Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Jeremias 10:4

Ismael und putzte. יִפָּה, schmücken, putzen, Jer. 10, 4.

"And they will be for signs:" The luminaries will be the cause of the signs of the heavens, as per the explanation of (Jeremiah 10:4), "of the signs of the heavens do not be afraid" (Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra); and the explanation of signs is indicators. And the nations of the world called them this because they believed that they were indicators of what will come in the future; and it is as Yirmiyahu said [in the verse just cited], that the nations feared from them. And behold, it would have been fitting for Him to first say, "and they will be for days and years and appointed times," and at the end He would mention the signs, [since] they are only occasional; except that He wanted to start with the [most] important (like below, verse 21); as the signs are the main intention of this half of the verse, since the Holy One, blessed be He, wanted to let Israel know that even the signs of the heavens are only like the days and years - all of them are structured by His will, like the other laws of nature: the day and the night, 'the planting and the harvest and the coldness and the heat.' And just like the day and the night and the planting and the harvest don't have their own specific gods and do not inform of the future, so too [is it] with the signs of the heavens. And since the belief that one could learn about the future from the signs of the heavens and from solar and lunar eclipses was widespread among the nations and [nonetheless] Moshe (and after him, Yirmiyahu) pushed off this mistake and made known that they are natural [occurrences] like the days and the years, behold this is a great proof that the Torah is of divine origin (min hashamayim). And one should not wonder, why didn't the Holy One, blessed be He, want to reveal to His people the other errors to which [man] had become accustomed. As the other errors did not cause damage to the fundamental principles of faith nor to the rectification of human character traits. [But] this is not the case of faith in the signs of the heavens, as it is damaging - like faith in fortune telling and similar matters that were forbidden by the Torah - as it weakens a person in his [Divine] service in which he toils, and it fills his heart with vain things and removes his trust in God.