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In our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a>, God commands Ezekiel to condemn the false prophets in Jerusalem. Among their other sins, these false prophets proclaim that there will be \u201cPeace\u201d, despite the approaching enemy armies: \u201c\u2026they have misled My people, proclaiming Peace, but there is no Peace!\u201d (<\/span>verse 10<\/span><\/a>) and \u201cthe prophets of Israel who prophesy about Jerusalem and see for her a vision of Peace, but there is no Peace \u2014declares God, the Lord\u201d (<\/span>verse 16<\/span><\/a>). In using these phrases, Ezekiel echoes his prophetic near contemporary, Jeremiah, who proclaimed twice: \u201cThey offer healing offhand for the wounds of My people, saying, Peace, Peace, but there is no Peace\u201d (<\/span>Jeremiah 6:14<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> 8:11<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In post-Biblical times the word<\/span> shalom<\/span><\/a> is used in various ways, particularly as a salutation (for example<\/span> Talmud Bavli Berakhot<\/span><\/a> 14a). This is what became known in Talmudic times as<\/span> sheilat shalom<\/span><\/i><\/a> (i.e. greeting by asking about a person\u2019s \u201cpeace\u201d, meaning one\u2019s welfare), which becomes a considerable halakhic issue.\u00a0 For example, according to<\/span> Talmud Bavli Berakhot<\/span><\/a> 6b it is required to greet an acquaintance by asking after his \u201cpeace\u201d and equally required for the one so greeted to reply with the same greeting. This practice continues to this day in Israel in which the typical greeting and parting blessing is <\/span>Shalom<\/span><\/i>, often followed by the polite question <\/span>mah shelomkha<\/span><\/i> (i.e. \u201cHow are you doing\u201d?). Indeed, Jews traditionally blessed one another with the greeting <\/span>shalom aleichem <\/span><\/i>(\u201cpeace be upon you\u201d),<\/span> which is like the traditional Arabic greeting <\/span>salam alaykum <\/span><\/i>and in Christian culture the blessing <\/span>\"<\/span><\/i>peace be with you<\/span>\" <\/span><\/i>(from the Latin <\/span>pax vobiscum<\/span><\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Significantly, the rabbinic sages applied some<\/span> halakhic rules<\/span><\/a> on greeting one\u2019s fellow man with the Hebrew word <\/span>shalom. <\/span><\/i>For example, according to the<\/span> Talmud Bavli Moed Katan<\/span><\/a> 21b a mourner is prohibited from greeting others with the customary<\/span> sheilat shalom<\/span><\/i><\/a> for the first three days of his bereavement. From the third to the seventh day of his bereavement the mourner may reply to this greeting but still must not greet another in this way.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Midrash Sifrei<\/span><\/a> on<\/span> Numbers 6:26<\/span><\/a> \u201cAnd grant you peace\u201d preserves a series of more than 20 midrashic statements each of which begins with the assertion \u201cGreat is Peace\u201d (<\/span>Gadol Ha-Shalom<\/span><\/i>). For example:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Great is peace, for the four-letter sacred Name of God is erased by the bitter waters to make peace between a man and his wife (referring to the<\/span> sotah ritual<\/span><\/a> described in<\/span> Numbers 5:11-31<\/span><\/a>). Great is peace, for even in time of war, peace is needed, as it says: \u201cWhen you approach a town to attack it, you shall offer it terms of peace\u201d (<\/span>Deut. 20:10<\/span><\/a>). Great is peace for it is granted to those who repent, as it is written: \u201cPeace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 57:19<\/span><\/a>). Great is peace, for it was given to the lovers of Torah, as it says: \u201cGreat peace for the lovers of your Torah\u201d (<\/span>Psalms 119:165<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Returning to the theme of chapter 11, Ezekiel continues his attacks on the false prophets. This chapter can be separated into two sections, the male prophets and the female prophets. The male prophets are prophesying using speech. They claim that everything will be fine, when everything will not be fine. God compares their actions to someone who uses cheap plaster to fill the cracks in a crumbling wall. It may look fine under normal circumstances, but when faced with strong weather, the wall will collapse. God twice repeats that he will bring heavy storms to destroy the flimsy walls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophetesses, on the other hand, dabble in a different type of prophecy. They are not making grand proclamations. Instead, they work with some sort of material objects. The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain. Rashi explains that this was similar to witchcraft of the Ov and Yedoni (\u201cghosts or familiar spirits\u201d) mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:11, that would involve speaking from their extremities. These women would sew small cushions and place them under their arms and talk to spirits this way. Malbim explains that these were some type of perverse phylacteries. They would sew small cushions and place them on the arm and forehead in the same spot as phylacteries in order to tap into the spirits that live in those areas. Others explain that these were talismans that would be worn on hands or on fingers like rings to ward off demons. Like the male false prophets, God promises to rip these small pillows out of the hands of the prophetesses and throw them to the ground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In both instances, God\u2019s goal is not just to rebuke these false guides, but to target the very thing that they are using to try and persuade the people. The only way to counter their destructive message is to go to show the people that the message is false and dangerous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Does it feel like a long time since July 15, 2018? That's when we started this journey, with Genesis Chapter 1: reading the Tanach a chapter a day, every day, five chapters a week.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Well, we've reached the midway point. The hump. However long it has felt, or been since that fateful summer day (OK, 93 weeks - but who's counting?) - that's how long we have left till we reach the very end - 2 Chronicles chapter 36 - The End.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

And then of course - begin again...<\/p>\r\n

Welcome to the middle.\u00a0<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":73635,"alt":"","title":"ez13-camel2","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2.jpg","width":960,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-camel2-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"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":"Today is the day!","tile_main_caption":"929's Hump Day","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The Tanach's middlest chapter","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":73666,"alt":"","title":"ez13-Humpday","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday.jpg","width":1300,"height":967,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday-300x223.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":223,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday-768x571.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":571,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday-1024x762.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":762,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday.jpg","1536x1536-width":1300,"1536x1536-height":967,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday.jpg","2048x2048-width":1300,"2048x2048-height":967,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday-1200x893.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":893,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-Humpday-565x420.jpg","home_baner-width":565,"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":"13","chapter_main_number":"465","date":"20270610","wall_id":"465"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":5,"id":"73663","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Who\u2019s To Blame? 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Ezekiel 13 is dedicated to warning false prophets of the impending punishments for their grave transgressions. These individuals, instead of reinforcing God\u2019s word that significant changes are required in order to mitigate the impending divine decrees, reassure everyone that all is well, and everyone can continue with \u201cbusiness as usual.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel employs two metaphors for what the false prophets are perpetrating by claiming to speak in God\u2019s name. First, he describes their fallacious presentations as comparable to shoddy workmanship provided by someone who has been hired to repair one\u2019s home, and who can\u2019t offer a legitimate explanation when what he has done is shown to be sub-standard:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cInasmuch as they have misled My People, saying, \u201cIt is well,\u201d when nothing is well, daubing with plaster the flimsy wall which the people were building. Say to those daubers of plaster: It shall collapse; a driving rain shall descend\u2014and you, O great hailstones, shall fall\u2014and a hurricane wind shall rend it. Then, when the wall collapses, you will be asked, \u201cWhat became of the plaster you daubed on?\u201d (10-12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then, addressing specifically female false prophets, Ezekiel charges that they have created an erroneous impression among their followers by \u201cfabricating attractive garments\u201d in exchange for food, thereby lulling their audiences into a false sense of security:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAnd say: Thus Said the Lord GOD: Woe to those who sew pads on all arm-joints and make bonnets for the head of every person, in order to entrap! Can you hunt down lives among My People, while you preserve your own lives? You have profaned My Name among My People in return for handfuls of barley and morsels of bread; you have announced the death of persons who will not die and the survival of persons who will not live\u2014lying to My People, who listen to your lies\u201d (18-19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While in both contexts, the ultimate blame must lie with those falsely claiming to be presenting the word of God when they speak \u201c\u2026out of their own imagination,\u201d (2 and 17), one cannot simply exonerate the listeners. They are eagerly giving ear to what they want to hear. It is clearly more difficult to accept substantive criticism and censure, than glad-handing and \u201csimple fixes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One midrash suggests that the practice to derisively treat prophets delivering difficult messages already began with how Joseph\u2019s brothers responded to his dreams, if we choose to understand his visions as pleas for his older siblings to become more spiritual and ethical (see Genesis 37:6-9; 20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Unfortunately, it becomes clear which prophets were telling the truth and which were not, only after \u201cthe fact.\u201d If we could acquire for ourselves the prescience of the people of Nineveh (Jonah 3:5), we would be so much better off.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":73664,"alt":"","title":"ez13-lie","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","width":600,"height":375,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie-300x188.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":188,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","medium_large-width":600,"medium_large-height":375,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","large-width":600,"large-height":375,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","1536x1536-width":600,"1536x1536-height":375,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","2048x2048-width":600,"2048x2048-height":375,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","post_full_size-width":600,"post_full_size-height":375,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","home_baner-width":600,"home_baner-height":375}},"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":"Who\u2019s To Blame?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The liars for lying, or the listeners for listening?","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":73664,"alt":"","title":"ez13-lie","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","width":600,"height":375,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie-300x188.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":188,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","medium_large-width":600,"medium_large-height":375,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","large-width":600,"large-height":375,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","1536x1536-width":600,"1536x1536-height":375,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","2048x2048-width":600,"2048x2048-height":375,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","post_full_size-width":600,"post_full_size-height":375,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez13-lie.jpg","home_baner-width":600,"home_baner-height":375}},"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":"13","chapter_main_number":"465","date":"20270610","wall_id":"465"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"73654","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Male Vs. 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Like Jeremiah, Ezekiel directs a good bit of attention to false prophets who proclaimed destruction was not on its way and that there was no need to worry. Chapter 13 continues this theme, but contains a striking shift: After 16 verses directed at male false prophets, Ezekiel is instructed to turn to \u201cthe daughters of your nation who prophesy out of their own imagination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why address the men and women separately? Was their sin not the same?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some suggest the women\u2019s false prophecy was uniquely based in witchcraft (whether real or imagined). However, while one of the biblical words for sorcery does appear in that section (k.s.m., in verse 23), it appears three times in the prophecy to the men (verses 6, 7, 9). There might be more description of the women\u2019s methods than the men\u2019s, and certainly the details offer much room for analysis, but it seems that male as well as female false prophets relied on some sort of fortune-telling technique to mislead those around them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi <\/span>Yechiel Tzvi Moskowitz, author of the Daat Mikra commentary on Ezekiel, suggests that one distinction between the men and women in this chapter might be found not (only) in what they did differently wrong, but what they didn\u2019t do right \u2013 or what they could, or couldn\u2019t, have done. \u201cHe does not rebuke [the women] for being \u2018like jackals among ruins\u2019 [v. 4], nor because they \u2018didn\u2019t go up in the breaches\u201d and repair fences [v. 5], since the bounds of the prophetesses\u2019 influence was more narrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Moskowitz\u2019s view, the analogy of false prophets to jackals in ruins is about the destruction they wreak and perhaps also their cowardice: \u201cWhen a person comes to a breach in the ruin, the jackal flees through another breach and doesn\u2019t stand in the breach to fight\u201d (quoting Rashi, from midrash). The prophet mocks these sneaky fakers, who take advantage wherever they find the nation vulnerable \u2013 when a true leader would get up in those breaches in the wall and patch them, to make the nation stronger. \u201cRepairing fences\u2026 means [putting in] effort for the sake of the sinners, [to encourage their] repentance, and the decree would thus be cancelled.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moskowitz suggests this critique of the false prophets is relevant to the entire nation, while Ezekiel\u2019s rebuke to the prophetesses is only relevant to those individuals who came to ask them. They didn\u2019t have the reach of the men, and so were not held responsible to the same degree for missing the opportunity to serve as positive role models.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These insights perhaps invite us to consider how often female leaders must wait to be asked, by individuals who seek their involvement, while men might have easier access to holes in the nation that need repair. 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I just finished my last class of high school. I loved SAR and my senior year: my teachers, classes, and friends. And yet, I\u2019m having a hard time feeling sad or nostalgic. Indignant, perhaps, that I deserved two more months than I received, but even that emotion eludes me. How can I feel the acute pain of separation when I\u2019ve already been physically separated for months? The once distinct line between high school and the rest of my life feels blurred by my \u201ccoronacation.\u201d We are living in a period of uncertainty: scared for our health and the health of our loved ones, the economy, the state of our world. But there are also smaller uncertainties taking their toll: will I graduate? What day of the week is it? Are itchy eyes a sign of corona or allergies?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In my transitional moment--I\u2019ve finished school, but I haven\u2019t graduated; I\u2019m still an SAR student, but I\u2019m \u201cout in the real world\u201d working on my Senior Exploration project-- I sit down to study Ezekiel. I read how God unleashes his fury on false prophets, accusing them of being \u201cdaubers,\u201d or people who smear plaster on walls. God alleges that these false prophets \u201cmisled My people, saying, \u2018It is well,\u2019 when nothing is well, daubing with plaster the flimsy wall which the people were building\u201d (13:10). God proceeds to compare these prophecies to flimsy and hollow walls that will collapse in the inevitable rain and wind.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though the descriptions of hailstones, hurricanes and decimation that God promises to bestow on these \u201cwalls daubed with plaster\u201d are terrifying, there\u2019s something cathartic about God\u2019s complete wrath and certitude\u2014so different from the hollow and blurry state I feel trapped in now. In our unique time of pandemic, nothing is well, and sometimes the efforts to maintain normalcy feel like flimsy plastered walls. God\u2019s extreme anger and conviction to raze the plastered walls are a relief. The anger detailed in the verses and the acknowledgment that things are bad are paradoxically exactly what I need to reach a sense of calm and hope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And even more comforting is God\u2019s promise to the false prophets at the end of the chapter: \u201cI will save My people from your hands, and you shall know that I am the Lord\u201d (13:23). Even though promises of redemption seem hollow at this moment, God promised to save Israel in Ezekiel and there are millions fighting to save us now. 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Ezekiel is commanded to prophecy about the false prophets who \u201cfollow their own spirit\u201d (3), \u201cspoke worthless words\u201d (8), and \u201cbuilt a wall and smeared it with plaster\u201d (10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That God intends to punish these false prophets can\u2019t be a surprise to anyone. When God first introduced the concept of prophecy to Moses, He stipulated, <\/span>\u201cthe prophet that shall speak a word presumptuously in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die\u201d (Deut. 18:20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our sages posit two interpretations for what constitutes a false prophet. In one instance, it is someone who knowingly makes up prophecies and offers them as the word of God or manipulates the word of God to fit their own agenda. That is characterized as insidious behavior. The other is that a false prophet arises when someone\u2019s imagination deludes them into believing that they have the gift of prophecy and hear the word of God. But either way, the punishment for being a false prophet is the same. Why? Isn\u2019t the latter case a mistake?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein offers this explanation. Even if a false prophet was mistaken about a seemingly prophetic experience, if they were a good person, they would use whatever they thought they heard for good. But these false prophets took whatever they mistakenly heard or intentionally invented and used it to create \u201ca flimsy wall \u201c(v. 10). God points specifically to the false prophets\u2019 attempts to exploit the people\u2019s vulnerabilities and undermine the efforts of the true prophets whose intent was to elicit repentance. The false prophets tried to convince the people that there would be peace, and all would be well. That would certainly be the preferable message to hear when in dire straits, and thus the preferable prophet to follow. By intentionally creating divisiveness among the nation and preventing repentance among those who fell into their camp, they deserve the full punishment God intends.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This episode concludes with God commanding Ezekiel to tell these false prophets that their flimsy wall is going to fall apart, and the nation will understand that it had no foundation to begin with. 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Imagine you are living in Jerusalem in the early 6<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE. The mighty Babylonian army is approaching the city, but now, the city walls are intact. The Temple of the Lord is standing and a scion of King David sits on the throne.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A ferocious debate breaks out between two groups of prophets regarding the city. One group, led by Jeremiah and Ezekiel, counsels surrender to the Babylonians and submission to exile. The other group, following \u201ctheir hearts\u201d, recommends sitting it out and waiting till the threat passes. There will be peace, they say. (This policy has actually saved the city once before, when the besieging army of Sennacherib dissipated overnight).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Which group do you believe? The Torah provides a simple \u201ctruth test\u201d for determining who is a genuine prophet: \u201cIf the prophet will speak in the name of God and that thing will not occur and not come about--that is the word that God has not spoken\u201d (Deuteronomy 18:22). The problem with the \u201ctruth test\u201d however, is that one can\u2019t apply it until after the fact. What does one do while the issue is still in doubt? How does one know whom to follow?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel castigates the prophets of the peace camp. He reserves special scorn for the female prophets. These prophetesses are glimpsed engaged in domestic chores like crocheting cushions, while doubtless speaking in soothing, maternal tones to their onlookers. Everything will be alright, they say. Who would trust such women?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As Yoel Bin Nun points out, it was precisely the more \u201creligiously\u201d inclined among the population, the most possessed of \u201cemunah peshutah\u201d (simple, childlike faith), who were most likely to be persuaded by the peace camp. After all, what person of faith could fathom that God would permit His city to be breached, His temple to be destroyed, His beloved Davidic dynasty to be cut off?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel punctuates each section of his denunciation of the opposing prophets with \u201c\u2026and they shall know that I am the Lord.\u201d He doesn\u2019t say \u201cand they shall know that I, Ezekiel, was correct.\u201d God will prove His existence by NOT stepping in to rescue His people, and by letting history run its course, and punishment be meted out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That sounds very close to saying that God \u201cproved\u201d His existence during the Holocaust by letting 6 million Jews die!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So, what guidance do these chapters provide for us in future generations? Should we ALWAYS believe in the doomsayers over the Panglossians? Are science and reason always correct? Does the mightier army always win?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Should we believe in Jabotinsky who tours the Jewish communities of Europe on the eve of WWII, urging the Jews to flee? Or the rabbis who urge them to stay put? Do we listen to the CDC who tell us not to congregate in our synagogues, or follow the callings of our hearts to communal prayer?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe righteous man will live by his faith\u201d said Habakkuk (2:4). 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We have encountered false prophets on numerous previous occasions (see, in particular, Jeremiah 145:14 and 23:16-32). This chapter, however, is our first meeting with false prophetesses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After excoriating \u201cthe prophets of Israel who prophesy about Jerusalem and see a vision of well-being for her when there is no well-being\u201d (16), God next instructed Ezekiel as follows: \u201cAnd you, O mortal, set your face against the women of your people, who prophesy out of their own imagination; prophesy against them\u201d (17). Radak explained: \u201cThey say that they speak with the Holy Spirit, saying this one will live and that one will die; this will occur to someone for better or worse. They perform acts of magic but claim that they acquire their knowledge through prophecy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moshe Greenberg, making a fine, but incisive, grammatical observation, pointed out that the Hebrew uses two different forms for what is translated as \u201cprophecy.\u201d The latter\u2014the instruction to Ezekiel\u2014is <\/span>hinnavei<\/span><\/i>, which is used for verbal prophesying, while the women\u2019s activities are described as <\/span>mitnab\u2019ot<\/span><\/i>, which is used to describe external prophetic behavior, such as signs of possession. Both Greenberg and Radak, then, would have us regard these women as more fortune-tellers than prophets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Through painstaking literary analysis, lining up verses 2-15 opposite 17-23, Greenberg demonstrated the equivalence between Ezekiel\u2019s rebuke of the \u201ccounterfeit\u201d male prophets and his remonstrations with their female counterparts. Once again, we can appreciate his melding of the traditional with the historical-philological approaches.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Each in their own way vitiated the oracles of God and Ezekiel\u2019s mission. The counterfeits [i.e., false prophets] diverted the people\u2019s minds from the impending doom, and thus guaranteed it. Next, the prophet rebukes women who vitiated the effect on individuals of his warnings as a lookout\u2026 These women did not warn but told fortunes\u2026 Through divinatory rituals in which they invoked God, they usurped the prophet\u2019s privilege of declaring who would live and who would die (Anchor Bible <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 243-4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The prophets whose messages run counter to those of Ezekiel are divided into different groups, whose order in the text may reflect their respective popularity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first argument that was commonly used against Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy was that, with time, his words would lose their relevance. It was enough for these opponents to remind their listeners that warnings as to the destruction had also been voiced in the past, and the passage of time showed that \u201cthat which was, is that which shall be\u201d: Jerusalem would not be destroyed. God\u2019s response is that before long their own claim will lose its relevance. The prophecies of the Destruction of Jerusalem will be realized soon, in their own days.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second group that Ezekiel targets with his words consists of those who claim that their message is prophecy from God, while in fact they are making up their prophecies from their hearts. This shows even more clearly how complicated Ezekiel\u2019s prophetic mission was. The difficulty in differentiating between true prophets and false ones arose from the fact that these were not two completely distinct and separate groups; they were not easily distinguishable from each other.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this prophecy Ezekiel compares the false prophets to foxes (or jackals) reminiscent of the lamentation that follows the destruction in the book of Lamentations. Through their misleading words, the prophets have made themselves like the foxes that would soon wander among the ruins of the Temple. Ezekiel thereby connects the false prophecies with their results. Over the generations the fox came to symbolize the cause of the Destruction, the Destruction itself, but also the hope of a future redemption and rebuilding.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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13:10 \u201cSurely because they misled My people, saying, It is well, when it was not well. The people was building a mere partition, and they daubed it with plaster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The subject of the verb in the Hebrew is simply \u201cit\u201d, but its antecedent has been introduced in the translation in order to avoid confusion. The Hebrew word <\/span>\u1e25ayits<\/span><\/i>, represented in this translation as \u201cmere partition,\u201d occurs only here; however, it patently derives from a root that suggests demarcating inside from outside. Both the etymology and the context indicate that it is a rather flimsy barrier, hence the addition of \u201cmere\u201d in the translation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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\u201cFoxes in Tanakh\u201d<\/a> by Stacey Vankeuren: The fox as a symbol and its meaning in Tanach<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Ezekiel 13","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"13","chapter_main_number":"465","date":"20270610","wall_id":"465"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":16,"id":"73625","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 13 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 13","slug":"points-to-ponder-ezekiel-13","old_id":"73625","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"465","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. Where<\/em>? Where are the prophets prophesying - in Babylonia or in Jerusalem? Perhaps both? From the punishment it seems that they are in Babylonia: \u201cThey shall not remain in the assembly of My people, they shall not be inscribed in the lists of the House of Israel, and they shall not come back to the land of Israel\u201d (9). But perhaps the prophets in verses 10-17 who prophesy to Jerusalem are in a different group, acting in the city.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The art of whitewashing<\/em>. The people, cut off from reality and from God\u2019s word, are likened to those building a wall. The false prophets plaster it, strengthen it, and give it its outer appearance. But if there is no truth to it - then it\u2019s just whitewashing. The rain will come and wash off the plaster, and even ruin the wall (verses 10-15).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Hunting the people down<\/em>. The prophetesses are said to engage in <\/span>tzayid nefashot<\/span><\/i>, hunting people (literally \u201csouls\u201d or \u201clives\u201d), and God promises to release those caught by their wiles. Their very tools and dress are described as part of the traps that must be ripped away to free the entrapped souls (see the \u2018pads\u2019 and the \u2018bonnets\u2019 - verses 18, 20-21).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Values in conflict<\/em>. The prophets disrupt Ezekiel\u2019s mission in the realm of political-theological consciousness. The prophetesses impede his mission as the watchman, that is, as the one who warns the evildoer about the implications of his actions so that he takes revenge (details in chapter 3).<\/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 13","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":"13","chapter_main_number":"465","date":"20270610","wall_id":"465"},"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\/73376"}],"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=73376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}