Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

The haftarah for Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach is a prophecy from the book of Ezekiel. G‑d took him to a valley that was full of dry bones. He saw how G‑d brought them to life again. This, G‑d explained, was a message to the Jewish people. Though they may fe...

The Talmud explores the identity of the dry bones Ezekiel resurrected. (Tractate Sanhedrin 92b)

Attempting to challenge a teaching about minor-resurrection in early messianic-times, the Talmud evokes Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones that rattled and came to life; casting them as an earlier prototype of futuristic phenomenon. Deftly parrying, our Sa...

Ezekiel spent the bulk of his life in Babylonia, where he envisioned most of his prophecies.

From Ezekiel’s vision of the "dry bones" to the bond between generations and the phenomenon of supernatural events – past, present and future