{"id":73123,"date":"2020-04-08T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=73123"},"modified":"2020-04-08T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:27:15","slug":"a-really-hard-headed-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-really-hard-headed-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Really Hard-Headed Prophet"},"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":"73123","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"455","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"To pierce the hearts of his fellow, hard-hearted Israelites\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God fed Ezekiel a scroll (1-2), which the prophet, to his surprise, found quite tasty (3). He then instructed him to deliver its contents to the Israelites and equipped him with the reassurance that he and his audience spoke a common language (5-6). In anticipation of their resistance to his message, because they were \u201cbrazen of forehead and stubborn of heart\u201d (7), God also assured him that \u201cI will make your forehead like adamant (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ke-shamir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), harder than flint. Do not fear them, and do not be dismayed by them, though they are a rebellious breed\u201d (9).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just what is a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shamir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? The OED defines \u201cadamant\u201d as \u201ca hard, strong rock or mineral; an embodiment of surpassing hardness,\u201d and Radak, somewhat similarly, identified it with a particularly strong type of iron (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">barzel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Rashi, along with Eliezer of Beaugency, however, identified it with a worm (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tola`at<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) that ostensibly had the ability to pierce stone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shamir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d is listed among the \u201cten things that were created on the [primordial] Friday evening\u201d (Mishnah Avot 5:6), and was identified there by Maimonides as \u201ca small creature that can cleave large stones by passing over them. Solomon utilized it to build the Temple.\u201d Indeed, while King Solomon ordered \u201chuge hewn stones\u201d for the construction (1 Kings 5:31), Scripture also reports that \u201cNo hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built\u201d (6:7). Two resolutions were offered to this contradiction. The Talmud records a reasonable rational response: \u201cThey prepared them outside and brought them within\u201d (Sotah 48b). Legend, however, enlisted the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shamir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the task and had it split the stones, obviating the need for tools resembling weapons of war that the Torah had specifically prohibited from use in the Tabernacle (Exodus 20:22).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malbim noted, additionally, that just as the worm itself is frail, so was Ezekiel\u2019s brow, and just as the frail worm cleaved stone so would Ezekiel conquer his audience\u2014both by virtue of the divine properties vested in them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":73124,"id":73124,"title":"ez3-hard 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