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The building is complete, now God shows Ezekiel something else, a rising stream from the Temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Every living creature that swarms will be able to live wherever this stream goes; the fish will be very abundant once these waters have reached there. It will be wholesome, and everything will live wherever this stream goes (verse 9).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The stream that flows from the Temple will bring life wherever it goes. This image is similar to the bloody runoff from the Temple described in mishnah tractate Yoma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both of them intermixed in the <\/span>amah<\/em> <\/span>and emptied into the stream of Kidron. It is sold to garden owners as fertilizer (Yoma 5:6).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Yom Kippur service had a lot of sacrifices and a lot of blood. All of that blood was cleaned out into the gutters and streams, and it flowed to the valley below the Temple. The high nutrient blood fertilized the soil of the valley. This seems like a very practical application. The difference comes two verses later: \u201cBut its swamps and marshes shall not become wholesome; they will serve to [supply] salt\u201d (verse 11). The verse can be read as another practical application of the water surrounding the Temple. If everywhere had fresh water, there would be no salt, so God promises that some areas will remain salty. This seems odd in context. If God is boasting about the benefits of the Temple waters, why pause to say that some areas will have salt? God is explaining that not all of these blessings will be felt everywhere. Certain areas will still have brackish waters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the water here is symbolic. As used many times in Tanach, water can also be a metaphor for Torah. In Exodus 15:22 the people \u201cmarched three days and found no water\u201d and then the people complained to Moses. The rabbis explain that water is really Torah. Because the people went three days without it, they suffered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here, God may be showing Ezekiel that the renewed Temple will bring its blessing of Torah to the lands around it. The elevation of Torah will bring prosperity to all those who partake of it. However, not all areas will receive the Torah. These areas will remain destroyed because they reject God and the blessing of the Temple and Torah. These areas will be areas to avoid because of the abundance of blessings elsewhere:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

All kinds of trees for food will grow up on both banks of the stream. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail; they will yield new fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the Temple. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing (verse 12).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is directly after this verse that God begins the final prophecy of the book concerning the boundaries of the land. 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In the last chapter, we saw how Ezekiel\u2019s vision of the role of the post-restoration leader shows a concern that the egalitarian ethos of the Torah\u2019s system of land ownership might be disrupted by the prince\u2019s greed. In the 47th chapter of Ezekiel, we find, rather than a conservative impulse regarding that system, a surprising reform \u2014 one with radical implications for Israelite identity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Political belonging in the Israelite commonwealth is defined primarily by descent. The people as a whole claims descent from the Patriarchs, and are further defined by a tribal identity derived from their descent from one of the twelve sons of Jacob. The sense that a familial bond grounds the political structure of the nation is strong; fellow Israelites are referred to as \u201cbrothers.\u201d Alongside natives (<\/span>ezrachim<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i>, born into the Israelite people, many places in the Bible speak of a class of people called <\/span>gerim<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> variously translated as strangers or sojourners. These are apparently people who are not of Israelite descent but, for economic or other reasons, find themselves living in the Israelite commonwealth. Because they are not Israelites, they lack access to the basic means of maintenance which are available to Israelites living in the patriarchal clans which are the basic social units of this society; the stranger is habitually mentioned alongside other classes of vulnerable people, such as windows and orphans, for whom special care is commanded. A number of texts (e.g. Exodus 12:49, Numbers 15:16) indicate that the distinctions between such \u2018permanent residents\u2019 and native-born Israelites ought to be deemphasized or minimized. Nevertheless, the distinction apparently remains in some sense indelible; the <\/span>gerim<\/span><\/i> simply cannot acquire different ancestors.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A moment in our chapter seems to call the finality of this distinction into question. After detailing the boundaries of the tribal territories (in a manner which is strikingly different and apparently much more equal than the division detailed in Joshua), Ezekiel says: \u201cThis land you shall divide for yourselves among the tribes of Israel. You shall allot it as a heritage for yourselves and for the strangers who reside among you, who have begotten children among you. You shall treat them as Israelite citizens; they shall receive allotments along with you among the tribes of Israel. You shall give the stranger an allotment within the tribe where he resides\u2014declares the Lord GOD\u201d (47:21-23).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The incorporation of people of non-Israelite heritage into the system of tribal land tenure, a system apparently inextricably bound to descent, is a remarkable reform, one which would seem to destabilize the principles on which the system is founded. This moment is one of the most radical examples of prophetic universalism, sitting alongside Isaiah\u2019s vision of a Temple in which non-Israelites serve as priests. 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In the first half of our chapter, God shows Ezekiel beautiful streams of water that flow out from the Temple providing life to everything in their path. The source of the water may seem small at first, but it will quickly turn into a gushing river large enough to bring the Dead Sea and all of the desolate desert area surrounding it back to life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Up until this point, Ezekiel\u2019s vision had largely been concerned with measurements of the new Temple design and the laws surrounding its functioning. Here we see something different. We have hints of apocalyptic redemption.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In his vision of this divine river, Ezekiel sees that is not just the people of Israel who will be restored, but the very land itself. The future Temple is to become a kind of new Eden, with a river flowing out of it to water the garden of the world (cf Genesis 2:10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jewish mystical tradition has long used the imagery of a divine river flowing out from Eden as a way of understanding God\u2019s divine vitality flowing into creation. This flow is constant and yet ever-changing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I cannot read this passage without thinking of my own experiences along my beloved Hudson River in NYC. I have taken mindful walks almost every day for several years along its banks. Recently, I witnessed its latest explosion into spring. The river is a place of water and of life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One day during a walk along the river, I noticed myself having the following meditation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

By the morning light<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I go outside to play with the river<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>We spend all day together<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>delightful time<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Then evening begins to fall<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cRiver, I have to go inside. Darkness is coming.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>My heart beats in my chest<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cWill you be here tomorrow?\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cAlmost certainly. However, I won\u2019t be the same.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cThat\u2019s okay. Neither will I.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A human being is constant and yet ever-changing, just like a river. We are constantly sustained by a divine flow that animates our existence. Still, there are surely dry, desolate lands in our own hearts that are waiting for a deeper experience of this divine flow to wash over them, redeeming them and giving them new life. Change is not only possible, but inevitable.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, human beings need not only be passive beneficiaries of this flowing divine vitality. Over time, we can learn to play with this flow, merging with it and becoming transformed into active participants of God\u2019s unfolding redemption. We can help to bring the dry, desolate parts of our entire world back to life. 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The \u201cman\u201d (see 40:3) who led Ezekiel about Jerusalem, the Temple, and its precincts, now led him to observe water coming from \u201cbelow the platform of the Temple\u201d and flowing eastward. However, instead of exiting the city through the eastern gate, it turned south, passing to the south of the altar and leaving through the southern gate (1). The water apparently was unable to traverse the eastern gate because it had to remain closed\u2014as noted in the previous chapter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As the pair moved southward and eastward, the water grew deeper, moving from mere ankle depth (3) through waist deep (4) until it became a stream that he could not cross (5). \u201cThis water,\u201d the man told him, \u201cruns out to the eastern region, and flows into the Arabah; and when it comes into the sea, into the sea of foul waters, the water will become wholesome\u201d (8). After refreshing the Dead Sea (\u201cfoul waters\u201d), fish would return there, trees along its shores (v. 10 specifically mentions Ein Gedi) will bear fruit and their leaves will be used medicinally (12). The balance of the chapter delineates the boundaries of the Land of Israel that would, eventually, be redistributed among the tribes\u2014as initially broached in Chapter 45.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In <\/span>our comments on Ezekiel 40<\/span><\/a>, we took note that the Mishnah Middot (Dimensions), addressing the Second Temple, offers insights into the Temple of Ezekiel\u2019s visions. In the specific context of the Temple overflow, we find the following observation brought by R. Eliezer ben Yaakov, the presumed editor of Middot (see Yoma 16a), who lived during the Temple and was singularly knowledgeable about its dimensions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the south, beginning from the west, there were the upper gate, the gate of burning, the gate of the firstborn, and the water gate. And why was it called the water gate? Because through it they brought in the pitcher of water for libation on the festival [Sukkot].\u00a0 R. Eliezer ben Yaakov said: In it, the water welled up, and in the time to come it will come out from there under the threshold of the Temple.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In his commentary on Middot, R. Eliyahu Gaon of Vilna, parsed the Mishnah thus: \u201cIn it, the water welled up\u201d meant during the Second Temple. 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Our chapter continues Ezekiel\u2019s visionary tour of the fantastic New Temple (chapters 40-48). Here, the focus is on the vast waters that miraculously flow \u201cfrom below the platform of the Temple eastward\u201d (Ezekiel 47:1), on which the \u201cGlory of the God of Israel rested\u201d (Ezekiel 9:3). The prophet sees \u201ctrees in great profusion on the bank of the stream from this side and from that side\u201d (Ezekiel 47:7). Then, he is told that \u201cEvery living creature that swarms will be able to live wherever this stream goes\u201d (verse 9). And that \u201con the stream, on its bank, from this side and from that side (mi-zeh u-mi-zeh<\/em>) will arise all manner of trees for food, their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail\u2026because the water for them flows from the Temple. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing\u201d (verse 12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew word \u201ctrufah\u201d, here translated \u201chealing\u201d, occurs in the Hebrew Bible only here. Its etymology, evolution and meaning are a matter of considerable discussion (see e.g., Eliezer Ben Yehudah, A Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew, p. 7908). Nevertheless, this term remains until today the Hebrew word for \u201cmedication\u201d, so much in current discourse as the world deals with the Corona pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Deuteronomy Rabbah 1:1 seems to hold out an eschatological hope for miraculously efficacious medication. Here, a midrashic passage based on what seems to have been a sermon preached to a live synagogue audience depicts God as saying: See how beloved the language of the Torah is, for it heals the tongue! For be it known to you that in the future, God will bring from the Garden of Eden excellent trees\u2026As it says: \u201cAnd on the stream, on its bank, from this side and from that side (mi-zeh u-mi-zeh<\/em>) will arise all manner of trees for food\u2026Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing (trufah<\/em>)\u201d (Ezekiel 47:12)\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yohanan relates the term \u201ctrufah\u201d to Greek \u201ctherapeia\u201d (healing), while Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi elaborates dramatically on this passage. According to him, whoever consumes these healing leaves, his tongue will immediately shine forth with Words of the Torah. For the text uses the words \u201cfrom this side and from that side\u2019. And elsewhere this exact expression refers to how the two Tablets of the Covenant were written \u201cfrom this side and from that side\u201d (Exodus 32:15)! Rabbi Levi interjected: Why learn that Words of Torah heal the tongue from Ezekiel, when we can learn it from a more immediate context? Let us rather learn it from another context. For before he received the Torah, Moses was not a \u201cman of words\u201d (Exodus 4:10). 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Chapter 47 offers a surprising turning-point in the vision of the future Temple. The prophet speaks here neither of the structure nor of the order of service, but rather describes a wondrous stream that emerges from the entrance to God\u2019s House and flows all the way to the Arava. Although Ezekiel has distanced the people from anything connected to the Temple, now he is also creating a Divine connection with the people that has never existed before.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The wondrous river that appears here seems to be a way of bringing the Sanctuary into the very midst of the people more than ever before: through connecting with the miraculous abundance and healing forces of the river, powers not found in the usual course of nature.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It turns out that in order to heal the people, the prophet foresees a fissure in the regular order of nature. Beyond purification - a\u00a0 necessary condition for the revival of the people in the future - there will also be possible forms of healing that pass through the Sanctuary, but that do not require the people to approach.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now we see that the healing properties of the river in fact have the wondrous ability to repair the flaws that caused the Destruction. The distancing of the people from the Temple turns out to be a physical measure that does not reflect any spiritual distancing: God connects the people to the Temple by means of the river that flows from the very midst of the House, notwithstanding the geographical distance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So it turns out that ultimately the bond between God and His people is not only renewed unilaterally by God; but the entire nation is part of the process as they are nourished, by the river from the Temple, more directly than ever before.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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47:5 \u201c\u2018And he measured out a thousand cubits--a stream which I could not cross for the water was surging, water to swim in, a stream that could not be crossed.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The familiar pattern, manifested in quite a few biblical stories and in folktales outside the Bible, is three (or in some instances, three plus one) with a difference at the end: in this case, an intensification from one to three (the deepening water), concluding in the unfordable depth of the stream. The pattern thus conveys the miraculous character of the vision--water seeping out from under the Temple somehow turns into a deep surging stream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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\u201cYou shall not oppress a migrant \u05d5\u05d2\u05e8 \u05dc\u05d0 \u05ea\u05dc\u05d7\u05e5\"<\/a> by Amelia Wolf: The twenty five times the Tanakh warns us against mistreating the stranger\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cBorders of the Promised Land\"<\/a> by Hillel Gruenberg: Maps and sources about Israel\u2019s borders.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cImmigration in the Haggadah and Halachah\u201d<\/a> by David Siff: How are modern imigration issues affected by Jewish sources.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Ezekiel 47","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Ezekiel","chapter":"47","chapter_main_number":"499","date":"20270728","wall_id":"499"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"75700","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 47 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 47","slug":"points-to-ponder-ezekiel-47","old_id":"75700","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"499","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. The law is the law<\/em>. A few chapters ago we read that the Eastern GAte of the outer court is always closed, and that no one enters through it. It turns out that the law obligates the prophet - even in his prophetic vision. Ezekiel is in the courtyard and doesn\u2019t exit that way, but goes the long way around and reaches the east via the northern side: \u201cThen he led me out by way of the northern gate and led me around to the outside of the outer gate that faces in the direction of the east;\u201d (verse 2).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The Garden of Eden, the garden of God<\/em>. 480 chapters ago (Genesis 19) Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of their egregious evil ways, and the region of Sodom and the Dead Sea went from being the garden of God to the Sea of Death, and scorched and salty earth. The spring which wells up out of the House of God brings miraculous life giving waters, and it becomes a real \u201clost paradise\u201d (Gen 3:9). Quite a \u201c<\/span>tikkun<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Farewell, history<\/em>. Reallocating the Land into new portions cancels the previous, historical divisions of east and west, and the Northern Kingdom (Israel) and the Southern one (Judah). Long live the future! (Coming attractions: the land portions actually still preserve a previous allotment. Details tomorrow).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Social reforms: legal aliens<\/em>. The gerim <\/i>in the Tanach are non-Israelites who live among the tribes of Israel for many years. Since they have no real estate, no \u201cportion in the land,\u201d they are usually among the poorer elements of society. You\u2019ll find them in all forms of social legislation. Ezekiel declares that they shall receive an allotment, thus securing their status (see verses 21-23). Earlier, he did the same for the Levites (see chapter 45). 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