Commentaire de citation sur Jérémie 15:8

The word "כחם" in the Scripture means "like the heat of the day," like the heat of the sun, or like the clear, bright light. "And they came like the heat of the day to the house of the man of shame" (Jeremiah 15:8). Here, "like the heat of the day" means not the scorching heat of the sun, but rather the bright and clear light of the Garden of Eden, as it is written, "And the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light" (Isaiah 60:19). However, "the man of shame" means someone who came through conversion for ulterior motives, for there is no greater shame than one who comes through conversion. "Like the heat of the sun" refers to someone who will go to Gehenna, as it is written, "Behold, the day cometh, it burns like a furnace" (Malachi 3:19). "כחם היום" (like the heat of the day) in gematria is equivalent to "זהו בגיהנם" (this is in Gehenna), and in gematria it is equivalent to the word "דם" (blood).

וקטב מרירי, stabbed and cut up (mutilated) by robbers who make a point of killing people cruelly. The construction of the word מרירי is similar to the construction of the word פלילי, criminal, from ונתן בפלילים, (Exodus 2,22) describing judges who deal with criminal matters. The judges incriminate the guilty, (transitively), similarly, מרירי is transitive, describes not what the victim suffers, endures, but the force which make the life of the victim intolerable. The word ישוד, from שוד, in Psalms 91,6 מקטב ישוד צהרים, also refers transitively to the forces perpetrating the robbery. “the scourge which is ravaging around noon.” Both Jeremiah 15,8 and Tzefaniah 2,4 use this word in a similar sense.