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Judah has been crushed and conquered by Babylon. The people have failed to make peace with their new situation. They have failed to recognize that this is a divine punishment for their sins. They flail about, blaming the messenger and attacking the symptoms of their defeat, not the cause. Instead of repentance and contrition, they are rebellious and petulant. Instead of recognising Babylon as the heaven-sent punishment that Jeremiah had long predicted, they fight among themselves and imagine that killing Gedaliah will restore their fortunes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite the fulfillment of Jeremiah\u2019s doom-prophecies they fail to learn the moral message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We now see the aptly-named Yohanan ben Kerach try to take the people back to Egypt. His name is deliberately resonant of a previous character who had pretensions of leadership - Korach. Indeed, in Hebrew the names are the same, only differing in the vocalisation. The allusion to the previous Kerach\/Korach contrasts with Jeremiah, who is presented as a new Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The desire to flee Babylonian rule echoes Jonah\u2019s futile attempt to override God\u2019s will, Egypt will soon fall. However, when seen in the context of what Egypt and Babylon, the two great powers of the time, symbolized to the Judeans, we see how this fits into the Bible\u2019s overarching message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Much to the chagrin of many over millennia, the Torah is virtually devoid of afterlife mythology of the sort that was universal at the time it was received. Moses, prince of Egypt, led the people from a land where he was destined to be buried in a great pyramid to having no known burial place at all. Egypt was the old order, the land of mystery and death worship. It was the bounded womb in which Israel was formed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah presents two types of people - the Egyptain (<\/span>Mitzri<\/span><\/i>) and the Hebrew (<\/span>Ivri<\/span><\/i>) - the Hebrew words resonate the deeper meaning, those who are \u201cbounded\u201d and those who \u201ccross over.\u201d The Ivri crosses over across the earth, with symbolic river and sea crossings marking their literal \u201crites of passage\u201d, but also crosses the divide between heaven and earth in life, Jacob\u2019s ladder being the prototypical image of this. Egyptians, in contrast, dedicated their lives fruitlessly to the storage of their useless corpses, having failed to break the mental shackles that no longer confined the <\/span>Ivri<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We all get to choose - are we a <\/span>Mitzri <\/span><\/i>or an <\/span>Ivri<\/span><\/i>? Moses became the ultimate leader of Hebrews because he was the first to make that choice, as a prince of both. Ben Kerach and Korach exemplify the other choice. It's not just that they pine for the safety of Egypt, on a deeper level they crave the comforts of the old order before free-agency, where eternal life was a matter of reciting the correct incantations and collecting the ideal grave goods. God\u2019s plan was that they would face in the opposite direction towards the new world of Babylon and soon Persia, from where the theology that underpins the Tanakh would begin to enlighten the world.\u00a0 <\/span>
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Jeremiah was asked by the leaders of the survivors to petition God about what their next steps should be. He informed them that God\u2019s instructions were to remain in the Land of Israel and suffer Babylonian sovereignty. In fact, if they were to go to Egypt as they had intended, they would be greeted there with the very distress and destruction they were seeking to avoid.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal* noticed that the pronominal suffixes used in referenced to God changed from speaker to speaker. The people first refer to Him as Jeremiah\u2019s God while he refers to Him as their God, and, indeed, at the end they, too, acknowledge Him as their God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[They said to Jeremiah] Let the LORD your God tell us where we should go and what we should do. The prophet Jeremiah answered them, \u201cAgreed: I will pray to the LORD your God as you request...\u201d Thereupon they said to Jeremiah\u2026 \u201cWe swear that we will do exactly as the LORD your God instructs us through you - Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the LORD our God to whom we send you, in order that it may go well with us when we obey the LORD our God.\u201d (3-6)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal\u2019s explanation (on v.6) for the changes is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They [later] said \u201cour God\u201d in the sense of obeying Him. Otherwise it would appear that they did not accept His lordship. However, when they said to Jeremiah \u201cyour God,\u201d their intention was that you are His servant and that was out of respect, as when Saul said to Samuel \u201cto sacrifice to the Lord your God\u201d (1 Samuel 15:15) and \u201cto bow before the Lord your God\u201d (30), and many others.<\/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

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Jeremiah had an unenviable task ahead of him with the small band of Jews who remained in the lands of Judah following the Babylonian siege. They asked Jeremiah to pray for the answer to what they should do next, pledging to follow whatever God told them. Jeremiah was caught between a rock and hard place, knowing he couldn\u2019t refuse to fulfill what the people wanted to believe was a righteous proposition, while knowing that ultimately they were not going to make good on their promise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah was no fool \u2013 he\u2019d been prophesying for a long time and knew the people well. So, when they asked him to pray to \u201c<\/span>your<\/span><\/i> God\u201d, rather than \u201c<\/span>our<\/span><\/i> God\u201d, it was clear they had disassociated themselves from God, paving the way to reject an unfavourable answer. Their choice of words offers other hints to the people\u2019s intentions. Malbim points out that they didn\u2019t ask\u00a0 if they should stay in their land or seek refuge in Egypt, but rather asked \u201cMay God tell us the way in which we should go (42:3)\u201d, inferring that they had already made up their mind to head to Egypt and were perhaps just looking for guidance on what route to take. Jeremiah attempted to prepare them to accept an answer they didn\u2019t want to hear by agreeing to pray to \u201c<\/span>your<\/span><\/i> God\u201d, and adding \u201c\u201cwhatever God answers I will tell you; I will not withhold anything (42:2-4).\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s pretty common to use prayer to ask God to validate a decision we\u2019ve already made rather than authentically ask for divine guidance in making a decision. \u201cPlease God, let me get this job\/this house\/the winning lottery ticket (that I\u2019ve already decided to take\/buy\/spend).\u201d It\u2019s human nature to ask for divine intervention in getting what we want but forget to ask for God\u2019s help in understanding what we need \u2013 what would be best for us in the biggest picture.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So, what\u2019s a leader to do when placed in the situation of delivering news that will surely be met unfavourably by the populace and rejected? Typically, politicians try to spin or soften the message (think of how budget and service cuts are often framed.) But Jeremiah is a prophet, not a politician, and by acknowledging the game but refusing to play it, he remained true to his mission. You can\u2019t spin God\u2019s message.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Feminist, writer and literary critic Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was determined to excel. She would receive recurrent criticism of her exceptional drive, often mistaken for arrogance and in reaction to her unstoppable desire for learning, would respond: \u201cIn an environment like mine, what may have seemed too lofty or ambitious in my character was absolutely needed to keep the heart from breaking and the enthusiasm from extinction\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The environment was hostile for this woman, who in her precocious girlhood was determined to make of the stumbling blocks ahead of her opportunities to overcome challenges as she expressed: \u201cnothing more widely distinguishes man from man than energy of will.\u201d This ambitious woman made a difference in many people\u2019s lives through writings and political involvements and so did our Prophet, Jeremiah. Jeremiah, whose life was not calm, separates his own identity for the greater good. He feels defeated and tired of trying to make people change their course of lives, nevertheless he doesn\u2019t give up. Some people are scared, the inhabitants of Jerusalem fear the consequences of the exilic period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophet tells them:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If you remain in this land, I will build you and not overthrow, I will plant you and not uproot; for I regret the punishment I have brought upon you. Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you fear; do not be afraid of him\u2014declares the LORD\u2014for I am with you to save you and to rescue you from his hands. I will dispose him to be merciful to you: he shall show you mercy and bring you back to your own land. (Jer. 42:10-12)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah invokes the sense of belonging to the Land. He invokes the strong connection to God\u2019s promises. The prophet hopes for a better future knowing that the stories we tell ourselves about our past shape how we come to see our personhood and who we ultimately become. There is a <\/span>thin line between agency and victimhood<\/span><\/a> as the prophet wanders between those fields.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah knows his destiny, exiled and spiritually impoverished, and he attempts to rescue those who want to pave a different path, seeking an alternative fate to destruction and exile. The prophet looks for a future that transcends the current state and finds a way to craft a chance for redemption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick learned from Goethe: \u201cIn reading some of Goethe\u2019s sayings, so worshipped by his votaries, I came across this, \u2018Live in the All\u2019. That is to say, your separate identity is but a wretched one, but get out of yourself, spread and expand yourself, and bring to yourself the tinglings of life that are felt in the flowers and the woods\u201d. In this chapter, Jeremiah tries to follow the teachings of the vastness of the universe and to explore the many opportunities that life might present even in times of peril. 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Our Chapter elaborates the complicated relationship between Jeremiah and Johanan ben Kareah. This Israelite general has already been mentioned briefly at the end of the Second Book of Kings, in the two previous chapters of Jeremiah (40-41) and in his story will conclude in the following chapter of Jeremiah (43). Johanan first appears as one of those Judean officers, apparently led by Ishmael son of Nethaniah, who came to Gedaliah after they heard that he had been appointed governor by the King of Babylon (see II Kings 25:23). This brief notice is repeated in Jeremiah 40:8, but then we learn that it was Johanan who, together with his troops, warns Gedaliah that Ishmael is planning to assassinate him. But Gedaliah replied to Jeremiah: \u201cWhat you are saying about Ishmael is not true!\u201d (Jeremiah 40:13-16). When Johanan hears of Gedaliah\u2019s assassination, he and his troops pursue Ishmael and rescues all those whom Ishmael had taken prisoner. Ishmael and eight of his men manage to escape and flee to the Ammonites. For fear of being erroneously implicated by the Babylonians in the assassination of Gedaliah, Johanan and all those with him set out to flee to Egypt (ch. 41).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our Chapter, Johanan and his followers approach Jeremiah, pleading with the prophet to pray for them and to ask God what they should do. After ten days, the reply comes insisting that they remain in the Land. Jeremiah relates that God says: \u201cI regret the punishment I have brought upon you. Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon\u2026for I am with you to save you\u201d (7-12). Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy continues: \u201cO remnant of Judah! Thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: If you turn your faces toward Egypt, and you go and sojourn there\u2026there you shall die\u201d (15-16). But, instead of accepting the prophecy for which they pleaded and promised to accept, these remaining Judeans accuse Jeremiah of lying, having been influenced by his secretary Baruch. They then flee to Egypt, apparently taking Jeremiah with them! See Jeremiah 43:1-7.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A midrashic tradition (Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael, Beshallah 2 on Exodus 14:13 and parallels)\u00a0 comments that the God warned Israel not to return to Egypt: \u201cThe Lord has warned you: You must not go back that way again\u201d (Deuteronomy 17:16).\u00a0 Nevertheless, in three instances they did return to Egypt and each time \u201cthey fell\u201d. This occurred in the days of Sennacherib (see Isaiah 31:1), in the days of Johanan ben Kareah: \u201cIf you turn your faces toward Egypt, and you go and sojourn there, the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt\u201d (Jeremiah 42:15-16) and again in post-Biblical times in the days of Trajan [during the \u201cKitos War\u201d 115\u2013117 CE].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talmud Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 10:3 (29b-c) states that those who joined with Yohanan ben Kareah in leaving the Land of Israel for Egypt, despite Jeremiah\u2019s warning, have no place in the world to come.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jeremiah has been dwelling in Mizpah among the people. Together with them, he is shocked to hear of the royal Ishmael's usurpation. Together with them, he wanders toward Ammon as Ishmael's prisoner. Now, together with them, he is dragged along to a place near Bethlehem and waits for the new leader, Johanan, to make his next move. But then, out of the blue, the entire population turns to Jeremiah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We should note several details of this plea to the prophet. Firstly, Johanan is not first on the list of those seeking guidance. Until now, he has been struggling against Ishmael. But now, having managed to seize control, he becomes indecisive. The internal debate is endless. So he and the other displaced persons in this \"transit camp\" gather around Jeremiah to hear God's word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Second, this is the first time anyone has ever asked Jeremiah to prophesy. Even during the siege of Jerusalem, Zedekiah merely asked him to pray; the king did not want to hear any prophecy. He was rejected as a prophet. Now, when the people are trapped, they turn to him and his prophecy for a way out. An entire system had to collapse in order to glimpse the light of redemption. Perhaps now that everything has been shattered, the surviving remnant will heed God's word. But now the word of God does not come to him, and Jeremiah promises to pray to God to ask Him to show the people the right path to take.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Let us note the difference between Jeremiah's words and the people's. In the original Hebrew, he speaks twenty words; they reply with twice as many. He speaks cautiously and hesitantly; they answer excitedly, with complete commitment. The difference between Jeremiah and the people is clear but dismal: He has lost all desire to prophesy, while they have only just begun to crave the word of God. He, who has devoted his life to speaking God's word, now agrees to do them a favor by acquiescing to their demands. They, who have been estranged from God's word all their lives, now fervently vow to \"listen to the Lord, our God.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i>. 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In the 42nd chapter, the remnants of the people of Jerusalem ask Jeremiah to pray for them. Jeremiah returns with a message of hope as long as the people do not flee to Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah\u2019s warning to the people invokes the Exodus story. During the Exodus story, God promises Moses that he will save the people with four famous words of salvation (Exodus chapter 6) \u05d5\u05d4\u05d5\u05e6\u05d0\u05ea\u05d9, \u05d5\u05d4\u05e6\u05dc\u05ea\u05d9, \u05d5\u05d2\u05d0\u05dc\u05ea\u05d9, \u05d5\u05dc\u05e7\u05d7\u05ea\u05d9.\u00a0 I will remove them, I will save them, I will redeem them, and I will take them out. These four words are part of our Seder, represented in the four cups of wine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Jeremiah's warning he also uses four words, but this time they are four words of destruction: \u05dc\u05d0\u05dc\u05d4, \u05d5\u05dc\u05e9\u05de\u05d4, \u05dc\u05e7\u05dc\u05dc\u05d4, \u05dc\u05d7\u05e8\u05e4\u05d4- you will be an execration, an astonishment, a curse and reproach (42:18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the fast of Av we also read a famous kina\/lamentation poem that matches the high of leaving Egypt with the low of the destruction of the temple. Jeremiah's use of four parallel phrases of destruction with a warning not to return to Egypt shows us that the destruction of the Temple was only complete when the last remnant of the Jews failed to heed his warning and returned to the land from which their forefathers had cried out to God to save them. This time God would not offer his salvation in four words, instead he would offer his punishment and destruction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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42:10 \u201cIf you indeed dwell in this land, I will build you and will not destroy, and I will plant you and not uproot, for I have repented of the evil that I have done to you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God\u2019s message as Jeremiah conveys it is emphatic and unambiguous: these Judahites must now stay in their land. But unlike the prophet\u2019s previous counsel that it was futile to resist the Babylonians, this imperative is scarcely based on a sober assessment of the political situation. There is surely no objective evidence that they had no reason to fear the king of Babylonia (verse 11), or that they will now be granted a grand national restoration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. E-v-e-r-y-o-n-e!<\/em> Verse 1 spells out who is turning to Jeremiah: \u201cThen all the army officers, with Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the rest of the people, great and small, approached the prophet Jeremiah.\u201d It isthe first time that the people want to hear what he has to say.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Oaths and faith<\/em>. Note the oath in verse 5. It is a powerful expression, swearing to finally listen to the voice of the prophet.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. More echoes of the dedication prophecy<\/em>. Jeremiah began his career with the following goals: \u201c To uproot and to pull down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to plant\u201d (1:10). How? When? In the prophecy in today\u2019s chapter, another answer is given: \u201cIf you remain in this land, I will build you and not overthrow, I will plant you and not uproot; for I regret the punishment I have brought upon you\u201d (v. 10).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. What do the people want to hear<\/em>? From the answer that Jeremiah gives, one can deduce that the people have one foot in Egypt - they\u2019re already on their way - convinced that there, a brighter future is in store. <\/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 42","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":"42","chapter_main_number":"442","date":"20270510","wall_id":"442"},"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":"","link_teaser":"","listen_link":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/71518"}],"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=71518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}