Talmud su Ezechiele 8:16

MISHNAH: Two Cohanim were standing in the upper gate which leads from the courtyard of Israel to the courtyard of women with two trumpets in their hands. At the rooster’s call they blew straight, modulated, and straight⁹⁰The standard way of blowing either metal trumpet or ram’s horn, an extended single tone, followed by a repetition of high and low sounds, followed again by an extended single tone; cf. Roš Haššanah3:5.. When they arrived at the tenth step they blew straight, modulated, and straight. When they arrived in the courtyard they blew straight, modulated, and straight. They continued blowing until they arrived at the gate which was the exit to the East⁹¹From where they then went to draw the water from the Siloam pool.. When they arrived at the gate which was the exit to the East they turned their faces to the West and said, our forefathers who were at this place, their backs to the Eternal’s Temple and their faces to the East,prostrating themselves eastwards to the sun⁹²Ez. 8:16., but we, to Yah are our eyes. Rebbi Jehudah says, they were repeating and saying, “we are to Yah; and to Yah are our eyes.⁹³While unnecessary repetitions in public prayers are forbidden (Berakhot5:4, Note 128), and for the Babli all unnecessary repetitions in prayer are forbidden also in private, this does not apply to the Divine Name where there is a biblical source (Ex.34:6) or in the case here, where the repetition refers to two different sentences with two different subjects (Babli 53b).”

Rebbi Jacob bar Aḥa: It has been stated there²²⁸In Babylonia, where the direction towards the Temple in Jerusalem would be to the West., in all directions one does not stop him except in the Eastern direction²²⁹When somebody turns his back to Jerusalem, he cannot pray. This formulation is not mentioned in the Babli except that the blind Rav Sheshet ordered his servant not to let him pray in an Eastern direction because that was a Christian custom (Bava Batra 25a).. Rebbi Yose bar Abun said, as of old (Ez. 8:16)²³⁰In Ezechiel’s vision of all the abominations for which Jerusalem will be destroyed.: “Their backs to the Temple of the Eternal and their faces turned East, they were prostrating themselves Eastwards before the sun.”

Rebbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said, it is not written “and they were prostrating themselves,” but they are prostrating you⁹²Ez. 8:16.^,97A form looking ungrammatical (which most moderns classify as scribal error), here read as indicating induced contortion, where people lie down flat first with face to the East and then to the West., that they were bowing down to the sun and prostrating to the Temple. Rebbi Abba bar Cahana said, for two evils did my people do⁹⁸Jer. 2:13.. Did my people only commit two evils? Did He not forgive in thousands? Only that they were bowing down to the sun and prostrating to the Temple⁹⁹As example how one can do two evils in one action, idolatry and also blasphemy by equating bowing to the Temple with bowing to the sun..