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Ezekiel is now told to shave all the hair on his body and separate it into multiple piles. Each pile has some sort of action performed against it in a way to symbolize the different types of destruction that will befall the people. Why hair? Elijah was famously hairy:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2019A hairy man,\u2019 they replied, \u2018with a leather belt tied around his waist.\u2019 \u2018That\u2019s Elijah the Tishbite!\u2019 he said (I Kings 1:8).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fact that Ezekiel is told to shave all his hair and has enough hair to do all of these actions means that he was hairy too. If being hairy is an indication of prophecy, then perhaps God is trying to explain that the people do not deserve a strong prophet. They had their opportunity to listen to the words of the prophets, and instead they ignored them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another option could be a connection to the status of Nazirite. A Nazirite (<\/span>nazir<\/span><\/em>) is someone who takes on extra restrictions as part of their devotion to God. Perhaps then the message is that the people have moved in the exact opposite direction. Instead of trying to get close to God, they have rejected God entirely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another reference could be to the priests. When God anointed the priestly class, God instructed Moses to shave them completely. Perhaps then, this is an admonishment against the priestly class that let the people down. As leaders of the nation, they should have done more to keep the people on the right path. Instead of a positive result of their bodies being shaved, now Ezekiel shaves himself in disgrace. Another person who has to shave is someone with <\/span>tzara\u2019at<\/em> <\/span>(often translated as leprosy). The Torah does not give a reason why someone gets <\/span>tzara\u2019at<\/span><\/em>, but most commentators assume it is because of some violation of a moral law between people. 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Once again, the prophet was commanded to engage in a series of strange activities. This time, he was to shave his head and beard (1) and distribute the shorn hair in three different ways (3) symbolizing the three different fates that were in store for the Jewish people: a third would die of plague or famine, a third by the sword, and a third would be dispersed to the four winds (12).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel was also instructed to leave a small amount of hair wrapped up in the ends of his garment (3); since no explicit reason was given for this activity, the exegetes differed on its symbolism. Rashi wrote that it represented \u201cthe very few, who would be exiled to Babylon and survive.\u201d Eliezer of Beaugency, however, identified it with \u201cthose who would remain in the land [of Israel] and not go into exile.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Interestingly, Radak agreed with Rashi, while Malbim interpreted as Eliezer had. Radak wrote:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This symbolizes those who were exiled to Babylon, which is why it says \u201ctie them up in your skirts,\u201d where they would remain guarded until they returned to their land, like something that is bound up in the skirt of a garment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While Malbim wrote:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This symbolizes the few of the poorest of the land who remained [in Judea], who were left by Nebuzaradan to care for the vineyards and fields [see Jeremiah 39:10] under Gedaliah. This is symbolized by \u201ctie them up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Regarding the threatened catastrophes of plague, famine, and sword, the closing verses echo that portion of the Torah that has been designated \u201cthe rebuke\u201d (tochekhah), thus demonstrating the argument made in our introduction for the special association of Ezekiel with the Torah. Compare:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel 5:16-17: \u201cI will heap more famine upon you and break your staff of bread\u2026 pestilence and bloodshed shall sweep through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I the LORD have spoken.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Leviticus 26: 25-26: \u201cI will bring a sword against you to wreak vengeance for the covenant; and if you withdraw into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.\u00a0 When I break your staff of bread\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This prophetic unit is one of the harshest that is delivered to the nation anywhere in Tanakh. The prophet begins by defining and illuminating the severity of the actions of the people. Not only have they not fulfilled God\u2019s commandments; they have even been less loyal to God than the surrounding nations have been towards their own deities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The nation had not internalized the idea that God might destroy His Temple. They knew that the Destruction of the Temple would be perceived by the nations as weakness on the part of God, reflecting God\u2019s inability to defend His Temple and ward off its enemies. Thus, the Destruction of the Temple would entail a desecration of God\u2019s Name among the nations. The nations would assume that God had lost His power and might, so much so that He could not even prevent the downfall of His Temple. The nations surrounding Jerusalem would have considered the deliberate divine Destruction of Jerusalem so strange that the people of Jerusalem were lulled into believing that this would be enough to prevent the Temple being destroyed despite their severe sins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Ezekiel stipulates that the people have defiled the Temple with \u201cdetestable things and abominations\u201d \u2013 a combined term that is used over 80 times in the book that refers to the range of sins that the people have committed which are detailed by the prophet in the coming chapters. Thus the nations will come to understand how God inflicts such devastating damage on His people not as a sign of weakness but as a Divine punishment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(Provided in connection with hatanach.com, for full article <\/span>see here<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":70605,"alt":"","title":"jer23-hammer","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","width":500,"height":333,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","medium_large-width":500,"medium_large-height":333,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","large-width":500,"large-height":333,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","1536x1536-width":500,"1536x1536-height":333,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","2048x2048-width":500,"2048x2048-height":333,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","post_full_size-width":500,"post_full_size-height":333,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","home_baner-width":500,"home_baner-height":333}},"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":"How Could He?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The harsh prophecy is not a show of divine weakness, but of divine punishment","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":70605,"alt":"","title":"jer23-hammer","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","width":500,"height":333,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","medium_large-width":500,"medium_large-height":333,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","large-width":500,"large-height":333,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","1536x1536-width":500,"1536x1536-height":333,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","2048x2048-width":500,"2048x2048-height":333,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","post_full_size-width":500,"post_full_size-height":333,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer23-hammer.jpg","home_baner-width":500,"home_baner-height":333}},"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":"5","chapter_main_number":"457","date":"20270531","wall_id":"457"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"73224","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"The Angels Plead With God To Spare Jerusalem ","post_title":"The Angels Plead With God To Spare Jerusalem","slug":"the-angels-plead-with-god-to-spare-jerusalem","old_id":"73224","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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In our Chapter, God \u2013 surprisingly \u2013 laments the very centrality of Jerusalem: \u201cI set this Jerusalem in the midst of nations, with countries round about her. But she rebelled against My rules and My laws, acting more wickedly than the nations and the countries round about her\u2026\u201d (Ezekiel 5:5-6, compare Ezekiel 38:12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This verse provides the opening of a dramatic midrashic dialogue (Pesiqta Rabbati 27\/28). The angels said, O Master of the World, is it not Jerusalem about which you said: \u201cI set this Jerusalem in the midst of nations\u201d? God answered them: \u201cBut she rebelled against My rules and My laws, acting more wickedly than the nations\u201d. The angels then said: \u201cYet they are Your very own people\u201d (Deuteronomy 9:29). God replied: \u201cYet My people have forgotten Me\u2026\u201d (Jeremiah 18:15).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The angels then pleaded with God: Redeem Jerusalem for the sake of the fathers. But God replied to them: \u201c\u2026the fathers build the fire\u2026and they pour libations to other gods to vex Me\u201d (Jeremiah 7:18). The angels then pleaded, redeem Israel for the sake of the sons. But God replied: \u201cBut the sons rebelled against Me\u201d (Ezekiel 20:21). Then do it for the sake of the great ones (ha-gedolim), cried out the angels! But God said: \u201cHer rulers judge for gifts. Her priests give rulings for a fee. And her prophets divine for pay\u201d (Micah 3:11). Do it for the sake of the disciples, said the angels. God replied to them: \u201cThose who cling to the Torah do not know me\u201d (Jeremiah 2:8). In desperation, the angels pleaded with God, redeem Israel for our sake! But God recalled that the fathers had \u201cscorned the angels of God\u201d (2 Chronicles 36:16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Finally, the angels said to God, then redeem Israel for the sake of Israel upon whom Your name has been called (see Genesis 32:28, 35:9). God replied: \u201cThey caused My holy name to be profaned\u201d (Ezekiel 36:20). The angels then said to God, if You are not willing to be appeased, why is the image of the Patriarch of Israel, Jacob, engraved on high? (see Genesis Rabbah 68:12). [But not since] \u201cThe Lord in His wrath\u2026 cast down from heaven to earth the majesty of Israel\u201d (Lamentations 2:1)...The angels carried on saying, Lord of the Worlds, is it not Jerusalem of whom You said: \u201cSee, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands\u201d (Isaiah 49:16)? God replied to them: \u201cI, too, will strike hand against hand and will satisfy My fury upon you; I the Lord have spoken\u201d (Ezekiel 31:22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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5:11 \u201cTherefore, as I live, said the Master, the LORD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your disgusting things and with all your abominations, I, on My part will surely shear, and My eye shall not spare, and I, too, will show no pity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Your disgusting things and with all your abominations:<\/span><\/i> Both terms are repeatedly used in the Bible for pagan idols. Ezekiel has in mind the fact that more than once idols were actually introduced into the Jerusalem sanctuary. The language here and again further in this passage borrows from the denunciations in Deuteronomy 32, the so-called Song of Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cLike a Fading Flower: Unetaneh Tokef and its Textual Allusions\u201d<\/a> by Noah Farkas: Where the words of the famous liturgy come from.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Was there what to weigh? <\/em>Ezekiel is asked to weigh out his hair, and then divide it into three equal parts, in order to exemplify the fate of the people. This was not such an easy task for the primitive scales of those days. Or - that Ezekiel\u2019s hair after a year-long siege was especially long and heavy.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The menu of dread<\/em>. In the previous chapter, Ezekiel deployed siege bread and bread of impurity. But the reality of hunger that is promised in the prophecy, will be worse and more terrible than any symbolic act. See verse 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The curses that are behind it all<\/em>. The curses for those who disobey the covenant are the context for the prophecy. Both the hard curses at the Sinai Covenant of Leviticus 26, and also those of the covenant on the Plains of Moab, of Deut. 28. This is how you say in \u201cBiblese\u201d - \u201cI told you so!\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"Ezekiel 5","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"5","chapter_main_number":"457","date":"20270531","wall_id":"457"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":"","link_teaser":"","listen_link":"","other_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/72894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}