Q&A: The Division of the Tribes in the Future to Come
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The Division of the Tribes in the Future to Come
Question
Hello,
How do you relate to Ezekiel’s prophecy about dividing the land among the tribes in the future to come?
Will we really have 12 tribes?
Will we really divide the land into strips?
This is a prophet’s prophecy, so it’s a bit difficult to just ignore it.
Thank you
Answer
I have no idea. How do you relate to the explicit verse in the Torah, “an eye for an eye”? The gap between what is written and the interpretation we give it is large, and usually depends on our assumptions. That is exactly why I have written more than once that, in my view, we do not learn anything from the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and therefore I am not especially interested in the Bible.