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Here, God instructed Ezekiel as follows: \u201cO mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and say to them: To the shepherds: Thus said the Lord GOD: Ah, you shepherds of Israel, who have been tending yourselves! Is it not the flock that the shepherds ought to tend?\u201d (2).<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashi identified the shepherds as \u201ccommunity leaders\u201d (<\/span>parnasim<\/span><\/i>) and Eliezer of Beaugency expanded it to include \u201cnobles, judges, priests, and prophets,\u201d while Radak identified them with \u201ctheir kings.\u201d Malbim, once again (see Chapter 33), distinguished between two types of shepherds:<\/span><\/p>\n

There are shepherds who work for free, disdaining public funding, the essence of whose shepherding is exclusively the direction and welfare of the sheep. (So it is stated about David: \u201cHe chose His servant David, taking him from the sheep pens,\u201d which the Midrash explains as God testing him via the sheep.) This [type] is solely a shepherd.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is [another] shepherd who is salaried, who receives the shearing and fat as his payment, which is why he tends to them in order to wear their shearing and eat their fat. This means that he tends to them and they tend to him, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

In previous generations, the shepherds of Israel who tended to them derived no benefit from the public and their sole [concern] were the sheep. Now, there were no such shepherds and [instead] the sheep tended to the shepherds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moshe Greenberg commented: \u201c[They are] the political leaders responsible for the disaster that befell Israel. 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