{"id":75448,"date":"2020-06-01T10:41:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T07:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=75448"},"modified":"2020-06-01T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T07:41:40","slug":"sanctified-transgressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sanctified-transgressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctified Transgressions"},"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":"75448","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":64460,"related_cahpter":"493","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The Temple is an otherworldly environment, in which the ordinary rules of life do not apply\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the last section of the Book of Ezekiel is dedicated to a vision of a new Temple to be built in Jerusalem during the messianic age. In a style reminiscent of the sections of Exodus describing the plan and the construction of the Tabernacle, Ezekiel is led through the precincts by an angelic being and the design of the future Temple is described in great detail. One detail mentioned in this chapter is particularly striking: \u201cAnd all over the wall, both in the inner one and in the outer, ran a pattern. It consisted of cherubs and palm trees, with a palm tree between every two cherubs. Each cherub had two faces: a human face turned toward the palm tree on one side and a lion\u2019s face turned toward the palm tree on the other side\u201d (41:17-19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A number of problems arise with the presence of these carvings in the Temple. Although no longer widely observed in the Jewish world today, many traditional halakhic authorities consider the second commandment, which includes the injunction \u201cYou shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, or any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth\u201d (Exodus 20:4), to constitute a general ban on the main of human and animal images. Even among those who permit some image-making, there are those who hold that the depiction of human beings is especially forbidden. Ezekiel\u2019s Temple seems to include depictions of both human and animal life. Perhaps making matters even worse, the creature carved onto the walls recalls the strange, multi-faced beings which we encountered in the \u201cvision of God\u201d with which the Book began \u2014 raising the possibility that these carvings are of an angelic being, or even depict some aspect of the Godhead itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we grant that these carvings portray something which in ordinary circumstances would be forbidden to depict, then this case would in fact fit a pattern associated with the Temple. Many things forbidden during ordinary times and in ordinary places are not only permitted but actually mandatory within the Temple precincts. The priestly garments, for example, are composed of<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a forbidden mixture of wool and linen, and the duties of the priests include lighting fires on the Sabbath, an activity which if performed outside would merit the death penalty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus we find in the space of the Temple a sort of controlled and sanctified transgression. It should be stressed that these acts consist entirely of \u2018ritual\u2019 commandments \u2014 there is no evidence that the Temple served as the scene of \u2018holy\u2019 acts of violence or sexual sin. Nevertheless, this pattern \u2014 of the requirement within the Temple grounds of acts which would be sinful without \u2014\u00a0 helps create the impression of an otherworldly environment, in which the ordinary rules of life do not apply. Perhaps, these moments suggest, in such an extraordinary atmosphere the presence of God is more easy to discern.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":75449,"id":75449,"title":"ez41-cherubim etc","filename":"ez41-cherubim-etc.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez41-cherubim-etc.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sanctified-transgressions\/ez41-cherubim-etc\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez41-cherubim-etc","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75448,"date":"2020-06-01 07:41:24","modified":"2023-03-07 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