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Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who distinguishes between the holy and the profane, between light and darkness, between Israel and the nations, between the seventh day and the six working days. Blessed are You, O Lord, who distinguishes between the holy and the profane.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The last of the blessings of the end-of-Shabbat Havdalah service focuses on the special separation of the Shabbat from the rest of the week, and how that separation is symbolic of the way that Israel is separate from the rest of the world. This separation is due to the unique connection between the people and God and the special rules that set the nation apart.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 22 shows that that separation has not only disappeared, it has been obliterated. The first half of the chapter goes into gory detail about the evil that is committed in Jerusalem. Every law that was meant to separate the people from the nations around them has been transgressed. At the end of the chapter, God points the finger squarely at the religious leadership:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Her priests have violated My Teaching: they have profaned what is sacred to Me, they have not distinguished between the sacred and the profane, they have not taught the difference between the impure and the pure, and they have closed their eyes to My sabbaths. I am profaned in their midst (verse 26).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The failure of the priestly class to live up to the ideals of the Havdalah to keep the people separate and holy has led to the city\u2019s downfall.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This chapter climaxes in God\u2019s exasperated search for an antidote against the destructive consequences of His anger. After surveying the governing classes of Israelite society for leadership, be they spiritual\/moral (prophets - v.25; 28), cultic (priests - v.26), or political (officials - v.27), the search fails. God\u2019s \u2018search\u2019 demands an individual to \u201crepair the wall, or stand in the breach, before Me in behalf of this land that I might not destroy it.\u201d (v.30). Previously Ezekiel accused false \u201cdegenerate prophets\u201d of failure to provide this very strategy for they \u201cdid not enter the breaches and repair the walls for the House of Israel.\u201d (13:5) What kind of action does this metaphor uniquely call for? And why doesn\u2019t Ezekiel, himself qualify?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God announced unleashing indiscriminate destruction which \u201cwipes out both the righteous and the wicked\u201d (21:8-9), directly contravening God\u2019s self-proclaimed rejection of collective punishment, \u201cthe righteousness of the righteous shall be accounted to him alone and the wickedness of the wicked to him alone\u201d (18:20). Though the breached wall is commonly understood as Israel\u2019s corrupt behaviour needing corrective guidance, it is far more radical in intent. Since God initiates punishment, it is God who has breached the city\u2019s walls and is about to wreak total destruction. The \u201cbreach\u201d is God\u2019s own betrayal of justice, of the \u2018wall\u2019 which should protect the innocent but now exposes them to the same fate as the guilty. The people need an Abraham who first challenged God on this very principle protesting God\u2019s intent to annihilate the innocent and the guilty of Sodom (Gen 18:25). Yet there was no Abraham to be found.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, the metaphor demands more to rescue Israel, requiring both a \u201crepair\u201d of the wall and actually becoming part of the wall by \u201cstanding in the breach.\u201d Abraham mounted a repair of God\u2019s breach, offering a moral standard of individual culpability for God to consider instead of collective punishment. However, \u201cstanding in the breach\u201d requires the self-sacrifice that would place oneself as a barrier between the enemy and the people. The Bible singles out only Moses as having \u201cstood in the breach\u201d against God\u2019s destructive wrath (Ps. 106:23) referencing his confronting God at the Golden Calf episode, personally placing himself on the line. He rejected God\u2019s offer of a glorious future to replace the annihilated community (Deut. 9:14) and posed an ultimatum: either forgive the people or \u201cerase me from the record\u201d (Exod. 32:32). Yet, there was no Moses to be found.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What of Ezekiel? When commissioned to prophesy the very message that endorsed collective punishment, in one of his extremely rare personal reactions Ezekiel fears \u201cthey will say of me \u2018He is just a maker of parables\u2019\u201d (21:5) Rather than challenge God in the mold of Abraham and Moses he was concerned only about his reputation, of being perceived a mere poet rather than the more prestigious prophet. There was no Ezekiel to be found!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The people of Israel are punished with exile because of their sins against God and against each other.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It's hard to punish:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"I am unable to punish,\" a teacher told me recently, \"Despite their unruly behavior - I give my students endless opportunities to mend their ways, and then I feel failure.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A frustrated father shared his feelings with me: \"As I am threatening him, I know I will not enforce the threat. And worst of all - my son understands this well when he looks me in the eye.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"I don't want to hurt her.\" explained a young mother, \"After all, what she did was not so bad\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are two rules that should, in my view, be a condition for a punishment to be successful:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Viewing the act that was done as undermining the fundamental values that we are trying to convey.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The ability to \"turn over a new leaf\" in terms of the relationship with the person being punished, after punishing him\/her.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    I found supporting evidence for these two rules in today\u2019s chapter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \"Behold, I will strike My hands over the ill-gotten gains that you have amassed, and over the bloodshed that has been committed in your midst\"(22:13).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Lord strikes His hands together in pain for the murder committed among the people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    God does not punish us for small and marginal acts and when He does punish, He has no regrets, as modern parents and educators do, for the suffering that will be caused\u00a0 to our \"delicate souls.\" God\u2019s regret is for the damage that we do, and for how we have spoiled the world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The appropriate foundation for a punishment is an educational position that comes to fix a broken world.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201cYou shall be dishonored in the sight of nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD\u201d (22:16).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Rashi explains the word \u201cdishonored\u201d to mean \u201cto be shocked and horrified.\u201d\u00a0 The Jewish nation ought to be ashamed of its actions, but also needs to know that there is the option to correct its ways (according to the explanation of the Malbim).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    A punishment that is given wisely and for the right reasons, has the power to bring about learning and to enable a new connection and beginning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Translated by: Chava Wilschanski<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":74279,"alt":"","title":"ez22-punishment","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"Of Punishments","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The wrong kind - and the right","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":74279,"alt":"","title":"ez22-punishment","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-punishment-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"22","chapter_main_number":"474","date":"20270623","wall_id":"474"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":5,"id":"74281","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Ezekiel And The Torah ","post_title":"Ezekiel And The Torah","slug":"ezekiel-and-the-torah","old_id":"74281","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. 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    The Talmud records the following: \u201cR. Yehudah said in the name of Rav. That man, Chananiah ben Hezekiah, should be remembered favorably, for were it not for him the Book of Ezekiel would have been hidden away, because it contradicted the Torah\u201d (BT Hagigah 13a). Implicitly, he rescued it from oblivion by resolving the ostensible contradictions (which, according to Rashi, pertained specifically to sacrificial matters).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    We may also recall that Eliezer of Beaugency, in his introduction to the book, explained why Ezekiel chose to date himself by the discovery of the Torah during the reign of Josiah, noting: \u201cBecause there is no prophet who chastised his generation regarding Torah and mitzvot more than he did.\u201d In this chapter, we can see the extent to which Ezekiel relied on the Torah in his words of rebuke.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    God instructed Ezekiel to arraign the city of Jerusalem on account of its abominations (2), which were prompting neighboring countries to \u201cscorn [her] and besmirch [her] name\u201d (5). In vs. 6-12, the list of charges brought against her is drawn largely from Leviticus 18-20 and from Deuteronomy. R. Yosef Kara, younger colleague of Rashi, whose commentary we have encountered previously, matches each charge to its Torah source. (There are a dozen entries; I have selected several. The full list, in English, can be found in Moshe Greenberg: <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 467.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I wrote in my Torah: \u201cYou shall not murder,\u201d but they shed blood [v.4], and blood defiles the land, as it says: \u201cYou must not pollute the land\u2026 you must not defile the land\u201d (Num. 35:33f.).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I wrote in my Torah: \u201cHonor your father and your mother\u201d (Lev. 19:3), but they\u2014\u201cfather and mother they dishonored in you\u201d [v.7].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I wrote in my Torah: \u201cYou must keep my Sabbaths\u201d (Lev. 19:3), but they despised the holy things and desecrated the holy days\u201d [v.8].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I wrote in my Torah: \u201cYou must not go about as a slanderer\u201d (Lev. 19:16), but they went about slandering even in order to shed blood\u201d [v.9].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I wrote in my Torah: \u201cYou must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer\u201d (Num. 35:31), but they \u201chave taken bribes in you in order to shed blood\u201d [v.12].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u2026 It has thus been demonstrated that they transgressed everything written in the pericope of Kedoshim [Lev. 19-20]; hence they are called, at the beginning of this prophecy, \u201cImpure of name\u201d [v.5].<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":74282,"alt":"","title":"ez22-leviticus","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","width":938,"height":638,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus-300x204.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":204,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus-768x522.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":522,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","large-width":938,"large-height":638,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","1536x1536-width":938,"1536x1536-height":638,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","2048x2048-width":938,"2048x2048-height":638,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","post_full_size-width":938,"post_full_size-height":638,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus-617x420.jpg","home_baner-width":617,"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":"Ezekiel And The Torah","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Leviticus as a rap sheet","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":74282,"alt":"","title":"ez22-leviticus","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","width":938,"height":638,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus-300x204.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":204,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus-768x522.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":522,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","large-width":938,"large-height":638,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","1536x1536-width":938,"1536x1536-height":638,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","2048x2048-width":938,"2048x2048-height":638,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus.jpg","post_full_size-width":938,"post_full_size-height":638,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez22-leviticus-617x420.jpg","home_baner-width":617,"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":"22","chapter_main_number":"474","date":"20270623","wall_id":"474"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"118971","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"The Tanakh Podcast-Ezekiel22","post_title":"The Tanakh Podcast-Ezekiel22","slug":"the-tanakh-podcast-ezekiel22","old_id":"118971","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33692,"post_title":"Alex Israel","slug":"33692-2","old_id":"33692","first_name":"Alex","last_name":"Israel","description":"Alex Israel teaches Tanakh at the Pardes Institute, Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi and Matan, Jerusalem. 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    As William Shakespeare wrote in Twelfth Night, \u201cSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them\u201d. The circumstances of our lives may change the way that we achieve our potential, and some of us may find ourselves achieving things far beyond what we might have imagined for ourselves. But behind this famous quote lies a great truth: each one of us is capable of greatness. Though not all of us dream of becoming heroes of changing the world, we each contain infinite potential. We might find that it comes naturally to us, we might have to work for it, and we might suddenly find ourselves pushed to our potential.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But even if we are born great, we still have the free will to choose how to direct our lives. This means that those who seem to be born with natural gifts and abilities to lead and heal may end up causing damage, or turning their potential for bad uses. And when we squander our potential, or we fail to put ourselves in situations that will allow us to thrive, we risk the fate of the princes of Israel described in verse 6: every one of the princes of Israel used his strength for bloodshed, and God destroyed their kingdom as a result.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In fact, God places the blame not just on the princes for misuse of their power, but on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: \u201cOh city in whose midst blood is shed\u2026. you stand guilty of the blood you have shed\u201d (verses 3-4). If each of us can have the potential for greatness, each of us can also have the potential for evil. And while we might claim that simply allowing evil in our midst is a little like having evil thrust upon us that we do not participate in, when it comes time for the Ultimate Judgement, the bystanders will be judged with the perpetrators.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Though we may not be royalty, we should all see ourselves as leaders who can set the tone for our society. All it takes for society to be consumed by bloodshed and evil is a small group of leaders who fail to achieve greatness. If we do not see our leaders set an example, we all become guilty of their sins, even passively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Our charge is double, then. We must strive to be leaders in our society, striving for greatness even if we do not feel we were born with it. And we must push everyone around us to seek greatness too. 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    Chapter 22 is one of the harshest rebukes in the prophetic literature. Ezekiel continues themes developed from chapter 20, with the emphasis now on interpersonal sins, not ritual or religious failings. To prove his point, Ezekiel heavily borrows from courtroom terminology. The first 16 verses are the indictment of Jerusalem, the next six verses are the judgment of destruction, while the explanation of the guilty verdict comprises the chapter's conclusion. The litany of sins that Ezekiel accuses and rebukes the people of in this chapter include shedding blood, dishonouring their parents, extortion and abuse of orphans, widows, and strangers, slander, accepting bribes, engaging in forbidden sexual relations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In order to explain his judgment, God used the analogy of refining silver. This recalls the Torah's description of Egypt as an \"iron furnace\". According to this metaphor, the sufferings in Egypt served to purify us from our sins and impurities. The process that God describes is similar \u2013 the silver metal, along with all its impurities (copper, tin, lead, and iron), was heated up in a shallow, porous clay or bone container. When the refiner would blow a stream of air across the container, the impurities would produce a dross on the surface of the liquid silver, as all of the impure metals rise to the surface. Ezekiel describes how God melts down His own people, and when blowing across the surface of the container, it is the Jews who remain in Jerusalem who rise to the surface! They will be discarded as waste.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In this passage, Ezekiel is wrestling with a common belief held by his audience, the exiles in Babylon. The greatest punishment that the Torah prescribes upon sinners, starting with the Garden of Eden, is exile. After the first exile of 597 BCE (in the time of Jeconiah), there were two communities of Jews \u2013 those with Ezekiel in Babylonia, and those who remained in Israel. Ezekiel's listeners could be forgiven if they believed that they were the dross, the rejected ones, while those who remained behind in Israel were the pure and righteous. This attitude hampered Ezekiel's ability to convince his listeners in Babylonia that God wanted to continue His relationship with them, that their actions were meaningful. They felt that they had been rejected, removed from God's land. Otherwise, God would not have chosen to exile them and leave the others Israel. To this, Ezekiel has to explain that the opposite is true. 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    22:30 \u201c\u2018And I sought from them a man to mend the fence and stand in the breach before Me for the sake of the land so as not to destroy it, and I found none.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    That man would be the authentic prophet, who speaks truth to the people and acts to turn them from their evil ways and thus averts God\u2019s assault on the city through the very breaches that the people have made. Ezekiel, of course, is speaking about Jerusalem while himself prophesying in Babylonia. There is no recognition here of his older contemporary Jeremiah, surely a man who tried to stand in the breach. Ezekiel would have known, or at least heard about, Jeremiah before he himself was exiled in 597 B.C.E.\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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    1. Holy you weren\u2019t<\/em>. Abominations in Jerusalem: social transgressions, desecration of Sabbaths and holy things, impurities, forbidden relations. All the things that the Holiness Code (Lev. 19-20) warned against (see verses 6-12).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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