Yirmiyahu 31 contains some of the most famous and beautiful of all the verses in the book as a voice is heard on the heights of Rachel lamenting for her children. Yael Shahar returns with another beautiful audio. Text here: ⁠https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.31

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.30⁠

It's the fourth year of the reign of Tzidkiyahu and Yirmiyahu has been prophesying for 30 years now. But now he faces a rival - Chanania a false yet compelling prophet providing an alternative narrative to Yirmiyahu's one and tells the people that they can defeat Bavel, that the exiles will return and Israel will remain in the land. He breaks the yoke that Yirmiyahu has taken to wearing around his neck

A message given more than a decade letter speaking of God's mastery over the world and of His ability to give the world to whom he wishes, in this case, of 'Nevuchadnezar my servant' (mind blown!)Calev links Yirmiyahu up to the very first Rashi on the Torah - that behaviour is more important to God than ethnicity. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.27

A message given around 609 - in the Temple Courtyard prophesying that the Temple will be destroyed if people assume that it gives automatic protection - for giving this message, Yirmiyahu barely escapes with his life.I talk of Yirmiyahu's consistent message of not relying on the Temple to assume that God will always protect us. https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.26

We feature ch.23 as part of our recording for ch.25 given certain shared themes. In my audio I consider the amazing metaphor of the wine cup of wrath that God gives Israel to send to the nations and the significance of the number 70. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.23, https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.25⁠

Aliza Libman Baranofsky returns with another excellent teaching on the myriad allusions between our chapter and other stories of Israel's exiles and redemptions throughout Biblical history. It's a treat! Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.24

Calev Ben Dor teaches us the chapter explaining the complicated chronological background to the chapter and the geopolitical difficulties the kings of Yehuda find themselves in. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.22

Audio today from Rafi Addlestone who expertly sets the historical context and presents our chapter as a reversal of the redemption from Egypt. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.21

The prophet imprisoned for his rebukes but bursts forth once freed with even more anger. But even though this is how he feels on the outside, on the inside he wishes he could just be a normal guy. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.20