Daily Tanach Sunday 6th Tishreiy Sefer Yirmiyah Chapter 5 Part 1: A Nation’s Rebellion and Its Consequences

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🔍 Search for Righteousness in Jerusalem

  • Hashem commands to stroll through Jerusalem’s streets and squares to seek a man who performs justice and seeks faith—then He will forgive her.
  • Even when they swear “As Hashem lives,” they swear falsely.

💔 Rebellion and Hardness of Heart

  • Hashem’s eyes are upon faith, yet the people feel no pain when smitten, refuse correction, and make their faces harder than rock.
  • The poor are foolish, not knowing Hashem’s way or judgment.
  • Even the great ones, who should know Hashem’s way, have broken the yoke and burst the bands.

🦁 Consequences of Transgression

  • Wild beasts—lion, wolf, leopard—will ravage cities due to many transgressions and increased backslidings.
  • Hashem asks, “Shall I forgive you for this?” as the children forsake Him, swear by no-Hashems, commit adultery, and gather in the house of a harlot.
  • Like armed stallions, they neigh over their friend’s wife.

⚖️ Divine Justice and Vengeance

  • Hashem declares: “Shall I not punish for these things?” and “Shall My soul not wreak vengeance for such a nation?”
  • Destruction is commanded, but not a complete end—roots are to be removed, for they are not Hashem’s.

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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