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However, while both the parable (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mashal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and its intended analogy (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nimshal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) are straightforward, the use of a vine as an illustration has additional significance. In Psalms 80:9, Israel is described as \u201ca vine transplanted from Egypt\u201d and Isaiah compared God\u2019s painstaking care for Israel to a vintner\u2019s tending to his vineyard, concluding: \u201cFor the House of Israel is the vineyard of the Lord of hosts\u201d (5:7).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Moshe Greenberg elaborated:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comparison of the vinestock to Jerusalem (a surrogate for Judah\/Israel) is a grotesque distortion of the traditional use of the vine as a figure for Israel\u2026 While this figure was used in eulogistic self-description in Israel\u2019s prayers (\u201cTurn\u2026 and attend to this vine!\u201d Ps. 80:15), prophets turned it to polemical purpose\u2026 But Ezekiel\u2019s imagination seized upon an as yet unexploited aspect of the figure. Why speak of fruit at all, when the only appropriate element of comparison was the base wood of the vine whose destiny was destruction? (Anchor Bible, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ezekiel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 268)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the positive images belong to productive vines, our chapter, as noted, deals with a branch that had been detached from the vine and, as such, was unproductive. Moreover, as Radak pointed out: \u201cIt is inferior to other tree branches that even if they do not produce fruit, they can be put to other productive uses and made into tools or roofing for houses, while this vine cannot.\u201d As for the singeing (or charring) at its center (4), Radak explained: \u201cThat is Jerusalem, which is in the center of the Land of Israel,\u201d whose inhabitants had seen what happened (the charring) to the ten tribes and to the other cities of Judah (i.e., \u201cthe two ends\u201d) and learned no lesson from it, and were now doomed to share their fate.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":73795,"id":73795,"title":"ez15-singed","filename":"ez15-singed.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez15-singed.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/singed-at-the-center\/ez15-singed\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez15-singed","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73793,"date":"2020-04-26 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