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In his prophecies, Jeremiah expresses sharp protests against the lifestyles prevalent in Judah and Jerusalem. With the rise of Nebuchadnezzar to the throne, the prophet calls to submit to the yoke of Babylonia. Jeremiah was forced to deal with virulent opponents to his message, who didn&#8217;t hesitate to hurt him personally. 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In this drawing, Jeremiah is depicted against a backdrop that traces his career from his earliest prophecy - that of the almond tree that in quick succession sprouts, buds, flowers, and bears fruit (left) - to his final prophecy - the Babylonians (represented by a lion) pursuing the Judeans in Egypt (right).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the center of the backdrop are the regional empires in whose power struggles the Judean nation were caught: Assyria, Egypt, and Babylon (left to right).\u00a0 Parallel but asynchronously to Jeremiah (foreground), the leaders of the Jews (middle ground) move in procession:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Josiah,\u00a0 who galvanized a movement of religious reform, and was killed in battle with Egypt<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jehoahaz, his son, whose few months as king ended with his exile to and demise in Egypt<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jehoiakim, Josiah\u2019s son, who burned Jeremiah\u2019s prophetic messages<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeconiah, his son, who was taken in chains with the first Babylonian exile<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zedekiah, the last king of Judea who was blinded and executed by the Babylonians<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gedaliah ben Ahikam, the Babylonian governor who was assassinated by his fellow Jews<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johanan ben Kareah, who ignored Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy and lead the remaining Jewish population to Egypt where they were pursued and killed by the Babylonians.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>image: courtesy of the author\/artist<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":72873,"alt":"","title":"jer-end-Jeremiah_ Life and Times of the Prophet","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet.jpg","width":2320,"height":1209,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet-300x156.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":156,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet-768x400.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":400,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet-1024x534.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":534,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":800,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1067,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet-1200x625.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":625,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jer-end-Jeremiah_-Life-and-Times-of-the-Prophet-806x420.jpg","home_baner-width":806,"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":"The Career Of Jeremiah","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Five kings, three empires - 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Nothing had come of his multiple visions \u2014 no glorious monarchy and no reunification; only a continuous descent into despair, culminating in the destruction of Jerusalem, and exile to Babylonia. Just before that nadir, God explained to Jeremiah why he was to purchase the field \u2014 God closes no door without opening a window. The fate of the nation was sealed \u2014 yet the nation was destined to resurrect itself, upon the land promised to its forefathers:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in My furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and cause them to live in safety [...] I will never stop doing them good, and I will inspire them to fear Me, never turning away from Me\u201d (Jer. 32:37-41).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Babylonian exile eventually ended, followed by the Second Commonwealth and then conquest by Persia, Greece, and Rome. The destruction of the Second Temple led to a new exile that lasted until the twentieth century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are now in the midst of a third attempt to establish a national home in our ancestral land, but often fear that history might be repeating itself: The leaders have sinned, and the prophets stray after worthless idols. The streets of Jerusalem still throng with false prophets who earnestly claim, \"The tradition of our forefathers is in our hands; the Third Temple shall not be destroyed!\" Once again, they seek to lull us into a sense of false security, to make us forget the grave responsibility we shoulder: to be worthy of this national home, this Jewish state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State of Israel has no insurance policy. It is our role to protect and maintain it. There are many good people who strive to rectify the ills of the Jewish state \u2014 to reduce socioeconomic disparity, to break down the walls that divide us, to bridge language gaps, to include rather than reject. I sincerely pray that this book inspires us to re-excavate the treasures of our past, drawing upon them to rebuild a Jewish identity, a Jewish culture that will shed light and goodness upon all it touches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lau, Binyamin. <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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The prophet Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, a priest from the town of Anathoth (just north of Jerusalem), prophesied from the thirteenth year of King Josiah of Judah until the exile of Jerusalem in the eleventh year of King Zedekiah (626\u2013586 BCE). On the international scene, these years saw the meteoric rise of the Neo-Babyonian, or Chaldean, Empire; Judah's fate is inversely proportional to this rise. During the earliest years, the once mighty Assyrian Empire, known in the Hebrew Bible for destroying the northern Kingdom of Israel, collapsed as the Babylonians reasserted themselves in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). With foreign powers occupied far away, the Kingdom of Judah flourished under Josiah, who consolidated worship in the Jerusalem Temple. Josiah's death in battle (609 BCE) and, soon afterwards, the Babylonians' rapid westward expansion under their king, Nebuchadnezzar, created the perfect storm to which Judah succumbed in 586 BCE. The Book of Jeremiah witnesses and responds to the successes and ultimate decline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exile of Jerusalem is the critical event to which many of the prophecies are understood to refer. A narrative account of this event (chapter 52) stands at the end of the book as a coda meant to confirm the veracity of Jeremiah's predictions. Two other events\u2014Nebuchadnezzar's defeat of the Egyptians at Carchemish (605 BCE) and the exile of King Jehoiachin (597 BCE)\u2014are crucial to understanding Jeremiah's prophecies. The Babylonian victory at Carchemish marks a turning point in Judah's history, indeed in the history of the entire region. According to chapter 36, it inspired Jeremiah to produce the first version of the book before us. The organization of the Book of Jeremiah reflects the event's pivotal status. Prior to the main prophecy about the Battle of Carchemish (chapter 25, practically the book's mid-point), prophecies of doom do not, for the most part, explicitly name Babylon; after this point, the identity of the agent of Judah's destruction becomes clear. Nebuchadnezzar's deposal and exile of Jehoiachin, the next-to-last Judean king, creates two communities of Judeans, one in Babylonia and the other in Judah proper, ruled by Zedekiah, a puppet installed by the Babylonians. It is in the exiled group, rather than in the Judeans on native soil, that Jeremiah sees the hope for continued communal existence under foreign hegemony.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Book of Jeremiah paints the prophet's portrait in rich detail. A quasi-biography (chapters 37\u201345) narrates his interactions with the community in the besieged Jerusalem and afterwards in exile. In these chapters and elsewhere, Jeremiah stakes positions that put him at odds with his compatriots. Politically, his advocacy of submission to Babylon rather than resistance with Egyptian support, lands him in jail. His critiques of Judah's social and religious flaws do not receive warm welcomes, either. 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This order reflects the understanding that Jeremiah prophesied after Isaiah and before Ezekiel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viewed broadly, the Book of Jeremiah consists of three basic units held together between chapters 1 (Jeremiah's call to prophecy), 25 (the pivotal chapter that announces the role of Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon), and 52 (the prose conclusion that confirms Jeremiah's prediction of Judah's destruction). The first unit (chapters 2\u201324) contains mainly prophecies written in poetry. The second unit (chapters 26\u201345) contains mainly narrative prose, including both prophecies and biographical stories. The third unit (46\u201351) contains only poetic prophecies about foreign nations. Chronological notices occur throughout the book, indeed more than in any of the other books of the \"literary prophets.\" Nevertheless, style, rather than strict chronology, is the main organizing principle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are subunits that may have circulated independently before their incorporation into the book as we have it. For example, the polemics against false prophecy in chapters 27\u201329 are marked by idiosyncratic language, such as the use of the name Nebuchadnezzar (with \/n\/) instead of Jeremiah's typical \"Nebuchadrezzar\" (with \/r\/). Similarly, the introduction to prophecies of consolation in chapters 30\u201333 designates the unit as a separate \"scroll\" (30:2\u20133). The story of the book's history (36) suggests that other versions preceded the current text.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book shares themes with other books of prophecy. These include: the prophet's \"call\" (1); God's \"lawsuit\" against Israel (2); a critique of the sacrificial cult (7); satire of idolatry (10); prophetic intercessory prayer (14); prophetic symbolic actions and visions (18\u201319; 24; 28; 32); and critiques of leadership (22\u201323). Unique to the Book of Jeremiah is the nearly overwhelming shadow cast by the Kingdom of Judah's impending downfall. Thus, Jewish tradition remembers Jeremiah as a book that is \"entirely about destruction\" (BT Baba Batra 14b).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book vividly depicts the prophet himself. God's promise at Jeremiah's commission-- \"They will attack you, but they will not succeed, for I am with you to save you\" (1:19), foretells the antagonism between the prophet and his fellow Judeans. To the kings, he is a traitor because he counsels submission, rather than resistance, to Babylon. The community, for its part, cannot ignore Judah's decline from its last highpoint under King Josiah, remembered for his religious reform. This historical trajectory leads them, quite understandably, to question religious commitments to God, and, consequently, faith in Jeremiah, God's prophet (44). Even God rejects Jeremiah's attempts to defend the nation (14:11, 14; 15:1\u20134).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social ostracism combine with communal trauma to make Jeremiah a bitter man. He is angry at God for commissioning him, for \"overpowering\" and \"enticing\" him into being a prophet (20:7). 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Here is part of the essay which was the book's catalyst:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of what I really need<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o know about how to live\u2026I learned in kindergarten\u2026<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are the things I learned:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Share everything.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Play fair.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don't hit people.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Put things back where you found them.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clean up your own mess.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don't take things that aren't yours.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody...<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah, a prophet from Anatoth, lived 2500 years before Robert Fulghum. 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To clarify his message, Jeremiah continues to prophesize:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u2026but this thing I commanded them, saying: 'Hear my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and walk in all the ways that I command you, that it may be well with you' (7:23).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah wasn't saying that God is against sacrifices.\u00a0 Rather, Jeremiah was giving a similar message to the above essay of Robert Fulghum:\u00a0 First work on the basics. Promote justice, show kindness, and give charity. 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When he prays, it is to call for revenge on Judah\u2019s tormentors (9:25), or pitiably complaining of his humiliation that his doom-prophecy is unfulfilled (20:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah treads in Moses\u2019s paths in many ways - reluctant prophets, in conflict with the people they direct, each proposing a new covenant with the nation. Moses leads the nation for the 40 years preceding their entry into the land, Jeremiah leads them for the 40 years preceding their exit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet while Moses pleads for mercy for the people, even to his own detriment, Jeremiah pleads for himself to the detriment of the nation. 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Their very particular theology that allowed their culture not just to endure the systematic suppression efforts of their captors, but to ultimately wield huge influence over all future human thought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good and evil exist independently of God, yet they do have have consequences: life or death, reward or punishment, peace or exile. Death, punishment and exile are not to be taken to impugn God\u2019s omnipotence - on the contrary, they vindicate not just His existence but reaffirm His moral nature. For the first time in history, there was a God removed from the idea of place, available to all people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Israel sinned with the calf, Moses argued that God needed to defend His own name in the eyes of the Egyptians - this argument was persuasive, the people were saved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal of Israel\u2019s journey isn\u2019t nationhood, land or righting wrongs - it\u2019s enlightenment of mankind. Egypt is used as a placeholder for all as-yet-unenlightened non-Israelites. Though Israel had committed the most brazen of all possible sins, at the most auspicious moment their punishment must be limited since Israel is an indispensable tool for a greater purpose.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah couldn\u2019t use Moses\u2019 defense - God\u2019s abilities were revealed by Israel's initial establishment. But God\u2019s morality was not revealed. 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If [the eclipse] is in the west, it bodes ill for those in the west; if it occurs at the zenith, it bodes ill for the whole world. If its face looks like blood, the sword is coming to the world; if it looks like sackcloth, famine is coming to the world.... When Israel carries out the will of God, [it] shall not fear, as it says, \"Thus said the Lord: Learn not the way of the nations, and fear not signs in the heavens, though the nations fear them\" \u2014 the nations will fear, but [Israel] will not\u201d (Tanna DeVei Eliyahu Zuta 16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After addressing those who place their faith in horoscopes, Jeremiah turns to those who worship idols of wood and stone. A similar style of mockery can be found in Isaiah 44 as well as other prophetic works. Jeremiah describes the absurdity of idol worship: The worshippers themselves cut down trees, carve statues out of the wood, decorate them with gold and silver, hammer them full of nails, and finally, worship their own creations. Israel's faith in the God of heaven and earth contrasts with prostration before replaceable, man-made statues:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the Lord, God, is true, the living God and King of the world; at His wrath the earth shakes, and the nations cannot withstand His fury. (Jer. 10:10)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lau, Binyamin. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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There are images of utter desolation: <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My tents are ravaged, all my tent cords are broken. My children have gone forth from me and are no more, no one is left to stretch out my tents and hang my tent cloths. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amidst this immense loss, Jeremiah pleads urgently with the Holy One to keep these horrors away from us. And then we arrive at: \u201cPour out your wrath on the nations who do not heed you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This thunderous verse is perhaps better known in Hebrew: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shefokh khamatkha al hagoyim<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from traditional Passover haggadahs. On our way to redemption during the seder, the text calls down divine revenge on Israel\u2019s enemies, God\u2019s opponents. This is a dramatic, and to many, uncomfortable low point during the seder. Do we really want to conjure up divine ire on people who do not believe in the God of Israel? Perhaps those are people sitting right here with us. What is this quote doing here? In fact, some people reject the very idea and omit the text. And some haggadot offer thoughtful alternatives. One work amends to: \u201cPour out your love on the nations who know You and on kingdoms who call Your name\u2026.\u201d Similarly, the haggadah long associated with the Maharal of Prague (1525-1609) introduces an Elijah who will \u201creconcile parents with children and children with parents.\u201d In the end of times, this love will prevent the destruction of the land. Beautiful, especially when we consider how much angst and social anxiety is often associated with big family gatherings!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though both texts claim to be many centuries old, they are, we now know, products of the twentieth century. Does it matter? Only to historical purists. It is perhaps significant that modern Jews felt the need to change these lines, while pre-modern Jews for the most part seem to have been content to engage in revenge fantasies during one of the most dramatic moments of the seder.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yet, some people choose to quote Jeremiah proudly, perhaps even defiantly, while others spiritualize the vengeance and point out that the avenger is God alone. So will Jeremiah\u2019s <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shefokh khamatekha<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> experience a renaissance in today\u2019s age of growing antisemitism? 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Jeremiah 11:3-6.\u201d A white woman whose face was contorted into a scream held up this sign protesting school integration. The sign appears in a short video in the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, highlighting Ruby Bridges\u2019 memories of her first day in an integrated school. Bridges was born into the Civil Rights Movement; Brown vs. the Board of Education, decided in 1954, less than four months after Bridges was born, would take years to operationalize. Bridges passed a test qualifying her for entrance into the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Because the other children who passed the test decided to stay in their old schools, Bridges walked into that school, a child alone, accompanied by her mother and four federal marshals. The scene, in all its innocence and darkness, is captured in Norman Rockwell\u2019s famous and heartbreaking painting \u201cThe Problem We All Live With.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We live with it still.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What words could possibly have been lifted from Jeremiah to justify white hatred for little Ruby Bridges?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And say to them, Thus said the Lord, the God of Israel: \u2018Cursed be the man who will not obey the terms of this covenant, which I enjoined upon your fathers when I freed them from the land of Egypt, the iron crucible, saying, \u2018Obey Me and observe them, just as I command you, that you may be My people and I may be your God\u2019\u2014 in order to fulfill the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as is now the case.\u2019 And I responded, \u2018Amen, Lord.\u2019 And the Lord said to me, \u2018Proclaim all these things through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the terms of this covenant, and perform them\u2019 (11:3-6).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>does<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">curse the man who doesn\u2019t obey the words of the covenant, but it is a covenant based on redeeming the Jews from slavery. 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The fields are barren (v.4). There is no rain (v.4). Wild animals struggle to survive (v.5-6). This climate disaster that Jeremiah describes is a consequence of Israel\u2019s iniquity. The people have strayed from God. In fact, they love to stray; how easy it is for them (v.10)! God tells Jeremiah that he shouldn\u2019t pray for the people: God won\u2019t be answering their prayers, so Jeremiah shouldn\u2019t waste his time either.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But they have \u2018enablers:\u2019 Jeremiah complains to God about the false prophets who declare that the famine won\u2019t reach them, that the sword won\u2019t touch them (v.13). It\u2019s all lies, God says, all (v.14) \u201cdeceit of their own contriving\u2014that is what they prophesy to you!\u201d The things that they prophesy won\u2019t happen,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> happen, to them and to those that listen to them. Jeremiah must warn the city-dwelling Israelites, the ones whose misdeeds have caused these disasters, that they will not be spared. Go out into the countryside, he says, and you\u2019ll see it already: the war, the famine, the destruction of the environment (v.18). It\u2019s coming for us too.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The message of this chapter unfortunately parallels events in the world today. Climate crises are on the horizon in much of the world. Temperatures are on the rise, environments are changing, agriculture is failing, animals are disappearing. Our \u201csins\u201d are different than the Israelites sins: we worship plastics and impermanence, not the Baalim and Asherot. We too love to stray: it is so easy to throw out that plastic cutlery, to sip our coffee from a single-use cup.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have our false prophets as well. They tell us that it\u2019s natural, that\u2019s its not really as bad as we think it is, that it\u2019s not happening <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, so it\u2019s not really happening. They tell us we\u2019re safe in our cities, that the effects of climate change can\u2019t touch us in the developed world. Some of it might be true: it\u2019s much easier to not feel the effects when your physical surroundings are designed to repel the climate altogether (think: air conditioning).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, just like Jeremiah says, none of that means it isn\u2019t happening, out there. We can just look at the world around us to see the truth of this. In 2018 there were more than 17.2 million \u201cclimate migrants\u201d, people forced from their homes by natural disasters and climate change. This number could skyrocket to 143 million by 2050. 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The rest of the prayer compares humanity to other materials that are manipulated by a master artisan, who turns their unattractive and useless original form into functional works of beauty, such as glass and silver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this chapter of Jeremiah, the metaphor does not turn positive for the Israelites. There are no promises of beautiful vessels to hold precious liquids. Like clay at a potter\u2019s studio that is discarded or reworked beyond recognition, God promises in this chapter to destroy the Israelites. Only if the people repent will they not be smashed like an unwanted jug. Jeremiah is tasked with bringing this horrific message to the Israelites, and he correctly anticipates that they will not enjoy hearing it. Unsurprisingly, the Israelites do not respond to the threat from God that they are disposable like clay, and they do not change their behavior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the prayer at Kol Nidre flips the script. Where the metaphor in Jeremiah comes to teach the Israelites about their fragile state and how close they are to destruction, the metaphor in the <em>piyyut<\/em> turns towards re-imagination. \u201cUse us for good,\u201d the <em>piyyut<\/em> proclaims to God. \u201cWe submit ourselves as raw material, and call upon You to remember our relationship and help us become something better than we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When faced with our own fragility, we can give up like the Israelites in the time of Jeremiah and, or we can lean in to this vulnerability, and seek to be malleable. Yom Kippur is the day of judgement, but it is also the day of atonement. 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This verse has become the quintessential Scriptural description of the power of Midrash.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael (a product of the School of Rabbi Yishmael) on Exodus 15:11 preserves an interpretation of \u201cWho is like You among the gods, O Lord?\u201d \u2013 among those who others call \u201cgods\u201d, but who have no substance. For of them it is said: \u201cThey have mouths but speak not\u201d (Psalms 115:5). This is in total contrast to the One who spoke the world into existence. God, who can say two things in one act of speech, which no human being can do, as it is said: \u201cOne thing God has spoken; two things have I heard\u201d (Psalms 62:12). And as God says: \u201cBehold, My word is like fire\u2014declares the Lord\u2014and like a hammer that shatters rock!\u201d (Jeremiah 23:29).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael on Exodus 20:8 continues this line of interpretation: \u201cRemember the Sabbath day to keep it holy\u201d. \u201cRemember\u201d and \u201cObserve\u201d (Deuteronomy 5:12), were both spoken by God in one act of speech\u2026This manner of speech is impossible for human beings. But of God, it is said: \u201c\u201cOne thing God has spoken; two things have I heard\u201d (Psalms 62:12). And as God says: \u201cBehold, My word is like fire\u2014declares the Lord\u2014and like a hammer that shatters rock!\u201d (Jeremiah 23:29).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Significantly, Talmud Bavli Sanhedrin 34a cites a similar teaching as coming from \u201cthe Academy of Rabbi Yishmael \u2013 de-vey Rabbi Yishmael\u201d. Here our verse from Jeremiah is again cited, but with a significant twist in meaning: \u201cBehold, My word is like fire\u2014declares the Lord\u2014and like a hammer that rock shatters!\u201d (Jeremiah 23:29) \u2013 just as an iron hammer striking an unbreakable rock may shatter into many pieces, so too one verse may yield many meanings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A related teaching of the Academy of Rabbi Yishmael is recorded in Talmud Bavli Sukkah 52b. The school of R. Ishmael taught: If this evil one (the \u201cEvil Inclination \u2013 Yetzer Ha-Ra\u201d) accosts you, drag him to the Study House. If he is of stone, he will dissolve, as it is written: \u201cHo, all who are thirsty, come for water!\u201d (Isaiah 55:1). If he is of iron, he will shatter into fragments, as it is written: \u201cBehold, My word is like fire\u2014declares the Lord\u2014and like a hammer that rock shatters!\u201d (Jeremiah 23:29).<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talmud Bavli Taanit 4a relates our verse in Jeremiah to the world of the Rabbinic Sages. Raba said: If a young scholar gets angry, it must be the Torah that inflames him, as it says: \u201cBehold, My word is like fire\u2014declares the Lord\u201d (Jeremiah 23:29). 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And the desperation that ensues to do everything but self-reflect is typical. Instead, our shock becomes anger, and we launch our aggression against those who dare challenge the status quo in which we are so invested. We read their message as transgressing the ethics of group loyalty instead of considering the ethics they are actually bringing to light.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be sure, there are softer, more diplomatic ways to challenge a society than Jeremiah used, and there were prophets who employed such approaches (recall, for instance, Natan\u2019s parable to King David about Bathsheba. 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Everything was ready for the big event. The only unresolved issue was Jessica\u2019s refusal to keep the custom of walking around the groom at the wedding ceremony. In Jessica's eyes, the custom of circling seven times around the groom was archaic. Her parents suggested that she discuss the issue further with her scholarly grandfather.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\"Grandpa, why should I walk around my husband under the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chuppah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? This custom is from a time when women were not permitted to have their own aspirations. The circling around the groom signifies that the main role of a woman in a marriage is to fulfill her husband's desires. And notice, grandpa, that her needs were not considered important enough for the man to circle her. This is unfair!\u00a0 And this is the reason why I refuse to circle around Jack, even once, let alone seven times!\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"My dear Jessica, I wish to teach you a chapter of Jeremiah that might allow you to see the custom in a new light. God sent the Assyrians to exile the Northern Tribes of Israel. One hundred years later, as recorded in Jeremiah chapter 31, God implored the ten northern tribes to return to the land of Israel. \"Erect markers, Set up signposts\u2026 Return, Maiden Israel! Return to these towns of yours!\" However, the exiled northern tribes did not wish to return simply because Jeremiah said that God is waiting for them. They were waiting for God to perform a miracle, just as he did when he redeemed Israel from Egypt. They argued that God was the one who sent them away, and therefore he should be the one to bring them back.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah responds to their arguments with a prophecy. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"For the LORD has created something new on earth: a woman courts a man.\"<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah foresaw a time when women will not need to wait passively for men to call on them. Jeremiah was telling the Northern Tribes to be proactive, instead of waiting for God to make the first move. Just as these liberated women of the future will determine their own fate, the tribes of Israel should not wait for God to redeem them. They should take responsibility over their fate.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"The literal Hebrew translation of the words \"a woman will court a man\" is \"a woman will encircle a man\". I think that the custom of the groom encircling the bride is based on these words. The bride circling around her husband embodies the message which Jeremiah gave the Northern Tribes of Israel. With this in mind, think about the custom again.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jessica encircled her husband seven times under the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chuppah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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. 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Every word, every verse, doesn\u2019t just seem like an ancient prophecy of faraway, long gone times, but a gloomy vision into a future; a future when people will bear the ramifications of not listening to God and doing whatever they feel like for their own pleasures and desires; a future we have, maybe, lived, until a few days ago.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are tragic chapters, as we watch the remnants of the Jewish population in Judah, being scattered and decimated. When Jeremiah, the prophet, finishes his warning at the beginning of this chapter, telling the people that they should not go down to Egypt as they wished, the people, led by Yochanan ben Kareah yell at him: \u201cLiar! God did not send you; you are part of a conspiracy against us!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this point, they have been through too much and can\u2019t bear another piece of bad news. Life is extremely confusing: Gedaliah who was a Jewish leader, instated by the Babylonians, is dead; his murderer, an heir to the House of David, is trying to take over and restore the kingship violently; the land is desolate after siege, intrigues, destruction. It\u2019s hard to know where to go and what to do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah seeks God\u2019s instructions. They all wait for 10 days for a reply; a favorable reply that will allow them to do what they want. Ten. Whole. Days. In \u201cspiritual quarantine\u201d, unable to move, perhaps food supplies diminishing, fights increasing... Their reaction demonstrates that they were hoping for, perhaps even counting on, a certain response: God will surely see their dire situation and allow them reprieve in Egypt. When they get a message they don\u2019t want to hear, they quickly and adamantly accuse the messenger, then rush to do the opposite, which leads to further disaster.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fascinating studies with Vietnam POW\u2019s, quoted in Jim Collin\u2019s book \u201cGood to Great\u201d, show that those who dreamed of \u2018I\u2019ll be home for Christmas, New-Years\u2019 etc. fared much worse in captivity than those with realistic expectations, focused on the here and now. Optimism? Yes; hope? Yes, of course, and faith, indeed. But, at the very same time, an awareness that just because we asked, even very nicely, or prayed, or any number of methods we use to try to manipulate a situation, it doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ll get the answer we want. But then, we\u2019re met with helplessness, which drives us crazy; waiting is often so hard, especially considering the combination of unknown and danger we face. 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Now we will examine how this relationship manifests in other books of the Bible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chapter 45 of Jeremiah begins with a verse contrasting the oral prophecy of Jeremiah and Baruch ben Neriah's written recordings:\u00a0 \"The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch ben Neriah when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah\u2026\" The Midrash noticed this contrast when it interprets the topic of this chapter as Baruch's request for prophecy being rejected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, the Midrash explains this chapter of Jeremiah as a watershed between the era of the oral word and the era of the written word.\u00a0 Indeed, while previously we saw that during the First Temple time period writing was used only on special occasions, after the destruction of the First Temple the use of writing became much more prominent.\u00a0 Here are some examples:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Temple Period<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: In Isaiah's first vision, Isaiah hears God's voice speaking to the angels (Isaiah 6) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post-First Temple Period<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: In Ezekiel's first vision, Ezekiel reads a scroll of prophecies. (Ezekiel 2)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Temple Period<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The people listen to the words of Jeremiah as he proclaims them in the gates of the city. (Jeremiah 7)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post- First Temple Period<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Daniel ponders over the meaning of the prophecies written down on different scrolls. (Daniel 9)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Temple Period<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The words of Jonah cause the people to repent. (Jonah 3)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post- First Temple Period<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Ezra reads the Torah scroll and causes the people to repent. (Nehemiah chapter 8)<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Temple Period<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The holiday of a wine harvest is publicized orally to the people. (Judges 21)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\r\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post- First Temple Period<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The holiday of Esther is publicized through letters sent to the people. (Esther 8 and 9)<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We see when the Jewish People lived outside their homeland, the written word gained much more importance. To remain a united people in the Exile, receiving information by word of mouth was no longer sufficient. For communication and inspiration, the written word now became the main focus of the Jewish People.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By rejecting Baruch Ben Neriah's request for prophecy, God was actually saying that future generations won't need prophets who speak their prophecies in the gates of the cities.\u00a0 Instead, the nation will need scholars who will invest their time learning the traditions, the ones recorded in writing. These scholars will then be able to convey these traditions, along with the way they interpret them, to the nation.\u00a0 Hence, Jeremiah chapter 45 plants the seeds that will eventually transform the nation of Israel from \"The People of the Word\" to \"The People of the Book\".<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image by Ben Schachter, courtesy of the artist.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":71363,"alt":"","title":"Jer36-spoken written","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","width":924,"height":738,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written-300x240.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":240,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written-768x613.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":613,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","large-width":924,"large-height":738,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","1536x1536-width":924,"1536x1536-height":738,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","2048x2048-width":924,"2048x2048-height":738,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","post_full_size-width":924,"post_full_size-height":738,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written-526x420.jpg","home_baner-width":526,"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":"From Prophet To Scribe\u00a0","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Baruch signifies the transition from the People of the Word to the People of the Book","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":71363,"alt":"","title":"Jer36-spoken written","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","width":924,"height":738,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written-300x240.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":240,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written-768x613.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":613,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","large-width":924,"large-height":738,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","1536x1536-width":924,"1536x1536-height":738,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","2048x2048-width":924,"2048x2048-height":738,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written.jpg","post_full_size-width":924,"post_full_size-height":738,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-spoken-written-526x420.jpg","home_baner-width":526,"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":"45","chapter_main_number":"445","date":"20270513","wall_id":"445"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/72456"}],"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=72456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}