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I must be nuts to take on Ezekiel\u2019s instructions to Mount Seir (Edom). As the IDF continue to hunt down Hamas, accusations of genocide fire at them from all corners of the world. It can be a losing battle informing friends that some of their terminology is straight out of the Soviet propaganda manual. \u201cHow ironic. Israel is <\/span>literally<\/span><\/em> the number one disseminator of propaganda,\u201d they reply. They\u2019re never going to read Jake Wallis Simon\u2019s <\/span>Israelophobia<\/em> <\/span>(2023) or hear a word against the UN, so I can only do so much when they break the What\u2019s App ceasefires I request. But I will try my best to do Ezekiel 35 some justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In retaliation for handing Israel over to the Babylonian sword (5), the LORD is going to render the Edomites null and void (3). For their bloodthirsty and ancient hatred, blood shall pursue them (6). Their bodies will fill the valleys and watercourses (8). Their towns will lay empty, forever uninhabited (9). All because Edom wanted to possess \u201cthe two nations and the two lands\u201d (11) and \u201crejoiced when the heritage of the House of Israel was laid waste\u201d (15). Which rings a bell.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Academic Israel-haters are fragile, ever threatened by cognitive dissonance. Hovering between posturing and the indignance of the oldest hatred, they self-proclaim as \u201canti-zionist\u201d, not that other word. They might generously concur that the Jewish State has a right to exist but simultaneously clamor, \u201cThey should give them all their land back.\u201d Even those who, in a pinch, admit rape is bad, regret to inform you that the oppressors had it coming. It is Israel\u2019s response to October 7th that has decimated the two-state solution which past and present Palestinian leadership have apparently worked tirelessly to negotiate. So naturally if Hamas promises to repeat their \u201ccounter-offensives\u201d, they\u2019re just expressing their \u2018nuanced subjectivities.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel articulates an equal retribution that the decolonizer will fear justifies an eye for an eye. That same activist calls terrorism \u201cresistance\u201d and employs other Orwellian vocabulary that the Palestinian Authority\u2019s Ministry of Information published to replace<\/span> \"the Israeli and American dissemination of poisoned terms.\"<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cI will act with the same anger and passion that you acted with in your hatred of them,\u201d says the LORD (11). This indeed envisions categorical annihilation. Call me a sucker for listening to what Israel\u2019s spokesmen tell the global media. Call me brainwashed for believing it is going out of its way to minimize civilian casualties by attempting evacuation strategies. But no matter how tragic the loss of life in Gaza is, Israel\u2019s retaliation does not follow these exilic extremes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The current campaign by air and ground creates a shocking level of desolation. While the graduate class opines over moral relativism, disciplined men and women attempt to eliminate an enemy that glorifies in the deaths of its own women and children. The only rule it plays by is manipulation. And when they\u2014by whom I mean the Hamas militants and leaders\u2014are destroyed, the whole world may truly rejoice (14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Assuredly, as I live, declares the Sovereign GOD, I will doom you with blood; blood shall pursue you; I swear that, for your bloodthirsty hatred, blood shall pursue you (verse 6).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this short chapter, Ezekiel returns to confronting other nations. This time, he focuses on Edom. Because of Edom\u2019s connection to Esau, and to the color \u201cred\u201d (<\/span>adom<\/span><\/em>), the nation is often linked to blood imagery. The word blood is repeated four times in verse 6 showing the centrality of this image.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The last part of the verse is ambiguous, however. Rashi translates it as \u201cyou hated blood\u201d. According to Rashi, Ezekiel is referencing here Esau\u2019s rejection of his birthright. Because he hated the idea of having to sacrifice to God, he rejected the blood of sacrifice. Others posit that Esau rejected the blood of circumcision as part of his rejection of the birthright. In this reading, Ezekiel is either saying that Edom tried to avoid blood, but blood will still follow them, or that this rejection of the birthright was disingenuous because Edom is still steeped in blood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The problem with this reading is that the verse would then read as if God is punishing Edom for rejecting the birthright. That does not seem to fit with the idea that the punishment is due to Edom harassing Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim divorces this from the story of the past and focuses on the emotion. He does not read it as \u201cyou hated blood\u201d but instead reads it as \u201cyour hatred was for blood\u201d. Edom did not have any real reason to hate Israel. They did not fear an attack because they were outside the border. They only hated Israel for the sake of hatred. Metzudat David sees this as an \u2018eye for an eye\u2019 scenario. Because Edom did not reject murder and bloodshed, murder and bloodshed will pursue the nation. These last two readings fit into the theme of the chapter. In either case, Edom is being punished for their lust for blood that guided their attack on Israel or for their gratuitous hatred of Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In 25:12, Ezekiel chastised Edom \u201cbecause Edom acted vengefully against the House of Judah and incurred guilt by wreaking revenge upon it.\u201d We noted, there, that Edom\u2019s participation in the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem is elaborated on in greater detail in the Book of Obadiah, and cited in Psalm 137:7: \u201cRecall, O Lord, of the Edomites, of the day of Jerusalem, who cried \u2018raze it, raze it\u2019 to its very foundation.\u201d Here, Ezekiel turned again to Edom (Mt. Seir) with a lengthy tirade of doom that lasts through the entirety of this chapter and has its continuation in the first half of the following chapter (36:1-15), which is addressed, in complementary fashion, to \u201cthe mountains of Israel\u201d (36:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The difference is that the key term in the earlier prophecy was revenge, and the picture it painted was that of a spiteful Edom that welcomed the opportunity created by the Babylonian invasion to avenge itself on its erstwhile brother, Israel. Here, however, the subject was Edom\u2019s expansionist aims and the oracle of doom uttered against it by Ezekiel describes how it will be laid desolate on account of its attempt to lay claim to the desolated highlands of Israel. The future desolation of Mt. Seir then serves as the prelude to the eventual restoration of the mountains of Israel in 36:16-38.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Edomite enmity is described in 35:5 as \u201can ancient hatred\u201d (\u2018<\/em><\/span>eivat `olam<\/span><\/em>), the very term attributed to the Philistines in 25:15. Moshe Greenberg noted:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Long-held ethnic grudges are a feature of the biblical world; e.g., I Sam. 15:2 (against Amalek), with reference to Exod. 17:8-16; Deut. 23:4-7 (against Ammon and Moab). Counterbalancing these are long-held memories of ethnic favors: e.g., Deut 23:8 [Egypt!]; I Sam 15:6 [the Kenites]. The hatred of Seir\/Edom\/Esau originated, according to Israelite tradition doubtless known to Ezekiel, with Jacob\/Israel\u2019s usurpation of his twin brother\u2019s first-born blessing (Gen 27:41: \u201cEsau hated Jacob on account of the blessing\u2026\u201d). 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The animosity between the brothers Jacob and Esau has a long afterlife in Jewish literature. Esau is understood to be the progenitor of the nation of Edom, with which the Israelites were often in conflict. In Rabbinic thought, Edom becomes conflated with the leviathan of the Roman Empire; then, because of the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of Rome, in medieval Jewish thought Edom became the symbol of Jewish oppression by Christians. At least some of the bitterness here was due to the sense of familial estrangement: Christianity and Judaism sharing roots, as did Jacob and Esau, but differing bitterly over who is the rightful heir.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the 35th chapter of Ezekiel, the prophet turns to castigate the Edomites for their cruel opportunism in the downfall of the Israelites. Edom \u201charbored an ancient hatred and handed the people of Israel over to the sword in their time of calamity,\u201d during the Babylonian invasion (35:5). This act of betrayal is remembered in other Biblical texts as well, such as the psalm which contains the anguished petition that God \u201cRemember\u2026against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem\u2019s fall; how they cried, \u201cStrip her, strip her to her very foundations!\u201d (Psalms 137:7) Moments like this, coupled with the aforementioned tendency to conflate Edom with later enemies of the Jewish people, fed a reluctance to give up this rivalry even though the Edomites as a people have long since vanished from history.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In light of this seeming inability to forget the past, it is worth attending to a moment in Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy against Edom. The Edomites are condemned because they \u201c<\/span>harbored an ancient hatred<\/span><\/i> and handed the people of Israel over to the sword\u201d (35:5). It was this careful cultivation of a grudge\u00a0 which led the Edomites to the cruelty they displayed during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem. Such grudge-keeping is ultimately deleterious, corroding the character of the one who refuses to forget, if not to forgive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is worth noting that the Torah itself actually forbids holding grudges against those whom we might be most disposed to do so: \u201cYou shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your kinsman. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land\u201d (Deuteronomy 23:8). Other grievances (such as those with the Amonites, Moabites, and with Amalek) are treated more unforgivingly, leading to places in the tradition which evince discomfort: finding a way to accept the Moabite Ruth as the ancestor of King David, for example, or transforming the mitzvah to wipe out Amalek into a call to purge ourselves of the cruel opportunism of which Amalek is made a mere symbol. 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35:6 \u201c\u2018Therefore, as I live, said the Master, the LORD, I will surely turn you into blood, and blood shall pursue you. In blood did you hate, and blood shall surely pursue you.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew is terrifically compact and the meaning thus not entirely certain. What stands out is the triple insistence of \u201cblood\u201d in this verse. It is a way of emphasizing Edom\u2019s bloodguilt: they shed the blood of Israelites, and now a fate of blood will befall them, bloodthirsty enemies will pursue them. The Hebrew for \u201cblood,\u201d<\/span> dam<\/span><\/i>, may play on <\/span>Edom<\/span><\/i>.<\/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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Although it seems that this prophecy is directed to Edom, it is actually addressed to Israel. The shared historical background of Israel and Edom, on one hand, and the habitation of the Edomites to the south of Judah, on the other, presented a religious challenge.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The nation\u2019s fear that God preferred Esau prevailed until the beginning of the return to the land. Even after the Second Temple was built by the returnees, the status of the Edomites \u2013 the descendants of Esau \u2013 caused the Israelites to doubt their own status in God\u2019s eyes. This seems to be an echo of the fear that the Divine choice of Jacob over Esau is not an eternal choice but that God might change His mind. The impression arising from Ezekiel\u2019s response is that the nation feels that perhaps now, following the destruction of the Temple, after it has been made clear that Israel did not uphold the covenant with God, God will continue His covenant with Abraham via the sons of Esau, rather than through the descendants of Jacob.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The hostility between Israel and Edom throughout the generations grew even stronger during the years of Ezekiel\u2019s prophecies, owing to the active participation of some Edomites in shedding the blood of Israel during the Destruction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To alleviate the fears of the nation, Ezekiel prophesied the destruction and desolation of Edom as a punishment for their abuse of the remnant of Judah. The mountains of Israel will be rebuilt on the ruins of Mount Se\u2019ir.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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  1. Edom\u2019s guilt<\/em>. From the prophecy of Ezekiel, as well as other sources (such as the Book of Ovadia and Psalm 137), we learn that Edom was not a passive spectator during the destruction. On the contrary. Rather than helping the refugees from Judah, they treated them cruelly, and only worsened the situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. My enemy, my brother<\/em>. Edom and Judah of course are the great- great- great- great- (etc.) grandchildren of Jacob and Esau, those twin brothers, whose competition, jealousy and even hatred were such a big part of the stories of their lives. The history of the neighboring kingdoms of Judah and Edom continues the painful family saga, including the emotional elements.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. There still is someone in charge<\/em>. The Edomites think that they can inherit Canaan, since Israelite sovereignty has ended. The prophecy emphasizes that while there is no flesh and blood sovereignty, the territory is anything but \u201cunoccupied,\u201d for \u201cthe LORD was there\u201d (verse 10).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. I heard that<\/em>! God hears all. All of Edom\u2019s verbal abuse, and plans. See verses 13-14. He heard - and He will react.<\/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 35","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":"35","chapter_main_number":"487","date":"20270712","wall_id":"487"},"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\/75112"}],"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=75112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}