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The book of Ezekiel ends in the same way that the first book of the prophets, Joshua, ends: with a description of the boundaries for the tribes. These boundaries described here are very different from the ones in Joshua. In Joshua, the boundaries had different dimensions and shapes. In Ezekiel, the boundaries are all similar sizes and stacked one on top of each other. Dan remains at the top, followed by Asher, Naphtali, Menashe, Ephraim, Reuben, Judah, a Temple zone, Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulon, and Gad. There are no tribes in the Transjordan as in the past. There are tribes south of the tribe of Judah. The Temple is not subsumed in another tribe, it now exists in its own zone. In the Temple zone is an area for the priests, the Levites, and the prince. All these areas are new.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why is there a shift in the allocation? Perhaps it is more symbolic than practical. Each tribe is to be treated the same. God also mixes Judah within the other tribes, so it is not as easy to separate the \u201cSouthern Kingdom\u201d from the \u201cNorthern Kingdom\u201d. The New Israel will all be about unity. The Temple itself has gates that are named after the tribes; north- Reuben, Judah, Levi; east: Joseph, Benjamin, Dan; south- Simeon, Issachar, Zebulon, and west- Gad, Asher, Naphtali. These gates evoke the formation in the wilderness, although Levi has a gate, and Menashe and Ephraim are subsumed under a Joseph gate echoing the message of unity. The reminder of the wilderness brings the nation back to those heady early days when the nation was united and connected to God as God told Jeremiah:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Go proclaim to Jerusalem: Thus said GOD: I accounted to your favor the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride\u2014 how you followed Me in the wilderness\u201d (verse 2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Each tribe gets a gate. Each tribe is responsible for the protection of Jerusalem. The book ends on a technical, yet uplifting note: \u201cIts circumference [shall be] 18,000 [cubits]; and the name of the city from that day on shall be \u201cGOD Is There\u201d (verse 35). The book opened with the same death and destruction promised in Jermiah and Isaiah. Ezekiel lived through the destruction of the Temple while in exile. The first exile of the people may have felt hopeless. Israel\u2019s journey had been from the bondage of Exodus to the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What was going to happen now that the people were exiled from their land? The last few chapters describe a return to that land; first with the new Temple and lastly with the tribes. The tribal arrangements will now be equal in a way that hopefully fosters a better sense of unity. Despite all the death and destruction and reconfiguration one thing remains the same- Jerusalem. Ezekiel ends his book with the promise that Jerusalem will forever be known as God\u2019s city.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Ezekiel and the exiled Judeans in Babylon lived through an incredible trauma. Many had thought that God would always protect them and God\u2019s holy city, but this was not so.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Apparently disgusted by all of the people\u2019s iniquities, God abandons the people, Jerusalem, and the Temple, giving them over to the unmerciful hands of their enemies. In one of the most poignant scenes of the book, Ezekiel has a vision of God\u2019s presence leaving the Temple (Ezekiel 10). God\u2019s people feel utterly abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abandonment and fear of abandonment are two of the most painful experiences in human life. As young children, we are entirely dependent upon the care given to us by our caretakers. If they abandon us, we will die.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As we get older, we are usually less physically dependent on direct care from others. However, the fear of being abandoned is no less intense. Most of us are forced to deal with our own feelings of abandonment when relationships break down or when loved ones die.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God addresses the people\u2019s feelings of abandonment head on in our chapter. At first glance, this chapter seems concerned with the proper allotment of land, i.e., which groups get which land. However, this chapter is fundamentally about the location of God in relationship to the people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judah is the seventh of Israel\u2019s twelve tribes allotted land, occurring at the land allotment midpoint. Adjacent to the territory of Judah there is a sacred reserve of land for the priests and \u201cthe Sanctuary shall be in the middle of it\u201d (verse 8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This phrase \u201cin the middle of it\u201d is used again to refer to the location of \u201cthe LORD\u2019s Sanctuary\u201d (verse 10), the city itself (verse 15), and the location of the sacred reserve of land including the Temple (Sanctuary) in relationship to the future prince (verses 21-22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God is showing the people God\u2019s location. God is located in the Temple, in the middle of the sacred reserve, in the middle of the city, in the middle of the prince\u2019s allotment, between Judah and Benjamin, in the middle of all the tribes of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the last line of the chapter and of the entire book of Ezekiel, we learn that the new name of Jerusalem will be \u201cThe LORD is There\u201d (verse 35). There will be no doubt during this time where God is. God is in the middle of God\u2019s people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Looking back, perhaps God never fully abandoned the people and instead hid God\u2019s presence. Regardless, God still honors the people\u2019s feelings of abandonment and reassures them of God\u2019s continuing presence. Perhaps God has always been located in the middle of God\u2019s people \u2013 what changes is our ability to perceive that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Ezekiel\u2019s finale begins with a topography of the land of Israel as it is divided between the tribes, separated by clearly defined borders. It ends by narrowing down its scope to Jerusalem, confined specifically to the outer limits of the city, three at every direction with gates named after each tribe. A summarizing verse marks the transition between the geographic allotment to each tribe and these gates which designates all the bounded shares in the land \u201cas an inheritance (<\/span>nachalah<\/span><\/em>) for the tribes of Israel and their portions (<\/span>machlekotam<\/span><\/em>)\u201d (29).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both terms express a potential danger inherent in territorial boundaries. Though intending an equitable distribution within a unified federation, they can easily fragment into a disunion of autonomously non-aligned states. Apportionment can contribute to unity or divisiveness-\u00a0<\/span>machlekotam<\/span><\/em> (their portions) can deteriorate into <\/span>machloket<\/span><\/em> (argument\/schism)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Machlekot<\/span><\/em> appears once as a place name, the Rock of Separation (1 Sam 23:28), commemorating a pivotal moment in the conflict between David and Saul that captures its unity\/disunity ambiguity at a formative moment in Israel\u2019s political history. Saul was about to encircle David when an enemy threat on another front diverted his attention and he abandoned his pursuit. The general consensus among commentators is that the name memorializes their departure from each other at that critical interval. Thus, the term\u2019s association with geography captures its positive and negative sense. It is a monument to both a schism within the Israelite state and the historical moment ensuring David\u2019s survival and the future of the Davidic kingship line.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The original apportionment of Israel involved an unequal distribution with Jerusalem spanning both Benjamin and Judah. However, difficult as it is to map, Ezekiel\u2019s reimagined utopia envisions Jerusalem as neutral territory sandwiched between all the other tribes occupying precisely equal areas to the north and south of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Machlekot<\/span><\/i> signifies the thin line between unity and disintegration. Its strategic position in the chapter capping off the partitioning of the land among the tribes and introducing the twelve tribal gates of Jerusalem identifies the firewall preventing a collective of mutual interests from dissolving into an assortment of self-interests. The twelve gates occupying the city\u2019s extremities from every direction and bearing the names of each tribe reflects Jerusalem\u2019s equally belonging to all in a sense that transcends borders and geography. That is why Ezekiel ends of the entire book anticipating a new name for Jerusalem, like Isaiah\u2019s \u201c<\/span>chefzi-bah<\/span><\/em>\u201d (\u201cespoused\u201d 62:4), and Jeremiah\u2019s \u201cthe Lord is our righteousness\u201d (<\/span>tzidkenu,<\/span><\/em> 33:16).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the ideal future the holy city will not be identified by a name that is always associated with a certain country or nation but rather by a much broader principle or idea that transcends time, place, and ownership. Thus no longer will it be known as Jerusalem, a city located in Judah and Benjamin, but by what it should represent which is the spiritual fulcrum of the world: \u201cand the name of the city from that day on shall be \u2018The Lord is There (<\/span>yhvh shamah<\/span><\/em>)\u2019\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In this last chapter of the book of Ezekiel, we breathe fresh air. The exiled priest transports us with a light of hope; the Prophet closes the chapters of punishments and rewards, unsettlement and despair with a pleasing picture and a sense of belonging to the Land. We are back, thank you God, back to the Land. Ezekiel mentions the names of tribes, each one of them has a place, each one fits in its zone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God resides in this Land. God has a special relationship to this Land. God\u2019s eyes are continuously fixated on it. It is \u201ca Land that YHWH your God looks after. The eyes of YHWH your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year\u201d(Deut. 11:12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Dr. David Frankel elucidates that exiled Judeans explain the loss of their own Land as a result of their religious failings. Poems that began as simple encomiums to the well-watered or rain-filled land of bounty granted to Israel by their God became didactic texts in Deuteronomy, explaining why the Israelites lost their land and how they might get it back, namely by keeping God\u2019s commandments and remembering that bounty is never unconditional, but comes from good behavior.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThat is the land which you shall allot as a heritage to the tribes of Israel, and those are their portions\u2014declares the Lord GOD\u201d (48:29).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As we conclude the Book of Ezekiel, while the Prophet centralizes the return to the Land based on the Israelites\u2019 theological and ritual behavior, I will suggest moving the attention towards people\u2019s actions in their everyday lives. Our attention goes to those who cultivate the Land, those who become partners in God\u2019s creation, those who don\u2019t sleep and dream with the utopian concept of the Land, but bring her to life every day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yehuda Amichai describes this at the end of his poem \u201cTourists\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A group of tourists was standing around their guide and I became their target marker. \"You see that man with the baskets? Just right of his head there's an arch<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>from the Roman period. Just right of his head.\" \"But he's moving, he's moving!\"<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I said to myself: redemption will come only if their guide tells them,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\"You see that arch from the Roman period? It's not important: but next to it,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>left and down a bit, there sits a man who's bought in the market fresh fruit and vegetables for his family.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Land, dear Ezekiel, is about the fresh fruits and vegetables of its markets, and the families they 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The redistribution of the Land of Israel detailed here in the final chapter of the Book of Ezekiel is, in some ways, emblematic of the whole book and of Ezekiel\u2019s entire prophetic mission.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As we noted previously (<\/span>see Chapter 45<\/span><\/a>), the land was to be subdivided into 13 equal portions, one for each tribe and the thirteenth, designated a \u201creserve\u201d (<\/span>terumah<\/span><\/em>), for the Temple and the Nasi. Just as its delineation in the immediately previous chapter (vs.13-21) appears to have been imagined along similar lines to those prescribed under Moses (Numbers 34), so is the distribution here patterned after yet another Pentateuchal precedent: the encampment of the Tribes of Israel about the Tabernacle (Numbers 2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Accordingly, we may divide this chapter into three parts:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Vs. 1-7, the seven tribes residing north of the \u201creserve\u201d (Dan, Asher, Naftali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, Judah);<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Vs. 8-22, the \u201creserve\u201d (8-14, the Temple, 15-20, the City, 21-22, the Nasi);<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Vs. 23-29, the five tribes residing south of the \u201creserve\u201d (Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, Gad),<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    The balance (30-34) is devoted to the city whose name \u201cfrom that day on shall be The Lord is There\u201d (35), which, according to Rashi (or, at least, the text that passes for Rashi in most printed editions\u2014see <\/span>our comments to Chapter 42<\/span><\/a>), means attaching that new significance to the old name, Jerusalem, combining Abraham\u2019s \u201cthe Lord will see\u201d (<\/span>yeru<\/span><\/em>) and Melchizedek\u2019s Salem (<\/span>shalem<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Ezekiel was the first prophet to address the Judean exiles in their captivity and, as acknowledged by the Sages (see <\/span>our introduction to the book<\/span><\/a>), half his prophecies were of impending catastrophe and the other half\u2014of enduring consolation. He also ushered in a new era in prophetic discourse: his use of fantastic imagery and his descriptions of encounters with divine beings set a precedent that we will see followed by later exilic and post-exilic prophets such as Zechariah and Daniel, in particular.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    image: Prophetic Vision,\u00a0Matth\u00e4us Merian der \u00c4ltere (1593 \u2013 1650) \/ wikiwand<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":75747,"alt":"","title":"ez48-Merian's_Daniel_7_engraving","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","width":567,"height":435,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving-300x230.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":230,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","medium_large-width":567,"medium_large-height":435,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","large-width":567,"large-height":435,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","1536x1536-width":567,"1536x1536-height":435,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","2048x2048-width":567,"2048x2048-height":435,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","post_full_size-width":567,"post_full_size-height":435,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving-547x420.jpg","home_baner-width":547,"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":"Concluding With A New Israel","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Beginning a new era of prophetic discourse: fantastic imagery and encounters with divine beings\u00a0","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":75747,"alt":"","title":"ez48-Merian's_Daniel_7_engraving","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","width":567,"height":435,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving-300x230.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":230,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","medium_large-width":567,"medium_large-height":435,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","large-width":567,"large-height":435,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","1536x1536-width":567,"1536x1536-height":435,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","2048x2048-width":567,"2048x2048-height":435,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving.jpg","post_full_size-width":567,"post_full_size-height":435,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ez48-Merians_Daniel_7_engraving-547x420.jpg","home_baner-width":547,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","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":"48","chapter_main_number":"500","date":"20270729","wall_id":"500"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":8,"id":"75733","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Inspiring Conclusion? 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    48:1 \u201cAnd these are the names of the tribes: From the northern end by the way of Hethlon, Lebo-Hamath, Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus to the north, and from the eastern side to the west--Dan, one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    For modern readers, this catalogue of the tribal territories, including a delineation of the sectors of Jerusalem, is likely to be an uninspiring conclusion to a book of prophecy. One suspects that for Ezekiel, on the contrary, these dry listings were inspiring because they constituted a geometrical representation of a vision of national restoration. It should be noted that almost none of this corresponds to the historical realities of the land but is rather an eschatological imagining of the land. All the demarcations are symmetrical--equal borders for each of the tribes; Jerusalem is divided into symmetrical sectors for the priests, the Levites, the king, and the common people; the four walls of the city with gates named for three tribes on each side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Another manifestation of the eschatological character of Ezekiel\u2019s report of tribal borders is that it is careful to include all twelve tribes, even though the ten northern tribes had ceased to exist a century and a half before this prophecy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    1. Distributive justice.<\/em> Redistributing tribal allotments as portions across the width of the country gives each tribe more or less the same sample of geographical variety: coastline, low country, hill and valley. And each thus receives the same agricultural potential.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. A certain hierarchy persists.<\/em> Much of the old order has been cancelled with the new apportionment. But some things have remained. In the new arrangement, the tribes nearest the center are descendents of the children of Rachel and Leah, and those with allotments in the periphery are those of the handmaidens.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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