예레미야애가 2:20 해설: Tze'enah Ure'enah & Rashi

“See” [2:20]. See, God what you have done to me. Should women, particularly rich and important women, eat their children? The Midrash says about someone called Doeg the son of Joseph that his mother weighed and measured him every day and the amount that he grew she donated that amount of money to the Temple. When the famine came to Jerusalem, his mother cooked and ate him.²¹Lamentations Rabbah, 2.23. Thus, the Israelites lamented to the Holy One: See God, what has happened. The Holy One answered: why is this new? Your sins are great. You killed the prophet Zechariah, who wanted to punish you on Yom Kippur. He was a prophet and a priest and you killed him in the Temple.²²Lamentations Rabbah, Petihtah 23.

Infants who were lovingly attended. Tender children, who are still being raised with their mothers’ pampering. And our Rabbis expounded [that this phrase is] referring to Do’eg the son of Yoseif,⁴⁶See Eichah Rabbah 1:51 which indicates that the infant was the son of Do’eg who had died, leaving a small child. However, according to an edification in the Talmudic text in Maseches Yoma 38b, Do’eg was the child’s name, and Rashi apparently had this version. whose mother would measure him with [her] handbreadth every day,⁴⁷The word טפחים [tipuchim] meaning care, can also be vowelized as tephuchim, meaning ‘handbreadths.’ to give gold to the Beis Hamikdosh according to how much he grew;⁴⁸I.e., the weight he gained. and in the end she devoured him.⁴⁹Maseches Yoma 38b.

When in the Sanctuary of God, was murdered a kohein and a prophet. The Holy Spirit answers them, “Was it proper for you to have murdered Zecharyah the son of Yehoyada,” as it is written in Divrei Hayomim,⁵⁰II Divrei Hayomim 24:20-21. that he reproved them when they came to prostrate themselves to Yo’ash, and they deified him. “And the Spirit [of God] enveloped Zecharyah the son of Yehoyada,”⁵¹Ibid., 24:20. who was a kohein and a prophet, and they killed him in the courtyard.⁵²Because he rebuked them for worshiping idols and he had prophesied the destruction of Yerusholayim.