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Then a spirit carried me away, and behind me I heard a great roaring sound: \u201cBlessed is the Presence of the LORD, in His place\u201d (verse 12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse is a pillar of the <\/span>kedushah<\/span><\/em> section of the <\/span>amidah<\/em> <\/span>prayer, but what exactly does \u201cblessed is the presence of God in His [or \u201cits\u201d] place\u201d mean? Metzudat David looks at the message of the <\/span>Ma\u2019aseh Merkavah<\/em> <\/span>(The Chariot). The people may be nervous now that they are in exile. God\u2019s blessing and presence was centered in the Holy of Holies. If the Temple is destroyed what happens to God\u2019s blessings? Ezekiel\u2019s vision reminds the people that God is not centered in one location. God\u2019s presence and blessing will be felt wherever God resides. Because God is everywhere, God\u2019s blessing is everywhere.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim takes a different approach that \u201cin its place\u201d refers to Jerusalem. Although the divine chariot seems to have left the holy city and the Temple is in ruins, God\u2019s presence will never leave Jerusalem. In this reading, the words are a comfort to the people that they will ultimately be able to return to Jerusalem because God has not abandoned it. Both of these interpretations have the same goal in mind- to reassure the people. God either wants to reassure the people that God\u2019s presence will follow them into exile, or God wants the people to not think that the destruction of Jerusalem means the end of God\u2019s presence in the city. Perhaps God wanted both messages to be conveyed to the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In our Chapter, Ezekiel is appointed by God as the \u201cwatchman (tzofeh) for the House of Israel\u201d (Ezekiel 3:17 and following). Among other things, Ezekiel is told: \u201cIf a righteous man repents his righteousness and does wrong\u2026he shall die\u201d (verse 20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse is cited in the context of an extensive discussion of the power of repentance in Talmud Bavli Yoma 86a-b. \u201cIf a righteous man repents his righteousness\u2026\u201d (Ezekiel 3:20) \u2013 But repentance has the power to delay punishment! Rabbi Levi said: Great is repentance, for it reaches up to the Throne of Glory, as it is said: \u201cReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God\u201d (Hosea 14:2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yohanan said: Great is repentance, for it overrides a prohibition of the Torah (Jeremiah 3:1 and Deuteronomy 24:4 \u2013 unlike the relationship between a husband who is prohibited from returning to his unfaithful wife, when Israel is \u201cunfaithful\u201d to God, they may still \u201creturn\u201d to Him).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yonatan said: Great is repentance, because it brings about redemption, as it is said: \u201cHe shall come as redeemer to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn back from sin, declares the Lord\u201d (Isaiah 59:20). Why will a redeemer come to Zion? Because of those in Jacob (i.e. the People of Israel) that turn from transgression.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Resh Lakish said: Great is repentance, for because of it, premeditated sins are accounted as unintentional errors, as it is said: \u201cReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity\u201d (Hosea 14:2). \u201cIniquity\u201d refers to premeditated sin, and yet it is said here to be because of \u201cstumbling\u201d. But, beyond this Resh Lakish said that repentance is so great that premeditated sins can become merits, as it is said: \u201cAnd when a wicked man turns back from his premeditated wickedness and does what is just and right, because of these things he shall surely live\u201d (Ezekiel 33:19). There is no contradiction between these two statements of Resh Lakish. When one repents out of fear, his premeditated sins are accounted as unintentional errors. But when one repents out of love, his premeditated sins are accounted to him as merits.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Meir said: Great is repentance, for on account of a single individual who repents, the sins of the whole world are forgiven.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Samuel bar Nahmani said in the name of Rabbi Yonatan: Great is repentance, because it can prolong a man\u2019s life, as it is said: \u201cAnd if a wicked person turns back from the wickedness that he practiced and does what is just and right, such a person shall save his life\u201d (Ezekiel 18:27).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Hama bar Hanina said: Great is penitence, for it brings healing to the world, as it is said: \u201cI will heal their affliction. Generously will I take them back in love, for My anger has turned away from them\u201d (Hosea 14:5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We may hope that penitence and repentance may help to bring much needed healing to the world in our time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":73121,"alt":"","title":"ez3-repentance","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","width":1024,"height":568,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-300x166.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":166,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-768x426.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":426,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-1024x568.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":568,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":568,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":568,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","post_full_size-width":1024,"post_full_size-height":568,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-757x420.jpg","home_baner-width":757,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Great Is Repentance","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Ezekiel's radical doctrine of personal responsibility left its mark","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":73121,"alt":"","title":"ez3-repentance","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","width":1024,"height":568,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-300x166.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":166,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-768x426.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":426,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-1024x568.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":568,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":568,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":568,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance.jpg","post_full_size-width":1024,"post_full_size-height":568,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez3-repentance-757x420.jpg","home_baner-width":757,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"3","chapter_main_number":"455","date":"20270527","wall_id":"455"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":4,"id":"73137","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Old-New City ","post_title":"The Old-New City","slug":"the-old-new-city","old_id":"73137","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34011,"post_title":"Jeremy Benstein","slug":"dr-jeremy-benstein","old_id":"34011","first_name":"Jeremy","last_name":"Benstein","description":"Dr. Jeremy Benstein is the managing editor of 929-English. 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At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Herzl traveled far and wide to enlist support for his vision of a sovereign Jewish state as the solution to what many referred to as \"the Jewish question.\" Herzl realized that he needed to help people imagine what this reality could be like. So he wrote a utopian novel depicting daily life in the not-yet-born state some fifty years hence. He called his futuristic German novel <\/span>Altneuland<\/span><\/i> (\"Old-New Land\"), and published in 1902, it envisioned an \"old-new\" land for an ancient and renewing people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Altneuland<\/span><\/i>, was translated into Hebrew shortly thereafter, by another prominent Zionist thinker and writer, Nahum Sokolow. Perhaps<\/span> divinely inspired, Sokolow didn't go for the sort of prosaic, hyper-literal title he could have chosen. Instead, he borrowed the highly poetic word pair <\/span>Tel Aviv<\/span><\/i> from the biblical phrase \"And I came to the <\/span>golah<\/span><\/i> [the exile community] that dwelt in Tel Aviv by the Chebar Canal\" (Ezekiel 3:15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though this biblical Tel Aviv was located in Babylonia, Sokolow chose it both as a corrective\u2014the name of the Zionist vision being taken from a place of the first great exile\u2014and because he understood the phrase to mean exactly the same combination of \"old\" (<\/span>tel<\/span><\/i> = archaeological mound) and \"new\" (<\/span>aviv<\/span><\/i> = \"spring\") that Herzl had intended with his original title, <\/span>Altneuland.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

But where did Herzl get his idea of <\/span>altneu<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> \"old-new,\" for his book in the first place? Chances are he was impressed by one of the oldest still functioning synagogues in all of Europe, the Altneuschul of Prague. Built in 1270, it was called \"the New Shul\" since at the time there was an even older one standing. But when a newer synagogue was built in the sixteenth century, the new one, of course, became \"the New Shul.\" And so the older \"new shul\" became known, as it is to this day, as the Altneuschul. That much is history.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there is a conjecture, fanciful but nonetheless lovely, among the Jews of Prague. According to legend, the original name comes not from the Germanic-Yiddish <\/span>alt-neu<\/span><\/i>, \"old-new,\" but actually from a purely Hebrew phrase that sounds very similar: <\/span>al-t\u2019nai<\/span><\/i>, meaning \"on condition.\" This version has it that stones for the synagogue<\/span> were miraculously brought from the Temple in Jerusalem itself, \"on condition\" that they be returned when needed there\u2014that is, when the Messiah comes, the Jews return to Israel, and the Temple is rebuilt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So the city of Tel Aviv, an ancient mound of the new spring, whose name originally had its roots in the Babylonian exile, has been renewed in the Herzlian vision of the \"Old-New Land,\" which is also connected to a messianic vision of return. And if Israel is the Alt-neu Land, then Hebrew becomes the \"alt-neu-<\/span>langue<\/span><\/i>,\" which has ancient roots entwined with the ancient roots of the people who call it their own, but whose revival has defied Herzl\u2019s pessimism over and over again since the state was founded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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God fed Ezekiel a scroll (1-2), which the prophet, to his surprise, found quite tasty (3). He then instructed him to deliver its contents to the Israelites and equipped him with the reassurance that he and his audience spoke a common language (5-6). In anticipation of their resistance to his message, because they were \u201cbrazen of forehead and stubborn of heart\u201d (7), God also assured him that \u201cI will make your forehead like adamant (<\/span>ke-shamir<\/span><\/i>), harder than flint. Do not fear them, and do not be dismayed by them, though they are a rebellious breed\u201d (9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just what is a <\/span>shamir<\/span><\/i>? The OED defines \u201cadamant\u201d as \u201ca hard, strong rock or mineral; an embodiment of surpassing hardness,\u201d and Radak, somewhat similarly, identified it with a particularly strong type of iron (<\/span>barzel<\/span><\/i>). Rashi, along with Eliezer of Beaugency, however, identified it with a worm (<\/span>tola`at<\/span><\/i>) that ostensibly had the ability to pierce stone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe <\/span>shamir<\/span><\/i>\u201d is listed among the \u201cten things that were created on the [primordial] Friday evening\u201d (Mishnah Avot 5:6), and was identified there by Maimonides as \u201ca small creature that can cleave large stones by passing over them. Solomon utilized it to build the Temple.\u201d Indeed, while King Solomon ordered \u201chuge hewn stones\u201d for the construction (1 Kings 5:31), Scripture also reports that \u201cNo hammer or axe or any iron tool was heard in the House while it was being built\u201d (6:7). Two resolutions were offered to this contradiction. The Talmud records a reasonable rational response: \u201cThey prepared them outside and brought them within\u201d (Sotah 48b). Legend, however, enlisted the <\/span>shamir<\/span><\/i> for the task and had it split the stones, obviating the need for tools resembling weapons of war that the Torah had specifically prohibited from use in the Tabernacle (Exodus 20:22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim noted, additionally, that just as the worm itself is frail, so was Ezekiel\u2019s brow, and just as the frail worm cleaved stone so would Ezekiel conquer his audience\u2014both by virtue of the divine properties vested in them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cA time to build and a time to destroy,\u201d says Ecclesiastes. The author does not tell that one action is good and the other is bad. Rather, he tells us that everything has its time. What I find difficult in what Ecclesiastes says, is how do we know when time is right!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sometimes, when I eat a meal, especially one that I have prepared myself, I think about the unavoidable truth that every act of eating is also an act of destruction. However, I counter that thought by realizing that this \u201ctime for destruction\u201d is a good type of destruction like pruning a fruit tree before spring.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In chapter 2:8-10, God presents Ezekiel with a \u201cscroll of lamentations, dirges and woes\u201d and tells him to eat it. However, God\u2019s repeated requests to Ezekiel to eat the scroll in Chapter 3:1 and the fact that God ultimately feeds it to Ezekiel (3:2), signals to the readers that Ezekiel wasn\u2019t too excited to fulfill this request. Once Ezekiel finally \u201cfed his stomach and filled his belly with the scroll\u201d (3:3), he realized that it was actually \u201cas sweet as honey\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel is a unique prophet. His purpose is not to try and stop the destruction of Jerusalem but instead, to convince the people that are already in exile in Babylon that \u201cit wasn't for nothing that God did all that he did\u201d (14:23). For Ezekiel to fulfil this role, he had to be convinced that this was in fact true. God needed Ezekiel to believe with every cell of his body that yes, Jerusalem will be destroyed and yes, the people of Jerusalem will be killed and exiled, but NO, this is not solely an act of destruction but actually an act of destruction for the sake of rebuilding.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God wanted Ezekiel to understand this message not only abstractly but also experientially, to embody it, literally. The legendary educator Parker Palmer says that \u201cyou teach who you are,\u201d and if it is also true that \u201cyou are what you eat,\u201d then the logical conclusion is that \u201cyou teach what you eat.\u201d Ezekiel had to embody the lesson that destruction can also lead to something good. He had to eat and destroy the scroll of lamentations, dirges and woes and realize that it was actually as sweet as honey.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In the Myth of Er , the\u00a0 legend that concludes <\/span>Plato<\/span>'s <\/span>Republic<\/span>, the story includes an interpretation of the cosmos and the afterlife that prominently influenced religious, philosophical, and scientific thought for many centuries.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The narration opens as a man named Er dies in battle. When the bodies of those who died in the battle are collected, ten days after his death, Er remains undecomposed. Two days later he revives on his funeral-pyre and tells others of his journey in the <\/span>afterlife<\/span>,<\/span> including an account of <\/span>reincarnation<\/span> and the <\/span>celestial spheres<\/span> of the <\/span>astral plane<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Er discovers he is not the only soul that transcends earthly life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With many other souls as his companions, Er had come across an awe-inspiring place with four openings \u2013 two into and out of the sky and two into and out of the ground. Judges sat between these openings and ordered the souls which path to follow: the good were guided into the path into the sky, the immoral were directed below. But when Er approached the judges, he was told to remain, listening and observing in order to report his experience to humankind.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The tale includes the idea that moral people are rewarded and immoral people punished after death. According to Plato\u2019s chronicle <\/span>the soul must be immortal, and cannot be destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Regardless of chronology, we find similarities stated by the Greek philosopher\u2019s text and our Prophet:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAnd I came to the exile community that dwelt in Tel Abib by the Chebar Canal, and I remained where they dwelt. And for seven days I sat there stunned among them. After those seven days, the word of the LORD came to me:\u201c O mortal, I appoint you watchman for the House of Israel; and when you hear a word from My mouth, you must warn them for Me. If I say to a wicked man, \u2018You shall die,\u2019 and you do not warn him\u2014you do not speak to warn the wicked man of his wicked course in order to save his life\u2014he, the wicked man, shall die for his iniquity, but I will require a reckoning for his blood from you. But if you do warn the wicked man, and he does not turn back from his wickedness and his wicked course, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your own life. Again, if a righteous man abandons his righteousness and does wrong, when I put a stumbling block before him, he shall die. He shall die for his sins; the righteous deeds that he did shall not be remembered; but because you did not warn him, I will require a reckoning for his blood from you.If, however, you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he, the righteous, does not sin, he shall live because he took warning, and you will have saved your own life.\u201d(Ezek 3:15-21)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The line between \u201cdifficult\u201d and \u201cimpossible\u201d can be hard to draw, even (sometimes, especially) for oneself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel doesn\u2019t tell us why he \u201csat there stunned\u201d (3:15) for seven days, but certainly he\u2019s been through a lot; perhaps he just needed time to adjust. And apparently, God approved: though some commentaries seem to criticize the prophet for neglecting his people, God allowed Ezekiel those seven days before snapping him out of it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maybe that\u2019s because for those seven days, Ezekiel truly couldn\u2019t. Because even when inaction will have consequences (as outlined below), sometimes one is simply incapable of the action, at least for a time, and will have to accept those consequences, for a time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Until God knows Ezekiel is ready, and does snap him out of it, in no uncertain terms: there is a job to do.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel\u2019s role is described as \u201ctzofeh\u201d (ibid. 17), a watchman \u2013 like a guard atop a tower, ready to sound the alarm at the slightest hint of a looming enemy incursion. What sort of catastrophes might occur if the lookout falls asleep on the job? Ezekiel has to wake up from his stupor and start warning his people of approaching internal, spiritual enemies before more harm is done.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It might be difficult, and maybe he couldn\u2019t before, but now he can, and must \u2013 or he will face some very personal consequences. Ezekiel\u2019s hands will be red with the blood of any person who, blind to the dangers, continues down a prior path of wickedness or slips into such a path for the first time. \u201cI will require a reckoning for his blood from you\u201d (ibid. 18, 21).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But though a given task might prove only difficult, some things remain impossible. Some things, such as other people, are out of our control. God places tremendous responsibility on Ezekiel\u2019s shoulders as a tzofeh, but there are limits to the job of the tzofeh. He offers information only, warning the people of dangers on the horizon; what they do with that information is up to them. The fortress lookout doesn\u2019t control the barricading of the gate, only suggests it might be a good idea; the spiritual lookout doesn\u2019t repent for the wicked, only suggests repentance might be wise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophet is held responsible in a case of continued sin not because he should have prevented it, but because he should have offered that information, \u201cbecause maybe he would have repented from his wickedness\u201d (Malbim). It\u2019s always only a \u201cmaybe,\u201d but he has to try.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cIf you do warn the wicked man, and he does not turn back from his wickedness and his wicked course, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have saved your own life\u201d (ibid. 19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel can save his own life, and maybe others\u2019 too, by taking appropriate action. 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Once again, Ezekiel is drawn up into the heavenly realm, and once again, he has a vision of the angels and heavenly beings that attend God. But this time, his experience of heaven is more about the auditory sensations than the visual. On his last trip to Heaven, in Chapter 1, Ezekiel described what the angels and Heavenly hosts looked like. This time, Ezekiel is overwhelmed by the great roaring sounds of the angels\u2019 praise and the beating of their wings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash in Tanhuma asks why Ezekiel would hear these loud sounds of the angels' wings beating as they sing God\u2019s praises. Why do the angels need to make such a racket as they attend to God?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to the Midrash, the angels beat their wings to create this great roaring sound when we, humans, do not engage in praising God. The rabbis of the Midrash teach that when Moses received the Torah from God on Mount Sinai, he heard the angels\u2019 refrain and brought it down to Earth, teaching the Israelites to whisper \u201cBaruch Shem Kavod Malchuto l\u2019Olam Va\u2019Ed\u201d, \u201cBlessed is God\u2019s Holy Name forever\u201d. When the Israelites would say this line, the angels\u2019 wings would droop quietly, as if handing us the microphone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The line Moses supposedly learned from the Angels is traditionally recited by Jews after the Shema, and on Yom Kippur. At those times, the Midrash imagines, Heaven falls silent for us. The Midrash doesn\u2019t fully explain why the angels would cease their work at our words of praise. Perhaps it is so God can hear our whispered words of prayer. Or perhaps is it like being part of a carefully conducted orchestra, where each section complements the other to create a harmonious piece of music. Or perhaps there is a different reason altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However you imagine it, the Midrash believes in the power of our unified voices, engaging in dialogue with God and the angels. This intimate experience of Heaven is not just for Ezekiel and the other prophets. Any time we reach out to God with our voices, the angels and God are with us. 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Prior to God informing Ezekiel how he will encounter resistance from the Jewish people regarding his messages to comply with Divine Directives, and that God will enable him to speak convincingly and articulately whenever it is determined that he should, a most arresting vision is described\u00a0 by the prophet: \u201cHe said to me, \u201cMortal, eat what is offered you; eat this scroll, and go speak to the House of Israel.\u201d So I opened my mouth, and He gave me this scroll to eat, as He said to me, \u201cMortal, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll that I give you.\u201d I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey to me\u201d (1-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whereas some classical commentaries treat this vision as something to be interpreted figuratively: \u201c\u2026He said to him that he should \u201ceat\u201d the Megilla until it is \u201cdigested\u201d and inscribed on the Tablet of his heart, as is written: (Tehillim 40:9) \u201cI delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts\u201d (Malbim). Or Radak: \u201cThis is the way of the parable that he (<\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>) should not \u201cvomit out\u201d (<\/span>his message<\/span><\/i>) from his mouth, but rather let his stomach first \u201cdigest...\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It seems to me that this directive could also be meant to be taken quite literally, i.e., Ezekiel is being told by God to chew, swallow, and become fortified by physically internalizing the pages of this \u201cScroll.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Such an interpretation would constitute a literal fulfillment regarding the importance of honoring a Torah scholar due to what he has existentially made of himself: \u201cRava said: How foolish are the rest of the people who stand before a Torah scroll that passes before them, and yet they do not stand before a great man, when a sage passes before them\u201d (<\/span>i.e., the sage is comparable to a living Sefer Tora<\/span><\/i> - Makkot 22b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An idiomatic expression that one often hears is: \u201cYou are what you eat.\u201d Medievalists explained some laws of kashrut in terms of avoiding consuming carnivores because one should not become blood-thirsty like them. For instance, Abravanel: \u201cEating meat generates within the eater evil characteristics, i.e., extreme cruelty and \u2026 anger, to the point that cattle and sheep, and other forms of life that eat grasses, whether moist or dry, like straw, are many (<\/span>and permitted<\/span><\/i>) \u2026 The same is true regarding fowl, i.e., birds, turtle doves, pigeons, chickens, because they nourish themselves from grasses and grain, (<\/span>and<\/span><\/i>) they do not kill or tear apart other animals. However, animals that do kill others, and birds that crush (<\/span>with their talons<\/span><\/i>) gain nutrition from meat, and therefore they have within them anger \u2026 and \u2026 cruelty\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Consuming God\u2019s Scroll should then have the opposite effect, turning the \u201ceater\u201d into someone with the most desirable attributes and characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Tel Abib by the Chebar Canal (Ezekiel 3:15) is identified with <\/span>Tel Ab\u00fbbi<\/span><\/i> an unidentified <\/span>tel<\/span><\/i> on the Kebar Canal. In Akkadian <\/span>Tel Ab\u00fbbi<\/span><\/i> means \"The abandoned ruins remaining from the Flood.\" These ruins stood next to the large canal that brought water from the Euphrates and passed through Nippur, an ancient city of temples in southern Babylonia\/Iraq.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In direct contrast with the Babylonian exile community of Tel Abib stands today\u2019s Tel Aviv in central Israel, which received its name from the title of Theodor Herzl\u2019s utopian novel, <\/span>Altneuland<\/span><\/i>. Immediately after the book appeared in German in 1902, it was translated into Hebrew by Nahum Sokolow, who, in a moment of inspiration called it <\/span>Tel Aviv.<\/span><\/i> Herzl\u2019s novel expressed the idealistic vision of a utopian society flourishing in the ancient\/new Land of Israel. The Hebrew word <\/span>aviv<\/span><\/i>, or spring \u2013 representing a new beginning \u2013 replaced the ruins of the Akkadian <\/span>Ab\u00fbbi.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew title of the book was chosen as the name for a new neighbourhood of Jaffa, established in 1909 under the uninspired name of \"Ahuzat Bayit\", lit. \"Homestead\". The new name, Tel Aviv, replaced the original one only a year later, in 1910, and was used for the expanded settlement, now comprising two more adjacent neighbourhoods. Eventually Tel Aviv would become known as \"the first [modern] Hebrew city\" and the central economic and cultural hub of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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3:5 \u201cFor not to a people of an unfathomable language and an obscure tongue do I send you--but to the house of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Work slowdown?<\/em> Did Ezekiel accept his mission? The scroll was eaten, but he sits silent in front of the target audience. Is there a protest there in his silence? If so, it is possible to read the prophecy of \u201cthe watchman\u201d (v. 17 ff.) as an answer to his silence: There is a purpose to your mission, there are those that can be saved. If you remain silent - it is upon your head.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The image becomes reality<\/em>. We have already seen prophecy as food in Jeremiah chapter 15: \u201cWhen Your words were offered, I devoured them; Your word brought me delight and joy\u201d (v. 16). With Ezekiel, the metaphor becomes a reality. In his vision, Ezekiel physically eats the scroll upon which are written the words of the prophecy, and thus his mission becomes a physical part of him.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Sweet and bitter<\/em>. The content of the prophecy is hard and bitter. Why does Ezekiel taste it as \u201csweet as honey\u201d (3)? We learn from Jeremiah about the experience of prophecy, that the closeness to God in the prophetic experience is the sweetest spiritual summit, even when the content of the prophecy and the experience of communicating it are almost too difficult to bear.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. For how long?<\/em> A command to speak to an unhearing audience transforms into a violent silencing and imprisonment for Ezekiel. For how long? And what will be the turning point? The prophecy doesn\u2019t speak of a schedule. 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