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Like Jeremiah, Ezekiel directs a good bit of attention to false prophets who proclaimed destruction was not on its way and that there was no need to worry. Chapter 13 continues this theme, but contains a striking shift: After 16 verses directed at male false prophets, Ezekiel is instructed to turn to \u201cthe daughters of your nation who prophesy out of their own imagination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Why address the men and women separately? Was their sin not the same?<\/span><\/p>\n

Some suggest the women\u2019s false prophecy was uniquely based in witchcraft (whether real or imagined). However, while one of the biblical words for sorcery does appear in that section (k.s.m., in verse 23), it appears three times in the prophecy to the men (verses 6, 7, 9). There might be more description of the women\u2019s methods than the men\u2019s, and certainly the details offer much room for analysis, but it seems that male as well as female false prophets relied on some sort of fortune-telling technique to mislead those around them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi <\/span>Yechiel Tzvi Moskowitz, author of the Daat Mikra commentary on Ezekiel, suggests that one distinction between the men and women in this chapter might be found not (only) in what they did differently wrong, but what they didn\u2019t do right \u2013 or what they could, or couldn\u2019t, have done. \u201cHe does not rebuke [the women] for being \u2018like jackals among ruins\u2019 [v. 4], nor because they \u2018didn\u2019t go up in the breaches\u201d and repair fences [v. 5], since the bounds of the prophetesses\u2019 influence was more narrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In Moskowitz\u2019s view, the analogy of false prophets to jackals in ruins is about the destruction they wreak and perhaps also their cowardice: \u201cWhen a person comes to a breach in the ruin, the jackal flees through another breach and doesn\u2019t stand in the breach to fight\u201d (quoting Rashi, from midrash). The prophet mocks these sneaky fakers, who take advantage wherever they find the nation vulnerable \u2013 when a true leader would get up in those breaches in the wall and patch them, to make the nation stronger. \u201cRepairing fences\u2026 means [putting in] effort for the sake of the sinners, [to encourage their] repentance, and the decree would thus be cancelled.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Moskowitz suggests this critique of the false prophets is relevant to the entire nation, while Ezekiel\u2019s rebuke to the prophetesses is only relevant to those individuals who came to ask them. They didn\u2019t have the reach of the men, and so were not held responsible to the same degree for missing the opportunity to serve as positive role models.<\/span><\/p>\n

These insights perhaps invite us to consider how often female leaders must wait to be asked, by individuals who seek their involvement, while men might have easier access to holes in the nation that need repair. Though decreased culpability when leadership goes wrong may seem like a blessing, it is a high price to pay for what we miss when it could have gone right.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":73655,"id":73655,"title":"ez13-man woman","filename":"ez13-man-woman.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/male-vs-female-leadership\/ez13-man-woman\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez13-man-woman","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73654,"date":"2020-04-22 11:15:29","modified":"2022-08-28 08:42:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":588,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman-245x300.jpg","medium-width":245,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman.jpg","medium_large-width":588,"medium_large-height":720,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman.jpg","large-width":588,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman.jpg","1536x1536-width":588,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman.jpg","2048x2048-width":588,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman.jpg","post_full_size-width":588,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-man-woman-343x420.jpg","home_baner-width":343,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Male Vs. 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