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\u201c[God] spoke to the figure clothed in linen and said, \u2018Step inside the wheelwork, under the cherubs, and fill your hands with glowing coals from among the cherubs, and scatter them over the city.\u2019 And he went in as I looked on\u201d (verse 2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel\u2019s vision continues with a vision of the source of the burning of the city and Temple. God instructs the man in linen to grab coals from between the cherubs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why coals? The burning coals that are normally with the cherubs are part of the Yom Kippur service. The high priest would enter the Holy of Holies only once a year and would bring a pan with incense burning from fiery hot coals. It is possible that God instructed the man in linen to take these coals as another symbolic gesture to show that the destruction of the temple and the city was a direct result of the actions of the people. The Yom Kippur service is meant to absolve the people of their sins, but their sins were so great that the very coals that were meant to heal, are now being used to destroy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A burning coal from between cherubs also appears in Isaiah 6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then one of the seraphs\u2014who had taken a live coal from the altar with a pair of tongs\u2014flew over to me, touched it to my lips, and declared, \u2018Now that this has touched your lips, Your guilt shall depart and your sin be purged away\u2019\u201d (Isaiah 6:6-7).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the use of the coals here is a sign to the people that they did not heed the word of the prophets who for all of these years were purified by the word of God. Now the very same coal will lead to the destruction of the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi notices a difference between the command and the action. In verse 2, the man in linen was told to take the coals directly, but in verse 7, the cherubs hand him the coals:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And a cherub stretched out a hand among the cherubs to the fire that was among the cherubs; he took some and put it into the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi explains that the man in linen had the coals handed to him to allow them to cool slightly. This meant that the fires that burned the city would not be so strong as to completely destroy everything.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In chapter 10, Ezekiel has visions of the heavenly cherubs:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cI looked, and on the expanse over the heads of the cherubs, there was something like a sapphire stone; an appearance resembling a throne could be seen over them. He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, \u201cStep inside the wheelwork, under the cherubs, and fill your hands with glowing coals from among the cherubs, and scatter them over the city.\u201d And he went in as I looked on. Now the cherubs were standing on the south side of the House when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court. But when the Presence of the LORD moved from the cherubs to the platform of the House, the House was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the radiance of the Presence of the LORD\u2026The cherubs appeared to have the form of a man\u2019s hand under their wings. I could see that there were four wheels beside the cherubs, one wheel beside each of the cherubs; as for the appearance of the wheels, they gleamed like the beryl stone\u2026 Each one had four faces: One was a cherub\u2019s face, the second a human face, the third a lion\u2019s face, and the fourth an eagle\u2019s face.\u201d (Ezekiel 10:1-14)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These cherubs \u2013 <\/span>keruvim<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in Hebrew \u2013 appear in a few other locations in the Bible. Most notably, after Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden, God stations cherubs to prevent humans from returning (Genesis 3:24), and they were placed over the Ark in the Tabernacle (Exodus 25:18-22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Their exact nature is unclear. In the Tabernacle the cherubs had one face and two wings, but in our chapter, they have four faces and four wings. While we can\u2019t determine precisely what Ezekiel saw, we can look into the etymology of the word.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Linguistic scholars note that <\/span>keruv<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is related to the Akkadian <\/span>karabu<\/span><\/em>\u00ad <\/span><\/i>\u2013 \u201cto bless,\u201d and theorize that it may be related to the Hebrew <\/span>barech<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u2013 \u201cto bless\u201d (with the letters transposed.) This would indicate the cherubs were a \u201cprotective spirit\u201d \u2013 which could explain both their position in the Garden and in the Tabernacle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Keruv\u00a0<\/span><\/em>has another meaning in Hebrew: cabbage. They are not related etymologically, however. Cabbage does not appear in the Bible. It is first recorded in the Mishnah, having arrived in the Land of Israel around 275 BCE during the Greek conquest. The Greeks called cabbage <\/span>krambe<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(from a related Greek word meaning \u201cdry shriveling\u201d) and this eventually became <\/span>keruv<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in Hebrew.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later, the father of modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda coined the word <\/span>keruvit<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u2013 for the botanically related \u201ccauliflower.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While there is no linguistic connection between cherubs and cabbage, there is one open question that involves both. In the Hebrew version of Sesame Street, <\/span>Rechov Sumsum<\/span><\/em>, the Grover character is called \u201cKruvi.\u201d The etymology isn\u2019t clear. Some say it comes from \u201csmall cabbage\u201d, while others posit it means \u201clittle angel\u201d\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In Chapter One, Ezekiel described a four-sided creature with the faces of a man, a lion, an eagle, and an ox (1:10), that the Sages named the Merkabah (divine chariot). In this chapter, he repeated most of that description save that the ox was replaced by a cherub (14). Just what was a cherub, and why did it replace the ox?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Genesis (3:24), we encounter cherubs holding a \u201cfiery ever-turning sword,\u201d who were guarding the path to the tree of life. We next encounter them as objects that reposed atop the Ark of the Covenant, with the additional notation that they had outspread wings (Exodus 25:20), whose dimensions are given\u2014at the time of the construction of the Temple\u2014as a 10 cubits wingspan (1 Kings 6:24) and 10 cubits in height (6:26). The Israelites, on their way to battle the Philistines, took along the \u201cArk of the Covenant of the Lord of Hosts enthroned on the Cherubim\u201d (1 Samuel 4:4), an epithet that recurs in 2 Kings (19:15) and Isaiah (37:16), as well as in Psalms (80:2, 99:1). The pictorial representation of cherubs as children and the adjective cherubic meaning childish innocence seem to derive from the Ammora R. Abbahu\u2019s specious identification (or folk etymology) of the Hebrew <\/span>keruv<\/span><\/em> with the Aramaic <\/span>ke-ravya<\/span><\/em> - \u201clike a youth\u201d (Hagigah 13b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As for the substitution of a cherub for the ox, Radak related the Talmudic interpretation (Hagigah, op. cit.) that Ezekiel prayed for the removal of the bovine face because it was too reminiscent of the golden calf and contravened the rabbinic dictum that \u201ca prosecutor cannot become a defender.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*See also Raanan Eichler\u2019s essay: <\/span>What Kind Of Creatures Are The Cherubim?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":73482,"alt":"","title":"ez10-cherub","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","width":535,"height":681,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub-236x300.jpg","medium-width":236,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","medium_large-width":535,"medium_large-height":681,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","large-width":535,"large-height":681,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","1536x1536-width":535,"1536x1536-height":681,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","2048x2048-width":535,"2048x2048-height":681,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","post_full_size-width":535,"post_full_size-height":681,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub-330x420.jpg","home_baner-width":330,"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":"Cherubim - Take 2","tile_main_caption":"Face-off: From Ox to Cherub","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Not your familiar baby-face","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":73482,"alt":"","title":"ez10-cherub","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","width":535,"height":681,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub-236x300.jpg","medium-width":236,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","medium_large-width":535,"medium_large-height":681,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","large-width":535,"large-height":681,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","1536x1536-width":535,"1536x1536-height":681,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","2048x2048-width":535,"2048x2048-height":681,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub.jpg","post_full_size-width":535,"post_full_size-height":681,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez10-cherub-330x420.jpg","home_baner-width":330,"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":"10","chapter_main_number":"462","date":"20270607","wall_id":"462"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":5,"id":"73484","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Mysterious Tetramorph ","post_title":"The Mysterious Tetramorph","slug":"the-mysterious-tetramorph","old_id":"73484","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 deals extensively with the biblical Cherubim (<\/span>keruvim<\/span><\/em>). Here it becomes clear that the \u201cliving creatures\u201d of Ezekiel\u2019s opening vision (1:5 and following) are \u201cCherubim\u201d, first encountered guarding the Tree of Life and the way back into the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:24). Cherubim are described as covering the Ark with their extended wings (Exodus 25:18-20, 37:7-9). God is described as \u201c\u201cHe who sits enthroned upon the Cherubim\u201d (see I Samuel 4:4) and is said to speak from between the two Cherubim that are on the Ark (Exodus 25:22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While Ezekiel generally speaks of \u201cCherubim\u201d in the plural, they are sometimes referred to as a single Cherub (Ezekiel 10:3-4). This discrepancy may be resolved by Ezekiel initially having referred to the four \u201cliving creatures\u201d as each having four faces of man, lion, ox and eagle (1:5). Such a being is referred to as a \u201ctetramorph\u201d, four forms in one.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Josephus (Antiquities VIII 3.3) says that no one can even imagine what the Cherubim actually looked like.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talmud Bavil Sukkah 5b preserves an influential etymology of the Hebrew word for \u201cCherub\u201d (later depicted as a winged baby or cupid). Rabbi Abbahu said, Keruv is read \u201c<\/span>ke-ruv<\/span><\/i>-- Like a child\u201d, for in Babylonian Aramaic a child is called <\/span>rabia<\/span><\/em>. Hagigah 13b notes that in Ezekiel 1:5,10 one of the four faces of the \u201cliving creatures\u201d was a human face and another was \u201cthe face of an ox\u201d. While in Ezekiel 10:14 the human face (Ezekiel 1) is changed to the \u201cface of a Cherub\u201d \u2013 and the face of the ox is missing. Resh Lakish explains that Ezekiel changed the ox into a Cherub by asking God, can the accuser [i.e. the Golden Calf] become an advocate?! It is then stated that the human face and \u201cthe face of the Cherub\u201d are basically the same, but the human face is larger, while the \u201cface of the Cherub\u201d is smaller, i.e. the face of a child. According to later Jewish authorities, the two Cherubim mentioned in 2 Chronicles 3:10 were male and female (see Rashi and Malbim, there).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the 19<\/span>th<\/span> century, it was suggested that the Hebrew <\/span>keruv<\/em> <\/span>is related to the Assyrian <\/span>kirub<\/span><\/em> depicted as a winged bull with a human face. These beings sometimes serve as guardians to sacred spaces, as do the Cherubim who guard the way back into the Garden of Eden. The Biblical Cherub has also been identified with the Hittite Griffin, a legendary beast with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The history of the Cherubim extends not only back into ancient Near Eastern mythology, but also into the Messianic future. According to Midrash Tanhuma Buber (Beha\u2019alotekha 11), the Cherubim have been \u201cstored away\u201d to be restored when God rebuilds His Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cSources for Lurianic Cosmology, per Howard Schwartz\u201d<\/a> by Julie Danan: Understanding the Ari\u2019s philosophy\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cName \u05e9-\u05d3-\u05d9\u201d<\/a> by Blanka G\u00f3recka: Looking at one of God\u2019s unique names<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Chariot Throne and the Seven Celestial Sanctuaries 2\/23\/20\u201d<\/a> by Michael Howald: Looking at the Cruvim<\/em> in Tanach and mysticism<\/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 10","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":"10","chapter_main_number":"462","date":"20270607","wall_id":"462"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"73443","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 10 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 10","slug":"points-to-ponder-ezekiel-10","old_id":"73443","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":"462","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. Holy fire<\/em>. The fire for burning down Jerusalem was taken by God\u2019s command from the holiest place in the Temple. Whoever has been with Ezekiel from the beginning of this journey, and saw what was going on in the Temple, understands the significance of this. The Temple can\u2019t protect Jerusalem. In fact - the opposite. There is degradation in the Temple itself, and so the catastrophe and the punishment will start from there.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Looks familiar<\/em>. Some of the visuals in the chapter are familiar from chapter 1: \u201cThey were the same creatures that I had seen below the God of Israel at the Chebar Canal...they were the very faces that I had seen by the Chebar Canal\u201d (20-22).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. A picture is worth a thousand words<\/em>. The prophecy is in words of course, but it draws a picture. And the image of God leaving his home is the clearest wat to say: it\u2019s over. This is not the House where God wants to continue to reside. You\u2019ve crossed a boundary. And there is a boundary.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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