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Chapters 38 and 39 talk about the epic war of Gog and Magog. \u201cO mortal, turn your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal\u201d (verse 2). Who is Gog?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi says that Gog is the name of the king of Magog. He cites a verse in Genesis 10:2 \u201cThe descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.\u201d Abarbanel disagrees. He says that Gog is the name of the nation and Magog is the name of the country. The chapter tells of a major battle over Jerusalem between the nations of the west and the nations of the north and east. He explains that the second part of the verse shows that the people of Gog first settled in Magog in the north and then traveled to the cities of Tubal and Meshech in the west which were outside of their normal territory. He also explains that the battle takes place in Israel, but it is not a war against Israel. Instead, Israel is just the theater where this epic world war happens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim is blunt and admits that no one really knows who Gog and Magog are, just that they are from the family of Japheth. He surmises that this has something to do with the Romans who destroyed the second Temple and a battle between the eastern nations and western nations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Metzudat David and Radak have a similar approach to Rashi. Gog is a prince that rules over three nations- Magog, Meshech and Tubal.\u00a0 Radak explains that Gog is the generic name for the king, similar to Pharaoh. There are commentators throughout the ages that have tried to link Gog to whichever devious country was around at that time from Rome to the Soviet Union. The ambiguity of an enemy that plays no other role in Tanach except for an obscure reference in Genesis lends itself to this open-ended reading. Perhaps that is exactly the point of the chapter. This nation is anonymous which allows it to be any nation at any time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The story of Gog and Magog is read on Sukkot, and this leads Rabbi Shimshon Rephael Hirsch to suggest a homolytic explanation. Gog is similar to the Hebrew word for roof, which is a stable part of a house unlike the roof of a sukkah. Sukkah celebrates God saving the people in the wilderness when the people relied on God. When the people rely on God, they follow and believe in God. However, when the people feel secure enough to construct a roof, they feel strong and powerful and turn away from God. The battle is then between those that believe in God and those that do not. This thematic reading follows similar themes in Ezekiel wherein the prophet rails against those that believed they were greater than God. This would make this chapter a fitting capstone to this great theological battle that Ezekiel has been referencing until now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Interpreters of Jewish liturgy often point out a seeming incongruity about the Mourner\u2019s Kaddish. Recited by a bereaved person, this \u2018prayer for the dead\u2019 does not mention death at all, despite the belief that recital of the prayer plays a part in easing the purgatorial sufferings of the departed. Instead, the tone of the prayer seems to be one of stoic acceptance, a litany of praise for God which is not qualified by the mourner\u2019s pain. The fact that this message serves as the basic accompaniment to the experience of mourning indicates Judaism\u2019s basic affirmation of life as the\u00a0 focus of religious energy and its discouragement of preoccupation with the realm of the dead.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While the kaddish was part of the general liturgy much earlier than its specific use as part of mourning, it is worth challenging the idea that its basic tone is one of stoicism and acceptance at all. As so often is the case in interpreting Jewish prayer, one of the best ways to understand the kaddish is to attend to its intertextual character, that is, the way in which it is built as a constellation of quotations and references from other texts, from which ensemble its meaning emerges.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of the key texts from which the kaddish is built comes from the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, in which the prophet relates scenes from the apocalyptic war of Gog and Magog. The final verse reads: \u201cThus I will manifest My greatness [<\/span>hitgadalti<\/span><\/i>] and My holiness [<\/span>hitkadashti<\/span><\/i>], and make Myself known in the sight of many nations. And they shall know that I am the LORD\u201d (38:23). Those who have heard the kaddish recited will notice a close parallel here with the opening words of that prayer: <\/span>yitgadal v\u2019yitkadash. <\/span><\/i>A link is thus established between the petition which forms the kaddish and this apocalyptic scene from Ezekiel. The prophet\u2019s vision is one in which a world stalked by the powerful and the wicked, who say to themselves with confidence \u201cI will invade a land of open towns, I will fall upon a tranquil people living secure\u2026in order to take spoil and seize plunder\u201d (38:11-12), are suddenly and decisively humbled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A world in which evil seems to rule and from which God\u2019s saving presence seems totally absent is revealed to be one in which divine justice is manifest and the wicked receive their desserts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The kaddish, then, rather than being a stoic litany which ignores circumstance in order to praise God, is really a plea for divine intervention, an urgent request that the wrongs of history be righted and that God\u2019s will become known in the world. For an individual, the death of a loved one creates a breach no less painful than the more dramatic scenes Ezekiel imagines; in this light, we can understand the recital of the kaddish as a fervent prayer for the repair of our own personal worlds as much as it is a plea for national redemption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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At the start of our chapter, God instructed Ezekiel: \u201cSet thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him\u201d (2). As noted by the medieval exegetes, Gog is a proper noun, the name of a ruler, and Magog is a place name, his kingdom. Accordingly, the proper reference would be \u201cGog <\/span>of<\/span><\/em> Magog\u201d; however, common parlance is \u201cGog <\/span>and<\/span><\/em> Magog\u201d (as in the oft-cited rabbinic idiom: \u201cThe war of Gog and Magog\u201d). The English language went one step further, creating the combined form \u201cGogmagog,\u201d which the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines as \u201ca giant, a man of immense stature and strength.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Gen. 10:2 identifies Magog, Meshech, and Tubal as children of Noah\u2019s youngest son, Japheth, (who was also the ancestor of Javan or Greece and Maday or Medea). While Magog is new to these prophecies, Meshech and Tubal have already featured prominently in them. 27:13, part of a prophecy to Tyre, listed: \u201cJavan, Tubal, and Meshech\u2014they were your merchants; they trafficked with you in human beings and copper utensils,\u201d and 32:26, depicting Pharaoh\u2019s descent to Sheol (the Netherworld), mentions Meshech and Tubal as his companions there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A close reading of 38:2, however, reveals an anomaly that is not reflected in the translation: literally, the Hebrew text refers to \u201cGog of the land of <\/span>the<\/span><\/em> Magog\u201d (<\/span>ha-Magog<\/span><\/em>). Ordinarily, proper nouns do not take the definite article (the Moses? the Ezekiel?); therefore, explained Eliezer of Beaugency, \u201cthe <\/span>heh<\/span><\/em> necessitates explaining it as Magogite, similar to Canaanite (<\/span>ha-Kena`ani<\/span><\/em>) or Amorite (<\/span>ha-Emori<\/span><\/em>), because we never find [the absolute form] <\/span>ha-Kena`an<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Ostensibly, the revival prophecies climax with the nation\u2019s return to its land and its purification from sin. However, the process remains unfinished. The nation\u2019s revival occurs hand-in-hand with the strengthening of God\u2019s status in the world and God\u2019s status is only fully anchored after His war against Gog: a war that ends with the Divine promise that God will not hide His face from His people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The uniqueness of this prophecy in Ezekiel, compared to similar prophecies in Isaiah and Zechariah, lies in its scope, the explicit naming of the aggressors, and the timing of the war as specified in the prophecy: after the nation\u2019s return to its land.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The purpose of the prophecy as a whole is emphasized in the final verse of chapter 38: \u201cThus will I magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will make Myself known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.\u201d (v. 23) This verse underlines the aim of God\u2019s war against Gog, as well as its result \u2013 knowledge of God among the nations. Thus, this prophecy is a response to the desecration of God\u2019s Name represented by the exile of the nation from its land and the destruction of the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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38:2 \u201c\u2018Man, set your face to Gog in the land of Magog, supreme prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy about him.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew syntax could also be construed as \u201cGog of the land of Magog.\u201d Both names, which look quite foreign in the Hebrew, are mystifying and as such have encouraged the mythological reading of this prophecy prevalent in both Christian and Jewish tradition. Gog is sometimes linked by scholars with a King Gugu of Lydia in Asia Minor. Ezekiel does not seem to be referring to a historical figure--in contrast, for example, to Second Isaiah\u2019s references to Cyrus--and may have embraced the name for its sheer strangeness. What is important is that Gog comes from the far north, the direction from which destruction traditionally descends upon Israel, as is repeatedly evident in Jeremiah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Who is Gog?<\/em> Good question. During Ezekiel\u2019s time there is a king with a similar name in a kingdom named Lydia in Asia Minor. But it\u2019s not clear if there\u2019s a connection. The lack of clarity regarding his identity, and the sense that what was foretold in the prophecy did not come to pass in the days of Ezekiel, created the expectation that the prophecy would be fulfilled in the end of days, and also led to various speculations regarding who Gog might be in history. It\u2019s interesting to note that in the various incarnations of this discussion, the usual term is Gog and Magog, rather than the more accurate Gog from the land of Magog.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Why now<\/em>? The war with Gog will occur, according to the prophecy, after Israel\u2019s return from exile. Why then? And why is it important for Ezekiel to pass on this message now, to the exiles in Babylonia. Worth looking into.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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