Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yeremia 1:11

The fifth question pertains to the inquiry that G-d posed to Jeremiah regarding the almond rod and the boiling pot that He showed him in these two visions, asking, "What do you see?" It would have been fitting for the prophet to respond, "I see what You have shown me, for You are the G-d of my visions." Furthermore, the prophet Amos declared concerning his own visions, "Thus the Lord showed me" (Amos 7:1, 4), and Jeremiah himself also said, "The Lord showed me" (Jeremiah 1:11). Yet, these visions were ascribed to G-d and not attributed to the prophets, and G-d asked them, "What do you see?" Additionally, it is perplexing that in reference to the boiling pot, the word "boiling" is used twice, suggesting that it represents three prophecies rather than just two.

And the almond tree will blossom. Yirmiyahu’s prophecy will sprout, as it is stated, “I see a staff of an almond tree.”³⁶Yirmiyahu 1:11. Rabbi Eliezer said, this almond tree, from the time it blossoms until its fruits ripen, are twenty-one days. Likewise, from the seventeenth of Tammuz until the ninth of [Menachem] Av are twenty-one days.

The nature of a ladder [sulam] is a symbol [semel], or it is an explanation of the Gematria valuation of 'Sinai' (Genesis Rabbah 68:12-14). And Rabbi Shlomo HaSefardi said that 'ladder' hints at the highest soul and 'G-d's angels' hints at wise thoughts. Rabbi Joshua said that the reason for the ladder is that his (Jacob's) prayer rose on it and his salvation from the heavens came down on it. These explanations do not explain it in light of the prophecy of Zecharia (1:8), Amos (7:1), and Jeremiah (1:11). The reason for the ladder here is a metaphor, for nothing is concealed from G-d. Worldly things hang onto the heavens as though there is a ladder between them, upon which the angels go up to report on things after they have been walking along the earth. Likewise, it is written that other angels descend to fulfill G-d's tasks, like a king with his servants.