MICHAEL FREUND: Ezekiel is commanded by God to take two sticks. On one, he is to write "For Judah," and on the other "For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim." Then comes the crucial instruction: "Bring them together into one stick so that they become one in your hand" (37:17). Ezekiel's vision is not one of uniformity. The two sticks do not cease to be what they are. Judah remains Judah; Joseph remains Joseph. Unity does not erase difference – it sanctifies and elevates it by placing it within a larger shared destiny.


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Ketriel Blad: In other words, in order for a total restoration to take place, the restored Ephraimites from among the nations will have to become Jewish, in the legal sense of the word, thus accepting the Jewish authorities and becoming obedient to Jewish halachah. In the prophecy of Ezekiel 37:19 the Hebrew text can be understood as HaShem giving Yehuda's stick the function of being over Ephraim's stick and this way both sticks will become one. This teaches us that the Ephraimite movement that comes from heaven cannot rise apart from the Jewish people without submission to the Jewish leaders' authority. This is not for all the gentiles.

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||There are significant threats, but I sleep very well and I don’t lose sleep because I’ve done what I feel I needed to do. It was the right thing to do and I’m not going to be afraid.|| ~ Edward Joseph Snowden

||There have been Abuses. There have been thousands of Violations of the National Security Agency, but what they found was that these Programs have no value. Insiders know we don’t need these Programs. These Programs don’t make U.S. safe. They take a tremendous amount of resources to run. And they offer U.S. no value.|| ~ Edward Joseph Snowden

||There is no saving an Intelligence Community that believes it can lie to the public and the legislators, who need to be able to trust it and to regulate its actions. The public had a right to know about these Programs. The public had a right to know that which the Government is doing, in its name, and that which the Government is doing against the public.|| ~ Edward Joseph Snowden

||No matter how deeply an individual is embedded in the Government, no matter how faithful to the Government they are, no matter how strongly they believe in the causes of their Government ~ as I did during the Iraq War ~ People can learn, People can Discover the line between appropriate Government behavior and actual Wrongdoing, and it became clear to me that that line had been crossed.|| ~ Edward Joseph Snowden

Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein, David Ussishkin, and Baruch Halpern: The Book of Joshua (12:21) specifically mentions the defeat of the king of Megiddo and the allotment of his territory to the tribe of Manasseh;

JACQUELINE SCHAALJE: Beit Shean is mentioned as belonging to the conquered area of the Israelite tribe of Manasseh

NETANYA MUNICIPALITY: thanks to the Lord for giving them {Netan~ya, lot. "gift of God"} the ability to continue the legacy of the 12 tribes who settled in the Land of Israel, and particularly of the half~tribe of Manasseh, which settled in the region.

Stephen Epstein: Some went down the Mekong River into Vietnam, the Philippines, Siam, Thailand and Malaysia, while some of the Israelites moved to Burma and west to India.

אֵלִיָּ֨הוּ הַתִּשְׁבִּ֜י מִתֹּשָׁבֵ֣י גִלְעָד֮