Sefer Yirmiyahu is taught by Rabbi Harold Sutton, Rabbi of Congregation Hochma U'Mussar; Rosh Yeshivat Magen David Yeshivah; Rabbi at the Sephardic Rabbinical College.
A man named Pashchur, who was in charge of the Kohanim (priests) in the Temple, didn’t care for Yirmiyahu’s prophecies, so he tossed him in a jail cell. Pashchur released him the next day and Yirmiyahu said, “God doesn’t call you‘Pashchur,’He calls you‘Magor Misaviv’,”which means“terror all around.”Why did Yirmiyahu say that this was God’s name for Pashchur? Because God curses Pashchur. He will witness his friends falling to the enemy’s sword. The nation will be exiled to Babylonia and the treasures will be plundered. Pashchur will go into captiv- ity and die in exile because he was a false prophet.
Because Pashchur oppressed him, Yirmiyahu cried out to God, Who pressed Yirmiyahu into his mission, making him the object of verbal and physical attacks. Every time he addresses the people, Yirmiyahu ends up crying out because he must foretell destruction. This, of course, does not endear him to the people. But what else can
Yirmiyahu do? If he would refuse to carry out God mission, God’s word would burn inside him like a fire that he is unable to contain. Yirmiyahu heard the slander of the people against him, plotting to frame him. Those he thought were his friends wait for him to fall. They try to lure him over to their side, to worship idols, but God is with him. Yirmiyahu’s enemies will fail and be eternally ashamed.
God tests the righteous, looking inside them to see their true intentions. Yirmiyahu prays to see God punish his antagonists. Yirmiyahu tells the righteous to praise God for revealing the plot of the poisoners to him. Yirmiyahu was feeling so low, he lamented his own conception and birth, going so far as to curse whoever informed his father that he was born, making him think it was a good thing. Yirmiyahu mourns that he did not die before birth; why did he have to be born to such a miserable existence?
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