Rav Joe's 929 Tanakh Podcast

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...

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...

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

The first recording is going to focus on ch.7 which contains one of Yirmiyahu's most fundamental messages and one that has its roots and ramifications throughout the rest of Tanakh. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.7

In today's audio I give a brief and basic introduction to Yirmiyahu, to the two other books that he wrote and what binds them together within the _Tanakh_ as a whole. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.5

Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo returns with a sharp distinction between what the prophet sees and what the prophet hears. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.4

Yael Shahar, a first time contributor from Jerusalem, shares beautiful words on the prophets vision of cause and effect in history. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.3 Note: The publisher of the podcast apologizes for the delay in the last two episodes.

Hashem remembers the early days of Israel's romance and bemoans how those times are long gone. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Jeremiah.2 Note: The publisher of the podcast apologizes for the delay in the last couple uploads.

Jeremiah - one of the greatest of the prophets. We find ourselves in the 620s and will travel with Yirmiyahu through the coming four decades until the destruction of the temple is 586 BCE. The most unwilling of prophets, knowing that he will fail, but persisting nonetheless. Honoured to host again Aliza Libman Barofsky with an outstanding introduction to Yirmiyahu's call to prophecy. Text can...

Our audio focuses on the two first verses of the chapter as encapsulating two very different but fundamental themes of the book and of Judaism as a whole. We conclude, given the hour, with what Yishayahu has taught us about the dual nature of Shabbat. It's been a ride everybody. Thank you! Text in Hebrew and English for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.66

A complex combination of harsh punishment to those who forget God with beautiful imagery of peaceful future times. My question is whether these two thems can be separated out or are they two sides of the same coin. Text for this chapter in Hebrew and English can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.65

If yesterday inspired the Battle Hymn, today's chapter inspires one of Yom Kippur's most memorable passages: 'we are the clay and you are the potter' Text for this chapter can be found here: h ttps://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.64

Opens with some of the most graphic lines in the whole Tanakh of God as warrior. 'In the vat I have trodden alone of the peoples... I trampled them in my wrath, stomped on them in my fury, and their life blood spattered my garments '. These lines, remarkably, inspired one of the most powerful anti-slavery abolitionist songs - 'The Battle Hymn Of The Republic' (or 'Mine Eyes Hav...

Text can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.62

Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.61

The former focuses on repentance, the latter on redemption. The former is full of darkness, the latter is full of light Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.59

Chapters of teshuva - including the haftara of Yom Kippur - following on from Hashem's promises in the previous chapter now it is time for Israel to do their work to perfect their society. Text can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.58

Chapters of teshuva - including the haftara of Yom Kippur - following on from Hashem's promises in the previous chapter now it is time for Israel to do their work to perfect their society. Text for this chapter can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.57