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Chapter 36 presents the fact that Jeremiah, asks his scribe Baruch ben Neriah to not only write what God dictates, in a scroll, but to publicly present its contents in the Temple:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You go and read aloud the words of the LORD from the scroll which you wrote at my dictation, to all the people in the House of the LORD on a fast day; thus you will also be reading them to all the Judeans who come in from the towns (36:6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Predicting divine destruction for the general society unless significant reform was undertaken was not popular with leaders such as the king, and considered by some to be a treasonous crime punishable by death, and so such pronouncements were quite personally dangerous for the messenger. Yet, we are told that Baruch not only carried out his mission, but willingly read the contents of the scroll a second time to government officials:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was then that Baruch\u2014in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, near the new gateway of the House of the LORD\u2014read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll to all the people in the House of the LORD (v. 10);<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They said, \u201cSit down and read it to us.\u201d And Baruch read it to them (v. 15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is one thing for a prophet, even a reluctant one, who has directly received a revelation, to be committed to delivering the message that he is given; however, the scribe Baruch, had never been privy to God\u2019s communication. He would have to have tremendous faith in the prophet, as well as powerful zeal and commitment regarding the reform of the general society, in order to fulfill the prophet\u2019s instructions. In that regard he was fortunate that the government appointees to whom he presented the scroll, told him, much as Ahikam ben Shaphan had done before: \u201cGo into hiding, you and Jeremiah. Let no man know where you are!\u201d (v. 19).<\/span> However, the implication was that Baruch would have done whatever he was asked, even risking the wrath of the king, had he been called upon to do so.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just as the question is asked: who is greater in this regard, Jeremiah or Baruch, a similar question pertains to Abraham and Isaac, with regard to Genesis 22, \u201cThe Binding of Isaac.\u201d R, Moses Sofer on Gen. 22:7, says the following:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are those who say that Isaac was greater than Abraham in this matter, because Abraham was a prophet, and heard directly from God, while Isaac acted self-sacrificially, and believed his father, since the latter had already been officially recognized as a prophet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Similarly, Jeremiah could be much more certain about what was divinely-revealed than Baruch, who had to take what he was told on faith.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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God instructs Jeremiah to write out his prophecy onto a scroll and send the scroll with Baruch the scribe to the Temple to read aloud to the people. Baruch brings the scroll, and the initial reaction is hopeful. A group of scribes hear the reading, and quickly bring Baruch to their workroom to listen to it again. The scribes understand the seriousness of Jeremiah\u2019s words, and they know they must bring it to the king\u2019s attention. However, they are always fearful of the king\u2019s reaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They instruct Baruch to go back to Jeremiah and hide out while they bring the scroll to King Jehoiakim. The king\u2019s reaction is the exact opposite of the people. After only four columns, he cuts up the scroll and throws it into the hearth in his chambers. If his actions were not enough, the text explains further:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard these words (verse 24).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why would the text need to add this additional disclaimer? The idea that the king did not rent his garments is a reference to different reactions in similar circumstances by other leaders in Israelite history. The most immediate comparison is between Jehoiakim and his father Josiah. In II Kings 22, during Temple renovations, a priest finds a Torah scroll that discusses the eventual destruction of the Temple if the people fail to follow God. The priest brings the scroll to Josiah and \u201cwhen the king heard the words of the scroll of the Teaching, he rent his clothes\u201d (II Kings 22:12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jehoiakim\u2019s great-great grandfather also had a different reaction when his scribes informed him of the words of the Assyrian delegation:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When King Hezekiah heard this, he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the House of GOD (Isaiah 37:1).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The connection goes even further back to the first battles in Canaan. Joshua, upon a small defeat at the hands of the people of Ai:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thereupon rent his clothes. He and the elders of Israel lay until evening with their faces to the ground in front of the Ark of GOD; and they strewed earth on their heads\u201d (Joshua 7:6).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Even wicked Ahab showed remorse after receiving words of rebuke about his behavior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Ahab heard these words, he rent his clothes and put sackcloth on his body. He fasted and lay in sackcloth and walked about subdued (I Kings 21:27).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In each instance, the renting of clothes resulted in an immediate change in punishment. Jehoiakim\u2019s failure to follow the examples of his forebears results in the continuation of the unfortunate status quo of destruction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In the Marx Brothers movie <\/span>A Night At The Opera, <\/span><\/i>there\u2019s a scene with a contract. Each party to the contract objects in turn to a particular clause. Their solution is simply to tear off that part of the contract and keep reading. Eventually nothing is left of the contract except a single clause.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The scene is hilarious - in stark contrast to the scene described in today\u2019s chapter.\u00a0 Jeremiah\u2019s scribe, Baruch, has painstakingly written down in a scroll all that Jeremiah has prophesied to date. At Jeremiah\u2019s bidding, Baruch reads the scroll before the people who have gathered to fast and, we assume, to repent. Word reaches the palace: palace officials urge Barukh and Jeremiah to hide as the scroll is brought to king Jehoiakim, who has it read before him only to slice it into pieces as column after column is read to him. He throws the pieces on the fire.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is not the only time in our tradition that a scroll comes into contact with flame at the hands of a ruling power. Years later, Rabbi Hananiah ben Teradyon will defy a Roman edict and continue to teach Torah to his students. For this, he is sentenced to be wrapped in a Torah scroll and burned to death. When asked by his students what he sees, he replies, \u201cThe parchment is burning, but the letters are flying free! (BT <\/span>Avodah Zarah <\/span><\/i>18a).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The moral of the two stories is really the same. The tearing up of scrolls or the burning of words cannot destroy their meaning. The letters of the Torah scroll outlast their temporary home. In the same way, Jeremiah\u2019s words continue to exist in his mind long enough for him to re-dictate them to Baruch. In addition, the final line of our chapter records that <\/span>more of the like was added<\/span><\/i>, as if to drive home the message that any attempt to destroy words only brings them back in greater number. It\u2019s only in the world of comedy that they can be obliterated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Like many people who work on dissertations, I often feel quite paranoid about losing what I have written. As a result, I have a robust backup system, saving everything I write in three different locations: (1) my hard drive, (2) an external USB drive, and (3) a cloud service. Even if (God forbid!) there were a fire destroying all of my possessions, my files would be safe in the cloud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah was not writing a dissertation, but something far more important \u2013 he was prophesying the word of God. Jeremiah had long prophecies in his head that he needed to deliver to King Jehoiakim and the people of Judah. Unfortunately, because he already prophesied so much gloom and doom about Judah\u2019s impending fall to the Babylonians, Jeremiah himself could no longer publicly prophesy without putting his life in danger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeremiah enlists the help of Baruch the Scribe, having him write down the prophecy on a scroll to take and read before the people. As Baruch begins to read the scroll, he attracts the attention of the king\u2019s officials who confiscate the scroll and take it to the king. As the scroll is being read, the king cuts off several columns at a time and throws them into the fire. He is trying to avert the disaster decreed by God\u2019s words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I found it impossible to read this story and not think of my dissertation. I would be upset beyond words if my work were somehow destroyed. When I send work to my advisor to look over, it can sometimes feel that he is cutting up my work with his astute edits. However, I know his edits are meant to improve what I have written, rather than destroy it. My advisor has certainly never burned any of my work and it is rather hilarious to imagine him doing so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although we do not know how Jeremiah and Baruch felt about the destruction of the scroll, God seems displeased. God instructs Jeremiah to dictate to Baruch every single word that was written on the old scroll, plus an extra prophecy against King Jehoiakim for good measure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What we learn from this is that when King Jehoiakim destroyed the first scroll, he was not destroying God\u2019s word, but instead only a saved copy. God\u2019s word still existed both in Jeremiah\u2019s mind and even more significantly, with God. Here we can imagine a kind of divine cloud drive, containing files of truth that cannot be destroyed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of course, as human beings, we do not have full access to God\u2019s cloud drive. As for me, I will continue to back up my work semi-obsessively, just in case one day my advisor decides to burn it after all. <\/span>
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Today\u2019s chapter stars a scroll.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From his jail cell, sensing that the destruction is imminent Jeremiah tells his scribe Baruch to transcribe the warnings that he has been declaiming for over twenty years. Maybe, he hopes, writing a book and disseminating it widely can still make people change their ways.\u00a0 Baruch records the prophecies and begins reading them around Jerusalem \u2013 first in the House of God, then in the chamber of Gemaryahu Ben Shafan, a royal scribe and then to a gathering of princes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The words strike fear in the hearts of their audiences. The royal servants who hear the readings insist that the scroll must be read to the king, who is sitting in his winter house in front of a blazing fire. But when the king hears the prophecies, he is not afraid, but calmly cuts up the scroll and throws it into the fire, piece by piece.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why did the king reject and destroy the prophecy? The Talmud Moed Katan 26a, gives a fine portrait of his moral obtuseness:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThey said to Jehoiakim: Jeremiah has written a book of Lamentations over the future downfall of Jerusalem. He said to them: What is written in it? They read him the first verse: \u201cHow does the city sit solitary\u201d (Lamentations 1:1). He said to them: I am king, and this does not apply to me. They read him the second verse: \u201cShe weeps sore in the night\u201d (Lamentations 1:2). He said to them: I am king, and this does not apply to me. They read him the third verse: \u201cJudah is gone into exile due to affliction\u201d (Lamentations 1:3). He said to them: I am king. They read to him: \u201cThe ways of Zion do mourn\u201d (Lamentations 1:4). He said to them: I am king. These are the four leaves, or verses, that he read first.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Talmud\u2019s telling, Jeremiah\u2019s scroll is the book of Lamentations. The king brushes away each verse unfolding the grief and calamity of the city, with the claim that as king, none of it applies to him. He is insulated and immune to the surrounding suffering. But then, the Talmud goes on,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cHer adversaries have become the chief\u201d (Lamentations 1:5), (i.e., the reigning king will be removed from power.) Once he heard this, he said to them: Who said this? They said to him: This is the continuation of the verse: \u201cFor the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions\u201d (Lamentations 1:5). Immediately, he cut out all the names of God from the book and burned them in fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When the prophecies go beyond the anguish of his subjects and threaten his royal status, the King flies into a rage, and tries vainly to destroy the messenger. Impervious to his people\u2019s pain, he is exquisitely sensitive to any challenge to his power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Book-burning has been used to suppress dissent and protect totalitarian regimes <\/span>throughout history<\/span><\/a>. From the early thirteenth century when Pope Gregory IX directed King Louis IX of France to burn every copy of the Talmud in Paris to the mid twentieth century when Stalin burned the entire Judaica collection in the capital of the Jewish Oblast of Russia, Jewish texts have been prime targets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Unfortunately, Jews themselves have not been guiltless of this crime. The Rambam\u2019s <\/span>Guide to the Perplexed<\/span><\/i> was deemed heretical by some Jewish factions and burned in France in 1233. <\/span>In 1954 The\u00a0Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (UOR, not to be confused with the OU)\u00a0burned the books of Mordecai Kaplan, co-founder of the Reconstructionist Movement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The first recorded instance of Jewish book-burning occurs in Jeremiah Chapter 36. God instructed Jeremiah to dictate all of his prophecies since the time of King Josiah to his scribe Baruch ben Neriah, and then have his scribe read the scroll to the people in hopes that it would lead them to repentance. Word of this book got out to the ministers of King Jehoiakim, and they ordered it to be read to them. The ministers took it to heart and ordered that it also be read directly to the King, who was, in fact, the son of King Josiah. Josiah was the King who, during renovations to the Holy Temple, was presented with a newly found, but long-forgotten Torah scroll (2 Kings 22). When he was read the portion that the scroll was open to \u2013 about repentance \u2013 he tore his clothes in mourning for the loss of religious life and Torah knowledge. His son, however, in being presented with a similar message through Jeremiah, did the opposite. As the scroll of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies was read to him, King Jehoiakim only heard it as a prophesy of his own downfall, and his loss of power. His response was to systematically tear the scroll itself into pieces and burn each piece until nothing was left. If it was going to threaten his reign, then no one else was going to hear a dissenting opinion, even if it was the word of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Jehoiakim underestimated who he was dealing with. The response to book-burning and to silencing the truth came swiftly from God. The answer then, which should be the answer for all time, was: write it again, and make it even more compelling (Jeremiah 36:27-32).\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Two items in this chapter bear directly on the greater question of how prophecies were recorded and how biblical books came into existence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In v. 17, the courtiers asked Baruch, \u201cTell us how you wrote down all these words that he spoke.\u201d He replied: \u201cHe [Jeremiah] himself recited all those words to me, and I would write them down in the scroll in ink\u201d (18). Shadal* explained that their question was intended to discover whether \u201che spoke to you in generalities and you wrote the scroll on your own recognizance.\u201d His answer was, \u201cI wrote the words down immediately upon his dictation; there was no time for me to alter anything.\u201d While Jeremiah is the only prophet to have explicitly employed a scribe, it would not be unreasonable to assume that this was standard procedure. Certainly, the sheer bulk of text in such books as Isaiah and Ezekiel argues for such a practice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Towards the end of the chapter, we learn that after the king had the original scroll torn up and burned, God instructed Jeremiah to rewrite it (28). \u201cSo Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. And at Jeremiah\u2019s dictation, he wrote in it the whole text of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned; and more of the like was added\u201d (32). Rashi (borrowing from the Midrash Eikhah Rabbah) set the tone for the traditional exegesis of this verse: He identified the original scroll with the three chapters of the Book of Lamentations that consist of single alphabetic acrostics (cpts. 1,2,4) and the \u201cmore of the like\u201d with the triple alphabetic acrostic (chapter 3).\u00a0<\/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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This chapter of the Book of Jeremiah opens as the prophet is ordered by God: \u201cTake now this scroll and write upon it all of the words that I have spoken to you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The magic of the word has captivated Jewish audiences for thousands of years. We are, after all, the People of the Book, with an unparalleled literary inheritance stretching back to the Bible, reaching down the centuries to the Mishnah, the Talmud, countless Midrashim, fragments found in the Cairo Genizah, medieval commentaries, all the way to our modern day scholars and authors, inexplicably entranced by the notion of committing their ideas to paper.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If Jews have thought about it, we\u2019ve certainly written it, some time or some place - but do we ever really ask what this means?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The written word, on one hand, perhaps gives a sense of validity to the project in question, being set in a static form, making it fairly difficult to dispute or alter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, Judaism was initially an oral tradition, with our words and teachings coming from our mouths and remembered in the hearts and minds of our students rather than upon their scrolls. To rely on the memory of a single person, or group of people, to jot down every utterance of their master - as Baruch the scribe does for Jeremiah - with complete accuracy may be too much to expect.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Remember, too, that history is dynamic; history happens. Texts become lost and refound, become inherently changed as they encounter new cultures and get translated into new languages, and sometimes they even get destroyed, as we learn when the King Jehoiakim burns Baruch\u2019s original scroll, and God commands for another one to be written (Jeremiah 36:26-28). Thus, in reality, how open are our texts to corruption, even as we do our best to preserve them?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As such, we are left with two questions -<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One is the Jewish piece: how is our relationship to our religion altered, knowing that we are at once a People of the Book, but not beholden to it?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Two is looking outwards: living in a world of the twenty-four hour news cycle, sometimes it feels like misinformation is the true virus spreading around\u05e5 So, if texts can be alterable and unreliable, what mechanisms do we have in place to ensure we\u2019re getting the truth?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I encourage us to never stop questioning or engaging with our rich textual tradition, both Jewishly and in the rest of our lives, and to keep safe and well in these trying 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In chapter 36, God tells Jeremiah to write down all the prophecies he had received:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cGet a scroll and write upon it all the words that I have spoken to you - concerning Israel and Judah and all the nations - from the time I first spoke to you in the days of Josiah to this day\u201d (2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While in English there is one word for what he was told to write on \u2013 \u201cscroll,\u201d in Hebrew there are two: <\/span>megilat sefer<\/span><\/em>. Today we think of <\/span>megillah<\/span><\/em>\u00a0as a scroll and <\/span>sefer<\/span><\/em>\u00a0as \u201cbook\u201d, but that was not how it was originally.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

First of all, what we call a book today (technically a \u201ccodex\u201d) only came around much later. Almost all writing at the time was done on scrolls. This is the origin of the word <\/span>megillah<\/span><\/em>. The root <\/span>GLL<\/span><\/em>\u00a0means \u201cto roll.\u201d Other words related to this root are <\/span>gal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u2013 \u201cwave\u201d, <\/span>galgal<\/span><\/em> \u2013 \u201cwheel\u201d, and <\/span>galil<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cdistrict\u201d (similar to the English word \u201ccircuit\u201d, which means both \u201ca circular course\u201d and \u201can area enclosed in a periphery.\u201d) What we call the Galil (the Galilee), a large area in the northern part of Israel, was originally called <\/span>Galil HaGoyim<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(Isaiah 8:23) - the \u201cdistrict of nations\u201d, apparently because many tribes and small nations lived there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sefer<\/span><\/em>\u00a0originally meant a written message (like a letter), that was commonly written on a scroll. Those letters are often described as being sent (Esther 1:22, 3:13). So some say it is related to a Semitic root meaning \u201cto send\u201d, which is related to the Arabic <\/span>safar<\/span><\/em> \u2013 journey. That later led to the Swahili word \u201csafari\u201d \u2013 a journey or expedition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Others think that perhaps it is related to another Hebrew root, meaning \u201cto cut.\u201d Perhaps this is connected to the \u201cscribe\u2019s knife\u201d mentioned later in this chapter (23), which may have been used to mark the lines or letters in the parchment. A haircut in Hebrew is a <\/span>tisporet<\/span><\/em>, from this same root.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From the written message, the root <\/span>SFR<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>came to mean the message itself. \u201cTelling a story\u201d in Hebrew is <\/span>mesaper sipur<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>And just as in English where the words \u201ctell\u201d and \u201c(bank) teller\u201d, and \u201ccount\u201d and \u201crecount\u201d are related, since either items or events are \u201csummed up\u201d, Hebrew also connects counting and story-telling. A <\/span>sofer<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is a \u201cscribe\u201d, but it is also the verb of someone counting. And \u201cnumber\u201d is <\/span>mispar<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I\u2019ve just told you a number of words related to <\/span>sefer<\/span><\/em>. You could even say it was \u201ca whole megillah\u201d!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In 1975, there \u201cappeared\u201d in the antiquities market, a bulla, an inscribed clay seal, engraved with the name Baruch ben Neriah. This terracotta item, still displayed at the Israel Museum, apparently was a modern forgery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the seal is probably a fake, the bearer of the name carved on it was quite real.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cJeremiah instructed Baruch, \u2018I am in hiding; I cannot go to the House of the LORD. But you go and read aloud the words of the LORD from the scroll which you wrote at my dictation, to all the people in the House of the LORD on a fast day; thus, you will also be reading them to all the Judeans who come in from the towns\u2019\u201d (Jer. 36:5-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A loyal friend of Jeremiah, Baruch is recorded to have received a mysterious oracle from God in the midst of Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians. This scribe, assistant of the prophet, edited or even wrote the Book of Jeremiah and also left behind apocryphal works, worthy of our attention, that link together <\/span>many aspects of the Babylonian exile\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThese are the words of the book which Baruch the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah\u2026wrote in Babylon, on the fifth year, on the seventh day of the month, at the time when the Chaldeans took Jerusalem and burned it with fire.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

And Baruch read the words of this book in the hearing of Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and in the hearing of all the people who came to hear the book,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

and in the hearing of the mighty men and the princes, and in the hearing of the elders, and in the hearing of all the people, small and great, all who dwelt in Babylon by the river Sud.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Then they wept, and fasted, and prayed before the Lord\u201d<\/span><\/em> (1 Baruch 1:1-6)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Quiet Baruch ben Neriah plays a crucial role in the exilic narrative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And I, Baruch, departed. And it came to pass after these things that the army of the Chaldees entered and seized the house, and all that was around it. And they led the people away captive and slew some of them, and bound Zedekiah the king, and sent him to the king of Babylon.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

The word of God came to me, and said unto me: 'Tell Jeremiah to go and support the captivity of the people unto Babylon. But you remain here amid the desolation of Zion, and I will show to you after these days what will befall at the end of days <\/span><\/em>(2 Baruch 9: 9-10)<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

The Talmud adds another dimension to the Baruch persona: \u201cStudying Torah is greater and more important that building the Temple. A proof of this is that for as long as Baruch ben Neriah was alive in Babylonia, Ezra, who was his disciple, did not leave him and go up to Eretz Yisrael to build the Temple\u201d<\/span> (Megillah 16b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our Chapter deals with the relationship between Jeremiah and Baruch ben Neriah. It may be recalled that Jeremiah previously entrusted to Baruch two deeds of land purchase, instructing him \u201cto put them into an earthen jar, so that they may last a long time\u201d (32:12-16). Baruch now serves as Jeremiah\u2019s scribe, secretary, spokesman, confidant and counselor (see also 43:3 and 45:1). Jeremiah, who is in hiding, instructs Baruch to read out in the Temple, the scroll of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies of doom on the Judeans as punishment for their disobedience. However, the Judean King Jehoiakim destroys this scroll in anger as it is read out to him. At the end of our chapter we are told: \u201cSo Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. And at Jeremiah\u2019s dictation, he wrote in it the whole text of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned; and more of the like was added\u201d (Jeremiah 36:32).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Baruch continued to intrigue those who lived beyond Biblical times. These traditions are included in four pseudepigraphic works known simply as \u201cThe Book of Baruch\u201d (I Baruch), which is a composite work. The first part is a prose letter that Baruch reads to the King Jehoiachin and the other Babylonian exiles, which causes them to repent and send money as an offering to the Temple. This part of the work, apparently based on a Hebrew original, was included in the Jewish 3rd century BCE Greek translation of what was then regarded as Scripture, the Septuagint. Many Christians include these works, known collectively as the \u201cApocrypha\u201d, in their versions of the Bible. The second part of this \u201cBook of Baruch\u201d consists of two poems, the first of which admonishes Israel to return to the worship of God. The second poem describes the plight of Israel in Exile and promises future redemption. The work as a whole may have been compiled sometime between 100 BCE to 100 CE.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (II Baruch) seems to have originally been written in Hebrew sometime after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. In this work, Baruch narrates that he witnessed the destruction of the First Temple and tells of his visions of the coming redemption.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (III Baruch) seems to have been originally composed in Greek between the first and third centuries CE. In this work Baruch describes his marvelous journey through the heavens.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Rest of the Words of Baruch (IV Baruch) probably written in Hebrew or Aramaic in the first or second centuries CE survives in various other languages. It tells how Baruch remained in Jerusalem while Jeremiah accompanied the Exiles to Babylonia returning at their head 66 years later.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, a fragment (7Q2) was discovered that seems to preserve a text similar to that in the Septuagint Book of Baruch (I Baruch) Chapter 6.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 36 describes the historical processes of this period in great detail, from Jeremiah's vantage point. The chapter opens in the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, which is the first year of Nebuchadnezzar's. The prophet is commanded to take a scroll and record all his prophecies, from Josiah's reign until now, from 627 through 605 BCE. He wishes to compose a document that will open the people's hearts. Jeremiah's main problem is that he has remained unknown. For years, no one paid him any heed; he was overlooked in the streets of Jerusalem, and his own village rejected him. After Josiah's death, Jeremiah begins to receive negative attention around the Temple and the palace. The people continue blindly following the Temple prophets and priests, who feed them a fixed formula: The Temple will protect us; loyalty to Egypt is our mainstay; and fealty to the king is our future. These sound bites stifle any public discontent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For years, Jeremiah has been trying to improve society's character and mend society's moral fabric. He has long abandoned his prophecies of doom regarding idol worship. Local leaders have weakened the crucial link between improving society and remaining on the land. They have convinced the people that their possession of the land is unassailable. Jeremiah writes his scroll for use when this wall of denial begins to crack: \"Perhaps the House of Judah will hear all the evil I am planning to do to [it], so that each man will return from his wicked ways, and I will forgive their sins and iniquities\" (36:3). Jeremiah clings to a single thread of hope that the people will repent and the terrible decree will be revoked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em>. 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36:4 \u201cAnd Jeremiah called to Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD that he had spoken to him on a book-scroll.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cFrom the mouth\u201d obviously means \u201cfrom the dictation,\u201d but this translation preserves the physical concreteness of the Hebrew idiom. The present chapter offers a rare perspective on the mechanics of transmission of biblical prophecy. Baruch, elsewhere given the epithet of \u201cscribe,\u201d was probably a professional scribe, but he also served as Jeremiah\u2019s personal amanuensis, in all likelihood not for pay but out of devotion to the prophet. Jeremiah may well have had some form of abbreviated written notations of his earlier prophecies, though we should not exclude that he knew them all by heart. (One recalls the instance of the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who for years did not dare to commit his poems to writing during Stalin\u2019s reign of terror but memorized them all, as did his wife.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. A matter of time<\/em>. The scroll was written in the 4th year of Jehoiakim\u2019s reign, that is, 605 BCE. In that year, Nebuchadnezzar defeated Egypt (the battle of Carchemish), and became the \u201cnorthern threat\u201d that Jeremiah had prophesied about. The scroll is read before an audience in the winter of 604 BCE. The Babylonian army had already reached the Land of Israel, and had even captured Ashkelon (which we know from Babylonian records). It seems that the public fastd uring which they read the scroll (v. 9) was called as a national emergency step because of the security situation.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. That\u2019s how you write a scroll<\/em>. In ink (v. 18), and laid out in columns (v. 23).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Not the first time that an important text is being written for a second time<\/em>. It\u2019s not just the scroll of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies that needed to be written a second time, after the first version was destroyed (in extreme circumstances). The Ten Commandments, 352 chapters ago (Exodus 34), had to be rewritten after the first were broken.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Spot the differences<\/em>. When a scroll with prophecies of destruction had been brought before Jehoiakim\u2019s father, Josiah, he tore his clothes, and then addressed the situation, calling for sweeping religious reforms (2 Kings 22). Yet Jehoiakim and his ministers \u201cwho heard all these words showed no fear and did not tear their garments\u201d (v. 24). What got torn up was the scroll itself.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Who\u2019s responsible for the destruction?<\/em> The chapter does not relate directly to this question. But it\u2019s clear that the prophecy is written and read so that the citizens and their leaders might remedy the situation and prevent the disaster. The chapter points an accusing finger at Jehoiakim and his obtuseness. He could\u2019ve repaired the situation - but he only made it worse.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. The book and the scroll<\/em>. Six chapters ago (Jer. 30) Jeremiah wrote an additional document, a book of return and comfort. The scroll in today\u2019s chapter is another sort of work. It is written with the help of Bauch son of Neriah, and its content is impending doom. 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