{"id":73572,"date":"2020-04-21T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=73572"},"modified":"2020-04-21T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:22:14","slug":"gearing-up-for-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/gearing-up-for-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearing Up For Exile"},"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":"73572","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"464","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"I\u2019m going to Babylonia, and I\u2019ll be taking...\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/454\/post\/73077\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our comments on Chapter 2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we took note of the first appearance of the term \u201cHouse of Mutiny\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">beit hameri<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), a term used exclusively by Ezekiel. In this chapter alone, he utilized it several times (vs. 2,9,25). Of greater interest, perhaps, is v.3, in which God instructs him: \u201cTherefore, mortal, get yourself gear for exile, and go into exile by day before their eyes.\u201d Just what gear constitute \u201cgear for exile\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi and Kara, relying on the Midrash Kinot (\u201cLamentations,\u201d i.e., <em>Eikhah<\/em>), described the gear as a vessel for water and a pottery shard for kneading and leavening dough. Radak enumerated the gear as a staff, a pack, a cup, a pitcher, and a plate. The relationship of the gear to the condition of exile according to Radak is obvious: these are the very basic things with which every traveler comes equipped; for the others, however, it is that the possession of these objects precludes the necessity to prepare bread on the ground. According to their midrashic source, the exiles of Jerusalem failed to heed Ezekiel\u2019s example, since they bemoaned \u201cthe gravel between our teeth\u201d (Lamentations 3:16) that, presumably, entered their dough during its preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moshe Greenberg, characteristically combining traditional exegesis and modern scholarship, observed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An exile\u2019s pack is represented in Egyptian and Assyrian pictures of victories\u2026 It must have contained the barest necessities; R. Hiyya bar Abba (third-century C.E. Palestinian tanna) said: a skin, a mat, and a bowl, each doing double-duty\u2014the skin for holding flour (another version: water) and for use as a pillow; the mat for sitting and lying; the bowl for eating and drinking (Lamentations Rabba 1.23; another listing in BT Nedarim 40b replaces the skin by a lamp. 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