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Haftorah: Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah 1:1-2:3
Since parashat Pinchas is read this year after 17 Tammuz, this week’s haftorah initiates readings during the three week period from that date until the 9 Av. These weeks are called, bein hametzarim, “the period of distress or anxiety between catastrophes.” The term, bein hametzarim, is found in midrash Eicha Rabbah. Before taking leave of Bene Yisrael, Moshe admonishes the nation to remain loyal to God’s covenant and expectations that the Jewish people will live through a commitment to mitzvot. The midras then applies Moshe’s words of admonishment to the destruction of Jerusalem. Moshe told Bene Yisrael that disloyalty to God’s expectations of us will result in exile, and then continues: Yet even among those nations you shall find no peace, nor shall your foot find a place to rest. God will give you there an anguished heart and eyes that pine and a despondent spirit. (Devarim/Deuteronomy 28:65). The Midrash amplifies this verse by say