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Apr 25, 2013
Professor Wiesel highlights Jeremiah’s special status among the prophets. He is the only one who foresaw, lived, remembered and recorded the catastrophe. Jeremiah was a survivor, witness and chronicler. Alone among the prophets, Jeremiah implicated God in murdering His people. He not only spoke for his generation but for all generations: “Just as we accompany him on the ruins of Jerusalem, destroyed by the Babylonian armies, he walks with us as we rediscover our own.” He is the most quoted among the prophets; we use his words to describe our own experiences. Professor Wiesel tells that he never understood some of Jeremiah’s words until he visited Babi Yar and that when he stood in Birkenau, he remembered Jeremiah. Yet, as Professor Wiesel cautions us, we cannot abandon ourselves to Jeremiah for we have seen the rebirth of Israel and Jerusalem is no longer the deserted city of Jeremiah’s description.
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