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Because the blueprints for the Third Temple do not match the Tabernacle, the First Temple or the Second, some of Ezekiel\u2019s descriptions are hard to understand. Two examples:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

1) He also measured the width of the structure facing the vacant space in the rear, inclusive of its ledges<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> 100 cubits. Both the great hall inside and the portico next to the court\u2014\u201d (verse 15).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word used for \u201cledges\u201d is <\/span>atikeha <\/span><\/i>does not appear anywhere else in Tanach. Targum Jonathan translates this as corners meaning there were extra spaces in the corners that were used to store items. Metzudat Tzion says these were gallery rooms that were leaning up against the main structure. Malbim refers to these are attic spaces built on pillars to allow for more storage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2) a wooden altar 3 cubits high and 2 cubits long and having inner corners; and its length and its walls were of wood. And he said to me, \u2018this is the table that stands before GOD\u2019 (verse 22).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Which vessel is this? Ezekiel describes it as a wooden altar and also a table. The problem is there is no wooden altar in the Temple. There is a copper one and the golden inner one. Based on where Ezekiel is in his descriptions, this seems like it could be the golden altar. Targum Jonathan explains that this is referring to the table with the shewbread. The reference to the altar is only there to show where it was located in the room. The Talmud in Chagigah 27a agrees with this interpretation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Talmud in Berachot 55a, however, sees a deeper message here. The vessel described here is the incense altar that is used to help purify the people of their sins when the Temple is built. However, in times when the Temple is not standing, then one's table may take the place of the inner altar. \u201cRabbi Yo\u1e25anan and Rabbi Elazar both say: As long as the Temple stood, the altar atoned for Israel\u2019s transgressions. Now that it is destroyed, a person\u2019s table atones for his transgressions\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Many years ago as I began to explore Jewish life, I would often sit quietly as those around me engaged in prayer or study. I was entering a new world full of words, rituals, and laws. I needed people to explain Jewish practices to me before I could really see and understand what was happening around me. I did not know how I was supposed to behave \u2013 I needed to be shown.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Over time, I began to find my voice in the Jewish world. Stumbling over my words, I started to engage more in communal life. Slowly and awkwardly, I began to share my perspective on Judaism with others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ezekiel 41 begins with the angelic figure from Chapter 40 continuing to measure the dimensions of the future temple and show them to Ezekiel. Ezekiel is not the subject of this action, but an object. He does not see anything \u2013 instead, it is shown to him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, in verse 8, something shifts. The verse states, \u201cI observed that the Temple was surrounded by a raised pavement\u2014the foundations of the side chambers; its elevation was a rod\u2019s length, or 6 cubits.\u201d Rather than Ezekiel being shown structures and dimensions, he sees them for himself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why does it take so long for Ezekiel to begin to see and not simply be shown? Perhaps he is overwhelmed both by his angelic guide as well as his surroundings. I know that if an angel were giving me a tour of the Holy of Holies, I would keep my mouth shut and passively let them show me whatever they wanted to as well! Only over time can Ezekiel begin to relax and observe for himself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi and other commentators note that the complete dimensions of the raised pavement are not explicitly stated here. Ezekiel\u2019s observation is not as precise as the explanations of the angelic figure guiding him. However, Ezekiel will go on to write down this entire account \u2013 both what was shown to him by the angelic figure and what he saw for himself. Ezekiel\u2019s perception may have been imprecise, but it was still deemed essential enough to be included in the biblical account handed down to us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The same principle here may be true for those who are new to Judaism. People need to be shown Jewish practices before they can see them and understand them. However, we must also appreciate that these newcomers may go on to make essential contributions to the Jewish world with the unique perspectives that they bring. 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Chapters 40-48 mark the prophet Ezekiel\u2019s second \u2018visit\u2019 to Jerusalem, the first described in Chapters 8-11. Now, as then, he was transported in a vision from Babylonia to Jerusalem, but a close reading reveals a substantive difference in the conditions under which the respective journeys were taken. 8:1 states: \u201cThere [at home], the hand of the Lord God <\/span>fell<\/span><\/em> (<\/span>naflah<\/span><\/em>) upon me,\u201d while 40:1 reads: \u201cThe hand of the Lord was (<\/span>haytah<\/span><\/em>) upon me.\u201d The former is indicative of a forced journey, implying an adversarial relationship with God; the latter suggests more conviviality.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another significant feature of the latter journey emerges from the structure of the story. From 40:4 though 42:20 (incorporating the physical description of the Temple and its precincts), Ezekiel\u2019s interlocutor (\u201ca man who shone like copper\u201d 40:3) interjects into the prophet\u2019s narrative only four times: In 40:45, he pointed out the priests\u2019 chamber (<\/span>lishkah<\/span><\/em>); in 41:4, he identified the Holy of Holies; in 41:22, the table (<\/span>shulchan<\/span><\/em>); and in 42:13, the \u201cconsecrated chambers\u201d (<\/span>lishkot ha-kodesh<\/span><\/em>) in which the priests were able to eat from the sacrificial offerings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If I were to venture an explanation for these exceptional utterances, I would assume that the last named three locations were presumed to be of particular interest to Ezekiel who was, after all, a priest (1:3). As for the site of the Holy of Holies, it was sacrosanct and its identification is self-explanatory; Malbim, however, attributed yet another reason for singling it out:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the Second Temple, they were uncertain whether the intermediate cubit belonged within [the Holy of Holies] or without. God hereby informed him that only this was the Holy of Holies while the two-cubit space occupied by the wall is not part of the Holy of Holies and belongs outside it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The \u201cintermediate cubit\u201d (<\/span>amah teraksin<\/span><\/em>) is addressed by Mishnah Midot 4:7, which Pinchas Kehati explained as follows:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the First Temple, a one-cubit wide wall separated the hall (\u2018<\/em><\/span>ulam<\/span><\/em>) from the Holy of Holies\u2026 However, the Second Temple was much taller than the First Temple so a wall only one cubit wide could not be erected there, so they hung a curtain (<\/span>parokhet<\/span><\/em>) between them as in the Tabernacle. 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Most of the last section of the Book of Ezekiel is dedicated to a vision of a new Temple to be built in Jerusalem during the messianic age. In a style reminiscent of the sections of Exodus describing the plan and the construction of the Tabernacle, Ezekiel is led through the precincts by an angelic being and the design of the future Temple is described in great detail. One detail mentioned in this chapter is particularly striking: \u201cAnd all over the wall, both in the inner one and in the outer, ran a pattern. It consisted of cherubs and palm trees, with a palm tree between every two cherubs. Each cherub had two faces: a human face turned toward the palm tree on one side and a lion\u2019s face turned toward the palm tree on the other side\u201d (41:17-19).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A number of problems arise with the presence of these carvings in the Temple. Although no longer widely observed in the Jewish world today, many traditional halakhic authorities consider the second commandment, which includes the injunction \u201cYou shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, or any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth\u201d (Exodus 20:4), to constitute a general ban on the main of human and animal images. Even among those who permit some image-making, there are those who hold that the depiction of human beings is especially forbidden. Ezekiel\u2019s Temple seems to include depictions of both human and animal life. Perhaps making matters even worse, the creature carved onto the walls recalls the strange, multi-faced beings which we encountered in the \u201cvision of God\u201d with which the Book began \u2014 raising the possibility that these carvings are of an angelic being, or even depict some aspect of the Godhead itself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If we grant that these carvings portray something which in ordinary circumstances would be forbidden to depict, then this case would in fact fit a pattern associated with the Temple. Many things forbidden during ordinary times and in ordinary places are not only permitted but actually mandatory within the Temple precincts. The priestly garments, for example, are composed of<\/span> a forbidden mixture of wool and linen, and the duties of the priests include lighting fires on the Sabbath, an activity which if performed outside would merit the death penalty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thus we find in the space of the Temple a sort of controlled and sanctified transgression. It should be stressed that these acts consist entirely of \u2018ritual\u2019 commandments \u2014 there is no evidence that the Temple served as the scene of \u2018holy\u2019 acts of violence or sexual sin. Nevertheless, this pattern \u2014 of the requirement within the Temple grounds of acts which would be sinful without \u2014\u00a0 helps create the impression of an otherworldly environment, in which the ordinary rules of life do not apply. 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41:2 \u201cAnd the width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the supports of the entrance five cubits on each side. And he measured its length to be forty cubits and its width twenty cubits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Most modern translations seek to impart coherence to this whole account of the layout of the Temple by choosing terms familiar in our own architecture--\u201dvestibules,\u201d \u201cledges,\u201d \u201cporticoes,\u201d and the like--rearranging the tangled syntax. But in fact, even if we knew the precise meaning of these architectural terms, which we do not, Ezekiel\u2019s report of spatial entities and their dimensions is quite bewildering. The clarity, then, of the modern translation is illusory, and the present translation is meant to replicate the bewilderment conveyed in the Hebrew. Verses 7 and 8 are a particularly striking instance of the impenetrability of Ezekiel\u2019s description, but there are problems of comprehension throughout.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cA Song of Bread: Challah and Ritual on Friday Night\u201d<\/a> by Rabbi Jessica Minnen: Sources for Challah.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cElevating the Fallen Sparks\u201d<\/a> by Max Kirk: Raising the spirit of God up.<\/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 41","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":"41","chapter_main_number":"493","date":"20270720","wall_id":"493"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"75441","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 41 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Ezekiel 41","slug":"points-to-ponder-ezekiel-41","old_id":"75441","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":"493","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. From Temple to Temple - I<\/em>. Exactly 200 chapters ago (I Kings 6) we read a very detailed account of Solomon\u2019s Temple. The two temples bear many similarities, but there are also some striking differences. Among these: Ezekiel\u2019s Temple is significantly bigger than Solomon\u2019s. It has an additional hall and is situated in a large compound full of courtyards and gates. And above all: Solomon\u2019s Temple is filled with gold. In Ezekiel\u2019s Temple, gold is completely lacking.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. From Temple to Temple - II.<\/em> Researchers have found similarities between the general architecture of Ezekiel\u2019s Temple and Babylonian temples of his period. This includes Ain Dara, near Afrin, Syria, and the Ezida temple at Borsippa, that was found some 150 kms from Ezekiel\u2019s location on the Chebar Canal.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Palm trees and cherubs<\/em>. The palms (<\/span>timorim<\/span><\/em> -<\/em> verse 18)\u00a0 that decorate the Temple are stylized images of trees that were a familiar decorative motif in the ancient Near East. The cherubs (<\/span>keruvim<\/span><\/em>) were celestial winged beings. Both of these motifs could be found in Solomon\u2019s Temple as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Altar or table<\/em>? In verse 22, there is a description of a piece of cultic furniture made of wood, that is termed an \u201caltar\u201d at the beginning of the verse, and at the end is presented as \u201cthe table that stands before the LORD.\u201d The temple vessels that are described in the Torah and in Solomon\u2019s Temple included both a small gold-covered altar, for offering incense, and also a table, for the showbread. 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