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Wall Street and its representation might be frightening for some investors. We have lived through periods of wealth and others of economic depression and financial crises. While the overall idea is rather straightforward, there are great risks involved in the stock market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A short explanation: Investors purchase shares in a business, which allows the company to raise money for its operation. Those investors then buy and sell these shares, creating a supply and demand for each stock. Via computer algorithms, the supply and demand help determine the price for the stocks. While there is a certain gap between the \u201cbid\u201d (what the buyer is offering) and the \u201cask\u201d (what the seller would like to receive), a trade occurs when they are able to come to an agreement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now comes the Prophet Ezekiel and voicing the words of God states:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn\u2014for divine wrath shall overtake all her multitude. For the seller shall not return to what he sold so long as they remain among the living. For the vision concerns all her multitude, it shall not be revoked. And because of his guilt, no man shall hold fast to his life\u201d (7:12-13).<\/span><\/p>\n

Unquestionably Ezekiel is speaking about a different kind of investment from the stock market. These ventures call for spiritual and theological paths. Surrounded by an exilic society the people of Israel might have fallen into temptations and some have abandoned God. It is the voice of the Prophet who calls them back as a warning. It\u2019s easy to be seduced by foreign lures and hard to strengthen your own identity when aroused by external attractions. In exilic Babylon, where connection to the Land, ritual timing, language, garments were disconnected from the core of YHWH\u2019s commandments, the ability to maintain a strong Jewish connection was jeopardized by external factors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like the investor who buys stocks, the risks and the uncertainty prevails, and that\u2019s when Prophet Ezekiel screams. Ezekiel invites the reader to buy <\/span>bonds, <\/span><\/i>ties that bind the Israelites with their tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n

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