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Here, the focus is on the vast waters that miraculously flow \u201cfrom below the platform of the Temple eastward\u201d (Ezekiel 47:1), on which the \u201cGlory of the God of Israel rested\u201d (Ezekiel 9:3). The prophet sees \u201ctrees in great profusion on the bank of the stream from this side and from that side\u201d (Ezekiel 47:7). Then, he is told that \u201cEvery living creature that swarms will be able to live wherever this stream goes\u201d (verse 9). And that \u201con the stream, on its bank, from this side and from that side (<em>mi-zeh u-mi-zeh<\/em>) will arise all manner of trees for food, their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail\u2026because the water for them flows from the Temple. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing\u201d (verse 12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hebrew word \u201ctrufah\u201d, here translated \u201chealing\u201d, occurs in the Hebrew Bible only here. Its etymology, evolution and meaning are a matter of considerable discussion (see e.g., Eliezer Ben Yehudah, A Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew, p. 7908). Nevertheless, this term remains until today the Hebrew word for \u201cmedication\u201d, so much in current discourse as the world deals with the Corona pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deuteronomy Rabbah 1:1 seems to hold out an eschatological hope for miraculously efficacious medication. Here, a midrashic passage based on what seems to have been a sermon preached to a live synagogue audience depicts God as saying: See how beloved the language of the Torah is, for it heals the tongue! For be it known to you that in the future, God will bring from the Garden of Eden excellent trees\u2026As it says: \u201cAnd on the stream, on its bank, from this side and from that side (<em>mi-zeh u-mi-zeh<\/em>) will arise all manner of trees for food\u2026Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing (<em>trufah<\/em>)\u201d (Ezekiel 47:12)\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbi Yohanan relates the term \u201ctrufah\u201d to Greek \u201ctherapeia\u201d (healing), while Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi elaborates dramatically on this passage. According to him, whoever consumes these healing leaves, his tongue will immediately shine forth with Words of the Torah. For the text uses the words \u201cfrom this side and from that side\u2019. And elsewhere this exact expression refers to how the two Tablets of the Covenant were written \u201cfrom this side and from that side\u201d (Exodus 32:15)! Rabbi Levi interjected: Why learn that Words of Torah heal the tongue from Ezekiel, when we can learn it from a more immediate context? Let us rather learn it from another context. For before he received the Torah, Moses was not a \u201cman of words\u201d (Exodus 4:10). 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