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Is there any quarantine more intense than that endured by Queen Esther?\u00a0 Not just 14 days, but six months with oil and myrrh, then six months with perfumes and cosmetics (Esther 2:12) before meeting Ahashvuerus.\u00a0 And her isolation continued, as Esther communicated with Mordechai only through her emissary, Hathach (Esther 4). Yet, Esther was not alone.\u00a0 She entered the courtyard of the king unaccompanied but with the full support of the entire Jewish nation. \u201cGo, assemble all the Jews who live in Shushan, and fast on my behalf; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day.\u00a0 I and my maidens will observe the same fast.\u201d (4:16)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At Purim, more than any other time of year, tradition extolls the principle of \u201cthe larger the community, the more glory afforded to the King,\u201d so people fill synagogues to capacity and march in large <\/span>addelayada<\/span><\/i> parades.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This year, it is not to be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With more than 1% of our population in quarantine, and restrictions on anyone who went abroad from attending gatherings of even one hundred, many of us are seeking smaller gatherings or reading megillah from the privacy of our own home.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But the Fast of Esther provides us with a valuable model for how we as a community can stand together and support one another, even from a distance.\u00a0 We must be punctilious about observing the health ministry\u2019s directives because any risk we take as individuals endangers everyone around us, not just ourselves.\u00a0 And yet, we hesitate to insult those around us, as if by abstaining from handshakes and hugs or constantly handwashing it might, God forbid, treat our innocent community members as lepers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Esther was alone in the palace with her maidservants, but the entirety of the Jewish people fasted with her.\u00a0 We too, must create infrastructures to compensate for the cautionary distancing and come together in new ways.\u00a0 Schools, synagogues and community organizations must establish committees to support those subjected to quarantine.\u00a0 Synagogues can create smaller minyanim so that people with compromised immunity and people who have been abroad can participate in Purim festivities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We as individuals can make a point of calling and embracing isolated individuals, even if we cannot be with them in person.\u00a0 Technology and social media allow us to make sure that everyone is seen, even from quarantine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And of course, we must stay calm and pray together knowing that if like Esther, we dress ourselves in royalty (5:1), the King will awaken from His slumber (6:1).<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":71375,"alt":"","title":"jer32-corona-tion","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion.jpg","width":1289,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-201x300.jpg","medium-width":201,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-687x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":687,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-687x1024.jpg","large-width":687,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion.jpg","1536x1536-width":1031,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion.jpg","2048x2048-width":1289,"2048x2048-height":1920,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-806x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":806,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-282x420.jpg","home_baner-width":282,"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":"For The Fast of Esther: Lessons For A Quarantine","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"From that queen\u2019s corona-tion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":71375,"alt":"","title":"jer32-corona-tion","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion.jpg","width":1289,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-201x300.jpg","medium-width":201,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-687x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":687,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-687x1024.jpg","large-width":687,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion.jpg","1536x1536-width":1031,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion.jpg","2048x2048-width":1289,"2048x2048-height":1920,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-806x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":806,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-corona-tion-282x420.jpg","home_baner-width":282,"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":"For The Fast of Esther: Lessons For A Quarantine","seo_seo_description":"From that queen\u2019s corona-tion: Is there any quarantine more intense than that endured by Queen Esther?\u00a0 Not just 14 days, but six months with oil and myrrh, then six months with perfumes and cosmetics (Esther 2:12) before meeting Ahashvuerus....","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"32","chapter_main_number":"432","date":"20270426","wall_id":"432"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":4,"id":"71368","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Ultimate Investment Plan ","post_title":"The Ultimate Investment Plan","slug":"the-ultimate-investment-plan","old_id":"71368","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":46656,"post_title":"Molly Morris","slug":"molly-morris","old_id":"46656","first_name":"Molly ","last_name":"Morris ","description":"Molly Morris holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Community Engagement. 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In the previous chapter of Jeremiah, God commanded the nation being exiled to put down road markers and landmarks so that their descendants will be able to find their way back, both physically and spiritually to their homeland and to God (31:20). In this chapter, God instructs Jeremiah specifically to go even farther, through an astonishing act of hope, forethought and strategic planning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah, who at this stage of the story has been imprisoned by the King Zedekiah for the \u201ccrime\u201d of prophesying the coming exile and destruction of Jerusalem, receives an instruction from God. Jeremiah\u2019s cousin is going to ask him to buy his plot of land, and God instructs Jeremiah to purchase it. Bear in mind, this transaction is to occur precisely while the very land being purchased is being besieged by Nebuchadnezzar and his army according to the very prophecy Jeremiah has already delivered, which also included the destruction of the land itself. And yet, it is precisely at this moment that God wants Jeremiah to invest in the Holy Land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Verses 9- 14 detail the deliberateness and care taken in this purchase of land about to be destroyed. Jeremiah agrees to the asking price, writes out a deed, has it witnessed, seals it, weighs out the money and gets a bill of sale in duplicate. He then instructs his scribe to put the documents in an earthenware vessel for longevity because \u201cGod said that houses, fields and vineyards will yet be bought in this land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s not the first time we hear about investing in our future. In Genesis 28, when Jacob had left his home and was on his on his way to Haran, he builds a pillar of stone and designates it a foundation stone for the Temple saying \u201cIf God will be with me, and guard me on the way I am going, and I return in peace, and the LORD will be a God to me, then this stone will become a house of God.\u201d Jacob was speaking to future generations, setting an example not just of hope in the future and trust in God, but that in times of distress, performance of mitzvot will be a source of merit for eventual redemption (Midrash). 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If you\u2019ve ever been fortunate enough to close on a home, you may have experienced a mixture of feelings: trepidation perhaps as you realized the responsibility you were taking on. Maybe the process felt lengthy and tedious. Or maybe you approached that paperwork with excitement, for what it signified: Hope for the future. Most of us don\u2019t approach legal matters with excitement, but the transfer of land looms large in the American imagination as part of the American Dream.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This dream is not limited to our country. In Jeremiah chapter 32, God predicts that Jeremiah\u2019s cousin will come and ask him to purchase his field in Anathoth. We know from the book of Ruth that property must first be sold to blood relatives, to keep the inheritance in the family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While all this is happening, Jeremiah is in prison, the result of his prophecies running afoul of the Judean regime. Jeremiah is understandably saddened and his spirits need bolstering. God sends Jeremiah\u2019s cousin Hanamel to ask Jeremiah to buy his land, and Jeremiah agrees.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cSo I bought the land in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. \u2026 I wrote a deed, sealed it, and had it witnessed; and I weighed out the silver on a balance. I took the deed of purchase, the sealed text and the open one according to rule and law, and gave the deed to Baruch son of Neriah son of Mahseiah in the presence of my kinsman Hanamel, of the witnesses who were named in the deed...\u201d (10-12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This exchange is noteworthy in many ways. Jeremiah is unusually active; many verbs describe his purchase, writing, measuring, etc. We might worry that he is rotting in prison, but here he has things to do to make the purchase happen. This is also a lengthy exchange, and God\u2019s response is short: \u201cHouses, fields, and vineyards will again be purchased in the land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This prophecy pushes Jeremiah to the precipice, and his resulting prayer to God is full of the old symbols of the book of Exodus: marvels and wonders God has done, a strong hand, an outstretched arm, a land flowing with milk and honey. How can God tell Jeremiah to buy land when the Chaldeans are at the gates of the city? Jeremiah\u2019s question gets a response similar to the one Sarah got when she despaired of having a child: \u201cIs anything too wondrous for Me?\u201d asks God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah perceives God\u2019s salvation as being a thing of miracles. God works in many ways, though. God\u2019s great epic does not need to end with drama and wonders. It can end with bureaucracy \u2013 people, returned to the land, buying, selling, filling out paperwork. We may like our TV shows exciting, but a good, harmonious society is probably better off boring. Each person buying land without incident, sitting under his or her own vine and fig tree. God can save God\u2019s people with land purchases and paperwork. 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This is the second piece of a three-part series that probes the relationship between written and oral societies, based on the Book of Jeremiah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our previous piece<\/span><\/a>, we discussed the apparent discrepancy between the archaeology finds of 'Izbet Sartah, which indicated that Biblical Israel was a literate society, and our reading of Jeremiah chapter 26, which indicated that it was an oral society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics, wrote an article \"<\/span>The Future of Written Culture: Envisioning Language in the New Millennium<\/span><\/a>\" showing that no discrepancy exists. She writes there \"To speak of a society having a written culture is not at all the same thing as saying that some members of that society are literate. The difference lies in the ways in which literacy functions in the life of the community.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To understand the function of literacy in Jeremiah's society, we will examine oral and written communication in Jeremiah chapter 32. The chapter begins with Jeremiah\u2019s imprisonment in the courtyard of the king, and King Zedekiah ORALLY INFORMING him that his imprisonment is due to the prophecies which he SAID. Jeremiah TELLS the guards of the courtyard a new prophecy concerning the arrival of his uncle. As predicted, his uncle arrives and ORALLY REQUESTS Jeremiah to buy his field. We see that speech was the dominant mode of communication in Jeremiah's time period.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, in the continuation of the chapter, we see that written communication also had a role in Jeremiah's society. Jeremiah WRITES a deed to make the transaction. The deed had two WRITTEN parts to it - the sealed and the open. The open part allowed people to READ the transaction without breaking the seal. Jeremiah hands over the deed in the presence of witnesses who SIGNED their signature on the document. The chapter ends with words of comfort, describing the time when God will return the Jewish People to their homeland, and many WRITTEN transactions to buy land will take place.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We see that Jeremiah's society was literate, yet it remained an oral society. Writing was the mode of communication when speech was insufficient. While routine communication was conducted orally, testimonies, messages for future generations, and ideas which needed extreme clarity were written down.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Parenthetically, these two methods of communication are also found in Deuteronomy 6:4-8, the section known as the first paragraph of the <\/span>Sh'ma<\/span><\/i>. The section has an oral communication component: \"HEAR, O Israel\", the imperative to MEMORIZE and SPEAK the words of the Torah, and to teach them to our children through CONSTANT REPETITION.\u00a0 The section also contains commandments (which are symbolic by nature) based on the written word: THE WORDS of the Torah should be adorned upon our arms and between our eyes, and to WRITE these words upon our doorposts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the final part of the series, as a commentary to Jeremiah chapter 45, we will discuss a change which occurred to the Biblical society in regards to their usage of the written word.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image by Ben Schachter, courtesy of the artist.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In our Chapter, while imprisoned, Jeremiah purchases land in his hometown of Anathoth, at the command of God who assures the prophet that: \u201cHouses, fields, and vineyards shall again be purchased in this land\u201d (2-15). In the continuation, Jeremiah prays to God, wondering at His sometimes inscrutable ways (16-25). In this prayer, Jeremiah describes God as: \u201cwondrous in purpose and mighty in deed, whose eyes observe all the ways of men, so as to repay every man according to his ways\u2026!\u201d (19). This verse figures in a Rabbinic narrative that has become a basis for the Jewish approach to death and mourning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talmud Bavli Avodah Zarah 17b-18a relates the tradition of ten rabbinic sages martyred by the Romans for ignoring the ban on teaching Torah issued by the Emperor Hadrian in the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> century CE. Among these martyrs was Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion. When he was asked: Why have you taught Torah, he replied that this is: \u201cas the Lord my God has commanded me\u201d (Deuteronomy 4:5). Immediately, he was sentenced to be burnt, his wife to be slain, and his daughter to be consigned to a brothel. As the three were going out to meet their fate, they each declared their submission to what they understood to be the righteous judgment of God. Rabbi Haninah ben Teradion exclaimed: \u201cThe Rock! - His deeds are perfect. Yea, all His ways are just\u201d. His wife completed the verse (Deuteronomy 32:4): \u201cA faithful God, never false, true and upright is He\u201d. Their daughter added: \u201cWondrous in purpose and mighty in deed, whose eyes observe all the ways of men, so as to repay every man according to his ways\u2026!\u201d (19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Rabbinic tradition about the Ten Martyrs is found in Midrash Eichah Rabbah (2:2) and in Midrash Tehillim (9:13). The stories of how ten Rabbinic Sages died at the hands of the Romans were compiled in various medieval midrashic texts. These form the basis of the tragic narrative of the Ten Martyrs (\u2018asarah harugey malkhut) retold annually in the Yom Kippur Mussaf service (Askkenazi rite) in the Piyyut Eleh Ezkerah: \u201cThese I will remember\u2026\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Jewish burial service, referred to as Tzidduq Ha-Din (Submission to the Judgement of God), a Piyyut, beginning with the verse \u201cThe Rock! - His deeds are perfect. Yea, all His ways are just\u201d (Deuteronomy 4:4) may be recited. This verse may also be recited by mourners and those attending a funeral when the deceased is brought to the cemetery. A similar practice of submitting to the judgement of God is the recitation of the blessing \u201cBarukh Dayyan Ha-Emet\u201d (\u201cBlessed be the True Judge\u201d) upon learning of the death of a relative or someone familiar and by mourners at a Jewish funeral (based on Mishnah Berakhot 9:2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jeremiah relates: \"The word of the LORD came to me: Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you and say, \u201cBuy my land in Anathoth, for you are next in succession to redeem it by purchase\" (6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In order to understand the chapter, we must view it within its political context:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These are days of war. Jeremiah sees with his own eyes how Jerusalem is under siege. Anathoth, his city, has been conquered, and the land falls to the enemy. King Zedekiah, who had defied the prophet\u2019s advice and made an alliance with the nations living in the region, has collapsed and lost everything.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And now, during the national catastrophe, the prophet utters an unimaginable prophecy, in which he is offered to purchase a plot of land that has been captured. Go and buy the territory now - God commands Jeremiah. This territory will be for the people of Israel, even though the facts on the ground show the complete opposite.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah obeys this command and buys the territory. Only then does he ask: How will the people return to their land if it is conquered now?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Lord's answer is harsh and painful: now you will have to lose it but later on \u2026 \u201cBehold I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too wondrous for Me?\" (27).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A few verses after the description of the destruction, we are offered words of comfort: \"See, I will gather them from all the lands to which I have banished them in My anger and wrath, and in great rage; and I will bring them back to this place and let them dwell secure\" (37).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This point is worth reflecting on: If the end of a process is redemption, what is the value and significance of describing the suffering leading up to the redemption?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are some deep messages contained in these words. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. While we humans only see the \"here\" and \"now\", God has eternal vision. Now it is indeed a disaster, but in the future there will be salvation.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Man expects miracles, whereas God teaches us to focus on actions (actions have consequences).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Sometimes we prefer to see the Creator of the world only as a savior, while He has many faces. Everything comes from Him. Both good and (what seems to be) evil.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. We can think that the loss of the land means divine defeat and weakness, but God is telling us that the occupation of the land by the enemy is part of His calculations and\u00a0 management of the world.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    We can learn much modesty and faith from this chapter. We are also given the task and the challenge to strive as hard as we can, to improve and to be worthy of being rescued and loved. In any situation.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"From Disaster To Salvation","tile_main_caption":"If the end is redemption, what is the value of describing the suffering leading up to the redemption? There are some deep messages contained in these words....","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"32","chapter_main_number":"432","date":"20270426","wall_id":"432"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"71359","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Hannibal, Rome, and Small Change ","post_title":"Hannibal, Rome, and Small Change","slug":"hannibal-rome-and-small-change","old_id":"71359","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. He is the author of TANAKH: An Owner\u2019s Manual (Jerusalem: Urim\/Ktav, 2015).\r\n\r\n","short_description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":34244,"alt":"","title":"sokolow","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","width":302,"height":300,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","medium_large-width":302,"medium_large-height":300,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","large-width":302,"large-height":300,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","1536x1536-width":302,"1536x1536-height":300,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","2048x2048-width":302,"2048x2048-height":300,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","post_full_size-width":302,"post_full_size-height":300,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","home_baner-width":302,"home_baner-height":300}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"432","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"The price of optimism\u00a0\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

    An ostensibly straightforward verse in this chapter opens a window of opportunity to observe Shadal\u2019s ingenuity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    God instructed Jeremiah - despite his being in lockup - to purchase the field that was to be offered to him by a cousin, Hanamel. Jeremiah complied, and purchased the field for\u00a0 \u201cseven shekels and ten silvers\u201d (<\/span>shiv`ah shekalim va`asarah hakasef<\/span><\/i>, 9). What purpose was the purchase to serve and how much did he pay for it?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The purpose is reasonably clear from the context: It was a display of optimism; a sign that \u201cHouses, fields, and vineyards shall again be purchased in this land\u201d (15). How much he paid, however, is a matter in dispute. Our \u201cgo to\u201d translation (JPS <\/span>The Prophets<\/span><\/i>, used by Sefaria) rendered it as \u201cseventeen shekels of silver,\u201d combining the \u201cseven\u201d and the \u201cten\u201d and assuming that all shekels are silver. The Aramaic Targum Yonatan, however, treated each one separately, yielding \u201cseven <\/span>manah<\/span><\/i> [=shekels] <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> ten <\/span>sela<\/span><\/i>\u201d and was seconded by Radak.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Here, however, is what Shadal* had to say on both our subjects:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I bought the field<\/span><\/i>: Grotius [17<\/span>th<\/span> century Dutch humanist] cited Florius [?] who said that when Hannibal besieged Rome, someone bought the field he encamped on, to show that they were not afraid of him. Here, it was to assure the people that they would be redeemed from Babylonia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Seven shekels<\/span><\/i>: Some interpreted it as 17 shekels, but nowhere else have we found \u201cseven and ten\u201d rather than \u201cseventeen.\u201d Yonatan interpreted it as \u201cseven <\/span>manah<\/span><\/i> [=shekels] <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> ten <\/span>sela<\/span><\/i>\u201d but it is a stretch to say a <\/span>manah<\/span><\/i> is a <\/span>shekel<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It appears to me that \u201cseven shekel\u201d should be taken literally (<\/span>mashma`o<\/span><\/i>) and \u201cten silver\u201d are parts of a shekel, like a <\/span>gerah<\/span><\/i> [Exodus 30:13; a shekel has 20 <\/span>gerah<\/span><\/i>]\u2026 It is still customary today in some countries to mention small change without citing the denomination, as in [Italian] \u201cseven liters and ten,\u201d which means ten soldi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In American terms, \u201cseven dollars and ten\u201d will be well understood to mean ten cents, not an additional ten dollars.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    *For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Image: \u201cShekel of Israel\u201d (in Hebrew) around \/ Sprig of three pomegranates; \u201cJerusalem the holy\u201d in Hebrew around, c. 69-70 CE \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":71360,"alt":"","title":"jer32-shekel","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","width":800,"height":382,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel-300x143.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":143,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel-768x367.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":367,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":382,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":382,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":382,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":382,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","home_baner-width":800,"home_baner-height":382}},"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":"Hannibal, Rome, and Small Change","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The price of optimism\u00a0","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":71360,"alt":"","title":"jer32-shekel","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","width":800,"height":382,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel-300x143.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":143,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel-768x367.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":367,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":382,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":382,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":382,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":382,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-shekel.jpg","home_baner-width":800,"home_baner-height":382}},"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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"32","chapter_main_number":"432","date":"20270426","wall_id":"432"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"71380","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"One Man\u2019s Family A Nation\u2019s Drama ","post_title":"One Man\u2019s Family A Nation\u2019s Drama","slug":"one-mans-family-a-nations-drama","old_id":"71380","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36277,"post_title":"Yedidya Sinclair","slug":"yedidya-sinclair","old_id":"36277","first_name":"Yedidya","last_name":"Sinclair","description":"Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair serves as Senior Rabbinic Scholar at Hazon, the leading US Jewish environmental organization. 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    Jeremiah lived his prophecies in the flesh. His everyday experiences in the leadup to catastrophe, such as going to a potter's house (Jer. 19), make him live the prophecies he is called on to convey.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Today's chapter is one of the most intense examples. Unlike the rest of the book, it is told in first person, from Jeremiah's perspective. His personal experience is central to the meaning of the episode.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    At the height of Babylonian siege on Jerusalem, when the fall of the city was imminent and Jeremiah languished in prison for his seditious warnings, God called him to buy his cousin Hanamel's field, as Hanamel's nearest relative. This command was based on the law of the redeemer, which we also see in the book of Ruth. If a person becomes so poor that he has to sell his field, his next of kin has the right of first refusal, keeping the field in the family. This practice is rooted\u00a0 in the laws of the Jubilee in Leviticus chapter 25, where fields that are sold by poor owners are redeemed and returned to their owners every 50 years, during the Jubilee year.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah instructs his faithful scribe Baruch to do the deal, saying: \"Take these documents, this deed of purchase, the sealed text and the open one, and put them in an earthen jar, so that they may last a long time.\" This act of faith in the long-term future, when Jerusalem is on the brink of annihilation, seems crazy. Yet Jeremiah assures his amanuensis, \"For thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, \"Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be purchased in the land\" (14-15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The future fate of Jeremiah's field is not just a family drama. It is also a metaphor for the nation. The Jubilee principle underpinning the story that all the dispossessed will return to their land is held out here as a promise to the Jewish people. The reason for the Jubilee redemption is,<\/span> \"The land shall not be sold forever; for the land is Mine\" (Lev. 25:23). As Rabbi David Sabato writes, \"Here the principle moves from the individual to the national plane.\" Jeremiah himself is not only the redeemer of his needy cousin's field. Through the meticulous and faithful process of purchase, he becomes the symbolic guarantor of the people's future redemption and return.\u00a0 <\/span>
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    Image: Poster Calling On The Nation To Volunteer And Work To Redeem The Land, c. 1940 (detail) \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":71381,"alt":"","title":"jer32-land","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","width":407,"height":422,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land-289x300.jpg","medium-width":289,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","medium_large-width":407,"medium_large-height":422,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","large-width":407,"large-height":422,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","1536x1536-width":407,"1536x1536-height":422,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","2048x2048-width":407,"2048x2048-height":422,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","post_full_size-width":407,"post_full_size-height":422,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land-405x420.jpg","home_baner-width":405,"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":"One Man\u2019s Family A Nation\u2019s Drama","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Jeremiah and the Jubilee principle","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":71381,"alt":"","title":"jer32-land","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","width":407,"height":422,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land-289x300.jpg","medium-width":289,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","medium_large-width":407,"medium_large-height":422,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","large-width":407,"large-height":422,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","1536x1536-width":407,"1536x1536-height":422,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","2048x2048-width":407,"2048x2048-height":422,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land.jpg","post_full_size-width":407,"post_full_size-height":422,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer32-land-405x420.jpg","home_baner-width":405,"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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"32","chapter_main_number":"432","date":"20270426","wall_id":"432"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":12,"id":"71377","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Doing Things With Words ","post_title":"Doing Things With Words","slug":"doing-things-with-words","old_id":"71377","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":57331,"post_title":"Josh and Leora Blechner","slug":"josh-and-leora-blechner","old_id":"57331","first_name":"Josh and Leora ","last_name":"Blechner","description":"Josh and Leora Blechner have been learning Tanach together since Leora was five years old. 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    As we\u2019ve seen so far, Jeremiah was a different kind of prophet than many of the other ones in that he uses his words and actions. It is bringing these two things together that made him such a powerful Navi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In chapter 32, God told Jeremiah to buy a field in Anathoth. Jeremiah buys the field from his cousin, he demands of God to know why he was told to do this crazy thing: buying a field in Israel, in the city of the priests, when Israel is going be exiled. God says: \"See, I will gather them from all the lands to which I have banished them in My anger and wrath, and in great rage; and I will bring them back to this place and let them dwell secure.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    God tells him that it symbolizes that Israel will come back and be able to live in the land again. Jeremiah combines the action of the purchase of land including all the necessary paperwork and witnesses, with the hopeful words of his prophecy, that this exile won\u2019t be the end and that the Israelites shouldn\u2019t lose all hope.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When Jeremiah is purchasing the field, he tells his cousin to put the documents in a clay jar to keep them safe. A jar just like the clay jar he smashed in chapter 19. What earlier was used as a symbol of destruction is now a symbol of safety and the future. All told, Jeremiah is trying to say that if Israel does not start following God again, they will be smashed just like the clay jar in chapter 19. But, if Israel follows God, then they will be safe, just as the clay jar is used as vessel to save the documents for the field.\u00a0 Again, Jeremiah\u2019s use of both words and actions help to make his point come through and be even more powerful.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jewishness might seem to be only about words and remembering and telling. Especially at this time of year, as we start to get ready for Passover, which is all about remembering, this feels especially true. That\u2019s why we value the prophets so much, because they can talk to God and tell us, with their words, what God wants. Jeremiah is a prophet who is teaching us that we are not just a religion about remembering and telling, we are also a religion about doing. He serves as the \u201cteller\u201d with his poetic <\/span>nevuot<\/span><\/i>, but he also does different actions to make his points even more understood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah can also serve as a role model for us even in our daily lives. 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    32:8 \u201cAnd Hanamel the son of my uncle came to me according to the word of the LORD, to the court of the guard, and said to me, \u2018Buy for yourself my field which is in Anathoth, which is in the region of Benjamin, for yours is the right of inheritance and yours is the redemption. Buy it for yourself.\u2019 And I knew that it was the word of the LORD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The legal procedure here is similar to what is evident in the Book of Ruth. Hanamel appears to be in need of money--in this period, silver ingots that are weighed out, not coin--and thus turns to a kinsman to \u201credeem\u201d the property, which thus will not be lost to the family. But the economic transaction in this instance is directed by God with the purpose of having the prophet purchase the land as a symbolic act, signifying that after the impending destruction a time will come when the Judahites will again possess their lands.<\/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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    In this chapter, Jeremiah shares one of his innermost secrets. He has been prophesying for forty long and lonely years, since he was a teenager (by simple calculation, he is now in his fifties). We have followed him through many challenges and obstacles, including trials that caused him to doubt his own visions and lose the will to prophesy. But until now, he has never questioned the institution of prophecy itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Even in his humiliating confrontation with Hananiah son of Azzur seven years earlier, Jeremiah merely prayed that Hananiah's vision would come true. But here, something else happens. He receives a prophecy that his cousin from Anathoth will come to sell him a field, for he has the right of first refusal. When his cousin arrives, Jeremiah is taken by surprise and exclaims, \"And I knew this was the word of God.\" What can this mean? Did Jeremiah need to prove that his vision was from God? The commentators entirely negate this suggestion. For example, Abrabanel writes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201cAlthough he said, \u2018And I knew this was the word of God,\u2019 this does not mean...that Jeremiah initially doubted whether the prophecy that had come to him was the word of God, for the prophets had no doubt about their prophecy, and the prophecy itself was self-evidently a prophecy based on the intensity of feeling\u201d (Abrabanel on Jer. 32:8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Hoffman's simple reading of the verse seems preferable. Hoffman demonstrates that for many years, Jeremiah has indeed been preoccupied with discerning the truth of his prophecy. The grim reality of his imprisonment just moments before the destruction, with his prophecies heralding national disaster, leads him to think that a message of God suddenly announcing that his cousin is coming to sell him a field is but a surreal hallucination. Much earlier in his career, the people of his hometown conspired against him when he openly questioned the authenticity of Josiah's reformation. For decades he has had no contact with his relatives; he no doubt wonders about them from time to time. Now, as he sits in the prison yard, protected from his enemies yet aware of the destruction that would descend at any moment, he worries that it is not God speaking, but his own voice. Why would God command him to purchase a field just before the entire land is to be destroyed? Why torture him? In the past, he has tried to distinguish between true and false prophecies. Now he tests his own thoughts. Could this really be God's word?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. 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    \u201cGreat Real Estate Transactions In Tanach\u201d<\/a> by Dan Epstein: Compare and contrast notable Biblical property negotiations.<\/p>\r\n

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    1. All in the family.<\/em> The law of redemption (which we read 417 chapters ago in Leviticus 25:25-34) is one of the biblical laws of real estate whose goal is to keep the estate in the family. According to this law, if a person is forced to sell their land, the obligation to buy it devolves upon their next of kin, so that it does not get sold to those outside the family.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. That\u2019s how you buy a field<\/em>. The payment is made in silver that need to be weighed out (coinage was not yet part of the Israelite reality in the time of Jeremiah). There are witnesses, a contract, a deed of purchase, written and preserved in two copies. One that is open, as proof of purchase, and the other, sealed and preserved. Perhaps as an official legal copy, if necessary (vv. 9-11).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. Nice to meet you, Barch son of Neriah<\/em>. Baruch son of Neriah the scribe, Jeremiah\u2019s personal assistant, is mentioned in verse 12 for the first time. But it won\u2019t be the last. In the coming chapters we\u2019ll meet him writing Jeremiah\u2019s scroll of the prophecies of wrath, reading it in the House of God, and then being persecuted on account of his connections to Jeremiah (ch. 36). And in another 13 chapters, there will even be a special prophecy about him (ch 45).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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