{"id":74940,"date":"2020-05-19T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=74940"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:58:27","slug":"looking-to-past-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/looking-to-past-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking To Past And Future"},"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":"74940","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":72948,"related_cahpter":"485","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But unlike other prophets, no consolation, sorrow, reconciliation or compassion\u00a0\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ezekiel and the Jews in Babylon receive the news of the destruction of the Temple. Ezekiel must contend with the claim of the remnant left in the land that they are the ones who will eventually inherit it despite their small numbers. Yet, their size or number is not the decisive factor. The argument of the remnant is erroneous: not because of their small number, but rather due to the multitude of their sins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The claim of the remnant in the land seems to belong to the period preceding the murder of Gedaliah. Their claim indicates that they assumed that exile was a matter pertaining only to those now in Babylonia, while they themselves were continuing the national survival of Israel, and were therefore deserving of possession of the land. The murder of Gedaliah brought this claim to an end. They ceased to view themselves as a distinct group that was separate from their brethren in Babylonia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An understanding of the prophecy from its historical context raises two exegetical possibilities: If Gedaliah was murdered in the Tishrei immediately after the destruction of the Temple, then Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy \u2013 taking place later, in the month of Tevet \u2013 is no longer relevant. The other, more likely possibility is that this prophecy describes the situation in the land at a slightly later stage \u2013 not during the weeks immediately following the Destruction. At this time there were still a good number of Jewish inhabitants in the land, and they still viewed their group as an alternative to the Babylonian exiles. This perspective rests upon the assumption that Gedaliah was assassinated not in the month of Tishrei immediately after the Destruction, but rather a year or more later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prophet does not focus on the Destruction itself; he looks to the past and to the future. The reason for this is that the exiles in Babylonia have not experienced the crisis personally, and they have already begun to internalize the new reality. These prophecies contain nothing in the way of consolation, sorrow, reconciliation or compassion over what has happened in Jerusalem. 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