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The Talmud records the following: \u201cR. Yehudah said in the name of Rav. That man, Chananiah ben Hezekiah, should be remembered favorably, for were it not for him the Book of Ezekiel would have been hidden away, because it contradicted the Torah\u201d (BT Hagigah 13a). Implicitly, he rescued it from oblivion by resolving the ostensible contradictions (which, according to Rashi, pertained specifically to sacrificial matters).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We may also recall that Eliezer of Beaugency, in his introduction to the book, explained why Ezekiel chose to date himself by the discovery of the Torah during the reign of Josiah, noting: \u201cBecause there is no prophet who chastised his generation regarding Torah and mitzvot more than he did.\u201d In this chapter, we can see the extent to which Ezekiel relied on the Torah in his words of rebuke.<\/span><\/p>\n

God instructed Ezekiel to arraign the city of Jerusalem on account of its abominations (2), which were prompting neighboring countries to \u201cscorn [her] and besmirch [her] name\u201d (5). In vs. 6-12, the list of charges brought against her is drawn largely from Leviticus 18-20 and from Deuteronomy. R. Yosef Kara, younger colleague of Rashi, whose commentary we have encountered previously, matches each charge to its Torah source. (There are a dozen entries; I have selected several. The full list, in English, can be found in Moshe Greenberg: <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 467.)<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote in my Torah: \u201cYou shall not murder,\u201d but they shed blood [v.4], and blood defiles the land, as it says: \u201cYou must not pollute the land\u2026 you must not defile the land\u201d (Num. 35:33f.).<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote in my Torah: \u201cHonor your father and your mother\u201d (Lev. 19:3), but they\u2014\u201cfather and mother they dishonored in you\u201d [v.7].<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote in my Torah: \u201cYou must keep my Sabbaths\u201d (Lev. 19:3), but they despised the holy things and desecrated the holy days\u201d [v.8].<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote in my Torah: \u201cYou must not go about as a slanderer\u201d (Lev. 19:16), but they went about slandering even in order to shed blood\u201d [v.9].<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote in my Torah: \u201cYou must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer\u201d (Num. 35:31), but they \u201chave taken bribes in you in order to shed blood\u201d [v.12].<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026 It has thus been demonstrated that they transgressed everything written in the pericope of Kedoshim [Lev. 19-20]; hence they are called, at the beginning of this prophecy, \u201cImpure of name\u201d [v.5].<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":74282,"id":74282,"title":"ez22-leviticus","filename":"ez22-leviticus.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/ezekiel-and-the-torah\/ez22-leviticus\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez22-leviticus","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":74281,"date":"2020-05-05 07:32:00","modified":"2020-05-05 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