## Rashi on Ezekiel Chapter 8

###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:1:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:1:1)

**בַּשָּׁנָה הַשִּׁשִּׁית.** לְגָלוּת יְכָנְיָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in the sixth year** of the exile of Jeconiah.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:2:1
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**מִמַּרְאֵה מָתְנָיו וְגוֹ׳.** אָסוּר לְהִתְבּוֹנֵן בְּפָסוּק זֶה (ראה רש״י יחזקאל א:כז):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from the appearance of its loins, etc.** It is forbidden to reflect on this verse.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:3:1
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**בְּצִיצִית רֹאשִׁי.** בִּשְׂעַר רֹאשִׁי, פְּלוּצִיי״ל בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**by a lock of my hair** Heb. צִיצִיתרֹאשִּׁי [lit. fringes of my head.] By the hair of my head, flozel in Old French, a lock of hair.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:3:2
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**בְּמַרְאוֹת אֱלֹהִים.** הֶרְאַנִי כְּאִלּוּ נוֹשֵׂא אוֹתִי וּמְבִיאַנִי לִירוּשָׁלַיִם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in the visions of God** He showed me [a vision looking] as if He were carrying me and bringing me to Jerusalem.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:3:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:3:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:3:3)

**שַׁעַר הַפְּנִימִית הַפּוֹנֶה צָפוֹנָה.** שַׁעַר הָעֲזָרָה, שֶׁהִיא פְּנִימִית לְהַר הַבַּיִת, וְהָיוּ לָהּ שְׁעָרִים לְכָל רוּחוֹתֶיהָ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the inner gate that faces north** The gate to the court, which is within the Temple Mount, [and] which had gates to all its sides.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:3:4
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:3:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:3:4)

**סֵמֶל הַקִּנְאָה.** צוּרַת הַקִּנְאָה מְקַנֵּא וּמַקְנִיט לְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, שֶׁנְּתָנוּהָ שָׁם לְהַקְנָאוֹת לְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, לְהַרְגִּיזוֹ; וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״צֶלֶם דְּקִנְאָתָא דְּמַרְגְּזִין״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the image of jealousy** The image of jealousy would make the Holy One, blessed be He, jealous and provoke Him, for they put it there to make the Holy One, blessed be He, jealous; to anger Him, and so did Jonathan render: the image of jealousy, which they provoked.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:5:1
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**שָׂא נָא עֵינֶיךָ דֶּרֶךְ צָפוֹנָה.** לְהַר הַבַּיִת מִחוּץ לָעֲזָרָה, שֶׁהֲרֵי בְּפֶתַח שַׁעַר הַצְּפוֹנִי שֶׁל עֲזָרָה מִבַּחוּץ הָיָה עוֹמֵד, וְדֶרֶךְ צָפוֹנָה לַשַּׁעַר, חוּץ לָעֲזָרָה הוּא:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**“Now lift your eyes northward”** Toward the Temple Mount, outside the court. For he [already] was standing outside the northern entrance of the court, and north of the gate is [farther] outside the court.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:5:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:5:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:5:2)

**מִצָּפוֹן לְשַׁעַר הַמִּזְבֵּחַ.** בְּהַר הַבַּיִת, מִצָּפוֹן לְאוֹתוֹ שַׁעַר הָעֲזָרָה הַצְּפוֹנִי; וְאוֹמֵר אֲנִי, שֶׁהָיָה אוֹתוֹ שַׁעַר מְכֻוָּן כְּנֶגֶד הַמִּזְבֵּחַ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from the north of the gate of the altar** On the Temple Mount, from the north of that northern gate of the court, and I say that that gate was exactly in line with the gate of the altar.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:5:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:5:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:5:3)

**בַּבִּאָה.** כְּשֶׁאָדָם בָּא לִיכָּנֵס לָעֲזָרָה, מוֹצְאוֹ שָׁם. **בַּבִּאָה** – אלאנטריא״ה בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**at the entrance** Heb. בַּבִאָה. When a person comes to enter the court, he finds it there; a l’entree in French, at the entrance.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:6:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:6:1)

**לְרָחֳקָה מֵעַל מִקְדָּשִׁי.** כְּדֵי שֶׁאֶתְרַחֵק מֵעַל מִקְדָּשִׁי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to cause Me to distance Myself from My sanctuary** In order that I distance Myself from My sanctuary.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:7:1
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**אֶל פֶּתַח הֶחָצֵר.** הִקְרִיבַנִי עַד פֶּתַח אוֹתוֹ שַׁעַר עַצְמוֹ (ראה רש״י יחזקאל ח:ה):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to the entrance of the court** He brought me up until the entrance of that very gate.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:7:2
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**חוֹר אֶחָד בַּקִּיר.** חוֹמַת הָעֲזָרָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**a hole in the wall** The wall of the court.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:8:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:8:1)

**חֲתָר נָא בַקִּיר.** וְהַרְחֵב אֶת הַחוֹר:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**dig now in the wall** and widen the hole.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:8:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:8:2)

**וְהִנֵּה פֶתַח אֶחָד.** דֶּרֶךְ הַחוֹר רָאִיתִי פֶּתַח לִשְׁכָּה אַחַת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and behold an entrance** Through the hole, I saw the entrance of one chamber.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:10:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:10:1)

**שֶׁקֶץ.** עֲשׂוּיִין לְשִׁקּוּץ עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**of detestation** Made for the detestation of idolatry.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:10:2
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**מְחֻקֶּה.** חֲקוּקִין **עַל הַקִּיר**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**engraved** Heb. מְחֻקֶה, engraved on the wall.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:11:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:11:1)

**וְיַאֲזַנְיָהוּ בֶן שָׁפָן.** חָשׁוּב הָיָה, וּלְמֵדִין דּוֹרוֹ הֵימֶנּוּ, לְפִיכָךְ הִקְפִּיד עָלָיו:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan** He was of high esteem, and his generation was learning from him; therefore, He took particular offense at him.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:11:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:11:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:11:2)

**וַעֲתַר עֲנַן הַקְּטֹרֶת.** תִּימּוֹר קִיטוֹר עֲנַן הַקְּטֹרֶת; וְלָשׁוֹן עֲתַר – ׳מַרְבִּית׳, וְכֵן ״הַעְתַּרְתֶּם עָלַי דִּבְרֵיכֶם״ (יחזקאל לה:יג), וְכֵן ״נַעְתָּרוֹת נְשִׁיקוֹת שׂוֹנֵא״ (משלי כז:ו); וְכֵן חִבְּרָן מְנַחֵם בְּמַחֲלֹקֶת אַחַת שְׁלָשְׁתָּן, וּפֵירֵשׁ: עִנְיָן מְרֻבֶּה הֵמָּה, אַךְ כָּל אֶחָד לְשׁוֹן בְּנֵי אָדָם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and a thick cloud of incense** Heb. עֲתַר, thick. The ascent of the smoke of the cloud of the incense [was thick]. The word עַתַר denotes immensity, and so (35:13): “and have magnified (הַעְתַּרְתֶּם) your words against Me,” and so (Prov. 27:6): “whereas kisses of an enemy are burdensome (נַעְתָּרוֹת).” Menachem (p. 140) grouped all three under one heading and they all denote an idea of thickness, but each one is an independent expression.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:12:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:12:1)

**בְּחַדְרֵי מַשְׂכִּיתוֹ.** מְשׁוּכָה בְּרִצְפַת אַבְנֵי שַׁיִשׁ, לְשׁוֹן ״וְשַׂכֹּתִי כַפִּי״ (שמות לג:כב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in his paved chambers** Heb. מַשְּׂכִּיתוֹ. Covered with a floor of marble. An expression related to (Exod. 32:22): “and I will cover (וְשֲּׂכֹּתִי) you with My hand.”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:14:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:14:1)

**אֶל פֶּתַח שַׁעַר בֵּית ה׳.** תּוֹךְ חֲלַל הָעֲזָרָה, אֶל פֶּתַח הַהֵיכָל אֲשֶׁר בַּצָּפוֹן; דְּאָמַר מַר (זבחים נה:): שְׁנֵי פִשְׁפְּשִׁין הָיוּ בְּבֵית הַחֲלִיפוֹת, אֶחָד בַּצָּפוֹן וְאֶחָד בַּדָּרוֹם (תמיד ל:):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to the entrance of the gate of the house of the Lord** Within the inner space of the courtyard [that led] to the entrance of the heichal that is in the north, for the master [R. Jose the son] taught: Two wickets were in the Temple chamber for the knives, one in the north and one in the south (see Zev. 55b, 56a).


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:14:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:14:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:14:2)

**מְבַכּוֹת אֶת הַתַּמּוּז.** דְּמוּת אֶחָד שֶׁמְּחַמְּמוֹת אוֹתוֹ מִבִּפְנִים, וְהָיוּ עֵינָיו שֶׁל עוֹפֶרֶת וְהֵם נִתּוֹכִין מֵחוֹם הַהֶסֵּק וְנִרְאֶה כְּאִלּוּ בּוֹכֶה, וְאוֹמְרוֹת: תִּקְרוֹבֶת הוּא שׁוֹאֵל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**making the Tammuz weep** There was an image that they would heat up from the inside, and its eyes, which were of lead, would melt from the heat of the fire, and it would appear as though it was weeping, and they would say, “It is asking for an offering.”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:14:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:14:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:14:3)

**תַּמּוּז.** לְשׁוֹן הֶיסֵּק, כְּמוֹ ״עַל דִּי חֲזֵה לְמֵזְיֵהּ״ (דניאל ג:יט), ״וְאַתּוּנָא אֲזֵה יַתִּירָה״ (שם):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
“Tammuz” is an expression of heating, like (Dan. 3:19): “more than it was wont to be heated (לְמֵזְיֵהּ)”; (ibid. 22), “and the furnace exceedingly hot (אֵזֵהּ).”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:14:4
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**מְבַכּוֹת אֶת הַתַּמּוּז.** פִּיישְׁנְ״ט פְּלוֹרִי״ר לָא״ל קָאלְפִּי״ץ בְּלַעַ״ז:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Making the Tammuz cry** is fesant plorer la chalfez in Old French; making the heated [god] weep.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:16:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:16:1)

**וַיָּבֵא אוֹתִי אֶל חֲצַר בֵּית ה׳ הַפְּנִימִית.** הִיא הָעֲזָרָה, כִּי הַר הַבַּיִת נִקְרָא ״הֶחָצֵר הַחִיצוֹנָה״ (יחזקאל מ:יז), וְעַד עַכְשָׁיו בְּתוֹכָהּ הָיָה עוֹמֵד, אֶלָּא שֶׁהוּא נִכְנַס בְּשַׁעַר הַצְּפוֹנִי, וְהֶרְאָהוּ בְּבֵית הַחֲלִיפוֹת אֶת צוּרַת הַתַּמּוּז, וְחָזַר וְהוֹלִיכוֹ לְמִזְרָח לִפְנֵי הַהֵיכָל וְהַמִּזְבֵּחַ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And He brought me to the inner court of the house of the Lord** This is the Temple court, for the Temple Mount is called the outer court, and until now that is where he [already] had been standing, except that he had entered the northern gate when He showed him the image of the Tammuz in the chamber of the knives. Then He brought him to the east, [to stand] before the Temple and the altar.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:16:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:16:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:16:2)

**וּפְנֵיהֶם קֵדְמָה וגו׳.** מִמַּשְׁמָע שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר **וּפְנֵיהֶם קֵדְמָה** יוֹדֵעַ אֲנִי שֶׁאֲחוֹרֵיהֶם אֶל הַהֵיכָל, אֶלָּא מַגִּיד שֶׁהָיָה אֲחוֹרֵיהֶם מְגֻלֶּה, שֶׁהָיוּ פּוֹעֲרִין עַצְמָם וּמַתְרִיזִין כְּלַפֵּי מַטָּה (סוכה נג:):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and their faces toward the east** From the implication of the statement, “and their faces toward the east,” I [already] know that “their backs were toward the Temple,” but [Scripture] tells us that their posteriors were exposed, for they would uncover themselves and excrete downward.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:16:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:16:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:16:3)

**מִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶם.** בִּשְׁתֵּי תֵיבוֹת הוּא מְשַׁמֵּשׁ, לְשׁוֹן ׳הַשְׁחָתָה׳ וּלְשׁוֹן ׳הִשְׁתַּחֲוָיָה׳, כֵּן הוּא בִּירוּשַׁלְמִי (סוכה ה, ה): מַשְׁחִיתִים הַהֵיכָל וּמִשְׁתַּחֲוִים לַחַמָּה; וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״וְאִינוּן מִתְחַבְּלִין וְסָגְדִין״. וּמְנַחֵם חִבְּרוֹ לְשׁוֹן ׳שָׁחוֹחַ׳, כְּמוֹ ״שְׁחִי וְנַעֲבוֹרָה״ (ישעיה נא, כג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they were prostrating themselves** Heb. מִשְּׁתַּחֲוִיתֶם. This serves as two words, an expression of destruction (הַשְּׁחָתָה) and an expression of prostrating oneself (הִשְּׁתַּחֲוָיָה). So it is in Yerushalmi (Suc. 5:5, see Korban Ha’edah): “They were destroying the Temple and bowing to the sun.” Jonathan, too, rendered in that manner: and they were destroying and bowing.” Menachem (p. 171) classified it as an expression of bending down, like (Isa. 51:23): “Bend down (שְּׁחִי) and let us cross.”


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:17:1
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:17:1)

**הֲנָקֵל לְבֵית יְהוּדָה.** הַמְעַט לָהֶם וְקַל בְּעֵינֵיהֶם שְׁאָר עֲבֵירוֹת שֶׁבְּיָדָם?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Was it [too] trivial to the house of Judah** Is it trivial and light in their eyes, the other sins that they have committed?


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:17:2
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:17:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:17:2)

**מֵעֲשׂוֹת אֶת הַתּוֹעֵבוֹת.** אִם הָיוּ חֲדֵלִים **מֵעֲשׂוֹת אֶת כָּל הַתּוֹעֵבוֹת אֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ** בְּבֵיתִי **פֹּה**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to prevent them from performing the abominations** that they should refrain from doing all the abominations that they have done in My house here?


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:17:3
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:17:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:17:3)

**כִּי מָלְאוּ אֶת הָאָרֶץ חָמָס.** וְנָקֵל בְּעֵינֵיהֶם אוֹתוֹ עָוֹן, וַיָּשׁוּבוּ לְהַכְעִיסֵנִי בְּתוֹךְ בֵּיתִי בַּתּוֹעֵבוֹת הָאֵלֶּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for they have [already] filled the land with violence** and that that iniquity is trivial in their eyes, and they repeatedly provoke Me within My house with these abominations.


###### Rashi on Ezekiel 8:17:4
[Rashi on Ezekiel 8:17:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Ezekiel/r/8:17:4)

**וְהִנָּם שׁוֹלְחִים אֶת הַזְּמוֹרָה אֶל אַפָּם.** וְהִנֵּה שׁוֹלְחִים אֶל חוֹטְמָם אֶת רֵיחַ רַע שֶׁל זְמוֹרָה זוֹ, שֶׁהֵם מְזַמְּרִים בָּרוּחַ הַיּוֹצֵא מִפִּי טַבַּעַת, כְּלוֹמַר: בָּשְׁתָּם זֶה אֶל פְּנֵיהֶם יָשׁוּב. וּמְנַחֵם פֵּירֵשׁ **וְהִנָּם שׁוֹלְחִים אֶת הַזְּמוֹרָה אֶל אַפָּם** עִנְיַן דּוֹפִי וְקָלוֹן הוּא. לְפֵירוּשׁוֹ הִשְׁוָה רֵיחַ מִקְטַרְתָּם וְכַעַס קָרְבָּנָם וְנִיחוֹחִים (יחזקאל כ:כח) לִמְלֶאכֶת דּוֹפִי נְקָבִים, וַ**אֲחוֹרֵיהֶם אֶל הֵיכַל ה׳** יוֹרֶה עַל הָעִנְיָן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and behold they send disgrace into their nose** Behold they send to their nose the foul odor of this “song,” which they “sing” with the wind emerging from their anus; i.e., this disgrace of theirs will come back to their faces. Menachem (p. 79) explained: “and behold they send the disgrace into their nose” is a matter of disgrace and shame; and according to his explanation, He compares the aroma of their censers and (Ezek. 20:28) “the anger of their sacrifices” and (ibid.) “their pleasant aroma” to the work of the disgrace of the orifices. “Their backs to the Temple of the Lord” implies this idea.