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Chapter 37 is one of the most famous chapters in Ezekiel- the valley of the dry bones. Ezekiel is brought to a valley of bones, and God performs a miracle. The bones begin to regrow their flesh and walk around. The message from God is that the nation may seem dead and destroyed, but one day they will come back to life. The chapter is also a basis for the concept of the resurrection of the dead during the messianic era, which is one of Maimonides\u2019 central tenets of Jewish faith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The chapter is also well known in Christian circles because of the resurrection theme. Despite this, the chapter does not appear in many paintings. The etching here is by Gustave Dor\u00e9, a 19<\/span>th<\/span> century French artist. Dore was known for his prints for the Vulgate Bible. Dore\u2019s print shows the progression of the resurrection with the skeletons in foreground. The scattered bones in the front of the picture may be skeletons that do not warrant resurrection or it could be the very early stages of reanimation. The skeleton with his arms stretched out in a robe is an interesting character. Perhaps this was meant to depict a noble or leader that was punished for his actions, but now has a chance to come back. It is also possible that the artist was dropping a hint at Jesus\u2019 resurrection with the robed figure having its arms stretched out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As the picture moves inward, the skeletons gain flesh and turn into humans. The skeletons seem to be going through a painful metamorphosis. Their bodies depict painful contortions and movement. Dore draws Ezekiel in the background. His robes are flowing in a way that makes them look almost like angel wings. One would not be wrong to think the figure in the back was a depiction of God overlooking the resurrection. This could be a way to show the power the prophet had or it could also be a depiction of God. The resurrected figures in the background seem to be reaching out towards the figure. If it is God, then these hands may be stretched out in prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sky behind Ezekiel also parts with the sun shining through. This is also symbolic of the return to greatness after a dark storm. Ezekiel does not seem thrilled in this picture, although he does not seem startled either. It is almost as if Dore believed that Ezekiel may have been upset that God would forgive the people who acted so wickedly. Both prophet and resurrected do not seem happy with what is going on. There seems to be much pain in this transformation. This could be symbolic of the repentance that these individuals had to go through to be able to warrant such a miracle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> includes Ezekiel\u2019s famous narrative of the Resurrection of the Dry Bones (verses 1-14):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God\u2019s hand came upon me. I was taken out by the spirit of God and set down in the valley. It was full of bones\u2026O mortal one, these bones are the whole House of Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This striking episode is dramatically depicted in the 3<\/span>rd<\/span> century CE<\/span> frescoes<\/span><\/a> of the<\/span> Dura Europos Synagogue<\/span><\/a> discovered in 1932 in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The<\/span> Talmud Bavli<\/span><\/a> preserves an extensive discussion of this Biblical text. The anonymous Gemara suggests that the idea of the resurrection of the dead might be derived from the dry bones that Ezekiel resurrected. But it might be reasoned that Ezekiel\u2019s depiction of the dry bones that came to life was \u201cin truth a parable,\u201d i.e., not actually a physical reality from which the nature of resurrection can be derived. Rabbi Eliezer (1<\/span>st<\/span> -2<\/span>nd<\/span> century CE) countered this by saying that the dead that Ezekiel resurrected stood on their feet and recited a song to God but then again died. And what song did they recite? \"The Lord kills with justice and gives life with mercy\u201d.\u00a0 Rabbi Yehoshua argues that the song they recited was Biblical: \u201cThe Lord kills, and gives life; He lowers to the grave and elevates\u201d (<\/span>I Samuel 2:6<\/span><\/a>)\u2026Rabbi Eliezer, son of Rabbi Yosei HaGalili added that not only was it not a parable, for the dead that Ezekiel resurrected went up to <\/span>Eretz Yisrael<\/span><\/i>, married wives and fathered children. Whereupon Rabbi Yehuda ben Beteira stood on his feet and said: \u201cIndeed, I myself am one of their descendants, and my <\/span>tefillin<\/span><\/i> were left to me by those who were resurrected by Ezekiel!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Gemara goes on to discuss who the dead were that Ezekiel resurrected. For example, Shmuel says that the dead that Ezekiel resurrected were specifically those who had denied the Resurrection of the Dead, for it is written that the dead had said: \u201cOur bones are dried up. Our hope is gone. We are doomed\u201d (<\/span>Ezekiel 37:11<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to<\/span> Midrash Genesis Rabbah<\/span><\/a>, when the righteous ones die outside of <\/span>Eretz Yisrael<\/span><\/i>, the Holy One makes tunnels in the ground for them as channels, and they roll along in the tunnels until they reach <\/span>Eretz Yisrael<\/span><\/i>. The Holy One, blessed be He, then returns to them the spirit of life and they come back to life. As it is written: \u201c\u2026Thus said the Lord God: I am going to open your graves and lift you out of the graves, O My people, and bring you to the Land of Israel\u201d (<\/span>Ezekiel 37:12<\/span><\/a>). After which it is written:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You shall know, O My people, that I am God, when I have opened your graves and lifted you out of your graves. I will put My breath into you and you shall live again, and I will set you upon your own land. Then you shall know that I, God, have spoken and have acted, declares God (<\/span>Ezekiel 37:13-14<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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For modern Jews, the concept of the miraculous has been one of the most difficult parts of their religious inheritance. For many, the rise of modern science seems to rule out the possibility of such acts as the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, the stopping of the sun at Jericho, or the Hasmonean\u2019s cruse of oil. Some Jewish thinkers responded to this challenge by allegorizing the miraculous events in the Bible and Rabbinic literature. Others, without giving up the idea that such events really had occurred, claimed that in Judaism (as opposed to, say, Christianity), little turned on miracles. What all of these attitudes have in common, is the assumption that when we say \u2018miracle,\u2019 what is primarily meant is a sudden interruption in the working of natural law. However, without denying that there are moments in our texts which speak of miracles in that sense, it is far from clear that this is always the most important sense.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A good counter-example is to be found in Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy regarding the valley of bones, in which the prophet is given a vision of a mass resurrection of the dead. This would seem to be precisely the kind of impossible occurrence which so offends modern sensibilities, and which modern Jewish thinkers have, in embarrassment, turned to allegorize. But what is so striking about this prophecy is that here, the valence is reversed. The miraculous event which Ezekiel is predicting is the national regeneration of the Israelites, their return to the land and the reestablishment of a vibrant national life; resurrection is marshaled as a rhetorical device to convey this restoration. God is going to \u201clift you out of the graves, O My people, and bring you to the land of Israel\u2026I will put My breath into you and you shall live again, and I will set you upon your own soil\u201d (37:12-13). There is nothing <\/span>supernatural <\/span><\/i>about such a restoration, but it is an occurrence which the prophet takes to be a demonstration of God\u2019s sovereignty \u2014 in other words, a miracle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The modern mind is used to thinking about a \u2018miracle\u2019 as a magical occurrence, and the extension of the category to events which do not break natural laws as a case of metaphor. But in Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy, it is the \u2018ordinary\u2019 event which is the primary miracle, and the supernatural occurrence which is the metaphor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The idea that events which do not break the laws of nature have just as much right to the title of \u2018miracle\u2019 persists in Jewish thought. The <\/span>Shulhan Arukh<\/span><\/i>, in codifying the blessing on seeing a place where a miracle was done, mentions both \u201ca miracle that deviates from the pattern of nature\u201d and \u201ca miracle that is within the pattern and causality of nature\u201d (O.H. 218).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Texts like these testify to the powerful idea that God\u2019s power can sometimes be most obvious to us in moments when nothing \u2018supernatural\u2019 seems to have happened at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image: Abraham Rattner, In the Valley of the Dry Bones (study for \"Ezekiel\"), chinese ink, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Abraham Rattner, 1981<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":75245,"alt":"","title":"","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch.jpg","width":2000,"height":1368,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-300x205.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":205,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-768x525.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":525,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-1024x700.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":700,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1051,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch.jpg","2048x2048-width":2000,"2048x2048-height":1368,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-1200x821.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":821,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-614x420.jpg","home_baner-width":614,"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":"Everyday Miracles\u00a0","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Where all the rest is metaphor","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":75245,"alt":"","title":"","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch.jpg","width":2000,"height":1368,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-300x205.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":205,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-768x525.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":525,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-1024x700.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":700,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1051,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch.jpg","2048x2048-width":2000,"2048x2048-height":1368,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-1200x821.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":821,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-ARattner-vision-sketch-614x420.jpg","home_baner-width":614,"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":"37","chapter_main_number":"489","date":"20270714","wall_id":"489"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":5,"id":"75234","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Ezekiel\u2019s Vision Of Re-Creation ","post_title":"Ezekiel\u2019s Vision Of Re-Creation","slug":"ezekiels-vision-of-re-creation","old_id":"75234","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":74351,"post_title":"Noam Goldberg-Kellman","slug":"noam-goldberg-kellman-2","old_id":"74351","first_name":"Noam ","last_name":"Goldberg-Kellman ","description":"Noam Goldberg-Kellman is a senior at SAR High School and a recipient of Maharat\u2019s Emerging Scholars Award. 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Ezekiel 37, the ultimate End of Days prophecy, contains a display of resurrection, and a promise from God to Israel that they will eventually return to their land. But upon further examination of the parallels between Ezekiel\u2019s animation of the dry bones and the original Creation of Man in Genesis, I realized this prophecy represents more than a prediction about messianic times.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The chapter begins famously with God speaking to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones. God says to the bones \u201cI will cause breath (<\/span>ruach<\/span><\/em>) to enter you and you shall live again\u201d (37:5). The allusion to the original Creation of Man is hard to miss. In Genesis Chapter 2, the second description of God\u2019s formation of Man and Woman, the verse says, \u201cHe blew into his nostrils the breath of life (<\/span>nishmat chayim<\/span><\/em>), and man became a living being\u201d (Gen. 2:7). Though the Hebrew word for breath in Ezekiel literally translates to \u201cwind\u201d and the word in Genesis to \u201csoul,\u201d the process of granting life through breath is the same in both. The same is true for God\u2019s apparent involvement in both \u2018creation\u2019 stories.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Furthermore, the language describing the bones joining together in Ezekiel -\u201cbone to matching bone\u201d (37:7) -\u00a0 mirrors Man\u2019s exclamation in Genesis following the creation of Woman: \u201cthis one at last is bone of my bones\u201d (2:23). The verse in Genesis following this exclamation uses the word \u201ccling,\u201d or in Hebrew, <\/span>davak<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> to describe the bond between husband and wife. The literal meaning refers to Man cleaving to his wife so they become \u201cone flesh,\u201d (2:24) but the word <\/span>davak<\/span><\/em> lends itself to the Kabbalistic concept of <\/span>devekut<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>the highest spiritual connection one can have with God. The hint at <\/span>devekut<\/span><\/em> between husband and wife is appropriate to Ezekiel where husband and wife serve as the predominant metaphor for God and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The reference to <\/span>devekut<\/span><\/em> in a messianic context emphasizes the future relationship God hopes to have with His people (even though Ezekiel\u2019s re-Creation of Man is on a lower level than God\u2019s). Ezekiel can animate life with \u201cwind,\u201d but only God can imbue humanity with a soul. The parallels to Genesis explicate the complicated realities of resurrected beings. God values the resurrected people of messianic times just as he values humankind created in Genesis, but the resurrected are missing a divine quality: a soul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Valley of Dry Bones feels freaky and miraculous, and many commentators question its historical accuracy. But Ezekiel\u2019s skeletal construction of life foreshadows the marriage between God and Israel in messianic times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Ezekiel\u2019s magnificent prophecy of the \u201cdry bones\u201d and their return to Israel concludes: \u201c\u2026and I will place you in your own land; and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and performed it, says the Lord.\u201d (37:14)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Comments Rabbi Dr. S. Fisch in the Soncino Tanach: \u201cWhen the miracle of Israel\u2019s national revival is performed, the people\u2019s faith in God will be firmly established\u2026Israel\u2019s restoration could not be achieved by human power, but only by the spirit of God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Flash forward to May 14, 1948. The remnant of the Jewish people - those who survived the inquisitions and the pogroms and, having been given up for dead, the Holocaust - have been restored to their homeland. Now they stand on the brink of statehood.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ben-Gurion presides over a council meeting in Tel Aviv that is drafting the text of the new state\u2019s Declaration of Independence. Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon, leader of the Mizrachi party, insists that the God of Israel be mentioned in the document. Aharon Zisling, a founder of the Labor party, protests: \u201cI cannot possibly sign a document which refers to a God whom I do not believe in at all!\u201d Rabbi Maimon proposes that the concluding sentence begin \u201cPlacing our trust in the Rock of Israel and its Redeemer.\u201d His opponents counter that \u201cRedeemer\u201d can only refer to God. Ben-Gurion referees a compromise: Drop \u201cRedeemer\u201d and keep \u201cRock of Israel\u201d which each side can interpret as they will. Because it is late on Friday afternoon, erev Shabbat<\/em>, Rabbi Maimon agrees.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Natan Alterman\u2019s famous poem \u201cThe Silver Platter\u201d, written late in 1947, the people are depicted, \u201cheartbroken but breathing\u201d, standing in anticipation of a \u201cunique miracle.\u201d Were they expecting another Mount Sinai, another gift from on high? Perhaps they were conditioned in this hope by our text here in Ezekiel, and by others like it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But there was no miracle, no gift from on high. The \u201csilver platter\u201d upon which was served Israel\u2019s victory in the upcoming War of Independence\u2014and all of Israel\u2019s subsequent wars\u2014was Israel\u2019s own soldiers, its precious youth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who performed the major work of redemption in these battles: God? Or the battle-weary soldiers in Alterman\u2019s poem, the young boy and the young girl who \u201cfall in shadow\u201d at the people\u2019s feet?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One wonders: what if God really had presented us with the land of Israel on a \u201csilver platter\u201d? Would that have been sufficient to restore the \u201cGaon Yaakov<\/em>\u201d, the Jewish national pride that had been shattered in the Holocaust?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The State of Israel has enjoyed hardly a full day of peace since its inception and currently \u201cenjoys\u201d the opprobrium of much of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It turns out that reviving the dry bones and restoring them to their land was the easy part. Restoring the reputation of a tarnished and tardy God\u2014and persuading an often unconvinced Diaspora\u2014remain to be accomplished.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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After many years in Exile, God summons Ezekiel to relay to the prophet a grandiose vision. Ezekiel is commanded to look out onto the valley below, filled with many dry bones, and is asked to predict whether the bones will be revitalized. However, when the time comes to resurrect the bones, it is Ezekiel who is tasked with reviving the bones rather than God. What could have prompted God to employ Ezekiel as His partner in the orchestration of the vision?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel was primarily a prophet of gloom and doom and the one to foretell the downfall of the nation at the hands of the Bablyonian Empire. However, after the destruction takes place, Ezekiel slowly begins easing the nation to a place of comfort and redemption through prophecies of consolation in the latter part of the book. God perhaps deliberately chooses Ezekiel to show the nation that he can lead them out of their terribly low place of despair in Exile to a new reality, the same way Ezekiel is able to take the bones from the depths of the valley and transform them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The nation had a difficult time believing Ezekiel during his alarming prophecies of destruction. Perhaps on the most fundamental level, God wants to show them that Ezekiel is a partner in His process and is to be trusted.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moreover, Ezekiel once prophesied the \u201cimpossibility\u201d of the catastrophic Exile coming to fruition: where the nation could not even fathom the Babylonian conquest that was soon to come, and yet it came true. Here too, he is once again prophesying the inconceivable idea of redemption, that will soon come true.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel himself is a living example for the nation, who himself is able to fully pivot from prophecies of destruction to redemption, and thus illustrates to them how it is possible to rebuild a lost world, and once again, live life after the Exile.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":75239,"alt":"","title":"ez37-dark dawn","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn.jpg","width":1920,"height":1260,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-300x197.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":197,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-768x504.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":504,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-1024x672.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":672,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1008,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1260,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-1200x788.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":788,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-640x420.jpg","home_baner-width":640,"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":"From Doom To Dawn","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Pivoting from despair to hope, destruction to redemption","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":75239,"alt":"","title":"ez37-dark dawn","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn.jpg","width":1920,"height":1260,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-300x197.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":197,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-768x504.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":504,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-1024x672.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":672,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1008,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1260,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-1200x788.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":788,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ez37-dark-dawn-640x420.jpg","home_baner-width":640,"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":"37","chapter_main_number":"489","date":"20270714","wall_id":"489"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":8,"id":"75231","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Our Hope Is (Not Yet) Lost ","post_title":"Our Hope Is (Not Yet) Lost","slug":"our-hope-is-not-yet-lost","old_id":"75231","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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Ezekiel\u2019s description of the dry bones may be one of the best-known individual biblical prophecies. It is beloved of Christians (\u201cDem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones, all in the Valley of the Lord\u201d) and Muslims (Qur\u2019an 2:259: \u201c<\/span>Look at the bones, how We set them together, then clothed them with flesh\u201d), too.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of all the Jewish associations with the dry bones (including Yaakov Kirschen\u2019s comic strip), one predominates. Between 1882-1887, an early modern Hebrew poet named Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909) lived in Palestine. There, in Jerusalem, he published his first book of poems, <\/span>Barkay<\/span><\/em> (Morning Star), including one called <\/span>Tikvateinu<\/span><\/em> (Our Hope). Put to a popular Central European folk tune (akin to Smetana\u2019s \u201cMoldau\u201d), it was sung at the 6<\/span>th<\/span> Zionist Congress in 1903. In 1905, in Rishon Letziyon, the last two lines were changed from <\/span>lashuv le\u2019eretz avoteinu<\/span><\/em> (to return to the land of our ancestors) to <\/span>lihiyot `am chofshi be\u2019artzeinu<\/span><\/em> (to be a free nation in our land). It became the default anthem of the State of Israel, but its official status was not conferred by the Knesset until 2004.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The title, \u201cHatikvah\u201d (The Hope), derives from v. 11 of our chapter: \u201cAnd He said to me, O mortal, these bones are the whole House of Israel. They say, our bones are dried up, our hope is gone (<\/span>avda tikvateinu<\/span><\/em>) ; we are doomed.\u201d Building on the restorative nature of the continuation of the prophecy, Imber infused new life and spirit into Ezekiel\u2019s vision, and his poem confidently declares, <\/span>`od lo \u2018avdah tikvateinu<\/span><\/em>: our hope is not yet lost.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 37 was the last chapter that Moshe Greenberg prepared in his monumental commentary. There are printed editions of Rashi\u2019s commentary on Job, where in chapter 40 it says: \u201cHeretofore was Rashi\u2019s opus; henceforth, is not Rashi\u2019s language.\u201d This is attributed to Rashi\u2019s death at this point in his exegetical labors; the commentary on the balance of Job is attributed to later exegetes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel 37 might well bear a like notation attesting to the conclusion of Greenberg\u2019s commentary (chapters 38-48 in the Anchor series were edited by Stephen L. Cook). <\/span>As I wrote in the introduction to my comments on Ezekiel<\/span><\/a>, I had the good fortune not only to study with Moshe Greenberg, but to have been part of a class that served him as a laboratory while he was conducting his research and writing. He was widely recognized for his knowledge of the ancient Near East, coupled with erudition in classic Jewish rabbinic texts, and was almost single handedly responsible for securing academic recognition at the Hebrew University for medieval biblical exegesis (<\/span>parshanut<\/span><\/em>) as a scholarly discipline. May his memory be for a blessing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Go, son of man, go to the valley where<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Uncounted dry bones lie, and prophesize<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Before the withered bones and grant them eyes,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Flesh, skin and ears, and speak until they hear<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The rush of wind, for wind must reappear<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To give them life, allowing them to rise,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A living, mighty host that will comprise<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>An army which has overcome its fear.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For who can overcome the fear of death,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The fear that all our struggles are in vain?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Go, son of man, and prophesize before<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The scattered desert bones and grant them breath<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And grant them morning dew and grant them rain<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And grant them rivers with a verdant shore.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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How are we to understand the narrative in Ezekiel 37? Which \u201cdry bones\u201d are those ascending back to Jerusalem?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cHe led me all around them; there were very many of them spread over the valley, and they were very dry. He said to me, \u201cO mortal, can these bones live again?\u201d I replied, \u201cO Lord GOD, only You know.\u201d And He said to me, \u201cProphesy over these bones and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! Thus, said the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you and you shall live again. I will lay sinews upon you, and cover you with flesh, and form skin over you. And I will put breath into you, and you shall live again. And you shall know that I am the LORD!\u201d I prophesied as I had been commanded. And while I was prophesying, suddenly there was a sound of rattling, and the bones came together, bone to matching bone\u201d (Ezek. 37:2-7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Babylonian Talmud (b. Sanhedrin 92b) records a debate about the vision\u2019s meaning: \u201cRabbi Eliezer says: \u2018The dead whom Ezekiel resurrected stood on their legs, sang a song [of praise], and died.\u2019 Rabbi Judah says: \u2018In truth, it is a parable.\u2019 Rabbi Eliezer the son of Rabbi Yossi the Galilean says: \u2018The dead whom Ezekiel resurrected moved to Israel, got married, and had sons and daughters.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The vision of Dry Bones is shown to the Prophet Ezekiel as an answer to his question about the future restitution of life to those who follow God\u2019s commandments. The righteous will prevail, transforming the metaphor of national resurrection into a vision about individual resurrection as the recompense reserved for the righteous for their piety during their earthly life. The Prophet hints that the sum of each moral individual\u2019s acts will bring redemption, and so everyone should work towards that goal which will shower the collective with blessings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The notion of resurrection grew in popularity among the Rabbinic sources of the Second Temple period, and Ezekiel\u2019s vision was seen as a message of comfort and solace. The Rabbis introduced this concept in the second blessing of the Amidah, and brought hope to the people of Israel especially in times of despair.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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37:3 \u201c\u2018And He said to me, \u2018Man, can these bones live?\u2019 And I said, \u2018O Master, LORD, it is You Who knows.\u2019\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This prophecy is probably the most famous one in Ezekiel. Early Jewish and Christian interpreters took it as a prophecy of the resurrection of the dead, but it is quite doubtful that this is what Ezekiel meant. The scattered dry bones of the long dead are a symbolic image of the people of Israel in exile, its national existence violently ended by the conquest and destruction of the kingdom of Judah. The miraculous return to life of the bones figures the restoration of national existence in the homeland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. The Resurrection - ?<\/em> The vision of the dry bones describes human bones coming alive, in order to symbolize a nation whose life has been renewed. But it\u2019s no wonder that many have also seen in this chapter a promise for individual, bodily resurrection.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Audience.<\/em> The vision of the dry bones coming back to life is for Ezekiel\u2019s eyes only. The audience will only hear of it later. The second part of the chapter, the symbolic unification of the sticks is done in front of the people, causing them to ask: \u201cWon\u2019t you tell us what these actions of yours mean?\u201d (verse 18).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Grafting.<\/em> Grafting is an agricultural procedure whereby a new tree is created from two other trees with different genetic characteristics, by joining a branch from one with a branch from the other. The lower branch, the rootstock is planted in the ground, and the upper one, the scion, will bear the fruit. Is this what Ezekiel did with \u201cthe stick of Joseph\u201d and the \u201cstick of Judah\u201d? See verses 15-22. If so, it suggests a deep and lasting future connection between the kingdoms.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. United Kingdom.<\/em> One kingdom for the tribes of Israel was a relatively short and unstable episode in the days of Saul, David and Solomon. Two kingdoms and much internecine tension was the dominant reality during the history of the kingship (and even before). In this prophecy of Ezekiel - unity is fundamental. Judah and Israel will return united to their land, and as a united kingdom all the other promises will be fulfilled.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Forever<\/em>. In verses 25-28 the promise that this time it is for good appears no less than five times. Forever. Staying in the land for forever, an eternal covenant, and a Temple for all time.<\/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 37","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":"37","chapter_main_number":"489","date":"20270714","wall_id":"489"},"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\/75114"}],"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=75114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}