Every year at the Passover seder, we read Ezekiel’s allegorical description of the Israelites in Egypt:
“You grew big and tall. You came with great adornments and were beautiful of form, with flowing hair. But you were naked and bare.” (Ezekiel 16:7)
The prophet describes the Israelites as being large and numerous, yet, at the same time, impoverished and barren. Physically, Jacob’s family of seventy souls had developed into a large nation. Despite Egyptian persecution and oppression, they had become numerous. Morally and spiritually, however, they were “naked and bare.”
What about the “great adornments” that the verse mentions? What were these “jewels” of Israel?
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