Jüdisches Denken zu Jechezkiel 48:2

With regard to the length of each strip of land, the Sifri, Parshas Haazinu,⁶Sec. 10. states: “What is the intent of the statements,⁷Yechezkel, ch. 48. ‘Yehudah, one,’ ‘Asher, one,’ ‘Dan, one’? They teach that in the Future, Eretz Yisrael will occupy a span from the east to the west. The strip to be given to each tribe being 25,000 rods⁸I.e., the length of the span will run from east to west and its width from north to south will be equal to 25,000 of the measuring rod held by the angel, as stated in Yechezkel 40:5. wide – this is 75 mil.”⁹A Talmudic measure equivalent to a kilometer. From where did they derive this measure? From the portion of land to be offered as a terumah. It was equal to one of these tribal portions, as it is written with regard to the terumah,¹⁰Yechezkel 48:8. “as one of the portions.” The portion set aside as terumah was 25,000 rods wide, as explicitly stated in the narrative.¹¹The total length of Eretz Yisrael in this future era will thus be 975 km, encompassing an area extending from a point near the border between contemporary Turkey and Syria to below Eilat, as depicted on the map on the preceding page. There is a slight difficulty with this explanation, however, because the borders of the land will extend beyond those mentioned in Yechezkel, ch. 48.