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Like Jeremiah before him, Ezekiel takes time to attack the false prophets who lead the people astray. God names specific individuals who have caused severe damage as leaders. What message were the leaders trying to impart with their instructions? That message comes in verses 2-3, translated here as:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0[The LORD] said to me, \u201cO mortal, these are the men who plan iniquity and plot wickedness in this city, who say: \u2018There is no need now to build houses; this [city] is the pot, and we are the meat.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there is a disagreement among the commentators as to what their statement means means. Rashi believes that the verse should be translated as follows: \u201cwho say: \u2018It is not near. Build houses; this [city] is the pot, and we are the meat.\u2019\u201d These individuals instruct the people to build houses and not worry about the words of the prophets, because that message is not nigh. Instead, the city is like a pot that is cooking meat. The meat must stay in the pot until it is finished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to Malbim, these leaders were not as rash as Rashi had them, but they were still indifferent to the imminent destruction. He interprets the verse as follows: \u201cwho say: \u2018Do not build houses close to the walls of the city; this [city] is the pot, and we are the meat.\u2019\u201d Malbim sees this verse as a tactical instruction by the leaders. They believe the walls of Jerusalem will save them, and in the meantime, to be safe, the people should refrain from building houses next to the wall. Just like one should keep meat from the searing hot sides of a pot, the people should stay out of direct harm that is adjacent to the walls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The translation here (JPS TAnakh) sees the dilemma as hearking back to the advice of Jermiah to surrender to the Babylonians: \u201cwho say: \u2018There is no need now to build houses; this [city] is the pot, and we are the meat.\u2019\u201d These leaders instruct the people that now is not the time to build houses. Instead, the people must use all of their resources to prepare for war against the Babylonians. The hope was that the city could be a last stand against the empire who would be burned in the heat of the defense of the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In each of these interpretations, the leaders of the city have grossly misread the current situation and their faulty advice will result in its destruction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Imagine a time when you were devastated, consumed by grief- when you might have described yourself as \u201cbroken-hearted\u201d. In that moment, what would you have given to take away your pain? Would you have been willing to forgo your ability to feel, in order to not feel this pain?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Once we know how much it hurts to grieve or suffer shame and loss, we might be willing to give away our hearts, to close ourselves to all emotion, rather than risk feeling heartbreak again. A<\/span>s researcher Brene Brown says<\/span><\/a>, \u201cwhen you ask people about love, they\u2019ll tell you about heartbreak.\u201d We cannot escape the fact that sometimes love leads to heartbreak and loss. One of the ways we deal with this vulnerability is that we numb it. In Ezekiel\u2019s language, we try to trade our vulnerable hearts of flesh for a heart of stone, hard and unbreakable. If our heart cannot be hurt, we cannot be hurt. Stone is impervious, much harder to break than flesh, so we try to numb or harden our hearts to mitigate our risk.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But, as Brown cautions, we cannot selectively numb emotion. When we try to hide ourselves from pain and loss and shame, we also numb our ability to feel joy and love. The hard-heartedness of this chapter of Ezekiel is born of the Israelites\u2019 unwillingness to be vulnerable enough to risk suffering. They try to convince themselves of their own security, to tell themselves that they have what they need. But in doing so, they harden their hearts and turn a blind eye to suffering\u2026 and they lose out on the opportunity to experience redemption. The sinners of Israel are the ones who cannot allow themselves to be brave and vulnerable. They eschew temporary pain, but it will only bring them long term suffering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we fulfill the vision of Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy in verse 19, and we swap our hearts of stone for hearts of flesh. It is an act of tremendous courage, and in Brown\u2019s words, courage means to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart, to be willing to be imperfect and to suffer. The replacement of our heart of stone with a heart of flesh does not pretend to protect us. We will not be safer, or necessarily even happier if we allow ourselves to be vulnerable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Instead, we will be more human. 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Jerusalem \u201cis the pot, and we are the meat\u201d (11:3), its leaders would proclaim. These were the leaders who resisted doomsday prophecies of conquest, who refused to accept peacefully the inevitability of Babylonian rule. They insisted instead that there was no imminent threat, that they could go ahead and build houses to enjoy for years to come (first half of verse 3, according to many commentators) \u2013 because their sturdy \u201cpot\u201d would protect them from fire, keeping them safe within all the way until their deaths.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The metaphor of meat being protected by the pot in which it cooks, however, doesn\u2019t seem all that reassuring. I\u2019m reminded of the (not very politically correct) cartoons of my youth in which hapless characters would stumble upon some cannibalistic tribe and engage in shenanigans as they came to realize their impending doom and escape. Picture it: Main character runs through the jungle to escape some predator, let\u2019s say, and encounters a native who invites him \u2013 with a gleam in the eye obvious to the audience \u2013 to take shelter in this large cauldron, under which a fire is then lit and into which savory vegetables are then added. \u201cDon\u2019t worry; this will keep you safe from the jaguar. You can even stay for dinner. We insist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The safety offered by a pot to its meat turns out to be an illusion, as is the security of those who refused to accept the prophet\u2019s warnings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim\u2019s reading perhaps alludes to the double-edged \u201csafety\u201d of meat stewing in a pot. Most commentators split the first half of verse 3: \u201c[the danger] is not close; build houses!\u201d Malbim, however, sees a partial warning: \u201cdon\u2019t build houses close\u201d \u2013 i.e. close to the city walls. Because just like meat will burn if stuck to the sides of the pot, houses at the edge of town might well succumb to enemy attacks. Perhaps even those who insist the pot will protect them cannot ignore the danger inherent in the pot itself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As the prophecy continues, the metaphor is turned against those who utilized it in spreading a false sense of security: \u201cThe corpses that you have piled up in it are the meat for which it is the pot; but you shall be taken out of it\u201d (verse 7); \u201cThis [city] shall not be a pot for you, [nor] you the meat in it\u201d (verse 11). Because they denied prophetic warnings, these leaders are held responsible for the deaths of those whose bodies will be contained within the \u201cpot,\u201d and will themselves suffer out in the open, far from even the illusion of a protective metal barrier.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or, in another reading of verse 11, the pot won\u2019t be protective like they thought, though they will indeed find themselves as meat within it \u2013 meat that \u201cfalls apart and melts\u201d (Metzudat David).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hiding in a pot might seem safe, but those who see the bigger picture know anyone inside will just end up as a tender stew.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":73517,"alt":"","title":"ez11-cauldron","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron.jpg","width":1920,"height":1720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-300x269.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":269,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-768x688.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":688,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-1024x917.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":917,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1376,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-1200x1075.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1075,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-469x420.jpg","home_baner-width":469,"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":"False Sense Of Security","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The safety offered by a pot to its meat turns out to be an illusion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":73517,"alt":"","title":"ez11-cauldron","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron.jpg","width":1920,"height":1720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-300x269.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":269,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-768x688.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":688,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-1024x917.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":917,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1376,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-1200x1075.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1075,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez11-cauldron-469x420.jpg","home_baner-width":469,"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":"11","chapter_main_number":"463","date":"20270608","wall_id":"463"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":5,"id":"73506","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"One Heart ","post_title":"One Heart","slug":"one-heart","old_id":"73506","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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Our chapter begins with Ezekiel being lifted up by \u201cthe Spirit\u201d and transported in visionary experiences from Babylonia to Jerusalem (11:1) and then ends with him returned to Babylonia (verse 24) where this set of visions concludes. In the first part of our chapter, Ezekiel prophesies against the wicked counselors in Jerusalem predicting their doom. As Ezekiel is prophesying, one of these wicked counselors, Pelatiah son of Benaiah, suddenly drops dead. Immediately, Ezekiel falls on his face and asks God if He intends to wipe out what remains of the people of Israel (verses 4-13). God reassures Ezekiel: \u201cI will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the Land of Israel. And they shall return there\u2026I will give them one heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove the heart of stone from their bodies and give them a heart of flesh, that they may follow My laws and faithfully observe My rules. Then they shall be My people and I will be their God\u201d (verses 17-20).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later, God repeats this promise: \u201cAnd I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit into you: I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh; and I will put My spirit into you. Thus, I will cause you to follow My laws and faithfully to observe My rules. Then you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be My people and I will be your God\u201d (Ezekiel 36:26-28).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here, we may hear an echo of the Flood Narrative (Genesis Chapters 6-8), in which lawlessness and moral corruption leads to doom and destruction, followed by purification of the Land and a new beginning of lawfulness by Noah and those with him who survived the Deluge in the Ark.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Note that the \u201cone heart \u2013 lev eha<\/span>d<\/span>\u201d mentioned in our chapter, in the early Jewish Septuagint Greek translation is replaced by the graphically similar \u201cother heart \u2013 lev ahe<\/span>r<\/span>\u201d. \u201cOther heart\u201d does seem a more suitable parallel to \u201cnew spirit\u201d in our chapter and in chapter 36. But the description of all those returning from Exile to the Land of Israel as having \u201cone heart\u201d (i.e. being of one mind) provides a powerful metaphor for spiritual and political unity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophetic promise of national unity finds memorable expression in Psalm 133: \u201cHow good and how pleasant it is that brothers dwell together in unity (gam yahad) \u2026 upon the mountains of Zion. 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The people of the city concede that difficult times are on their way. But the people nevertheless maintain that even if they \u201ccook\u201d in the fire of the troubles that await them, they will be saved from annihilation, just as meat in a cauldron is saved from burning. Thus the people prepare themselves for the siege, certain however that they will prevail.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God\u2019s response emphasizes that despite their claim, they are destined to be brought out of Jerusalem and be judged on the border of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After these prophecies of destruction, Ezekiel transmits the promise that the exiles are destined to return to their land. God will bring back His people to the land in the future, but without the people having repented. So God Himself will have to give them a new heart of flesh that will ensure that henceforth they will follow God\u2019s laws. While superficially this appears to be a prophecy of consolation, in fact it actually offers little comfort.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The chapter concludes with God\u2019s glory departing not only from the Temple, but also from the city of Jerusalem. Any hope of the people finally internalizing the message of Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy is shattered by God\u2019s statement depicting the people as rebellious.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Posted in conjunction with hatanach.com. For full article, <\/span>see here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The chapter begins with the prophet\u2014in a vision\u2014viewing some of the officials of Jerusalem, \u201cwho are the men who plan iniquity and plot wickedness in this city, who say: \u2018There is no need now to build houses; this [city] is the pot, and we are the meat\u201d (2-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Before we get to the pot and the meat, let us take a closer look at the beginning of v.3. The translation we have utilized (JPS) understood the officials as opposing new construction in the city. Likewise, Moshe Greenberg (Anchor Bible <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 187), taking v.8 into the equation (\u201cyou feared the sword, and the sword I shall bring upon you\u201d), also suggested interpreting the verse as opposition to wasting precious resources on building homes when they were sorely needed for the defense of the city.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, the medieval exegetes understood it otherwise. Rashi, Kara, and Radak all parsed the sentence as two separate items: The prophecy of doom was not yet due (\u201cno need now,\u201d see Ezekiel 12:27: \u201cHe prophesies for the distant future\u201d), therefore it was okay to undertake new construction (\u201cbuild houses!\u201d). Whether to favor the medieval or modern interpretation awaits our resolution of the remainder of v.3: What is the Pot and Who is the Meat?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi, et al, in keeping with their earlier parsing, identified the pot with the city of Jerusalem and the meat with its inhabitants, yielding: \u201cWhy not build when we are all stuck in the city anyways?\u201d However, Malbim, who was never reluctant to go his own way, parted company from the medieval interpretation. He identified the pot specifically with the walls of the city of Jerusalem and had the officials warning the people not to build close to it because that increased the danger to them, just as you don\u2019t let meat get too close to the sides of a pot lest it burn.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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11:15 \u201c\u2018Man, your brothers, your next of kin, and all the house of Israel to whom the dwellers of Jerusalem have said, \u2018Go away from the LORD. To us the land has been given as an inheritance.\u2019\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The designation \u201cnext of kin\u201d is adopted from Greenberg. The literal sense is \u201cyour redemption people,\u201d that is, the people who because of their kinship are legally obliged to redeem property that has been somehow alienated from a person. (Compare the \u201credeeming kin\u201d in the Book of Ruth). The mention in the next verse of God\u2019s having \u201ctaken them far away among the nations\u201d indicates that these are the exiles. The self-satisfied residents of Jerusalem want to dissociate themselves from their exiled brothers, claiming exclusive rights to the land: \u201cGo away from the land. To us the land has been given as an inheritance.\u201d\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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\u201cThe Chariot\u201d<\/a> by Shlomo Einhorn: Looking closer at the chariot in Ezekiel\u2019s vision<\/p>\r\n

\u201cEzekiel: Part 1-Temple and Core Beliefs\u201d<\/a> by Kenneth Chelst: Analyzing the beliefs of the Israelites in the time of the first Temple<\/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 11","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":"11","chapter_main_number":"463","date":"20270608","wall_id":"463"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":12,"id":"73493","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 11 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 11","slug":"points-to-ponder-ezekiel-11","old_id":"73493","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":"463","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. The Shechina is leaving; the misdeeds remain<\/em>. There is no possibility for good neighborliness between God and the abominations that are committed in the Temple. There has been no redress. God is not willing to continue to dwell in a House full of wrongdoing.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. What are they saying in Jerusalem<\/em>? In verse 3 we hear what the Jerusalemites think of themselves. In verse 15 we hear what the Jerusalemites think of the exiles - that they have distanced themselves from God, and thus were punished, and that those who remained were given the land as an inheritance. This understanding is diametrically opposed to Ezekiel\u2019s explanation of the power relations between the two communities, and the situation of those settled in Jerusalem. Note that the prophecy is intended for the exiles, and not for the Jerusalemites.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The pot of meat<\/em>. Jerusalem is the pot and the people are the meat. That saying of the people is only the beginning. 13 chapters from now (Ezekiel 24) - it will become a spine chilling allegory.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The saving remnant<\/em>. Why does the prophet conclude (verse 13) that what has happened implies a decree to destroy the remnant?\u00a0 Perhaps because in his world of words and allegories, the death of Pelatiah is liable to be seen as symbolizing the <\/span>she-erit hapleitah<\/span><\/em>, the surviving remnant.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Open heart surgery<\/em>. Who is the patient, and what exactly is the procedure? See verse 19. <\/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 11","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":"11","chapter_main_number":"463","date":"20270608","wall_id":"463"},"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\/73378"}],"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=73378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}