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  1. Questions and voices<\/em>. What are the questions that are bothering the exiles from Judah in Babylonia? Some of them we will hear later, in the rest of the book, others we can only surmise. There was a Temple in Jerusalem, a state in Judah. How should they live in Babylonia? Sitting on their suitcases? Settle down? Assimilate? Is it possible to live as Jews without a state? If exile is a punishment – what does that say about the exiles themselves? What does that say about those who were able to stay in Judah? Difficult questions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. What exactly happened thirty years ago?<\/em> \u201cIn the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month…\u201d begins the chapter. What happened 30 years before Ezekiel began to prophesy – that is,\u00a0 in the year 623-22 BCE. Commentators suggest different answers. There are those who suggest that the finding of the Torah scroll in the Temple by Josiah, and his religious reform, were a turning point, others count from the jubilee, and there are those who simply see this as Ezekiel\u2019s age.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Merkava (chariot)<\/em>. From the book of Ezekiel through the gamut of kabbalistic sources, \u201cma\u2019aseh merkava,\u201d (literally, \u201cthe work of the chariot\u201d) is a sort of code name for dabbling in divine secrets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Chashmal \/ amber\/electra \/ electricity<\/em>. First there was the chashmal of Ezekeiel (verse 4 and 27), translated here as \u201camber,\u201d but it\u2019s not entirely clear what he was referring to. Only (much) later did Eliezer Ben Yehudah take that to be the word for that thing that flows in the wires in our houses.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Movement<\/em>. There aren\u2019t that many description of what God looks like in the Tanach. But Ezekiel is not alone, nor is he even the first. 113 chapters previously, in Isaiah 6, Isaiah the son of Amotz shared with us his vision of the divine retinue. There is even a certain similarity between the holy creatures that the two of them saw. What is special about Ezekiel\u2019s description is the movement. The chariot is on the go. The glory of God is too. Why is that important? In another 10 chapters, we will know more. 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