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In this last chapter of the book of Ezekiel, we breathe fresh air. The exiled priest transports us with a light of hope; the Prophet closes the chapters of punishments and rewards, unsettlement and despair with a pleasing picture and a sense of belonging to the Land. We are back, thank you God, back to the Land. Ezekiel mentions the names of tribes, each one of them has a place, each one fits in its zone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God resides in this Land. God has a special relationship to this Land. God\u2019s eyes are continuously fixated on it. It is \u201ca Land that YHWH your God looks after. The eyes of YHWH your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year\u201d(Deut. 11:12).<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi Dr. David Frankel elucidates that exiled Judeans explain the loss of their own Land as a result of their religious failings. Poems that began as simple encomiums to the well-watered or rain-filled land of bounty granted to Israel by their God became didactic texts in Deuteronomy, explaining why the Israelites lost their land and how they might get it back, namely by keeping God\u2019s commandments and remembering that bounty is never unconditional, but comes from good behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the land which you shall allot as a heritage to the tribes of Israel, and those are their portions\u2014declares the Lord GOD\u201d (48:29).<\/span><\/p>\n

As we conclude the Book of Ezekiel, while the Prophet centralizes the return to the Land based on the Israelites\u2019 theological and ritual behavior, I will suggest moving the attention towards people\u2019s actions in their everyday lives. Our attention goes to those who cultivate the Land, those who become partners in God\u2019s creation, those who don\u2019t sleep and dream with the utopian concept of the Land, but bring her to life every day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yehuda Amichai describes this at the end of his poem \u201cTourists\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

A group of tourists was standing around their guide and I became their target marker. “You see that man with the baskets? Just right of his head there’s an arch<\/span>
\n<\/span>from the Roman period. Just right of his head.” “But he’s moving, he’s moving!”<\/span>
\n<\/span>I said to myself: redemption will come only if their guide tells them,<\/span>
\n<\/span>“You see that arch from the Roman period? It’s not important: but next to it,<\/span>
\n<\/span>left and down a bit, there sits a man who’s bought in the market fresh fruit and vegetables for his family.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Land, dear Ezekiel, is about the fresh fruits and vegetables of its markets, and the families they feed.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":75752,"id":75752,"title":"Ez48-fruits-jerusalem-mahane-yehuda-market","filename":"Ez48-fruits-jerusalem-mahane-yehuda-market.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ez48-fruits-jerusalem-mahane-yehuda-market.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-land-and-the-people\/ez48-fruits-jerusalem-mahane-yehuda-market\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez48-fruits-jerusalem-mahane-yehuda-market","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":75751,"date":"2020-06-09 20:15:35","modified":"2022-04-04 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