The Tanakh Podcast

Chapter 10 returns us to the image of the Merkava - the Divine Chariot, as we watch the Shekhina leave Jerusalem in "Ten Stages".

Amidst the punishing destruction of Jerusalem, a mark will be painted on the foreheads of the righteous and they will be saved.

Yechezkel visits Jerusalem in a prophetic out-of-body experience, as God demonstrates an entire array of idolatrous practices being performed inside the Temple compound!

Yechezkel warns the people that the end of Jerusalem is imminent.

Yechezkel addresses the "Hills of Israel". What is the connection between the physical landscape and the nations sins?

In this podcast we discuss how Chapter 5-6 is replete with motifs and phrases from the Tochacha of Vayikra (Lev) ch.26 placing the Hurban and the sufferings of the Exile in a covenantal rubric.

Ezekiel acts out the siege in a series of dramatic symbolic actions that he performs in his home.

We cover two themes today: 1. The verse ברוך כבוד ה' ממקומו and the structure of "Kedusha". 2. The theme of Ezekiel's Silence Music. Leonard Cohen - "If it be your will"

What is Ezekiel's role? What is his message? What does he want from his audience? Why prophecy about Jerusalem to an audience sitting in Babylon? We shall answer this question relating to another feature of Yechezkel - his passivity.

After a short introduction to the Book of Ezekiel we offer two ways of looking at the scene of the Divine Chariot witnessed by Yechezkel in the opening chapter.