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Ezekiel chapter 46 continues the discussion regarding the new Temple service. This chapter details the offering provided by the Nasi, the prince. The Biblical commentators are puzzled as to who this prince is.\u00a0 Previously, the only mention of a prince is in the initial dedication of the Tabernacle in the Bible, where each tribe had one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some commentators believe that this \"prince\" was actually the prince of the priests, i.e. the Kohen Gadol, the high priest. This perhaps, foretold the growing clout that the priestly class would have in the Second Temple period. Others believe that the prince was the messianic king, and rhetorically the prophet calls him a prince. Why would the prophet need to call this figure a prince and not a king? Perhaps a declaration of the return of the king may have been too scandalous to be repeated for a nation in exile.\u00a0 Local authorities may have bristled at the call to resume an independent Jewish nation. By calling this ruler a prince, the prophet is safely navigating these tricky political waters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Finally, this listing of a prince may actually be the accurate historical call. In fact, the return of the exiles to the Holy Land in the Second Temple period was led by Persian appointed rulers - princes - and not by a King. Kings did not return to the scene until much later in the Second Temple period. Ezekiel had previously railed against the prince of Israel:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Say to them: \u2018Thus said the Sovereign GOD: This pronouncement concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the House of Israel who are in it\u2019 (12:12)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And to you, O dishonored wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come\u2014the time set for your punishment\u201d (21:30).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps this chapter is the redemption story for the prince that was the target of so much wrath at the beginning of the book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Hebrew Bible is notoriously ambivalent about monarchy. The idea of a sacral kingship tied to the line of David coexists with a deep skepticism about rule by any power other than God and a practical cynicism about the tendencies of kings. Deuteronomy imagines a king who seems largely subordinate to the priests and whose ability to engage in politics is curtailed. Ezekiel 46 represents a continuation of this tendency. Here the text no longer even speaks of a king, but of a <\/span>nasi<\/span><\/em> or \u201cprince.\u201d While a number of the prince\u2019s positive obligations are detailed, these are mostly of a cultic nature \u2014 he is to make special offerings on the Sabbath, the day of the new moon, and the festivals. Ezekiel attends to the political role of the prince largely in order to say what he <\/span>cannot<\/span><\/i> do. One very telling moment occurs at verse 18: \u201cBut the prince shall not take property away from any of the people and rob them of their holdings. Only out of his own holdings shall he endow his sons, in order that My people may not be dispossessed of their holdings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah\u2019s system of land ownership is perhaps its most daring and creative foray into political thought. The land is divided into tribal territories, and each family is given an allotment within their tribe. This allotment can never be sold, but only leased for a period of up to 50 years, when the Jubilee restores all land to its original owner. The message at the core of this system is that the land belongs in the first place to God; insofar as the Israelites are permitted to use it, each person has an equal and inalienable stake in the land. In the book of Ezekiel, this idea is underscored further by redrawing the tribal boundaries in a way which is much more equal than the configuration to be found in the Book of Joshua.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In earlier books of the Bible we find a frequent anxiety that the king will disrupt this system and treat the land as personal property for his own enrichment. In Samuel\u2019s warning to the people about the practical reality of the monarchy they demand, he declares that a king \u201cwill seize your choice fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his courtiers\u201d (1 Samuel 8:14). The downfall of King Ahab comes when he and Jezebel seize the vineyard of Naboth. Though the king at first offers to buy the land, Naboth declares \u201cThe LORD forbid that I should give up to you what I have inherited from my fathers!\u201d (1 Kings 21:3), for he understands that according to the Torah\u2019s system, the land is sacred and cannot be treated as mere private property.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

By forbidding the prince to acquire land from the people, Ezekiel emphasizes, once again, the egalitarian ideal which is at the heart of the Torah\u2019s system of land ownership.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Following the description of technical plans for building the third Temple, Ezekiel continues his prophecy with technical requirements for using the Temple. This building is meant to be far more than a mere structure in which to execute service of God \u2013 we\u2019d gone that route already, and it failed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commandment to make three annual pilgrimages to the Temple \u2013 on Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot, initially given in Deuteronomy 16, is referenced again in Ezekiel 46:9, this time with the following additional instruction:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhen the people come before God, whoever enters by the north gate shall leave by the south, and whoever enters by the south gate shall leave by the north. They shall not go back through the gate by which they came in but shall go out by the opposite gate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Historically, the pilgrimage festivals, by ensuring a regularly scheduled time to stop all regular activity and come together in the service of God, had both spiritual and pragmatic benefits. It was a thrice-yearly major communal event that stimulated a consistent economic cycle for Jerusalem. The predictable national gathering to collectively reaffirm our covenant with God brought significant travel and agricultural industry that served to underpin the Jerusalem economy. But of course, the economic spinoff was secondary to the spiritual purpose.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our sages have a few explanations for the odd direction to enter and exit the Temple on opposite sides. Some of our sages describe this behavior as emphasizing one\u2019s love for the Temple and Temple service. By walking the full breadth of the Temple from north to south or vice-versa, one delays their departure for as long as possible. The Talmud (Berachot 62B) extends this practice to anyone entering a synagogue.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps there\u2019s another message in this exercise of physically entering the temple, or our synagogues one way and leaving another. The doors we go through matter. We kiss our mezuzahs to elevate and remember the holiness of the places we enter. So too we need to ensure that when we engage in prayer, be it in the Holy Temple or in our synagogues today, we leave differently than we arrived. Prayer is meant to change us. It\u2019s not meant to be a rote practice that we walk into, dispense with, and \u201cgo back by the gate through which (we) came.\u201d Just as we leave through a different door, we should merit to leave with a different demeanor \u2013 an elevated spirituality and sense of community.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In chapter 46, Ezekiel describes his vision of the future Temple. He goes into great detail about the measurements of the Temple\u2019s various components. One part of the Temple that he sees is the court:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThen he led me into the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court; and in each corner of the court there was an enclosure. These unroofed enclosures, [each] 40 [cubits] long and 30 wide, were in the four corners of the court; the four corner enclosures had the same measurements.\u201d (Ezekiel 46:21-22).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word used to describe the enclosure is an interesting one. Translated here as \u201cunroofed,\u201d in Hebrew it is <\/span>keturot<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i> Other translations say that the enclosures were \u201cjoined.\u201d How did this disagreement as to the meaning come about?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Let\u2019s look at the translation \u201cjoined\u201d first. This is the opinion of Radak and others. Support for this view can be found in the Aramaic meaning of the root <\/span>ktr<\/span><\/em>\u00ad<\/span><\/i> \u2013 \u201cto bind.\u201d It has a cognate in the Hebrew word <\/span>kesher<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013<\/span><\/i> \u201cconnection.\u201d\u00a0 The Aramaic <\/span>ktr<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>is also related to the Arabic <\/span>qutr<\/span><\/em>, which meant diameter (perhaps because it binds the two ends of an area.) The Arabic word was later borrowed into Hebrew as <\/span>koter<\/span><\/em>, also meaning \u201cdiameter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The other translation of <\/span>keturot<\/span><\/em>\u00a0as \u201cunroofed\u201d is based on the Mishna (Midot 2:5). Why unroofed? Because with no roof, the <\/span>ketoret<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>- \u201csmoke, incense\u201d could escape. This root gives such words as <\/span>mikteret<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013<\/span><\/i> \u201cpipe\u201d (for smoking). It also might be the source of the English word \u201cnectar.\u201d Some linguists believe that the Greek <\/span>nektar<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>- \u201cthe drink of the gods,\u201d originally meant \u201csmoked or perfumed wine.\u201d And their word <\/span>nektar<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>was borrowed from the same Semitic root that gave us the Hebrew <\/span>ketoret<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

When Hebrew was revived in the late 19<\/span>th<\/span> and early 20<\/span>th<\/span> centuries, there was a need to provide words for things that didn\u2019t exist in the times of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew. One of those things was \u201ctrain.\u201d The leading Hebrew linguists at the time debated the best word to use. Eliezer Ben Yehuda suggested <\/span>kitor<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the word for steam (related to <\/span>ketoret<\/span><\/em>), since that was what powered trains at the time. David Yellin offered the similar <\/span>katar<\/span><\/em>, based on the Arabic word for train, <\/span>qitar<\/span><\/em>. That word was originally used for a caravan of camels, and derives from the other meaning of <\/span>ktr<\/span><\/em>- \u201cto bind, connect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But in the end, neither proposal was adopted. Instead, the accepted word for train is <\/span>rakevet<\/span><\/em>, based on the suggestion of another contemporary linguist, Yechiel Michel Pines. But <\/span>katar<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>was not abandoned. It became the word for the locomotive. I\u2019m sure that both Ben Yehuda and Yellin each felt that <\/span>katar<\/span><\/em>\u00a0derived from the meaning they suggested. And who knows? 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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously taught in his book <\/span>The Shabbat: Its Meaning for Modern Man<\/span><\/em> (1951) that \u201cJudaism is a religion of time aiming at the sanctification of time\u201d and that \u201cSabbaths are our great cathedrals\u201d (8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Heschel points out that in Genesis, the seventh day (Shabbat) was the first part of creation to be sanctified. When speaking of sanctification, time seems to have priority over space in Judaism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In our chapter, we see a close integration between the sanctification of space and time. Verse 1 states \u201cThus said the Lord God: The gate of the inner court which faces east shall be closed on the six working days; it shall be opened on the sabbath day and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The inner court has been set aside as sacred space. The gate allowing access to it will only be open during specific sacred times. Here we see that the sanctification of time can determine the layout of space. Sacred space and sacred time are not in opposition to one another, but complimentary.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Given the new realities of life during the Covid-19 crisis, I have found myself thinking a lot lately about understanding and creating boundaries of space and time. Like most people I know, I have been forced to spend much more time at home than usual.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I live in NYC, renting a relatively large room in an uptown brownstone. This room currently functions as my bedroom, home office, living room, dining room, storage area, yoga studio, and prayer space. I often shift furniture around during the day to create a space more suitable to whichever task I am working on in that moment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I have also had to create a more structured work-from-home schedule. I have celebrated every Shabbat in this same room since Purim, as well as Passover and Shavuot. Counting the Omer has overlapped with self-isolating.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Through all of this, I have come to see that the boundaries of time and space are interconnected. The layout of my room drastically changes depending upon the time of day and day of the week. I find myself tidying my room even more carefully than usual before Shabbat so that there are fewer visual distractions as I welcome and celebrate Shabbat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Like the gate of the inner court of the Temple, sacred time changes the layout of my space. 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Chapter 44 begins with God\u2019s instruction that the \u201couter gate of the Sanctuary facing eastward\u201d (1) was \u201cto be kept shut and not to be opened\u201d (2). Here, however, we find the instruction that \u201cThe gate of the inner court which faces east shall be closed on the six working days; it shall be opened on the Sabbath day and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon\u201d (46:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It seems clear that the former was an \u201c<\/span>outer<\/span><\/em> gate\u201d while the latter was \u201ca gate of the <\/span>inner<\/span><\/em> court\u201d and, hence, not in contradiction: one remained closed all the time, while the other was opened regularly. This is reflected in the commentary of the Gaon R. Eliyahu of Vilna. Rashi, on the other hand, maintained that both verses were addressing the same gate and that the resolution to the contradiction is that 46:1 made an exception to the \u201crule\u201d of 44:2 by allowing the \u201couter gate\u201d to be opened occasionally in honor of the <\/span>nasi<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The term used here for the weekdays: \u201cthe six working days,\u201d in Hebrew: <\/span>sheshet yemei hama`aseh<\/span><\/em>, is familiar from the liturgical formula of Havdalah (separation) that demarcates Shabbat from weekdays. It would appear to have been coined by Ezekiel, although 1 Samuel 20:19 does employ <\/span>yom hama`aseh<\/span><\/em> to signify a workday, perhaps there in distinction to \u201cthe new moon\u201d (v.18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Glaringly absent here are the festivals. Was the gate opened on those days or not? Logic would suggest that if the purpose of the openings was both to facilitate access for the <\/span>nasi<\/span><\/em> as well as to differentiate between ordinary workdays and holidays, then festivals must have been included despite not being mentioned explicitly. Furthermore, it is reasonable to assume that on the three pilgrimage festivals the gates were kept open simply because the size of the crowds required it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Finally, the conjoining of Shabbat and the new moon to the exception of the festivals is strongly reminiscent of the penultimate verse in the Book of Isaiah: \u201cAnd new moon after new moon, and sabbath after sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship Me\u2014said the Lord\u201d (66:23).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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46:18 \u201c\u2018And the prince shall not take from the estate of the people to cheat them of their holding. From his own holding he shall bequeath to his sons, so that My people be not scattered each man from his holding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As in earlier biblical literature, Ezekiel envisages an agrarian society in which stability and prosperity are contingent on possessing arable land. It is for this reason that the king is sternly prohibited from expropriating land from his subjects.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Closed. Open. Closed<\/em>. In the fortress Temple in Ezekiel\u2019s vision, the gates serve to create the hierarchy that defines the proximity to holiness.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. One of the people - or above them<\/em>? Depends on which day. On Sabbaths and new moons and when he brings a sacrifice to the Temple, the prince\/king enters through the Eastern Gate whic was opened wide in his honor. On other occasions, he enters as one of the people.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The Ezekiel challenge.<\/em> The differences between the laws of the Temple in the Torah, and the descriptions presented in Ezekiel are a significant exegetical and religious challenge. 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