:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Leqah Tov to Exodus 15:11 adds that when, at the crossing of the Sea, Israel saw that the Egyptians had been destroyed, their rule had been abolished and all their gods eradicated, immediately the Israelites abandoned their Egyptian idolatry and exclaimed: \u201cWho is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in splendor, working wonders?!\u201d (Exodus 15:11). And even the Nations will in the future abandon their idol worship, as it says: \u201cTo You nations shall come from the ends of the earth and say: \u2018Our fathers inherited utter delusions, things that are futile and worthless\u2019\u201d (Jeremiah 16:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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For many of us, the charms of Judaism invite us to look back. We savor a history as one of the world\u2019s most ancient, continuously practiced religions, delighting in the latest archaeological find affirming our ancestors\u2019 expressions of the faith we still cherish. We delight in Hanukkah lights that are ancient by the standards of today\u2019s worlds, but which seem almost recent compared to the Shabbat lights sitting next to them. We cherish blessings recited by the ancients to their children, which are the same blessings our grandparents heard when they were little, and with which we are privileged to bless our children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cRenew our days as of old,\u201d says the Prayerbook. Even our longings for the future are framed as yearnings to restore our past.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet, in the midst of this unshakeable commitment to continuity and to standing as one with the community of those who have come before us, it is also true that the Prophets of Israel help us to understand that redemption cannot be confused with nostalgia. The future liberation must exceed that of the past.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAssuredly a time is coming \u2013 declares the Lord \u2013 when it shall no more be said, \u2018As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt,\u2019 but rather, \u2018As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites out of the northland, and out of all the lands to which God had banished them.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah recognizes that God\u2019s greatness cannot only be a receding memory of a glorious past. To enshrine some ancient glory, however wondrous, is to reduce God\u2019s miraculous liberation to a relic, a shrine, a fetish.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The God of Israel is no mere album of glorious yesterdays. God\u2019s goodness breaks forth fresh and grand each and every day, and we look forward to a greatness that exceeds any experience attained thus far.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, in this middling present, we derive courage and strength from recollections of liberations past. But the North Star calling us forward is a redemption so grand that we can only imagine its universal reach, its transformation of all humanity, a homecoming greater than any we have ever seen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That redemption is an invitation to look ahead, expect the unprecedented, to orient ourselves not as descendants of the past, but as ancestors of tomorrow, and to mobilize the resilience of the past to generate the glory yet to be.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70167,"alt":"","title":"jer16-facing 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Can we imagine a day when we won't celebrate the Pesach seder? The prophet in this chapter says that this is exactly what will happen:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAssuredly, a time is coming\u2014declares the LORD\u2014when it shall no more be said, \u2018As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt,\u2019 but rather, \u2018As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites out of the northland, and out of all the lands to which He had banished them.\u2019 For I will bring them back to their land, which I gave to their fathers\u201d (verses 14-15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Jerusalem Talmud (Brachot 11:a) struggles to understand this statement, explaining it in a parable: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is like someone who was walking along the way and was attacked by a wolf. He started telling everybody about his (miraculous) recovery but then, he was attacked by a lion. He was saved from the lion, and started telling everybody about that, when a snake attacked him. When he was saved from the snake, he dropped the two earlier stories and started telling about his (miraculous) recovery from the snake. And so it is with Israel: the latter trouble would make them forget the earlier ones\".<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That is to say, it is not the Exodus from Egypt will be forgotten all together, but that the following miracles will be so great, that there would be no need to tell about that. Just like Jacob's name was changed to Israel, making \"Israel\" primary and \"Jacob\" secondary, and so it is for us with our history. Leaving Egypt was amazing: the plagues, the sea splitting\u2026 what a wow, we can't stop talking about it every day, every meal, every Shabbat and holiday. But one day, we'll be able to see that \"Egypt\" was just one \"wolf\", and we're saved from greater troubles yet. Would that be what we've seen in the last century, for example?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi David Shlomo Eibeschitz, born in what is now Ukraine in 1755 and known by his book, the <\/span>Arvei Nachal<\/span><\/em>, ties this verse with a verse in Hosea (2:18) and offers a different perspective. Hosea says, \"on that day you will call me <\/span>Ishi<\/em> <\/span>(my man) and no longer <\/span>Ba'ali<\/em> <\/span>(my husband)\", namely, that currently we use names that are not proper and not fully describing the other, because of the state we're in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Likewise, in our prayer, there are praises and blessings as well as \"imperfect words\", like \"Pharaoh\" and \"Egypt\" and \"other gods\". Indeed, since the first human's transgression, things are not pure any more, as the sparks of holiness got mixed inside the \"shell\" (which needs to be removed), like our world where good and bad are mixed. But, one day, we will purify our language. The word \"Egypt\" will not be mentioned anymore; we will only refer to our redemptions vaguely by saying \"northlands.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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At the end of Jeremiah 16, God promises that: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I will this once make known to them (modi\u2019am<\/em>), I will cause them to know (odi\u2019am<\/em>) my hand (yadi<\/em>) and my might; and they shall know (vayed\u2019u<\/em>) that my name is God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Based on the tone of the previous few verses it seems as if this is a promise of destruction. God will punish the people for their idol worship and the punishment will cause them to believe in him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does Jeremiah use this language? Why the repeated use of the Hebrew word for \u201cknow\u201d? Why the reference to God\u2019s strength as the hand, \u201cyad<\/em>,\u201d of God?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer comes earlier in the chapter, in Jeremiah 16:14, God promises that a day will come that the Exodus from Egypt will no longer be at the forefront of people\u2019s minds. Instead the return of the exiles to the land will replace this festive moment in Jewish history. With this context in mind we can return to the last verse and notice a striking parallel to the warning God gives to Moses in Exodus 7:5. Here Moses is told to go to Egypt to perform the plagues and wonders. God tells Moses he will harden Pharaoh\u2018s heart. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

And the Egyptians shall know (yad\u2019u<\/em>) that I am God, when I stretch my hand (yadi<\/em>) upon Egypt, and bring Israel out from there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah takes this verse and flips it around. This time, instead of the Egyptians being punished by the hand of God it will be Israel. Only in this way shall they realize the name of God. But, this phrase also brings an element of hope and redemption. 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In our comments to chapter 13, apropos of God\u2019s instruction to Jeremiah to purchase a loincloth, we discussed the problem of His ostensibly ordering prophets to violate norms of propriety. Here, too, we find Him telling Jeremiah \u201cnot to marry and not to have sons and daughters in this place\u201d (2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak launched several challenges concerning this instruction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is quite perplexing\u2026 Was Jeremiah not worthy enough to keep his children alive on his account? Minor children die only because of their parents\u2019 sins, and Jeremiah had committed no sin that would require the deaths of his children. Furthermore, even if there were an edict of death by sword and famine, it was issued against some of them and not them all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Consequently, Radak issued a restrictive interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It seems to me that [when God mentioned] \u201cin this place,\u201d He meant Anathoth, where the prophecy was issued\u2026 as it was mentioned previously about them, \u201cNo remnant shall be left of them, for I will bring disaster on the men of Anathoth, the year of their doom\u201d\u00a0 (11:23)\u2026 If Jeremiah had children in Anathoth, he might have removed them before the edict was fulfilled, but their Anathoth relatives would not have allowed it because they had no faith in his prophecy. Indeed, had Jeremiah himself been in Anathoth, he might not have been able to save himself\u2026 and if he could spare them from death, he might not have been able to spare them from exile or from another type of punishment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Finally, Radak pointed out an anomaly. According to Ezra (2:23), 128 \u201cmen of Anathoth\u201d returned from the Babylonian exile, in which case they clearly had a \u201cremnant.\u201d His resolution: They repented at the time of the conquest of the land. Nevertheless, God gave Jeremiah his instructions because at that time there was no prospect of repentance on the horizon.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal* cut through the protracted exegetical process by referring, succinctly, to the commentary of Don Isaac Abrabanel in which Radak\u2019s questions were answered, adding a comment that ties Jeremiah to the examples of strange prophetic behavior referenced in the opening paragraph:\u00a0 \u201cUndoubtedly, Jeremiah refrained from [marriage and having children] not in a [prophetic] dream but while awake and throughout many years, and despite the fact that it was meant [only] as a parable and sign for the rebellious people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary,<\/span> see this introductory essay.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70176,"alt":"","title":"jer16-family","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family.png","width":1280,"height":830,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-768x498.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":498,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-1024x664.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":664,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":830,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":830,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-1200x778.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":778,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-648x420.png","home_baner-width":648,"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":"Why Shouldn\u2019t Jeremiah Have a Family?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"More strange prophetic behavior","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":70176,"alt":"","title":"jer16-family","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family.png","width":1280,"height":830,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-768x498.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":498,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-1024x664.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":664,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":830,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":830,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-1200x778.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":778,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer16-family-648x420.png","home_baner-width":648,"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":"16","chapter_main_number":"416","date":"20270404","wall_id":"416"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"506","name":"Prophecy","old_id":"906"},{"term_id":"529","name":"Children","old_id":"929"},{"term_id":"680","name":"Symbolism","old_id":"1080"}]},{"order":10,"id":"70153","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Which Is It? 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16:14 \u201cTherefore, look, days are coming, said the LORD, where it shall no longer be said, \u2018As the LORD lives, Who brought up the Israelites from the land of Egypt.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commentators are divided as to whether the replacement of \u201cEgypt\u201d by \u201cthe land of the north\u201d is a prophecy of consolation--which is to say, the redemption from exile will be even grander than the redemption from slavery in Egypt--or a threat: that is, you are doomed to go into exile, a more bitter fate even than slavery in Egypt. The prophet may well intend to suggest both these meanings.\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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As a symbolic reflection of the terrible prophecies of rebuke against the people of his hometown, Jeremiah is commanded to remain unmarried and childless: \"Do not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place\" (16:1). The language of this opening indicates that Jeremiah shares this particular prophecy with a small, intimate group that has gathered around him, rather than broadcasting it in public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Usually, a prophet's symbolic gestures are active, that is, the prophet does something. In this instance as well, even though the gesture is characterized by Jeremiah's inaction \u2014 not marrying \u2014 when a thirty-year-old refuses to marry, it sends a bold, shocking message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This prophetic revelation shows Jeremiah that everyone in \"this place\" will die in an act of God. In a few years, in the time of Jeconiah, a letter from Jeremiah will accompany the first group of exiles from Jerusalem to Babylon, commanding them to \"marry women and sire sons and daughters\" (29:6). Later still, shortly before the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, Jeremiah, confined to the prison courtyard, will impart a vision of consolation: This place will yet ring out with \"The sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the sound of the groom and the sound of the bride\" (33:11). Jeremiah perceives the act of marriage and raising a family as a worthy, blessed act, but not in \"this place.\" In this respect, his celibacy serves as a sign and demonstration of his curse that all who bear children in \"this place\" will lose them, and that grief will befall the entire community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is not a one-time action (like the acts of Ezekiel, for example), but the establishment of a mode of existence for a young prophet condemned to barrenness and isolation. It is one of the climactic moments of Jeremiah's tragedy. From now on, rather than follow the course of life, he pursues that of death and destruction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. 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\u201cExile of the Kingdom of Judah\u201d<\/a> by Frieda Cattan: Texts about the destruction of the Southern Kingdom.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cBible - Hevel - Vanity?\u201d<\/a> by Kenneth Chelst: Explore the word \u201cvanity\u201d in various contexts in Tanakh.<\/p>\r\n

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  1. This is how you mourn<\/em>. Verses 6-7 describe the mourning that will be denied those of Jeremiah\u2019s generation: \u201cGreat and small alike shall die in this land, They shall not be buried; men shall not lament them, Nor gash and tonsure themselves for them. They shall not break bread for a mourner To comfort him for a bereavement, Nor offer one a cup of consolation For the loss of his father or mother.\u201d There will be so many dead, that there won\u2019t even be the possibility of mourning. Maximum catastrophe.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Do what you want<\/em>. You want idol worship? Go ahead. As much as you want. Just not here. The punishment of exile in verse 13 is presented ironically as the fulfillment of the idolatrous wishes of the people: \u201cyou will serve other gods, day and night.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Balancing act<\/em>. After verse 13 determines that there will be no pardon, verses 14-15 bring a ray of hope and a prophecy of consolation. It is a moment of comfort, before verse 17 - and a return to cataclysm.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Jeremiah 16","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"16","chapter_main_number":"416","date":"20270404","wall_id":"416"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/70116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}