פּירוש אויף יחזקאל 37:1

The hand of the Lord came upon me and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, etc. Every “the hand of the Lord” in a prophecy is an expression of compulsion, meaning that the spirit would compel him to go as a madman to a place that the spirit desired.

and that was full of bones Our Rabbis said (Sanh. 92b) that they were of the tribe of Ephraim, who left Egypt before the end [of the exile], and the people of Gath who were born in the land slew them, as is stated in (I) Chronicles (7: 20ff.)

“The hand of the Lord came upon me” [37:1]. Ezekiel said: the words of God came upon me and the spirit took me out into a field that was full of bones. The spirit caused me to go around the bones and they were all over the field and they were very dry. God said to me: will the bones live again? I said: you God know well if they will live. The Holy One showed him with this that he caused the dead to live, and that Israel in the exile are like the dry bones and the Holy One will take them out, just like He made the bones alive. Rashi writes that Ezekiel was a priest who was not supposed to go near the dead. That is why the verse says here that Ezekiel went around the dead, in the hope that he should not go among the dead to become impure.¹Rashi, Ezekiel, 37:2.