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Interesting quotes from famous Jews

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.
-David Steinberg

I once wanted to become an atheist but I gave up. They have no holidays.
-Henny Youngman

Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So, for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
-Mel Brooks

The time is at hand when the wearing of a prayer shawl and skullcap will not bar a man from the White House, unless, of course, the man is Jewish.
-Jules Farber

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York, you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be a goy even if you are Jewish.
-Lenny Bruce

The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
-Calvin Trillin

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!
-Golda Meir

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.
-Peter Malkin

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-Benjamin Disraeli

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
-Sam Levenson

Don't be humble; you are not that great.
-Golda Meir

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
-Joe E. Lewis

A spoken contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
-Sam Goldwyn

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
-Woody Allen

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-Groucho Marx

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
-Oscar Levant

Too bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair.
-George Burns

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
-Milton Berle

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
-Sam Goldwyn

Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
-Ernie Kovacs

When I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault.
-Henry Kissinger

"DAILY JEWISH WISDOM" is found @ Beliefnet.com

JEWISH WISDOM:

Fear builds walls to bar the light.  - Baal Shem Tov

 

Engage in Torah and charity even with an ulterior motive, for that habit of right doing will lead also to right motivation.  - Talmud: Pesahim, 50b

The sword comes into the world because of justice delayed and because of justice perverted.- Ethics of the Fathers 5:8

Ever since Rabbi Akiba used the Passover seder to plan a revolutionary struggle against the Roman occupiers, the Jews have used the seder to begin concrete work on tikkun (healing and transformation).

- Rabbi Michael Lerner, the Tikkun Magazine Passover supplement 2006

To work out ends of righteousness and love are you called; not merely to enjoy or suffer.

- S.R. Hirsch, "Nineteen Letters," 1836

“Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.”  Golda Meir

The worship of God, though desirable as an end itself, can somehow never be in the right spirit, unless it impels one to the service of man.  - Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan

Concentrate on three things and you will not fall into the grip of sin. Know from where you came, where you are going, and before Whom you will have to give account and reckoning.- Pirkei Avot 3:1

We cannot learn from general principles: there may be exceptions.  - Johanan, Talmud: Kiddushin

A truly generous man is he that always gives, whether it be much or little, before he is asked.- Orchot Tsadiqim

The best security for old age: respect your children.- Sholem Asch

 A Jew can be Jewish with God, against God, but not without God.- Elie Wiesel

He who promotes his own honor at the expense of his neighbor's has no portion in the world to come.- Judah b. Hanina, Genesis Rabbah

Even if all the world tells you, "You are righteous," consider yourself a sinner.  - Rabbi Simlai

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism and falsehood. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.- Abraham Joshua Heschel, "On Prayer"

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.- Maimonides, "Tzavaah"

Seek the good in everyone, and reveal it, bring it forth.- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1811), "Likutey Moharan"

Just as we love ourselves despite the faults we know we have, so should we love our neighbors despite the faults we see in them.- Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov

A man should never impose an overpowering fear upon his household.  - Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 6b

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.- The Talmud

Love unaccompanied by criticism is not love....Peace unaccompanied by reproof is not peace.- Genesis Rabbah 54:3

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VAYIKRA (Leviticus)
The Book of Leviticus, or Levites, is concerned with the ritual laws and the sacrificial cult. It describes the details of offering sacrifices. The book's emphasis is on purity and holiness. Even though the sacrificial system was abandoned with the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70 CE, Leviticus continued to be an important influence on Jewish life: nearly half of the 613 commandments are found in it and much of the Talmud is based on it. In Europe, it was traditional for children beginning their Jewish learning to start with the book of Va-Yikra. There are twenty-seven chapters, divided into ten parashiyot.
The parashiyot of Va-Yikra are: VaYikra, Tzav, Shemini, Tazria, Metzora, Achare Mot, Kedoshim, Emor, Behar, and Bechukotai. 

Parashat Behar

May 21, 2022

Torah Reading

Leviticus 25:1 - 26:2

Haftarah

Jeremiah 32:6 - 32:27


Triennial portion:  1st: 25:1- 38; or 3rd: 25:29-26:2


 translation and transliteration [when available] of torah and haftorah portions below. audio for haftorah link below.


Weekly Torah Commentary is also posted on this site.


To learn more about triennial cycles and their history, you are welcome to use this link:  http://www.onetorah.org/triennial-rotation.html  and see the trichart at

https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/sites/default/files/public/halakhah/teshuvot/19861990/eisenberg_triennial.pdf   You need to scroll down through some history pages before reaching the chart.  If link does not work, copy site info and paste in browser to search.


JPS CONSERVATIVE TRANSLATION AVAILABLE  at


Torah  - 

               jtsa.edu/torah/behar

Haftorah  -   jtsa.edu/torah/behar-haftarah

 

Shabbat B'Har

VaYikra 25:1 - 26:2

[Parashat BeHar
Shemittah (The Sabbatical Year)]

25:1 Vayedaber HASHEM el-Moshe beHar Sinai lemor
HASHEM spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai, saying,
2 Daber el-benei Yisra'el ve'amarta alehem ki tavo'u el-ha'aretz asher ani noten lachem veshavetah ha'aretz Shabbat l'HASHEM
"Speak to the Children of Yisrael and say to them, when you come to the Land which I give to you the Land shall be at rest - a Shabbat for HASHEM.
3 Shesh shanim tizra sadecha veshesh shanim tizmor karmecha ve'asafta et-tevu'atah
For six years you shall plant your field and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and you shall harvest its produce.
4 Uvashanah hashvi'it Shabbat Shabbaton yihyeh la'aretz Shabbat l'HASHEM sadecha lo tizra vecharmecha lo tizmor
But the seventh year shall be a complete rest for the land, a Shabbat for HASHEM, you shall not plant your field and you shall not prune your vineyard.
5 Et sefiach ketzircha lo tiktzor ve'et-inevei nezirecha lo tivtzor shnat Shabbaton yihyeh la'aretz
[Even] the crops that grew on their own [from the seeds of y our previous] harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your untended vines you shall not gather; it shall be a year of complete rest for the land.
6 Vehayetah Shabbat ha'aretz lachem le'ochlah lecha ule'avdecha vela'amatecha velischircha uletoshavecha hagarim imach
The [produce] of the land's Shabbat [year] shall be for yourselves, for food, for you, your servant and your maidservant, for your hired hand and your resident sojourner who reside with you.
7 Velivhemtecha velachayah asher be'artzecha tihyeh chol tevu'atah le'echol
[Also] for your domesticated animals and for the [wild] beasts that are in your land shall all of its produce be for food.

[The Yovel (Jubilee Year)]

8 Vesafarta lecha sheva shabbtot shanim sheva shanim sheva pe'amim vehayu lecha yemei sheva shabbtot hashanim tesha ve'arba'im shanah
You shall count for yourself seven sabbatical years, seven years, seven times and it shall be for you, the days [period] of the seven sabbatical years, forty-nine years.
9 Veha'avarta shofar tru'ah bachodesh hashvi'i be'asor lachodesh beYom haKippurim ta'aviru shofar becholartzechem
You shall make proclamation with the shofar on the tenth day of the seventh month. On Yom Kippur shall this shofar-proclamation be made throughout all your land.
10 Vekidashtem et shnat hachamishim shanah ukratem dror ba'aretz lechol-yoshveiha yovel hi tihyeh lachem veshavtem ish el-achuzato ve'ish el-mishpachto tashuvu
You shall sanctify the year of the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all of its inhabitants; it shall be for you a yovel and each man shall return to his ancestral land and each man shall return to his family.
11 Yovel hi shnat hachamishim shanah tihyeh lachem lo tizra'u velo tiktzeru et-seficheiha velo tivtzeru et-nezireiha
It is a yovel, [that] the year of the fiftieth year shall be for you. You shall not plant and you shall not reap [even] crops that grew on their own; and you shall not gather the [grapes of] its untended vineyard.
12 Ki yovel hi kodesh tihyeh lachem min-hasadeh tochlu et-tevu'atah
For it is a yovel, it shall be holy to you. Whatever is in the field you may eat of its produce.
13 Bishnat hayovel hazot tashuvu ish el-achuzato
On this yovel year, each man shall return to his ancestral land.

[Sheni]

14 Vechi timkeru mimkar la'amitecha o kanoh miyad amitecha al-tonu ish et-achiv
If you sell anything to your neighbor, or purchase [something] from your neighbor, do not cheat one another.
15 Bemispar shanim achar hayovel tikneh me'et amitecha bemispar shnei-tvu'ot yimkor lach
According to the number of years after the yovel you shall purchase [land] from your neighbor; according to the number of produce years he shall sell it to you.
16 Lefi rov hashanim tarbeh miknato ulefi me'ot hashanim tam'it miknato ki mispar tvu'ot hu mocher lach
Based on the abundance of years, you shall increase its purchase price and based on the lack of years you shall decrease its purchase price, since it is the number of produce-seasons that he is selling to you.
17 Velo tonu ish et-amito veyareta me'Elokeicha ki ani HASHEM Elokeichem
You shall not cheat one another, and you shall fear your G-d, for I am HASHEM, your G-d.
18 Va'asitem et-chukotai ve'et mishpatai tishmeru va'asitem otam vishavtem al-ha'aretz lavetach
You shall fulfill My statutes and keep My laws and fulfill them, and you will then live in the Land in security.

[Shelishi]

19 Venatnah ha'aretz piryah va'achaltem lasova vishavtem lavetach aleiha
The Land will give forth its fruit and you will eat your fill, and you will live securely on it.
20 Vechi tomru mah-nochal bashanah hashvi'it hen lo nizra velo ne'esof et-tevu'atenu
If you shall say [ask] 'What will we eat in the seventh year, for behold! we have not planted nor gathered our produce?'
21 Vetziviti et-birchati lachem bashanah hashishit ve'asat et-hatvu'ah lishlosh hashanim
I shall command [direct] My blessing to you in the sixth year and it will produce [enough] for three years.
22 Uzratem et hashanah hashminit va'achaltem min-hatvu'ah yashan ad hashanah hatshi'it ad-bo tevu'atah tochlu yashan
You shall plant in the eighth year but you will still be eating from the old produce until the ninth year; until the [new] produce arrives [ripens] you shall eat [from] the old.

[Redemption of Land]

23 Veha'aretz lo timacher litzmitut ki-li ha'aretz ki-gerim vetoshavim atem imadi
The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is Mine, for, you are [merely as] foreigners and resident aliens before Me.
24 Uvechol eretz achuzatchem ge'ulah titnu la'aretz
In all of your ancestral lands you shall grant redemption to the land.

[Revi'i]

25 Ki-yamuch achicha umachar me'achuzato uva go'alo hakarov elav vega'al et mimkar achiv
If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his ancestral land, and a close relative comes and redeems that which his brother sold,
26 Ve'ish ki lo yihyeh-lo go'el vehisigah yado umatza kedei ge'ulato
[or] if the man has no redeemer [close relative] but has acquired sufficient means and finds [it] enough to redeem it [himself],
27 Vechishav et-shnei mimkaro veheshiv et-ha'odef la'ish asher machar-lo veshav la'achuzato
He shall calculate the number of years for which he sold the land and return the remainder [excess] to the man to whom he had sold it, and he shall return to his ancestral land.
28 Ve'im lo-matz'ah yado dei hashiv lo vehayah mimkaro beyad hakoneh oto ad shnat hayovel veyatza bayovel veshav la'achuzato
Or if he does not have within his means enough to retrieve the land to himself, then that which he sold remains in the possession of the buyer until the yovel year. It is then released by the yovel and he [the seller] returns to his ancestral land.

[Chamishi ]

29 Ve'ish ki yimkor beit-moshav ir chomah vehayetah ge'ulato ad-tom shnat mimkaro yamim tihyeh ge'ulato
If a man shall sell a residential home [that is] within a walled city, the time allotted for its redemption shall be until the end of one year after he sold it. He has the days [of a full year] in which to redeem it.
30 Ve'im lo-yiga'el ad-melot lo shanah tmimah vekam habayit asher-ba'ir asher-lo chomah latzmitut lakoneh oto ledorotav lo yetze bayovel
If he does not redeem it by the end of a full year, the house within the city that is surrounded by a wall shall then remain in perpetuity to its purchaser for his generations [descendants]. It is not released by the yovel.
31 Uvatei hachatzerim asher ein-lahem chomah saviv al-sedeh ha'aretz yechashev ge'ulah tihyeh-lo uvayovel yetze
The houses of open cities which are not surrounded by a wall shall be considered as a field of the land. It shall have a redemption and it is released by the yovel.

[Levi'im Cities]

32 Ve'arei haLevi'im batei arei achuzatam ge'ulat olam tihyeh la-Lvi'im
The cities of the Levi'im the houses in the cities of their ancestral land the Levi'im shall have an eternal right of redemption.
33 Va'asher yig'al min-haLevi'im veyatza mimkar-bayit ve'ir achuzato bayovel ki vatei arei haLevi'im hi achuzatam betoch benei Yisra'el
If anyone redeems [a house or field] from the Levi'im, then the house or his ancestral city shall be released by the yovel, for the houses of the Levi cities are [considered] their ancestral lands among the Children of Yisrael.
34 Usedeh migrash areihem lo yimacher ki-achuzat olam hu lahem
The field on the outskirts of their cities may not be sold for it is their perpetual ancestral land.

[Preventing Poverty]

35 Vechi yamuch achicha umatah yado imach vehechezakta bo ger vetoshav vachai imach
If your brother becomes impoverished and his hand [assets] become shaky among you, you must support him, [so too] the proselyte and the sojourner, [so] that he shall live with you.
36 Al-tikach me'ito neshech vetarbit veyareta me'Elokeicha vechei achicha imach
You shall not take from him interest or usury and you shall fear your G-d, and your brother shall live with you.
37 Et-kaspecha lo-titen lo beneshech uvemarbit lo-titen ochlecha
You must not give [lend] him your money with interest, and usuriously you must not advance him your food.
38 Ani HASHEM Elokeichem asher hotzeti etchem me'eretz Mitzrayim latet lachem et-eretz Kena'an lihyot lachem le-Elokim
I am HASHEM your G-d Who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Kena'an, to be a G-d for you.

[Shishi 
Jewish Slaves]

39 Vechi-yamuch achicha imach venimkar-lach lo-ta'avod bo avodat aved
If your brother becomes impoverished and is sold to you, you must not work him like a slave.
40 Kesachir ketoshav yihyeh imach ad-shnat hayovel ya'avod imach
Like a hired hand or resident [worker] shall he be with you. He shall serve you until the yovel year.
41 Veyatza me'imach hu uvanav imo veshav el-mishpachto ve'el-achuzat avotav yashuv
Then he and his children shall depart from you and return to his own family. He shall return to his ancestral estate.
42 Ki-avadai hem asher-hotzeti otam me'eretz Mitzrayim lo yimachru mimkeret aved
For they are My servants, whom I brought out form the land of Egypt, they shall not be sold [in the market] as slaves.
43 Lo-tirdeh vo befarech veyareta me'Elokeicha
You must not rule over him to crush him and you shall fear your G-d.
44 Ve'avdecha va'amatcha asher yihyu-lach me'et hagoyim asher sevivoteichem mehem tiknu eved ve'amah
Your slaves and maidservants that you shall possess from the nations that surround you, from them you may purchase slaves and maidservants.
45 Vegam mibenei hatoshavim hagarim imachem mehem tiknu umimishpachtam asher imachem asher holidu be'artzechem vehayu lachem la'achuzah
Also, from the children of the sojourners who reside with you from them you may purchase [slaves], and from their families that live among you that were born in your land. [All these] shall be your permanent possession.
46 Vehitnachaltem otam livneichem achareichem lareshet achuzah le'olam bahem ta'avodu uve'acheichem benei-Yisra'el ish be'achiv lo-tirdeh vo befarech
You shall will them as inheritance to your children after you as hereditary property; you shall keep them in servitude permanently. However regarding your brethren, the Children of Yisrael, many over his brother, you must not rule over him to crush him.

[Shevi'i
Jewish Slaves of an Idolater]

47 Vechi tasig yad ger vetoshav imach umach achicha imo venimkar leger toshav imach o le'eker mishpachat ger
If a foreigner or resident acquires means while your brother become impoverished by him, and is sold to a resident foreigner who resides with you or to the offspring of a foreign family.
48 Acharei nimkar ge'ulah tihyeh-lo echad me'echav yig'alenu
After he is sold redemption shall be his, one of his brethren shall redeem him.
49 O-dodo o ven-dodo yig'alenu o-mish'er besaro mimishpachto yig'alenu o-hishigah yado venig'al
Either his uncle or his uncle's son [cousin] shall redeem him or the closest [other] family relative shall redeem him. If he obtains sufficient means of his own he may be redeemed [on his own].
50 Vechishav im-konehu mishnat himochro lo ad shnat hayovel vehayah kesef mimkaro bemispar shanim kimei sachir yihyeh imo
He shall reckon with the one who bought him. [According to the number of years] from the year which he was sold to him until the yovel year. His purchase price shall be [proportional] to the number of years; at the rate of the days of a hired hand it shall be [considered as he worked] with him
51 Im-od rabot bashanim lefihen yashiv ge'ulato mikesef miknato
If there are yet many years [until the yovel] accordingly shall he return his redemption money from his purchase price.
52 Ve'im-me'at nish'ar bashanim ad-shnat hayovel vechishav-lo kefi shanav yashiv et-ge'ulato
If there remain but a few years until the yovel year, he shall make a [similar] calculation, based on the number of years he shall return his redemption money [to the purchaser].
53 Kischir shanah beshanah yihyeh imo lo-yirdenu beferech le'eineicha
As a hired hand [working] on a yearly basis shall he be considered with him; he shall not rule over him to crush him before your eyes.
54 Ve'im-lo yiga'el be'eleh veyatza bishnat hayovel hu uvanav imo
If he is not redeemed through these means he then goes out in the yovel year, he, along with his children.

[Maftir]

55 Ki-li venei-Yisra'el avadim avadai hem asher-hotzeti otam me'eretz Mitzrayim ani HASHEM Elokeichem
For, the Children of Yisrael are My servants. They are My servants whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt, I am HASHEM, your G-d.
26:1 Lo-ta'asu lachem elilim ufesel umatzevah lo-takimu lachem ve'even maskit lo titnu be'artzechem lehishtachavot aleiha ki ani HASHEM Elokeichem
You shall not make idols for yourselves and graven images and memorial stones you shall not raise up for yourselves, and a prostration stone you shall not set in your land upon which to prostrate oneself, for I am HASHEM, your G-d.
2 Et-Shabbtotai tishmoru umikdashi tira'u ani HASHEM
You shall keep My Shabbatot and you shall fear [revere] My Sanctuary, I am HASHEM.

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Shabbat B'Har

Haftorah Hebrew text with audio and blessings before and after at:

B’har – Jeremiah 32:6-27

Please consult with your Rabbi which haftorah you use if uncertain..

B'Har  Yirmiyahu 32:6-27

6  Va-yo-~-me-r Yi-r-m-ya-hu Ha-ya-~ D-va-r A-do-na-y-~ Ei-la-y Lei-~-mo-r:
7  Hi-nei-~ Cha-na-m-ei-l Be-n Sha-lu-m Do-d-cha Ba-~ Ei-le-~-cha Lei-~-mo-r K-nei-~ L-cha E-t Sa-di-y A-she-r Ba-a-na-t-o-t Ki-y L-cha Mi-sh-pa-t Ha-g-u-la-~ Li-k-n-o-t:
8  Va-ya-vo-~ Ei-la-y Cha-na-m-ei-l Be-n Do-di-y Ki-d-va-r A-do-na-y-~ E-l Cha-tza-r Ha-ma-ta-ra-~ Va-yo-~-me-r Ei-la-y K-nei-~ Na-~ E-t Sa-di-y A-she-r Ba-a-na-t-o-t A-she-r B-e-re-tz Bi-n-ya-mi-y-n Ki-y L-cha Mi-sh-pa-t Ha-y-ru-sha-~ U-l-cha Ha-g-u-la-~ K-nei-~ La-ch Va-ei-da-a Ki-y D-va-r A-do-na-y-~ Hu-a:
9  Va-e-k-ne-~ E-t Ha-sa-de-~ Mei-ei-t Cha-na-m-ei-l Be-n Do-di-y A-she-r Ba-a-na-t-o-t Va-e-sh-ka-la-~ L-o E-t Ha-ke-se-f Shi-v-a-~ Sh-ka-li-y-m Va-a-sa-ra-~ Ha-ka-se-f:
10 Va-e-ch-to-v Ba-sei-fe-r Va-e-ch-to-m Va-a-ei-d Ei-di-y-m Va-e-sh-ko-l Ha-ke-se-f B-mo-~-z-na-yi-m:
11 Va-e-ka-ch E-t Sei-fe-r Ha-mi-k-na-~ E-t He-cha-tu-m Ha-mi-tz-va-~ V-ha-chu-ki-y-m V-e-t Ha-ga-lu-y:
12 Va-e-tei-n E-t Ha-sei-fe-r Ha-mi-k-na-~ E-l Ba-ru-ch Be-n Nei-ri-ya-~ Be-n Ma-ch-sei-ya-~ L-ei-y-nei-y Cha-na-m-ei-l Do-di-y U-l-ei-y-nei-y Ha-ei-di-y-m Ha-ko-t-vi-y-m B-sei-fe-r Ha-mi-k-na-~ L-ei-y-nei-y Ka-l Ha-y-hu-di-y-m Ha-yo-sh-vi-y-m Ba-cha-tza-r Ha-ma-ta-ra-~:
13 Va-a-tza-~ E-t Ba-ru-ch L-ei-y-nei-y-he-m Lei-~-mo-r:
14 Ko-~ A-ma-r A-do-na-y-~ Tz-va-o-t E-lo-hei-y Yi-s-ra-ei-l La-k-o-ach E-t Ha-s-fa-ri-y-m Ha-ei-le-~ Ei-t Sei-fe-r Ha-mi-k-na-~ Ha-ze-~ V-ei-t He-cha-tu-m V-ei-t Sei-fe-r Ha-ga-lu-y Ha-ze-~ U-n-ta-ta-m Bi-ch-li-y Cha-re-s L-ma-a-n Ya-a-m-du Ya-mi-y-m Ra-bi-y-m:
15 Ki-y Cho-~ A-ma-r A-do-na-y-~ Tz-va-o-t E-lo-hei-y Yi-s-ra-ei-l O-d Yi-ka-nu Va-ti-y-m V-sa-d-o-t U-ch-ra-mi-y-m Ba-a-re-tz Ha-zo-~-t:
16 Va-e-t-pa-lei-l E-l A-do-na-y-~ A-cha-rei-y Ti-ti-y E-t Sei-fe-r Ha-mi-k-na-~ E-l Ba-ru-ch Be-n Nei-ri-ya-~ Lei-~-mo-r:
17 A-ha-~ A-do-na-y E-lo-ha-y-~ Hi-nei-~ A-ta-~ A-si-y-ta E-t Ha-sha-ma-yi-m V-e-t Ha-a-re-tz B-cho-cha-cha Ha-ga-d-o-l U-vi-z-ro-a-cha Ha-n-tu-ya-~ Lo-~ Yi-pa-lei-~ Mi-m-cha Ka-l Da-va-r:
18 O-se-~ Che-se-d La-a-la-fi-y-m U-m-sha-lei-m A-vo-n A-v-o-t E-l Chei-y-k B-nei-y-he-m A-cha-rei-y-he-m Ha-ei-l Ha-ga-d-o-l Ha-gi-b-o-r A-do-na-y-~ Tz-va-o-t Sh-m-o:
19 G-do-l Ha-ei-tza-~ V-ra-v Ha-a-li-y-li-ya-~ A-she-r Ei-y-ne-~-cha F-ku-ch-o-t A-l Ka-l Da-r-chei-y B-nei-y A-da-m La-tei-t L-i-y-sh Ki-d-ra-cha-~-v V-chi-f-ri-y Ma-a-la-la-~-v:
20 A-she-r Sa-m-ta O-t-o-t U-mo-f-ti-y-m B-e-re-tz Mi-tz-ra-yi-m A-d Ha-y-o-m Ha-ze-~ U-v-yi-s-ra-ei-l U-va-a-da-m Va-ta-a-se-~ L-cha Shei-m Ka-y-o-m Ha-ze-~:
21 Va-to-tzei-~ E-t A-m-cha E-t Yi-s-ra-ei-l Mei-e-re-tz Mi-tz-ra-yi-m B-o-t-o-t U-v-m-o-f-ti-y-m U-v-ya-d Cha-za-ka-~ U-v-e-z-r-o-a N-tu-ya-~ U-v-m-o-ra-~ Ga-d-o-l:
22 Va-ti-tei-n La-he-m E-t Ha-a-re-tz Ha-zo-~-t A-she-r Ni-sh-ba-ta La-a-v-o-ta-m La-tei-t La-he-m E-re-tz Za-va-t Cha-la-v U-d-va-sh:
23 Va-ya-vo-u Va-yi-r-shu O-ta-~ V-lo-~ Sha-m-u V-k-o-le-cha U-v-to-ra-v-t-cha U-v-t-o-ra-t-cha Lo-~ Ha-la-chu Ei-t Ka-l A-she-r Tzi-y-ta-~ La-he-m La-a-sho-vo-t Lo-~ A-sho Va-ta-k-rei-~ O-ta-m Ei-t Ka-l Ha-ra-a-~ Ha-zo-~-t:
24 Hi-nei-~ Ha-so-l-l-o-t Ba-u Ha-i-y-r L-la-ch-da-~ V-ha-i-y-r Ni-t-na-~ B-ya-d Ha-ka-s-di-y-m Ha-ni-l-cha-mi-y-m A-le-~-ha Mi-p-nei-y Ha-che-re-v V-ha-ra-a-v V-ha-da-ve-r Va-a-she-r Di-ba-r-ta Ha-ya-~ V-hi-n-cha Ro-e-~:
25 V-a-ta-~ A-ma-r-ta Ei-la-y A-do-na-y E-lo-ha-y-~ K-nei-~ L-cha Ha-sa-de-~ Ba-ke-se-f V-ha-ei-d Ei-di-y-m V-ha-i-y-r Ni-t-na-~ B-ya-d Ha-ka-s-di-y-m:
26 Va-y-hi-y D-va-r A-do-na-y-~ E-l Yi-r-m-ya-hu Lei-~-mo-r:
27 Hi-nei-~ A-ni-y A-do-na-y-~ E-lo-hei-y Ka-l Ba-sa-r Ha-mi-me-ni-y Yi-pa-lei-~ Ka-l Da-va-r:


6 And Jeremiah said: ‘The word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 7 Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shallum your uncle, shall come to you, saying: Buy my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.’ 8 So Hanamel my uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me: ‘Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. 9 And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. 10 And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. 11 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open; 12 and I delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle[‘s son], and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the guard. 13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying: 14 ’Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase, both that which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days. 15 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.’
16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying: 17 ’Ah Lord GOD! behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and by Thy outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for Thee; 18 who shows mercy unto thousands, and recompenses the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, the LORD of hosts is His name; 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings; 20 who didst set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel and among other men; and made Thee a name, as at this day; 21 and did bring forth Thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; 22 and gave them this land, which Thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; 23 and they came in, and possessed it; but they hearkened not to Thy voice, neither walked in Thy law; they have done nothing of all that Thou commands them to do; therefore Thou hast caused all this evil to befall them; 24 behold the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what Thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, Thou sees it. 25 Yet Thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD: Buy thee the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’
26 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying: 27 ’Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is there any thing too hard for Me?

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with thanks to headcoverings by devorah for some of the transliterations and translations during parts of the year

if JPS translation, = 1917 or before

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