נֹצְרִ֖ים בְּהַ֣ר אֶפְרָ֑יִם
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.
I willed you from the air
Or did I simply hear you knocking?
Visions of you played
like two second sitcoms
in my brain.
There you were in a diaper
on the stream rocks.
There you were
catching baby trout
in your fingers.
Before you were born,
I heard whispers
in the forest and dawn.
I reached back to grab hold
of the cord which tied me
to my grandmother.
She willed this too from the beyond.
