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There are six fast days in the Hebrew calendar: Yom Kippur is in the Torah, and Esther is distinctive in that it was a contemporary fast, declared in the moment. The other four are based on events surrounding the destruction of the Temple. The prophet Zechariah hints at these:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus said GOD of Hosts: The fast of the fourth month (17th of Tammuz), the fast of the fifth month (Tisha B'av), the fast of the seventh month, and the fast of the tenth month (10th of Tevet) shall become occasions for joy and gladness\u2026\u201d (Zechariah 8:19).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The reference to the fast of the seventh month is to the fast that commemorates the murder of Gedaliah. Why does Zechariah lump the fast of Gedaliah with Tisha B'av? The 10th of Tevet is the siege of Jerusalem and the 17th of Tammuz was when the actual destruction began. How is the murder of a Babylonian appointed governor equal to the destruction of the Temple?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some commentators explain that Gedaliah was the final straw. Had Ishmael not killed Gedaliah, the remnant of the people would have lived peacefully in Jerusalem. Thus, Tisha B'av is the destruction of the Temple and Gedaliah is the final destruction of the people. Perhaps Gedaliah is symbolic of something more that is hinted at by a mysterious verse in chapter 41:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The cistern into which Ishmael threw all the corpses of the men he had killed in the affair of Gedaliah was the one that King Asa had constructed on account of King Baasha of Israel (verse 9).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This pit does not appear anywhere in the books of Kings. I Kings 15 explains that Asa was the king of Judah and was a righteous one at that. Baasha was the son of Jeroboam ben Nabat and he laid siege against Jerusalem. This is most likely when Asa built this fortification pit, but it is also when Asa sent all of the gold from the Temple to Aram to bribe King Hadad into attacking Baasha.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What does this have to do with Gedaliah? Asa was a good king, but he was also the first king to take from the Temple in order to impress and bribe a foreign enemy. The only reason he had to do this was because he was attacked by the King of Israel. This infighting brought nothing but destruction to Israel and Judah. The story of Ishmael and Gedaliah is a sad continuation of this legacy. The Temple and Jerusalem were just destroyed and all Ishmael could think about was how he should have been the ruler. No remorse. No repentance. That is the great tragedy of the story of Gedaliah. It could all have been avoided if not for the insatiable thirst for infighting among the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jeremiah 41 tells the treacherous and violent story of the assassination of Gedaliah ben Ahikam. After biding his time until the best opportunity presented itself, the text recounts (verse 2):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword and killed him, because the king of Babylon had put him in charge of the land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The occasion is commemorated annually to this day by observant Jews on \u201cTzom Gedaliah\u201d (the fast day of Gedaliah), the day immediately following Rosh HaShana, and the third of the \u201cTen Days of Repentance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fact that \u201cTzom Gedaliah\u201d is numbered among other fast days associated with sieges and destructions of the Jerusalem Temples, causes the Talmud to comment:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is to teach you that the death of the righteous (<\/span>Gedaliah<\/span><\/i>) is equivalent to the burning of the Temple of our Lord (Rosh HaShana 18b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is deeply disturbing are the warnings that Gedaliah was given, and which he nevertheless blatantly ignored. In 40:14, he is explicitly told by Johanan ben Kareach, as well as the officers of the Babylonian soldiers sent to protect him, that there is a plot against his life, but he \u201c\u2026would not believe them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Gedaliah\u2019s refusal to suspect Ishmael was spiritually admirable in the sense of his refusing to act judgmentally. Likewise, perhaps he felt that assuming such an overall stance would eventually win him the hearts and minds of even his most steadfast opponents. But he paid dearly for his naivete. A controversial political leader has a \u201ctarget painted on his back,\u201d and ignoring the hatreds of those who are viscerally opposed to his appointment by an \u201cenemy\u201d king, invites violence. R. Yisrael Meir Kagan known as \u201cChafetz Chaim,\u201d reputedly said that while it is important to give another the benefit of the doubt, however, \u201cone should not be a fool.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Johanan proposed surreptitiously killing Ishmael:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Johanan, son of Kareah, also said secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, \u201cLet me go and strike down Ishmael son of Nethaniah before anyone knows about it; otherwise, he will kill you, and all the Judeans who have gathered about you will be dispersed, and the remnant of Judah will perish! (40:15)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This was not something that Gedaliah could in good conscience sign off on. However, one would have hoped that Gedaliah would have at least taken some measures to protect against him suffering an attack, if not from Ishmael, then some other malcontent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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At the start of this chapter Ishmael ben Netanya, \u201ca descendant of the royal family\u201d (v.1), who likely thought that the leadership of the Judean remnant should have been bestowed upon him, assassinated Gedaliah. He acted with marked cruelty, slaying all of the Judeans who had gathered at Mizpah\u2014including Babylonian soldiers who had been posted there (3), managing somehow to keep the massacre so secret that additional Judahites arriving there on the morrow on their way to Jerusalem fell into his hands and were themselves slain. The upshot of these events was that the survivors, fearful of Babylonian retaliation, decide to flee to Egypt. As we will see in the following chapter, Jeremiah ended up accompanying them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of these details provides some interesting grist for the exegetical mills. V. 5 describes the Jews who fell into Ishmael\u2019s trap as follows: \u201cEighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, their beards shaved, their garments torn, and their bodies gashed, carrying meal offerings and frankincense to present at the House of the LORD.\u201d Since we have noted that the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple already occurred, where were these eighty people going?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi explained that they had left home while the Temple still stood, learned of its destruction on their way, and, hence, shaved their beards and tore their garments in mourning. Radak found that explanation wanting. Since the Temple was destroyed in the month of Ab, Gedaliah\u2019s assassination was in Tishrei (we still observe it by fasting on the day following Rosh Hashanah), and they were coming from Shiloh and Shechem, which are only a day\u2019s journey from Jerusalem, how could they not have known about the destruction? His solution: They had surely heard of the capture of the city; however, the news that the impoverished of the land had been left in place gave them the false impression that the Temple, too, had been spared.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal* cited the commentary of Abrabanel who had an alternate resolution: They were planning on making the offerings on the site of the Temple, relying on a legal principle that synagogues\u2014exemplary of holy places\u2014retain their sanctity even after their ruin.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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How does one assess a potential threat and a proportionate response?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of the great tragedies in Jewish history, commemorated by fasting each year on the third of Tishrei, was the assassination of Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, the Babylonian-appointed Jewish governor of Judah, at the hand of Ishmael, son of Nethaniah. Several reasons are offered for seeing his death as a particular disaster, including the fact that his murderer was a fellow Jew as well as the impact it had on the future of organized Jewish autonomy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The tragedy of Gedaliah\u2019s death was further compounded by the fact that it was preventable; in fact, the Talmud points out a verse that implies the deaths of Gedaliah and others were his own fault.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah 41:9 tells of \u201cthe cistern into which Ishmael [son of Nethaniah] threw all the corpses of the men he had killed \u2018<\/span>b\u2019yad\u2019 Gedaliah<\/span><\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 While \u201cb\u2019yad\u201d literally means \u201cat the hand [of]\u201d; several interpretations have been offered. Metzudat David reads simply as \u201cin the place of Gedaliah, i.e. in Mizpah.\u201d Radak suggests the phrase means \u201cbecause of Gedaliah\u201d and explains that Ishmael had come to Mizpah in order to kill Gedaliah; he also killed others, but only because they were with Gedaliah or coming to visit him. The Talmud (Niddah 61a) goes a step further, understanding the phrase more literally as \u201cby the hand of Gedaliah.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cBut did Gedaliah kill them? Didn\u2019t Ishmael kill them?\u201d ask the rabbis of the Talmud. They then explain on what grounds the deaths could be attributed to Gedaliah, himself the primary victim: \u201cSince he should have been concerned about the counsel of Johanan son of Kareah, but he was not concerned, Scripture considers it as if he killed them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What\u2019s that about? At the end of chapter 40, Johanan had told Gedaliah of Ishmael\u2019s plot to kill him and offered to carry out a preemptive strike (40:15). Gedaliah dismissed the warning and Johanan\u2019s offer to kill Ishmael, insisting Johanan was \u201cspeaking falsely about Ishmael!\u201d (ibid. 16). Instead, he welcomed Ishmael in \u2013 making it easy for Ishmael to kill him and the others. We can see, then, how Gedaliah was responsible: he was too trusting and neglected to take appropriate action when warned.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One wonders whether Johanan himself might share the blame, for similarly not taking Gedaliah\u2019s skepticism seriously. Would Gedaliah have been more willing to listen if Johanan had proposed a more appropriate action, instead of jumping to kill a man who had yet to sin? Perhaps his extreme rejection of the report was a reaction to the extreme recommendation that came with it: presented with all or nothing, Gedaliah chose nothing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The story in our chapter unfolds in locations steeped in conflicts from biblical Israel's past.\u00a0 After Ishmael murders Gedaliah, he slaughters a group of men in \"a cistern\" (Jeremiah 41:7). This is not just any waterhole, but one with a history from an earlier civil war: it was the very same one \"that King Asa (of Judah) had constructed on account of King Baasha of Israel\" (41:9).\u00a0 Mizpah, where Gedaliah is murdered, also has a broader connection to this same war between Judah and Israel. According to 1 Kings 16:22, at the end of the conflict, Asa used the ruins of Israelite fortifications to build Mizpah. The hostilities between Ishmael's forces and the forces under the leadership of Johanan ben Kareah end \"by the great pool in Gibeon\" (Jeremiah 42:12). This pool, like King Asa's cistern, has a history, this time from the monarchy's earliest days. It was there that, in the aftermath of King Saul's death, fighting broke out between the men loyal to the House of David and those loyal to the House of Saul (2 Samuel 2:12\u201317).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is not only where the story unfolds, but also how, that follows the script of conflicts over power in biblical Israel.\u00a0 The murder of the men \"in a cistern\" recalls Jehu's purge of the Omrides, during which the brothers of Ahaziah of King Judah, are \"slaughtered at the pit of Beth-eked\" (2 Kings 10:14).The group of murdered men numbers seventy: of eighty, only ten survive (41:7\u20138). This, too, is in keeping with precedents established by other usurpers of power in Israel's past. When Jehu seizes control, he issues orders resulting in the slaughter of Ahab's seventy descendants (2 Kings 10:1, 6\u20137). 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Our Chapter describes, in grisly detail, the political assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah under Babylonian rule, and his followers, and continues with the bloody aftermath of this seminal incident. The murder of Gedaliah has been previously narrated in II Kings 25:22-26. Moreover, Jeremiah Chapters 39-40 has expanded on the relationship between Jeremiah and Gedaliah and has detailed the events leading up to Gedaliah\u2019s murder. Johanan son of Kareah and his fellow officers warn Gedaliah that Ishmael son of Nethaniah is plotting his assassination. Regrettably, Gedaliah replies to Johanan: \u201c\u2026What you are saying about Ishmael is not true!\u201d (40:14-16). Gedaliah\u2019s unwarranted trust in Ishmael, \u201cwho was of royal descent and one of the king\u2019s commanders\u201d (41:1) leads to Gedaliah\u2019s demise: \u201cThen Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him arose and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan with the sword and killed him, because the king of Babylon had put him in charge of the land\u201d (verses 2-3). The bodies of those murdered were then thrown into a cistern (verses 7 and 9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to Talmud Bavli Niddah 61a, in early Rabbinic times (1<\/span>st<\/span> century CE) the sages discovered a large cistern full of bones, which they identified as the very cistern that Ishmael had filled with the bodies of those he had murdered. Surprisingly, this text goes on to hold Gedaliah at least indirectly responsible for this whole incident. This is suggested by a literal reading of Jeremiah 41:9, which speaks of the bodies of those slain \u201cby the hand of Gedaliah\u201d \u2013 <\/span>be-yad Gedaliah <\/span><\/i>(but more contextually translated \u201cin the affair of Gedaliah\u201d). This leads to the assertion that because Gedaliah rejected the warning of his imminent assassination, Scripture regards him as if he himself had killed those who died with him!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite this midrashic suggestion implicating Gedaliah in his own death and in the death of his companions, the sages determined that \u201cthe fast of the seventh month\u201d (Zechariah 8:19) commemorates the murder of Gedaliah, which occurred \u201cin the seventh month\u201d (see II Kings 25:25 and Jeremiah 41:1). According to Talmud Bavli Rosh Ha-Shanah 18b, fasting to mourn the murder of Gedaliah teaches that the death of the righteous is as tragic as the \u201cburning of the House of our God\u201d (i.e. the Destruction of the Temple). This fast is celebrated on the 3<\/span>rd<\/span> of the month of Tishri, since fasting would be inappropriate on the two-day celebration of Rosh HaShanah at the beginning of Tishri. The \u201cFast of Gedaliah\u201d is classified as a \u201cminor fast\u201d, on which it is customary to not eat from dawn to dusk.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It should be noted that Tzom Gedaliah is one of four fasts that Zechariah prophecies: \u201cshall become occasions for joy and gladness, happy festivals for the House of Judah. But you must love honesty and integrity\u201d (Zechariah 8:19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image: Detail of a miniature of the death of Gedaliah. 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41:1 \u201cAnd it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama of the royal seed and the king\u2019s officers and the men with him came to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they broke bread together there at Mizpah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is a politically significant notation. Gedaliah is the grandson of Shaphan, a court scribe, and not a member of the dynastic family. Ishmael thus regards him as both usurper and a quisling, while his own biological connection to the royal line may have encouraged him to make a move for the throne, once he has eliminated Gedaliah and at such time as there might be a possibility to shake off the Babylonian yoke.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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Verses 7-9 describe the most sickening, bloodthirsty, and murderous act in all of Scripture. Nevertheless, as distasteful as it is, there seems to have been a \"rational\" motive for this massacre, based on Ishmael's presentation as a royal figure: \"The pit into which Ishmael threw all the bodies of the men he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one King Asa had made as part of his defense against King Baasha of Israel \u2014 Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with corpses.\" This expository note takes us back to the wars between the kingdoms of Judah, led by the Davidic line, and Israel, descendants of the House of Saul. King Asa reigned in Judah soon after the split into two kingdoms and during the first of the wars between them. I Kings, Chapter 15 describes the war between Asa and Baasha, which set off the centuries-long war between Ephraim and Judah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Judah's national memory, King Baasha of Israel built Ramah \u2014 a fortification against Judah. After securing the political backing of Aram, Asa strengthened his borders by fortifying Geba and Mizpah. Mizpah thus symbolized the Judan attempt to prevent the Israelite kingdom from encroaching on its territory. From then on, there was almost complete acrimony between the Davidic line and the inhabitants of Samaria. When Josiah wished to gather Israel's scattered remains, the exiles of Samaria, and reunite the kingdoms, he first had to convince his own royal family. The royals were divided over this issue \u2014 half dreamt of a kingdom reunited, while the other half advocated an isolationist and exclusivist Davidic dynasty. Josiah managed to win the people over to his side and sent word to Ephraim. The men of Ephraim accepted this message of reconciliation, gave up their temples in Bethel and Dan, and returned to Jerusalem. But Jerusalem never fully welcomed them. For some, the exclusivist impulse had become too entrenched. Moreover, a century and a half earlier, King Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria had resettled the depopulated region of Samaria with peoples from Mesopotamia. Many of the remaining Israelites intermarried with these new groups, who had accepted the Israelite religion. Exclusivist elements within Judah would not countenance a renewed alliance with the assimilationist Samaritans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first massacre is born out of vengeance and the drive to defend David's honor. The second massacre springs from the resentment boiling in the veins of this Davidic scion when he sees the people of Samaria, of Ephraim, coming to mourn Jerusalem. Ishmael son of Nethaniah has been raised on tales of strife between Judah and Israel. He vividly recalls the stories of Ephraim's attempts to conquer Judah, and the coalition formed by Israel and Aram to wage war against it. The time has come to settle accounts. Ishmael fills the pit dug by his distant forebear Asa with the bodies of the descendants of Baasha, who tried to eradicate the line of David; the tribe of Judah has the last laugh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i>. 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  1. But why<\/em>? Ishmael doesn\u2019t only destroy Gedaliah and the guard of the Babylonian outpost, but also acts with great cruelty towards the remnant of the people in Mizpah, and to people who were passing on the road. Why? The text doesn\u2019t provide an explicit answer, but the repeated emphasis that Ishmael is \u201cof royal descent\u201d suggests that he had an internal political motive, and that he wasn\u2019t just a mercenary of the king of the Ammonites.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Not just food<\/em>. Before the murder, Ishmael and his men \u201cate together there at Mizpah,\u201d that is, together with Gedaliah and his men. Often in the Tanach a shared meal isn\u2019t just about food, but represents the forging of an alliance, or creating a covenant between two parties, such as between Jacob and Laban 410 chapters ago, in Genesis 31. If this meal was also meant to be a symbolic alliance, then murder was even more heinous - it was an act of\u00a0 treason.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. An evil game<\/em>. Ishmael doesn\u2019t attack his victims directly, he plays a duplicitous game of closeness and sharing - and then the deadly surprise. That is the case with the meal with Gedaliah. Likewise, the scene where he approaches the group of 80, weeping, and extends to them a \u201cfriendly\u201d invitation to come to Mizpah. When the game ends, Ishamel turns out to be a cruel murderer. The only ones of his victims who succeeded in surviving were those who revealed that they had \u201cstores hidden in the field.\u201d Then Ishmael's greed got the better of his bloodthirstiness.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Mourners or pilgrims<\/em>? Verse 5 - 80 people arrive \u201cfrom Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria,\u201d apparently mourning the destruction of the Temple - \u201ctheir beards shaved, their garments torn, and their bodies gashed.\u201d Why then \u201ccarrying meal offerings and frankincense to present at the House of the LORD\u201d? Perhaps the news of the destruction only reached them once they had set out, and that, despite the destruction, they wanted to come to the ruins of the holy place with their offerings.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Is this the end<\/em>? Are there no other options? Is there no other way for the Judahites to continue living in Judah? You\u2019ll have to wait for the next chapter...<\/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 41","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":"41","chapter_main_number":"441","date":"20270509","wall_id":"441"},"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\/71519"}],"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=71519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}