Friday, July 20, 2012

AZAMRA Bible: Jeremiah 43-44

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BS"D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: Jeremiah 43-44
Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 43

After the conclusion of Jeremiah's answer to the remnant of Judah that they must remain in Judea and not seek safety in Egypt, where they would surely be destroyed, the people brazenly accused him of prophesying falsely simply because he had told them the opposite of what they wanted to hear.

V 3: "For Baruch ben Neiriyah has set you against us…" It is not clear why Yohanan ben Kareyah and his band suspected Baruch ben Neiriyah, who was Jeremiah's foremost disciple and who had played a most prominent role in Jeremiah's contacts with the kings of Judah (Jer. 36:4ff and 38:7, see Rashi there). Metzudas David (on Jer. 43:3) suggests that Yohanan's faction had had some dispute with Baruch and suspected that he persuaded Jeremiah to urge them to remain in Judah in order that they would fall into the hands of the Babylonians.

Vv 5ff Yohanan ben Kareyah and the captains of the remaining Judean forces now took the entire band of remnants to Egypt, blatantly defying Jeremiah just as the people of Jerusalem and the leaders of Judah had time after time ignored his warnings and violated his counsel ever since the beginning of his ministry, causing their own destruction through their own obstinacy.

V 8: "Then the word of HaShem came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes…" Despite the fact that the people had willfully flouted his authority, Jeremiah did not abandon them to their folly but accompanied them down to Egypt, hoping that he might yet persuade them to relent.

Jeremiah prophecies that the remnant of Judah that fled to Egypt would not escape Nebuchadnezzar there, because he would come and defeat the Egyptians and destroy the very idolatrous temples in which the Judeans wanted to worship the stars.

CHAPTER 44

Jeremiah knew that the hearts of the Judean fugitives to Egypt were inclined to idolatry (unlike those who submitted to Nebuchadnezzar and went into exile in Babylon, where Tzaddikim like Daniel and his companions remained faithful to HaShem throughout the exile).

Jeremiah appeals to the Judeans in Egypt to internalize the lesson that it was the idolatry of the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem that had led to their destruction, and that the same fate would befall those who reverted to idolatry in Egypt. The prophet warns the people that that they would all die by the sword or by famine.

Vv 15ff: The people blatantly defy Jeremiah and answer that they have every intention of following the cult of the "queen of the heaven". [As discussed in the commentary on Jer. 7 vv 17-18, some consider this to have been the cult of a planet that was considered to be the ruler of the heavens; others hold that this itself was the cult of the sun, cf. Jer. 43:13. Yet others consider it to have been a cult involving all the stars and planets.] The people argue that far from their pursuit of this cult having CAUSED of their troubles, it was the very insufficiency of their devotion to it that was the real cause of their troubles, while their pursuit of it had brought them only blessing.

It is noteworthy that the men sought to defend the cult because their wives were heavily involved in it (v 15) whereas the women were convinced that they had the full support of their husbands in following the cult (v 19). [One wonders whether there is not a parallel in the present era in the phenomenon whereby pressure from feminist women (some of whom are apparently involved in a certain kind of Shechinah-cult = Meleches HaShamayim???) has caused the male "rabbis" of the Reform and Conservative movements to overthrow millennia of Torah tradition in calling women to the reading of the Torah, appointing female "rabbis", etc. etc.], The entire cycle that ended with the destruction of the Temple began when King Solomon allowed himself to be drawn after the idolatries of his foreign wives. Now the complicity of the remnant of Judah in their wives' idolatry in Egypt was to lead to their final destruction.

Vv 20ff: Jeremiah again warns the people that it was the idolatry of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judea that caused their destruction, and that likewise it would cause the destruction of the fugitives to Egypt. The tiny remnant that would escape the sword and return to Judea would then know whose words would stand – those of the prophet or those of the people. The sign of the truth of Jeremiah's prophecy would be the imminent defeat of Pharaoh Hofra of Egypt at the hands of the Babylonians.

ABY

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Please Say Yes to Abba Yahweh and His Laws.

Please read the Mitzvoth go to: Positive Commandments and the Negative Commandments), easy to read. It is very important to know them. For, the understanding of the rest of The Scriptures.

Hab 2:3 For the chazon (vision) is yet for a mo’ed (an appointed time); it speaks of HaKetz (the End), and does not lie; though it tarry, wait for him

Moshiach— see: Sanhedrin 97b, ‘It has been taught; R. Nathan said: This verse pierces and descends to the very abyss:11 For the Vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though he tarry, wait for him (Moshiach); because it will surely come, it will not tarry.12]; because he (Moshiach) will surely come, and will not tarry.

(11) Just as the bottom of an abyss cannot be reached, so is it impossible to grasp the full purport of this verse (Rashi).
(12) Hab. II, 3.

Believe…..

Hab 2:4 Hinei (behold), his nashamah (soul) which is puffed up is not upright in him; but the tzaddik (righteous) shall live by his emunah (believe).

Through Moshiach, Yeshuah from Yahweh who give you emunah (believe)…..

Gen 15:6 And he believed in Yahweh; and He credited emunah (faith)] to him as tzedakah (righteousness).

Please read the whole book of HaNavi Habakuk?

The Koran teaches us that you have to die…….

But, please Yudah (Jews) and Ephraim (most Christians) Listen to His Voice:

Hab 1:12 Art thou not mikedem

(‘everlasting’ also said of Moshiach, indicating Moshiach’s eternal divine nature: Dan 7:14 And there was given Him (Moshiach) dominion, and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim, tongues, should pey-lammed-chet. [1] (worship as deity) (see Dan 3:12, serve, reverence as deity Him (Moshiach). His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His (Messianic) Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.] see Michah 5:1[2];)

Yahweh Elohai (my Elohim) Kedoshi (my Holy One)? We shall not die. Yahweh, Thou hast appointed them (these Chaldean) for mishpat (ordinance); O Tzur, Thou hast ordained them (these Chaldean) for reproof.

Please take it serious what Abba Yahweh is telling us in:

Deu 18:15 Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohim) will raise up unto thee a Navi (prophet) from among thee, of thy achim (bretheren), kamoni (like me.....

Exo 32:30 The next day Moshe said to the people, "You have committed a terrible sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh; maybe I will be able to atone for your sin."); unto him ye must listen;

Deu 18:16 According to all that thou desired of Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohimin) Chorev (to be burnt dried up, ruined, wasted) in the Yom HaKahal (day of the congregation), saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh Elohav (your Elohim), neither let me see this eish hagedolah (‘great fire’) any more, that I die not.

Deu 18:17 And Yahweh said unto me, They have well-spoken that which they have spoken.

Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Navi (prophet) from among their achim (brethren), like unto thee, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

Joh 10:18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have samchut (authority) to lay it down, and I have samchut to receive it again. This mitzvah I received from HaAv (the Father).

Deu 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not listen unto My words which he shall speak Bishmi (in My Name), I will require it of him.

Joh 8:28 Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When you perform the hagbah (lifting up) of the Ben HaAdam, you will have da'as (knowledge) that Ani Hu [YESHAYAH 41:4; SHEMOT 3:14-16], and from myself I do nothing, but as HaAv (the Father) of me taught me, these things I speak.

Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiah Yeshuah – is Yeshuah Yahweh. Like it is said in:

Gen_49:18 I have waited for Thy Yeshuah (Salvation), Yahweh.

Exo_15:2 Yahweh is my oz and zimrah (song of praise), and He is become to me Yeshuah (salvation); He is Eli (my Elohim), and I will praise Him; Elohei Avi (the Elohim of my Father), and I will exalt Him.

And not a half-god, or another mighty-one who came between HaShem and us! (Not, ‘It Suph’!) I believe many of us (Jews and Ephraimites!) have to learn that!

[1] Dictionary of the Talmud. M. Jastrow p. 1178 פלח