The symbolic acts continue as the prophet gives a public demonstration smashing an earthenware bottle in the valley of Hinom, a place darkly associated with human sacrifice and the origin of the Jewish word for hell (Geihinom). Audio today from Aliza Libman Baronofsky once again providing insights to the symbolism of Yirmiyahu's acts as they build on yesterday's introduction to the potter metaphor and considering the relevance for our own sense of mortality.

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.19

Harris Lorie shares deep thoughts about the nature of the potter metaphor, its significance on Yom Kippur, and how a seemingly passive relationship can also become an active one. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.18

Among other messages, Yirmiyahu focuses on Shabbat as the potential for the redemption of Yerushalayim but warns that if Shabbat is ignored the city will perish. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.17

Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo provides with a perfect audio, comparing Yirmiyahu's childlessness with other prophets in Tanakh and considering how Yirmiyahu is being asked to identify with God who is bereft of His own children in the land. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.16

An incredibly moving chapter in which the prophet, after delivering a particularly harsh message, breaks down as he laments the loneliness of his mission. In the audio today I try to draw out the personal side of Yirmiyahu as he is caught between the love of God's word within him on the one hand, with the pain of what it entails to be the transmitter of those words. I also had half a chiddush which I forgot to share in the recording. Hashem references Moshe and Shmuel at the beginning of the chapter, saying that even if those two great prophets were to arise at this time, even they would not be able to bring God back to Israel. Although the reason for them being referenced together at the beginning of the chapter is that they are two prophets who had previously succeeded at bringing God back to Israel after the people had strayed, by the end of the chapter a different connection emerges between the two of them. Both Moshe and Shmuel are prophets who had struggled with their mission wishing that they did not have to do what God was asking of them - the same state that Yirmiyahu finds himself in now. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.15

We will try to explore the puzzle of this chapter as one which presents Israel as trying to repent but God as rejecting it. Hint: the clue lies in the middle of the chapter. Text for thsi chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.14

Aliza Libman Baronofsky provides us with an excellent audio unpacking both the symbolic meanings and historical resonances of the chapter with help from the commentary of the Malbim as well as providing her own interpretation. Text for this chapter in Hebrew and English can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.13

Audio from Calev Ben Dor on both chapters focusing on Yirmiyahu's unique qualities as a prophet.

Text in English and Hebrew can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.11, https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.12

Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.10

The audio for the day is going to be on two sides of Yirmiyahu's character, captured in chapters 8 and 9.

Text here:

https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.8