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Yechezkel demonstrates to his listeners the dire straits the people from
Yerushalayim are in during the final Babylonian siege against the city.
According to the Talmud (Eruvin 81a), Yechezkel rations to himself inedible
flour and inferior grains and limits his water in order to portray the austere
conditions under which the people of Yerushalayim are suffering. As a final
blow, these foods are prepared in an impure manner (verse 13), something
repulsive to the sensitive prophet-priest. Indeed, bread and water were very scarce
during the Babylonian siege of Yerushalayim, as the Bible indicates elsewhere:
“The tongue of the suckling cleaves to its palate for thirst. Little children
beg for bread; none gives them a morsel.” (Lamentations 4:4). While Jerusalem is
no longer under seige, there are many people in the city living in dire straits.
Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors in Israel are living in abject poverty.
Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors are living in abject poverty and
loneliness in Israel. You can help those who suffered so much at the beginning
of their lives to live out the end of their days with the knowledge that there
are good people, Jews and Christians, in the world who care and remember
them.The time is now. Tomorrow may be too late.
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