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Our chapter consists of three highly structured oracles in which Ezekiel prophecies the impending disaster that is about to fall on Jerusalem because of its sins. The Hebrew noun <\/span>hamas<\/em> <\/span>(\u201clawlessness\u201d) occurs in two verses of this chapter: \u201cLawlessness (<\/span>hamas<\/span><\/em>) has risen up into a rod of wickedness. Nothing comes from them, not from their multitude, not from their wealth. There shall be no wailing for them\u201d (Ezekiel 7:11) and \u201cForge the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of lawlessness (<\/span>hamas<\/span><\/em>)\u201d (Ezekiel 7:23) . The word <\/span>hamas<\/em> <\/span>occurs elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible, in both noun and verb constructions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Genesis Rabbah links the use of <\/span>hamas<\/em> <\/span>in Genesis 6:13: \u201cGod said to Noah, I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness (<\/span>hamas<\/span><\/em>)\u2026\u201d with the use of this term in Ezekiel 7:11: \u201cLawlessness (<\/span>hamas<\/span><\/em>) has risen up into a rod of wickedness\u2026\u201d. The Midrash here first asks, does \u201cLawlessness\u201d indeed rise up? God forbid! It most certainly does not \u201crise up,\u201d except to become a \u201crod of wickedness.\u201d The continuation of the verse in Ezekiel 7:11: \u201cNothing comes from them, not from their multitude and not from their wealth\u201d is creatively interpreted in Aramaic: Not from them and not from their property and not from their \"descendants.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to Talmud Bavli Sanhedrin, Rabbi Yo\u1e25anan says: Come and see how great is the power of <\/span>hamas<\/em> <\/span>here meaning the sin of \u201crobbery\u201d). For the people in the Generation of the Flood violated all [of the Seven Noachide Laws], but their sentence to be destroyed was not finally sealed until they stretched forth their hands and engaged in robbery (<\/span>gezel<\/span><\/em>), as it says: \u201cGod said to Noah, I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with <\/span>hamas<\/em> <\/span>(i.e. \u201crobbery\u201d) because of them: I am about to destroy them with the earth\u201d (Genesis 6:13). And similarly, it is written: \u201c<\/span>Hamas<\/em> <\/span>(i.e. robbery) is risen up into a rod of wickedness\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In 1987 the Sunni Islamic terrorist organization, Hamas, was founded. In this context the name Hamas is specifically an acronym of the first letters of the full Arabic name <\/span>\u1e24arakat al-Muq\u0101wamah Al-\u02beiSl\u0101miyyah<\/em> <\/span>(\u201cIslamic Resistance Movement\u201d). However, the choice of this acronym was influenced by the meaning of Arabic <\/span>hamas<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>\u201czeal.\u201d Arabic <\/span>hamas<\/em> <\/span>is cognate to Hebrew <\/span>hamas<\/em> <\/span>meaning\u00a0 \"violence\", and as mentioned above \u201clawlessness, wrong.\u201d Particularly since the horrendous Hamas rampage in Southern Israel on Simchat Torah on October 7, these pejorative meanings of \u201c<\/span>hamas<\/span><\/em>\u201d have taken on increased significance.\u00a0 It seems appropriate at this time to recall the words of the Psalmist:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The wicked draw their swords, bend their bows, to bring down the lowly and needy, to slaughter upright men. 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Through chapter 6, Ezekiel\u2019s prophecies have been more experiential in nature. The <\/span>Ma\u2019aseh Merkava<\/em> <\/span>(\u201cChariot\u201d), eating a scroll, setting up a diorama of Jerusalem, laying on sides, eating low-quality grain and shaving. One could get the impression that Ezekiel was not as poetically gifted as Jeremiah and Isaiah. Chapter 7 is time for Ezekiel\u2019s poetic prowess to shine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus said the Sovereign GOD: A singular disaster; a disaster is coming. Doom is coming! The hour of doom is coming! It stirs against you; there it comes? The cycle has come around for you, O inhabitants of the land; the time has come; the day is near. There is panic on the mountains, not joy (verses 5-7).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These three phrases weave together a few poetic tools.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Anaphora, a method used by Jermiah as well (see Jeremiah chapter 51). Anaphora is the repetition of the same word. Ezekiel repeats the words for disaster and doom and the root \u201ccoming\u201d appears six times in the three verses.\u00a0
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  2. Epistrophe. Epistrophe is when lines of a poem end in the same phrase. Verses 5 and 7 both end with \u201cis coming.\u201d
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  3. Alliteration. The Hebrew words at the end of verse 7 all start with the letter \u201chey.\u201d\u00a0
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  4. Envelope verse- when a line ends with the same word as the beginning of the next one. In this case verse 6 ends with \u201ccomes\u201d and the seventh also begins with \u201ccomes.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    This sophistication helps remind the reader that although Ezekiel is best known for his awesome visions, he still possesses the power of poetry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Noble message aside, the Aramaic prayer Ha Lachma Anya<\/em> (\"This is the bread of affliction\") \u00a0recited dutifully and often mechanically near the start of the seder, has always been a bit of a head-scratcher.<\/p>\r\n

    An ostensible invitation to the vagabond hungry (\"let all who are ravenous come and eat\"), the prayer seems designed for failure. It is said in a language now unknown, recited only to the people already at the table and hours away from the actual meal.<\/p>\r\n

    Maimonides appears not to have included the prayer in the Haggadah liturgy of Israel. Noting the omission, the 16th-century physician and scholar Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi offers that the prayer was conceived at the start of the exile that followed the destruction of the Second Temple circa 70 A.D.<\/p>\r\n

    This leads to a radical reinterpretation. The prayer's claim that \"this is the bread of affliction our forefathers ate in Egypt\" is no longer a callback to the Exodus but a sharp comment on a new reality \u2013 a bitter reminder that after the Temple's destruction the Jewish people have reverted to a sad state of diasporan servitude. \u201cThis <\/em>is the bread of affliction.\" Don\u2019t be surprised if it tastes a little more sour this year.<\/p>\r\n

    And the invitation for everyone to come and eat? It\u2019s not a half-hearted callout to stray passersby of acute hearing, but a heartfelt pining for the camaraderie of Jewish settlement in Israel. It was there, after all, that Passover offered not only ritual but community -- families bringing their Paschal lambs to the Temple essentially formed a giant block party. The call is an attempt to re-create that moment of socialization and even one-up it; while Jerusalem gatherings were segmented by family, the composers in this new Temple-less world poignantly beseech any and all to join them -- to recreate the community, to relieve the loneliness. At heart the prayer was an attempt by newly exiled Jews to silver-line their way to better days.<\/p>\r\n

    The echoes to our own affliction are loud. This Passover--with Seders reduced to immediate families or individuals atomized and singing to themselves around the world \u2013 we\u2019ve lost the holiday\u2019s communal joy. We\u2019ve become slaves, not to a king but to anxiety, and geography. In a sense we've flipped the narrative of the early Ha Lachma-ites: many Jews live in Israel, but we can\u2019t be together.<\/p>\r\n

    Still, our own light peeks through. Cut off from families, we dial in to communal seders, meet new teachers, celebrate with friends we\u2019d never ordinarily connect with. Robbed of our ability to move, we are nonetheless afforded the chance to zoom.<\/p>\r\n

    The prayer concludes with a rueful wish. \"Now we are here, next year we are in Israel.\u201d The composers are expressing not an abstract Zionist aspiration but a concrete yearning for a return to social times. It is a statement that vibrates with relevance. Now, with the pandemic, we are here, in a lonely state. 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    The prophetic message of Ezekiel and Jeremiah is that the end of Jerusalem is imminent. The common belief in Jerusalem and in Babylonia is that somehow God will save the inhabitants of Jerusalem, allowing them to survive this crisis. The exiles themselves, though, might \u2013 in a best case scenario \u2013 return to the land; but will otherwise assimilate and disappear among the nations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Jeremiah prophesies that in his own days Jehoiachin is \u201ca man who shall not prosper\u201d and in those years that Judah is desolate, none of his progeny will prosper as king or ruler. But in the long term, the exile of Jehoiachin will settle and prosper in Babylonia for a long period of time and they will serve as the salvation of the people. It would be these exiles who would return one day to rebuild the land which was about to be destroyed. Ezekiel prophesies that those who remained in Jerusalem will die by pestilence, by the sword or by famine.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But even after these prophecies, neither the inhabitants of Jerusalem nor the exiles in Babylonia were convinced. The Temple was still standing; the inhabitants of Jerusalem remained steadfast despite the crises they had faced since the time of Solomon. These facts made a stronger impression than the prophecies of Jeremiah and Ezekiel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    To convey his messages, Ezekiel enlists all possible means: the use of symbolic acts and the borrowing of expressions familiar from the Tokhaha (\u201crebuke\u201d in Leviticus 26. Now, another means is adopted: a key word, aimed at emphasizing the subject of the prophecy as a whole. We see here the repeated use of the word \u201cketz\u201d (end, \u201cdoom\u201d), alluding to the story of the Flood: \u201cYou, O mortal, [say:] \u2018Thus said the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: Doom! Doom is coming upon the four corners of the land. Now doom is upon you! I will let loose My anger against you and judge you according to your ways; I will requite you for all your abominations\u2019... Doom is coming! The hour of doom is coming! It stirs against you; there it comes!\u201d (7:2-3,7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    In the previous chapter, we dealt with a word (<\/span>ach<\/span><\/i>) that was understood in diametrically opposite fashions by different exegetes. In this chapter, we encounter a <\/span>hapax legomenon<\/span><\/i>, Greek for \u201ca thing said once,\u201d a term that designates a word that appears only once in a specific context\u2014in our case, the Tanakh.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201cLawlessness has grown into a rod of wickedness. Nothing comes of them, nor of their abundance, nor of their wealth; nor is there preeminence (<\/span>no\u2019ah<\/span><\/em>) among them\u201d (v. 11). Since the word <\/span>no\u2019ah<\/span><\/em> does not appear anywhere else in Tanakh, how can we know what it means? Methodologically, there are two approaches that can be taken. The first attempts to define the word based on its similarity to other known words. The second infers its definition from its use in the context in which it appears. Let us begin with the medieval exegetes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    All took it as a form of the verb N-H-H, and still arrived at different interpretations. Rashi and Kara interpreted it to mean \u201cnone of them follows after me,\u201d while Eliezer of Beaugency, along with Radak, understood it as \u201cthey will not lament,\u201d which is also the King James version: \u201c<\/span>neither shall there be wailing for them.\u201d Malbim, not to be outdone, offered both possibilities. The concluding phrase in the JPS translation used here, \u201c<\/span>nor is there preeminence among them\u201d, comes from their <\/span>The Prophets<\/span><\/i> (Philadelphia, 1978), which notes: \u201cMeaning of Hebrew uncertain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Hapax notwithstanding, the reference to \u201cthe rod of wickedness\u201d continues the ambiguity inherent in the previous verse that cited the budding of \u201cthe rod of arrogance\u201d without specifying whether its subject is Israel or its enemy, Babylon. As Moshe Greenberg wrote in his commentary on Ezekiel for <\/span>The Anchor Bible<\/span><\/i>: \u201cAt any rate, the sense is the time is ripe for punishment. The rest of the verse is obscure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Greenberg also noted:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Language and ideas characteristic of Ezekiel are combined in our chapter with an unusually rich array of poetic elements echoing passages from elsewhere in the Bible\u2026 As in the few other instances in which Ezekiel demonstrated his poetic range (e.g., chs. 21; 28:11-19), the modern interpreter encounters insuperable difficulties in following him (163).<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":73271,"alt":"","title":"ez7-unicorn","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-1024x576.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-1200x675.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-747x420.jpg","home_baner-width":747,"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":"Dealing With A Hapax","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"How to know what a unique word means?","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":73271,"alt":"","title":"ez7-unicorn","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-1024x576.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-1200x675.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn-747x420.jpg","home_baner-width":747,"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":"7","chapter_main_number":"459","date":"20270602","wall_id":"459"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":7,"id":"118731","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"The Tanakh Podcast-Ezekiel7 ","post_title":"The Tanakh Podcast-Ezekiel7","slug":"the-tanakh-podcast-ezekiel7","old_id":"118731","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33692,"post_title":"Alex Israel","slug":"33692-2","old_id":"33692","first_name":"Alex","last_name":"Israel","description":"Alex Israel teaches Tanakh at the Pardes Institute, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and Matan, Jerusalem. 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    Wall Street and its representation might be frightening for some investors. We have lived through periods of wealth and others of economic depression and financial crises. While the overall idea is rather straightforward, there are great risks involved in the stock market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    A short explanation: Investors purchase shares in a business, which allows the company to raise money for its operation. Those investors then buy and sell these shares, creating a supply and demand for each stock. Via computer algorithms, the supply and demand help determine the price for the stocks. While there is a certain gap between the \u201cbid\u201d (what the buyer is offering) and the \u201cask\u201d (what the seller would like to receive), a trade occurs when they are able to come to an agreement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Now comes the Prophet Ezekiel and voicing the words of God states:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201cThe time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn\u2014for divine wrath shall overtake all her multitude. For the seller shall not return to what he sold so long as they remain among the living. For the vision concerns all her multitude, it shall not be revoked. And because of his guilt, no man shall hold fast to his life\u201d (7:12-13).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Unquestionably Ezekiel is speaking about a different kind of investment from the stock market. These ventures call for spiritual and theological paths. Surrounded by an exilic society the people of Israel might have fallen into temptations and some have abandoned God. It is the voice of the Prophet who calls them back as a warning. It\u2019s easy to be seduced by foreign lures and hard to strengthen your own identity when aroused by external attractions. In exilic Babylon, where connection to the Land, ritual timing, language, garments were disconnected from the core of YHWH\u2019s commandments, the ability to maintain a strong Jewish connection was jeopardized by external factors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Like the investor who buys stocks, the risks and the uncertainty prevails, and that\u2019s when Prophet Ezekiel screams. Ezekiel invites the reader to buy <\/span>bonds, <\/span><\/i>ties that bind the Israelites with their tradition.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    The Hebrew <\/span>tsefirah<\/span><\/i> is a rare term. It has most plausibly been linked by both medieval and modern commentators with a root that indicates something round, here perhaps a cycle of time. Because of the unusualness of the Hebrew term, this translation uses \u201cgyre\u201d (the same element one finds in a \u201cgyroscope\u201d), a word famously deployed by the poet W.B. Yeats for an apocalyptic turn in the cycle of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    \u201cCorners\u201d<\/a> by Theological Research Institute: The many Hebrew words for \u201ccorners\u201d in the Torah and their different meanings<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cMusic in the Hebrew Bible\u201d<\/a> by Jamie Fisher: The songs, voices, and praises\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cRe-imagining God and Man for a New Year\u201d<\/a> by Geoffrey Stern: Idols and the images of God through historical, biblical, and archaeological sources<\/p>\r\n

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    1. It\u2019s coming!<\/em> 12 times the root \u05d1-\u05d5-\u05d0, <\/span>b-v-aleph<\/span><\/i>, \u201ccome\u201d is used. It communicates the message that indeed - here it comes!<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. \u201cHatzefirah.\u201d<\/em> This word used in verses 7 and 10 is a hapax, it only appears here in the entire Bible. So it\u2019s not entirely clear what is intended. The JPS translation here translates \u201ccycle.\u201d Alter uses \u201cgyre\u201d (see his piece on this page). Something bad is coming. Perhaps the End. Perhaps - Babylonia. Perhaps (just) a bad period. All are possibilities that have been suggested.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. When the world is guided by evil<\/em>. Maybe this is what the image means: \u201cThe rod has blossomed; arrogance has budded\u201d (10). Just like the staff of Aaron blossomed 325 chapters ago (Numbers 17), just that now, the blossoming is of evil. Perhaps that which is within Jerusalem, perhaps it is that which is outside, at the gates.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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