{"id":73112,"date":"2020-04-08T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=73112"},"modified":"2020-04-08T10:06:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:06:38","slug":"ezekiels-scroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/ezekiels-scroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel\u2019s Scroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"73112","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"454","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A message for this world and the next...\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of our Chapter, God hands the Prophet Ezekiel a scroll: \u201cAs I looked, there was a hand stretched out to me, holding a written scroll. He unrolled it before me, and it was inscribed on both the front and the back; on it were written lamentations, dirges, and woes\u201d (Ezekiel 2:10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scroll being described here, unusually for a scroll, written on both the front and back sides, is what is known in ancient booklore as an opisthograph. This relatively rare form of the scroll was used primarily to make maximum use of writing surfaces in situations of poverty resulting in a lack of writing materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avot de-Rabbi Natan, Chapter 25 preserves a tradition about this divinely communicated scroll. At the hour of his death, Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai raised his voice and cried. His students said to him: Rabbi! You are a tall pillar, a light to the world, a mighty hammer; so why do you cry? He said to them: Am I going to face a human king? If he were angry with me, it would be only in this world. And if he imprisoned me or killed me, it would be only in this world. And what\u2019s more, I would be able to pacify him with words, or bribe him with money. But no, I am going to face the King of all kings, the Holy One Blessed be He. And if He is angry with me, it will be in this World and in the World to Come. And what\u2019s more, I cannot pacify Him with words or bribe Him with money. So, I have two paths before me: one that leads to Paradise, and one that leads to Gehenna, and I do not know if He will force me into Gehenna or bring me into Paradise. For the verse says about Him: \u201cAll they that go down to the dust shall kneel before Him\u201d (Psalms 22:30). When telling of the death of Moses, how he breathed his last breath, died and was gathered to his people, God says: \u201cI will remove my hand\u201d (Exodus 33:23). Similarly, Ezekiel says: \u201cAs I looked, there was a hand stretched out to me, holding a written scroll. He unrolled it before me, and it was inscribed on both the front and the back; on it were written lamentations and dirges\u2026\u201d (Ezekiel 2:9-10). \u201cOn the front\u201d refers to this World; \u201con the back\u201d refers to the World to Come. Another interpretation: \u201cOn the front\u201d refers to the sufferings of the righteous in this world and the tranquility of the wicked in this world. \u201cOn the back\u201d refers to the reward for the righteous in the Future to Come, and the punishment for the wicked in Gehenna. 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