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This surprising act dramatizes Jeremiah\u2019s exhortation: \u201cPut your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon; serve him and his people, and live!\u201d (<\/span>27:12<\/span><\/a>). The story of Jeremiah\u2019s yoke continues in the following chapter when Jeremiah\u2019s prophetic rival, Hananiah, breaks Jeremiah\u2019s yoke (<\/span>28:10<\/span><\/a>). God tells Jeremiah to say to Hananiah: \u201cYou broke bars of wood, but you shall make bars of iron instead\u201d (<\/span>28:13<\/span><\/a>). Jeremiah continues: \u201cListen, Hananiah! The Lord did not send you, and you have given this people lying assurances\u2026 This year you shall die, for you have urged disloyalty to the Lord\u201d (<\/span>28:15-16<\/span><\/a>). Finally, we are told: \u201cAnd the prophet Hananiah died that year, in the seventh month\u201d (<\/span>28:17<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n Elsewhere, Jeremiah uses other physical objects to dramatically illustrate his prophecies of doom. At God\u2019s command Jeremiah girds himself with a linen loincloth\u00a0 that is eventually ruined (<\/span>Jeremiah 13:1-12<\/span><\/a>). Further on, Jeremiah smashes a potter\u2019s jug (<\/span>19:1-11<\/span><\/a>). Later on, Jeremiah is told by God: \u201cGet yourself large stones, and embed them in mortar in the brick structure at the entrance to Pharaoh\u2019s palace in Tahpanhes, with some Judeans looking on\u2026\u201d (<\/span>43:8-10<\/span><\/a>). Toward the end of his prophetic career, Jeremiah writes in a scroll his prophecies of the fall of Babylon. After they had been read out in Babylon, he has the scroll thrown into the Euphrates River to illustrate: \u201cThus shall Babylon sink and never rise again, because of the disaster that I will bring upon it\u201d (<\/span>51:60-64<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n The 18<\/span>th<\/span> century Italian kabbalist and philosopher, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (<\/span>Ramchal<\/span><\/em>) in his treatise on Jewish theology,<\/span> Derekh Ha-Shem<\/span><\/a><\/em>, notes that Jeremiah, Ezekiel (see Ezekiel<\/span> Chapter 4<\/span><\/a>) and other Biblical prophets (for example, Ahijah of Shiloh in<\/span> I Kings 11:29-40<\/span><\/a>, Hosea<\/span> Chapter 1<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> Chapter 3<\/span><\/a>, Zechariah<\/span> 6:9-15<\/span><\/a>) make use of physical actions to dramatize their prophecies. Through these actions they \u201cwould arouse the higher powers\u201d <\/span>and cause their prophecies to be fulfilled at their proper time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n In Jewish tradition, the \u201cyoke\u201d symbolizing servitude is mostly associated with the<\/span> positive rabbinic concept of yoke<\/span><\/a>. In the daily repetition of the<\/span> Shema<\/span><\/a>, the \u201cyoke\u201d divides into two concepts. The first paragraph of the <\/span>Shema, <\/span><\/i>known as the \u201cacceptance of the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven\u201d (<\/span>kabbalat \u2018ol malkhut shamayim<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>Deuteronomy 6:4-9<\/span><\/a>) expresses acceptance of God\u2019s unity. 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Jeremiah brings the yoke to successive concentric circles. First, he brings it to the other nations, then to the king, then to the priests, then to the vessels in the Temple itself. Why does Jeremiah have to walk around with the yoke? This act of bringing the yoke to different parties is a way to undo messages of the past. The outer circle is directed at the other nations that include Edom:<\/span><\/p>\r\n And send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon, by envoys who have come to King Zedekiah of Judah in Jerusalem (verse 3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n For Edom, God promised Esav that he would have the yoke of his brother on him, but would also have the opportunity to break the yoke.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Yet by your sword you shall live, And you shall serve your brother; But when you grow restive, You shall break his yoke from your neck (Genesis 27:40).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n Now, however, is not the time to break the yoke. Edom must accept the yoke of the Babylonians. 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The word likely derives from a root meaning \u201cto call, proclaim.\u201d Some say that this means that the prophet was the \u201cone called\u201d by God, but more likely it means the one who calls to God, or proclaims the word of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n It is possible that the Arabic <\/span>na\u2019ib<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cviceroy\u201d \u2013 is related to <\/span>navi<\/span><\/em>, in that the viceroy was appointed to, or \u201ccalled upon\u201d to fulfill the position. <\/span>Na\u2019ib<\/span><\/em>\u00a0entered the Indian language of Hindi as <\/span>nabab<\/span><\/em>, which eventually became the English word \u201cnabob\u201d \u2013 an important (and usually wealthy) person.<\/span><\/p>\r\n The next word in the verse is \u201caugurs.\u201d The Hebrew word for augur here is <\/span>kosem<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>Today a <\/span>kosem<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is a magician, who performs magic \u2013 <\/span>kesem<\/span><\/em>, with none of the religious overtones. We also have the word <\/span>kesam<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in modern Hebrew, meaning \u201ctoothpick,\u201d and earlier meant \u201cchip, carving.\u201d This is actually related to <\/span>kosem<\/span><\/em>, because either the augur used carving in his craft, or he divided up lots (breaking them up like chips) to determine the future. A related Arabic word, <\/span>kisma<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cdivision, lot, destiny\u201d, later entered Turkish and gave us the word \u201ckismet,\u201d meaning \u201cfate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n The third word in the list is \u201cdreamers\u201d. 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