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In this brief chapter, Joel pronounced the fate of \u201call flesh\u201d (1), including God\u2019s ominous warning that \u201cI will set portents in the sky and on earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke\u201d (3). While a pillar is customarily called an <\/span>amud<\/span><\/em>\u2014like the \u201cpillar (<\/span>amud<\/span><\/em>) of cloud\u201d that showed [the Israelites] the way\u201d out of Egypt (Exodus 13:21)\u2014this one is designated <\/span>timrot<\/span><\/em>, a word which appears only one other time in Tanakh (Song of Solomon 3:6).<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashi implicitly associated <\/span>timrot<\/span><\/em> with the palm tree (<\/span>tamar<\/span><\/em>), interpreting the phrase as \u201cupright, allowing the smoke to rise to heights.\u201d Radak agreed and elaborated:<\/span><\/p>\n

Pillars of smoke are columns of smoke. Because the palm is a tall tree, erect and upright, something tall and erect is compared to it. Hence, pillars of smoke are called \u201cpalms\u201d of smoke, just as rabbinic Hebrew describes rising smoke as \u201cpalming\u201d (<\/span>mitamer<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Radak also conveyed the essence of the disagreement whether these \u201cportents,\u201d along with those cited in the following verse (\u201cthe sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood\u201d), were meant to be taken literally (Ibn Ezra) or figuratively (Maimonides).<\/span><\/p>\n

Malbim added:<\/span><\/p>\n

They will also come to recognize God by means of supernatural signs appearing both in heaven and on earth. The catastrophes to befall the wicked include \u201cblood, fire, and pillars of smoke.\u201d The earthly sign will be blood, which represents that sword that will smite Gog and Magog as detailed in Ezekiel, and the heavenly sign will be fire and brimstone that God will rain upon them until the smoke rises from the intensity of the flames.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would say that if one describes the shape of a palm tree with one\u2019s hands\u2014the erect trunk followed by the spreading branches atop it\u2014one will note its striking similarity to the shape of a mushroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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