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In our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> we find Ezekiel sitting before a group of \u201celders of Israel\u201d (compare<\/span> chapter 8<\/span><\/a>). In lambasting them and others in Israel for their ongoing idolatry, Ezekiel delivers the<\/span> word of God<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus I will hold the House of Israel to account for their thought, because they have all been estranged from Me through their fetishes [<\/span>giluleyhem<\/span><\/em>, i.e. their idols] (verse 5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The idea that God holds the House of Israel to account even for their thoughts led to an important theological discussion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talmud Bavli Kiddushin<\/span><\/a> suggests that: \u201cI will hold the House of Israel to account for their thoughts\u201d seems to indicate that one can be punished for thoughts alone. However, Rav A\u1e25a bar Ya\u2019akov notes that this statement refers specifically to idol worship, \u201cas the Master says\u201d, Idol worship is very severe, as anyone who denies it is like one who admits the truth of the entire Torah. Conversely, one who embraces idolatry is considered to have rejected the entire Torah. Due to the severity of idol worship, one is punished even for contemplating the transgression of idolatry. This discussion is cited in the context of the idea that God only punishes sinful thought [<\/span>mahshavah<\/span><\/em>] that leads to actual transgression [<\/span>ma\u2019aseh<\/span><\/em>].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moreover,<\/span> Talmud Bavli Baba Batra<\/span><\/a> notes that one can hardly avoid having some \u201csinful thoughts\u201d [<\/span>hirhurey \u2018averah<\/span><\/em>] every day! And yet,<\/span> Talmud Bavli Yoma<\/span><\/a> notes that such \u201csinful thoughts\u201d are worse than sin itself [<\/span>hirhurey \u2018averah qashu me-\u2018averah<\/span><\/em>]. This seems to suggest that sinful thoughts are worse than the actual commission of sin itself. But it has also been suggested that sinful thoughts are worse because it is harder to put such thoughts out of one\u2019s mind than to actually avoid doing the sinful act and that contemplating doing something sinful does not lead to any \u201csatisfaction\u201d of actually having engaged in the forbidden behavior.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

Rambam<\/span><\/a> (Maimonides) rules that whoever accepts a false god as true, even when he does not actually worship it, disgraces and blasphemes [God's] glorious and awesome name. He elaborates on the Talmudic statement in his philosophical work,<\/span> Guide for the Perplexed<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is a well-known saying of our Sages, \u201cSinful thoughts are worse than sin itself.\u201d I can offer a good explanation of this saying: When a person is disobedient, this is due to certain accidents connected with the corporeal element in his constitution; for man sins only by his animal nature, whereas thinking is a faculty of man connected with his form, a person who thinks sinfully sins therefore by means of the nobler portion of his self.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In order to put sinful thoughts out of one\u2019s mind, Seder Eliyahu Zuta suggests that whoever \u201ctakes the words of Torah to heart\u201d (<\/span>noten divrey Torah \u2018al libo<\/span><\/em>) he is relieved of several types of anxiety, including \u201csinful thoughts\u201d (<\/span>hirhurey \u2018averah<\/span><\/em>) and \u201cthoughts of war\u201d (<\/span>hirhurey herev<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Even as God in Ezekiel 14 lists the punishments that He intends to send against Israel and the Jewish people due to their \u201cdisloyalty\u201d when they relied both on God and idolatry, he mentions several times that even the likes of \u201cNoah, Daniel, and Job\u201d (vs. 14, 16, 18, and 20) would be unable to fend off the difficulties with which God plans to plague the current generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is significant about these three biblical personalities?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim notes that while each of them is identified as an exceptional individual in his own generation (<\/span>Noah: Genesis 6:9; Daniel: Daniel 1:9, 20; Job: Job 1:1<\/span><\/i>) when it came to saving others from destruction\u2014a massive flood, the horrors associated with the razing of the Temple, children falling into the hands of marauding bands of thieves\u2014they were unable to do so. Each one was a \u201cTzaddik Im Pelz\u201d\u2014an individual who didn\u2019t feel the cold that everyone else was experiencing, because he wore a fur coat. Ezekiel is repeatedly told that such righteous individuals will only, at best, be able to save themselves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A comparison of Noah, Daniel, and Job with three other biblical personalities results in the realization that various generational leaders respond differently when confronted by sinners against God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abraham exposed and ultimately converted individuals to Judaism, as in the traditional interpretation of Genesis 13:4 -\u201c\u2026 and there Abram invoked God by name<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Aaron turned sinners into non-sinners by charismatically taking a personal interest in them, e.g.,\u00a0 Avot D\u2019Rabbi Natan 12:3 -\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Aaron was walking down the road, and he came upon a wicked person, he would wish him Shalom. The next day, when that man wanted to sin, he would say: Alas! How will I be able to look Aaron in the face; I will be so embarrassed when he wishes me Shalom. And so this man would stop himself from sinning\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And Moses unabashedly and logically pleaded with God to pardon the ne\u2019er-do-wells and give them another chance to mend their ways, e.g., Exodus 32:11-4:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Moses implored his God, saying, \u201cLet not Your anger, God, blaze forth against Your people, whom You delivered from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand. Let not the Egyptians say, \u2018It was with evil intent that he delivered them, only to kill them off in the mountains and annihilate them from the face of the earth.\u2019 Turn from Your blazing anger, and renounce the plan to punish Your people. Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, how You swore to them by Your Self and said to them: I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and I will give to your offspring this whole land of which I spoke, to possess forever.\u201d And God renounced the punishment planned for God\u2019s people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Noah, Daniel, and Job are not our only resources and role models; Abraham, Aaron and Moses also ought to be inspiring, and teach by their examples that one should never lose hope.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In chapter 14, Ezekiel tells the people in many ways that a remnant will be saved from the impending destruction and exile, and that they will be saved on their own merits. The merits of an individual will not save their families, their communities or the nation. In this description, Ezekiel invokes three unlikely people from elsewhere in the Bible: Noah, Daniel and Job. Why them? Why not Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, other exemplary leaders and prophets?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Throughout the Tanakh, which is a model for our later liturgy, our leaders invoke the merit of our ancestors as reason for God to save the Jewish people whenever we went astray. Repeatedly, God heard their supplications and saved the people. However, in Jeremiah and Ezekiel, God makes it unambiguously clear that our ancestors and God\u2019s reputation among the nations will no longer save Israel. We have strayed too far; God is too angry, hurt, disappointed. So, invoking Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses or other models of righteousness on whose behalf we have always pleaded will have no effect. We are on our own.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why Noah, Daniel and Job? These three people faced and survived catastrophe to begin again. Israel is now facing catastrophe, and must navigate what it means to begin again. Noah, Daniel and Job each faced a different kind of calamity. Noah\u2019s was global, the entire world was destroyed, only he and his family were saved. Daniel faced national crisis, the exile of the people of Israel. Job faced a personal catastrophe; he lost his family and fortune. The devastation the nation of Israel, and its individual members, faced requires different qualities than we value in other contexts.\u00a0 Crisis and beginning again require different personalities, behavior, role models.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What did Noah, Daniel and Job have to teach those suffering the destruction and exile and what do they have to teach us, still in the age of exile (even if we are in Israel)? Noah was \u201ca righteous man, blameless in his age.\u201d (Genesis 6:9). We all live and act in the context of our time and place. God does not expect us to live up to the examples of our heroes and leaders. We must, however, be righteous in our context.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Daniel was the first post-destruction exile leader. His story is a model for us as individuals about maintaining our national identity in exile. Through enormous personal tragedy, Job defended himself to friends and to God, and called God to account.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As we face today\u2019s global, national and personal crises, Ezekiel points us to our lesser known texts and heroes as models.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(With thanks to my son Yavni Bar-Yam for his ideas that appear here and that prompted this post).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cEven if these three men\u2014Noah, Daniel, and Job\u2014should be in it, they would by their righteousness save only themselves\u2014declares the Sovereign GOD\u201d (verse 14). Ezekiel mentions these three figures in Tanach. Why these three? Rashi explains that each of these saw three phases of the world. Noah saw the word built up, destroyed in the flood, and then rebuilt. Job saw himself built up, destroyed and then rebuilt. Daniel was a prince, then thrown into the lions den, then restored to the level of a prince. The message to the people is that they will be the same as these three. They lived through the Temple, the destruction of the Temple, and will now see the Temple rebuilt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The problem with Rashi\u2019s interpretation is that Daniel is contemporaneous with Ezekiel, and was most likely younger. The story of the lion\u2019s den takes place after the destruction of the Temple during the reign of Darius the Persian. It is possible that this prophecy of Ezekiel is out of place and may have been given much later on in Ezekiel\u2019s life. The book of Jeremiah was out of order, as were sections of Isaiah, so it is possible Ezekiel is also out of order. Another possibility is that this Daniel is not the Daniel from the book of Daniel, but another famous Daniel. That could also be stretched to mean that Job here was another famous Job, and Noah was also someone different. That does seem like an odd answer, but may be buttressed by the fact that it is odd that Ezekiel would reference Noah here who predated Abraham and the book of Job which has an uncertain date and who may or may not have been Jewish as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, there is something that links these three individuals to Ezekiel\u2019s era- they were all isolated among other people. Noah was a righteous man in his generation because his generation was full of evil. Job seems to live a solitary life, with his only friends only those who travel from far to talk to him. Daniel was a kidnapped prince who lived his whole life in royal captivity. All three of these individuals were able to maintain their connection to God despite not being in Israel or surrounded by their compatriots. Perhaps that is Ezekiel\u2019s message to those in exile. They may be separated from their land and their nation, but they can look to these role models to see that endurance is possible under these circumstances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cThe word of the LORD came to me: O mortal, if a land were to sin against Me and commit a trespass, and I stretched out My hand against it and broke its staff of bread, and sent famine against it and cut off man and beast from it, even if these three men\u2014Noah, Daniel, and Job\u2014should be in it, they would by their righteousness save only themselves\u2014declares the Lord GOD\u201d (vs. 12-14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God tells Ezekiel that the situation among the Israelites is so bad that even the most righteous people would be hard-pressed to save themselves, or even their families, let alone others. Two of the three figures He names, Noah and Job, had the reputations of righteousness. God declared to Noah: \u201cI have seen you righteous in this generation\u201d (Gen. 7:1), and He called Job \u201cperfectly straight, God fearing, and avoiding evil\u201d (Job 1:8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The medieval exegetes assumed that the Daniel mentioned here was the biblical Daniel, but while he was unquestionably a virtuous man, there are problems with his inclusion in this trio. First, unlike Noah and Job, Daniel is never distinguished in Scripture as distinctively righteous. Two, while the biblical Daniel was Jewish, Noah and Job were not. Three, as he was a contemporary of Ezekiel, it is unclear how that prophet\u2019s audience would even have known of him. I am not even sure that the reference here is to the biblical Daniel at all if we look carefully at the spelling of his name. While the biblical character is Da-ni-yel (with a <\/span>yod<\/span><\/i>), our third man is Da-ni-el (no <\/span>yod<\/span><\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Curiously, there was a Daniel who fit all these criteria: a reputedly righteous non-Jew of antiquity. He was a king mentioned in a Canaanite myth known as the Epic of Aqhat, his name was Dan\u2019il, and he is described there as an ideally righteous ruler. This identification is possibly reinforced by the solo reference to Da-ni-el in 28:3, a prophecy that is directed specifically towards the King of Tyre (<\/span>Tzor<\/span><\/i>), a Canaanite city.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The consensus of the medievals is that the common denominator among these three is that each survived a catastrophe: Noah, the flood; Daniel, the destruction of the Temple; and Job, the manifold disasters that befell him. And Moshe Greenberg, while accepting the identification with the Ugaritic Dan\u2019il, nevertheless noted: \u201cHere they serve to underline the ruthless, rigorous discrimination God exercises when he punishes a wicked community\u201d (Anchor Bible <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 258).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Deep into the books of prophecy, Ezekiel, seemingly out of the blue, references three stories from very different places in Tanakh.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cIf these three men\u2014Noah, Daniel, and Job\u2014should be in it, they would by their righteousness save only themselves\u2014declares the Lord GOD\u201d (verse 14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Different historical moments, varied geographical locations. What do Noah, Daniel and Job have in common with one another and why would the prophet reference them?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi explains: \u201cFor these three, saw three worlds: a world built, a world destroyed, a world rebuilt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Noah. Job. Daniel. Each one saw the world they were born into destroyed. That destruction itself became a world. Finally they saw a new world rebuilt in the aftermath. Living in the Babylonian exile, Ezekiel hints to his listeners that they too are in a similar position. A great world. Destroyed. And will be rebuilt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

My teacher, Rav Yehuda Amital, founding rosh yeshiva of Har Etzion - who was born in the simple and pious world of pre-war Hungary, survived the horrors of the Shoah, before moving to Israel where he became a significant political figure and a great religious leader\u00a0 - would quote this Rashi to describe his own life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2018I have seen in my days \u2013 in the words of the Sages \u2013 a world built, a world destroyed, and a world rebuilt. I have seen Jews taken to Auschwitz, and I have seen Jews dancing at the declaration of the State. I have seen the victory celebration after the six-day war, and I have been with soldiers in Suez. I have lived a very long life in a very short space of time\u2019<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Learning this chapter in the days between Yom HaShoah and Yom Ha\u2019atzmaut gives us a sense of the poetry of Jewish history. Like Noah, Job and Daniel, the story of the Jewish people in the 20th and 21st century is of a world built, a world destroyed, and a world rebuilt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The prophet begins by describing the famine that will befall the city; then the wild animals that will pass through the land, followed by the sword, and finally, the pestilence. Describing these imminent afflictions raises the question of whether any righteous people will survive the onslaught.\u00a0 And if so, might their families\u00a0 also be saved in their merit, as in similar situations described in the Torah?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophetic response to this question is that if indeed there are any righteous individuals to be found in the city, they alone will be saved. The inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be saved by virtue of the righteous present there. Through the comparison to Noah, the anticipated Destruction seems even more devastating than the Flood. Noah saved his entire family, but now even that possibility does not exist.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ultimately, there are some survivors of the destruction of Jerusalem. But they are left alive not by virtue of the righteous individuals, but because of God\u2019s desire that the terrible actions and the resulting punishment of the inhabitants of the city be made known.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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14:14 \u201cAnd these three men shall be within her, Noah, Daniel and Job. They in their righteousness shall save their lives, said the Master, the LORD.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is now clear to all scholars that here Daniel does not refer to the protagonist of the Book of Daniel. One should note that the consonantal text allows us to pronounce this name as <\/span>Dan'el.<\/span><\/i> In the Ugaritic Epic of Aqhat, there is a righteous judge named <\/span>Dan\u2019el<\/span><\/i>. These three figures, then, are three legendary righteous men, none belonging to the people of Israel. Job\u2019s presence among the three reflects the fact that a story about a righteous man named Job was current in the region well before the composition of the Book of Job. The non-Israelite identity of the three is in keeping with the generalizing force of the declaration, \u201cwhen a land offends against Me,\u201d which is to say, any land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cThe Jewish Response to Refugees\u201d<\/a> by Noah Farkas: A collection of sources about the Jewish view towards refugees\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cMystical Aspects of the Book of Job By: Rabbi Moshe P. Weisblum\u201d<\/a> by the Union for Traditional Judaism: Sources regarding the authorship and content of the Book of Job<\/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 14","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":"14","chapter_main_number":"466","date":"20270613","wall_id":"466"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":13,"id":"73721","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 14 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 14","slug":"points-to-ponder-ezekiel-14","old_id":"73721","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":"466","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. Speech and not silence<\/em>. The sinners request a prophetic word, and are answered. Even rebuke is a sort of communication. And in a relationship, that is much better than the silent treatment.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The lure<\/em>. Who tempted the prophet? Verse 9 has an answer that has challenged commentators and scholars: \u201cit was I the LORD who seduced that prophet.\u201d Check it out.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Who are you - Noah, Dan(i)el and Job?<\/em> Noah, from the Ark - a \u201crighteous man in his generation (Gen. 6). Job, he was: \u201cblameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil\u201d (Job 1 - in 283 chapters). Who was Daniel (as it is read), or Dan\u2019el (as it is written)? Apparently he was another familiar character whose integrity and righteousness were well-known. Researchers identify him with the character Dan\u2019il, a mythic Canaanite righteous judge. Those who read his name Daniel, would like to see him as the main character of the Book of Daniel (the one which begins in another 364 chapters).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. What do Noah and Job have in common<\/em>? Both have a sort of universal identity - not a national one. Both lived through a catastrophe. Neither were leaders involved with a public - but basically dealt with their household. Are there any additional messages? You are invited to come up with more on your own.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The salvation will be completely individual<\/em>. We have already heard in Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy in his vision in Jerusalem (ch. 9) that the expected punishment for Jerusalem will not be collective. Whoever is deemed worthy will be saved from the imminent catastrophe. But this chapter takes the individual rescue a step further. The righteous will be saved by themselves. They won\u2019t even be able to save their own children. In contrast to Noah who was able to save his sons from the Flood on the Ark, and to Lot, who saved his daughters from Sodom and Gomorrah, in Jerusalem, justice will be done on a completely case-by-case basis.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. The remnant.<\/em> The righteous will be saved alone. But in addition to them there will also remain an evil remnant. Not because they are deserving, or because the righteous protected them. 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