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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> preserves a series of oracles about Moab as indicated by its opening superscription: \u201cConcerning Moab\u201d (<\/span>Le-Moav<\/span><\/i>). Similar oracles against Moab are preserved in<\/span> Isaiah 15-16<\/span><\/a> (\u201cThe Moab Pronouncement\u201d), and briefly in\u00a0 <\/span>Ez. 25:8-11<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Zeph. 2:8-11<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> Num. 24:17<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moab is mentioned frequently in the<\/span> Tanach<\/span><\/a>, as an individual, the son of Lot, who becomes the eponymous ancestor of the Moabite nation (see<\/span> Gen. 19:36-37<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The nation of Moab is also mentioned in extra-biblical sources, first in a 13<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE Egyptian inscription, which lists<\/span> Mu'ab (i.e. Moab)<\/span><\/a> among nations conquered by Ramses II. The \u201cland of Moab\u201d is mentioned in an 8<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE cuneiform inscription on an Assyrian<\/span> clay tablet<\/span><\/a> discovered in Nimrud in the 19<\/span>th<\/span> century. This tablet also preserves the first known archeological reference to Judah (<\/span>Yaudaya<\/span><\/i>). Curiously, a 7<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE Neo-Assyrian royal inscription mentions a king of Moab named <\/span>Musuri, <\/span><\/i>that is, the<\/span> \"Egyptian.\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

In the much discussed 9<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE<\/span> Moabite stone, the Mesha Stele<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Mesha<\/span><\/a>, the king of Moab (see<\/span> II Kings 3:4-27<\/span><\/a>) thanks his deity<\/span> Kemosh<\/span><\/a> for deliverance of the Moabites from Israelite rule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am Mesha, son of Kemosh, king of Moab\u2026Kemosh saved me from all the kings and caused me to triumph over all my adversaries. As for<\/span> Omri<\/span><\/a>, king of Israel, he humbled Moab many years, for Kemosh was angry at his land. And his son (i.e.<\/span> Ahab<\/span><\/a>) followed him and he also said, \"I will humble Moab.\" In my time he spoke (thus). But I have triumphed over him and over his house, while Israel has perished forever!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This inscription and the related Biblical texts tell of similar events but each from their own national perspectives. Mesha, King of Moab, in his own first-person account, comes out triumphant, while in Jeremiah and the other biblical oracles against Moab, Moab is defeated by Israel (for example,<\/span> II Samuel 8:2<\/span><\/a>). Curiously, at the end of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies of doom on Moab, our<\/span> chapter concludes<\/span><\/a> with a positive promise: \u201cBut I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the days to come\u2014declares the Lord\u201d, followed by a brief closing summary: \u201cThus far is the judgment on Moab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This positive note is incorporated in an eschatological<\/span> Midrash on the Messiah<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A scepter shall go forth from Israel. It smashes the brow of Moab\u201d (<\/span>Numbers 24:17<\/span><\/a>). This teaches that Israel shall gather in the Upper Galilee and the<\/span> Messiah ben Yosef<\/span><\/a> will watch over them from the Galilee. They go up to Jerusalem and the Messiah will rebuild the Temple and offer sacrifices as fire descends from Heaven. Then he will crush all the Nations of the World. He will come upon the land of Moab, killing half (of the Moabites), and the rest he will take prisoner and they offer him tribute. But in the end, he makes peace with Moab, as<\/span> it says<\/span><\/a>: \u201cBut I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the days to come\u2014declares the Lord.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There is a horror movie series called <\/span>Final Destination<\/span><\/em>. The basic structure of the series is that at the beginning of each episode, one character has a premonition of a horrific accident that will occur. That individual then warns a group of people to avoid the location of the horrific accident. The accident occurs and the group is relieved. The problem is that the people in the group were meant to die in the accident. The rest of the movie is \u201cdeath\u201d following the saved people around as they all die in horrific albeit campy ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In chapter 48, Jeremiah turns his wrath against Israel\u2019s old foe, Moab. Two verses in the chapter may sound familiar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Terror and pit and trap upon you who dwell in Moab! - declares the LORD. He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit; And he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the trap. For I will bring upon Moab the year of their doom \u2014declares the LORD\u201d(verses 43-44).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse is almost identical to a verse in Isaiah:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Terror, and pit, and trap upon you who dwell on earth! Whoever flees at the report of the terror shall fall into the pit; And whoever climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the trap. For sluices are opened on high, and earth\u2019s foundations tremble.\u201d (Isaiah 24:17-18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why would Jeremiah borrow from Isaiah here? Chapter 24 of Isaiah does not discuss Moab. Isaiah there does not address a nation directly, but it is part of a section of the book wherein the prophet condemns the nations of the world. Perhaps then, Jeremiah repeats this prophecy again towards Moab as a way to remind the nation that they cannot escape the fate of the nations that harm Israel. Moab will face the same fate as the characters in a Final Destination movie. They may feel they have avoided Isaiah\u2019s prophecy for now, but Jeremiah repeats the prophecy to make sure they remember the words. A nation may feel it has escaped punishment, but punishment will find them. They may have escaped the terror, but they will then fall into a pit. If they manage to climb out of a pit, they will find themselves ensnared in a trap. 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In the course of a lengthy description of the disasters in store for Moab, Jeremiah exclaims, apparently redundantly, \u201cOn all the roofs of Moab and in its squares, there is naught but lamentation\u201d (48:38).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why mention roofs and squares specifically, and why both?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We could simply read the verse as describing an outpouring of grief; Moab is being destroyed, and its citizens\u2019 pain pushes past the walls and roofs of their homes. Mentioning roofs and squares together portrays a grief that pours out in every direction, enhancing the reader\u2019s sense of just how bad things could be.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak explains, \u201cOn all the roofs of Moab \u2013 in the open. Lamentation will be on the roofs, where people will see them; and similarly, in the squares.\u201d For Radak, the significant detail about roofs and squares is their openness, and he is careful to note that the point is the same for both.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Reading this verse in the midst of COVID-19 and \u201csocial distancing,\u201d however, I was struck not by the similarity but by a difference between \u201croofs\u201d and \u201csquares\u201d: A roof is part of one\u2019s house and might still be isolated from others, while public squares, these days, are off-limits. We sit apart from each other, confined to our own homes and avoiding the mass gatherings that might take place in a \u201csquare.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But that is precisely where Radak\u2019s point about the similarity becomes crucial.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The reason the openness of roofs and squares is important, says Radak, is that they are \u201cseen.\u201d It\u2019s a modern buzzword, to talk about one being \u201cseen\u201d in one\u2019s pain, but it seems the human need for that visibility is ancient. Radak\u2019s comment suggests a sorrow that bursts out of the Moabite homes to be seen \u2013 to be shared. It\u2019s a shared pain both because everyone is suffering it and because they see each other suffering it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Even as we sense the painful difference between lamenting on one\u2019s own rooftop and coming together in the square, perhaps Radak has a point: Both roofs and squares are visible to others. Even in Radak\u2019s day, even in Jeremiah\u2019s \u2013 and certainly with today\u2019s world wide web of connection \u2013 individuals in crisis could be visible to each other, could see each other, could be with each other even while physically separate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And it\u2019s not only lamentation that can be shared from rooftop to rooftop. The image of each Moabite lamenting alone on a rooftop echoes the balcony wedding celebrations and other socially-distant gatherings that have taken place in recent weeks, people sharing their joy from balcony to balcony in the same way Moabites might have shared their lamentations from rooftop to rooftop.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There will always be joys to celebrate, and creative ways to display and share our joys as well as our sorrows \u2013 on each rooftop for now, and similarly, when we can finally descend and join together again in the public squares.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":72611,"alt":"","title":"Jer48-cityscape","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape.png","width":1280,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-1024x1024.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-1200x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-420x420.png","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":"","tile_main_caption":"Pain And Suffering, Public And Private","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Then, as now, people needed to share their sorrows, along with their joys","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":72611,"alt":"","title":"Jer48-cityscape","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape.png","width":1280,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-1024x1024.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape.png","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":1280,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape.png","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-1200x1200.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer48-cityscape-420x420.png","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,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"48","chapter_main_number":"448","date":"20270518","wall_id":"448"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":5,"id":"72606","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Jeremiah Knew his \u201cNumbers\u201d ","post_title":"Jeremiah Knew his \u201cNumbers\u201d","slug":"jeremiah-knew-his-numbers","old_id":"72606","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. 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The published commentary of Shadal* to the Book of Jeremiah ends in Chapter 47, obliging us to offer our own observations on the balance of the book.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this chapter, which is devoted to a detailed prophecy on Moab, there are some striking similarities to a passage in the Book of Numbers. For the Israelites to cross (from east to west) into its Promised Land, they had to traverse the territories of Ammon, Moab, Edom, and the Amorites. However, God had prohibited them from provoking the first three, who were related to them (Ammon and Moab through Lot, and Edom\/Seir through Esau), or from crossing through their territories, so they were forced into a confrontation with Sihon, King of the Amorites (Numbers 21:21 ff.).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After a successful military engagement, Israel occupied the land of the Amorites, which also included territory that the Moabites had lost to the Amorites in an earlier war. The Torah celebrated that victory as follows:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Therefore, the bards would recite: \u201cCome to Heshbon; firmly built and well-founded is Sihon\u2019s city. For fire went forth from Heshbon, flame from Sihon\u2019s city, consuming Ar of Moab, the lords of Bamoth by the Arnon. Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! His sons are rendered fugitive and his daughters captive, by an Amorite king, Sihon.\u201d (Numbers 21: 27 ff.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Compare that poem to verses 45-47 of our chapter:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For fire went forth from Heshbon, flame from the midst of Sihon, consuming the brow of Moab, the pate of the people of Shaon. Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons are carried off into captivity, your daughters into exile. But I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the days to come\u2014declares the LORD.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Arguably, the ancient victory song was sufficiently popular in the age of Jeremiah that he capitalized on it, predicting that what had befallen it in the past would ensue in the future, albeit ending on a note of consolation.<\/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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  1. Prophet to the nations<\/em>. This is a prophecy to Moab. Israel is mentioned in it only as a side note, and only in order to explain the Moabite disappointment that their gods were not able to prevent their destruction, just as the Temple at Beit El did not prevent the destruction of Samaria: \u201cAnd Moab shall be shamed because of Chemosh, as the House of Israel were shamed because of Bethel, on whom they relied\u201d (verse 13).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Sound familiar<\/em>? 99 chapters ago in Isaiah 15-16, we read a prophecy about Moab that has some very similar verses. It is possible that both Isaiah and Jeremiah included parts of an older prophetic epic about the destruction of Moab, and each of their prophecies elaborate and elucidate it, in its own way.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Lists<\/em>. The prophecy of this chapter includes lists of Moabite towns and place names. Scholars have tried to find some rhyme or reason to these references, and some have come to the conclusion that there is no order. That might be the message: confusion and disarray everywhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Empathy or irony<\/em>? What tone should we use when we read the prophecy? Is there meant to be some sort of empathy for the affliction of Moab (such as in verses 17, 31 or 36), and recommendations as to how to minimize the damage (such as in verses 6 and 28)? Or is it best read as jeering the overweening enemy who has been punished? 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