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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takaeo: yeah, please don’t 
i’m usually a fairly polite person— i’m sure you saw that i responded to one of your earlier messages privately, to decline your request for university accommodation for your friend. i very politely alluded to feeling uncomfortable with your messages, reminding you that i have no idea who you are. that’s incredibly disconcerting, especially when you’re criticizing me for the state that i live in, and offering me unwarranted advice on my future. seeing as you and i are complete strangers and i never appealed to advice from complete strangers, your messages were both rude and invasive (and often entirely irrelevant, but that’s another issue entirely).

you never did tell me anything about yourself other than your alma mater, but you did send me messages about guantanamo bay and nazi torture. if you hadn’t overstepped far too many of my boundaries earlier, you did then. i don’t owe you anything at this point, especially not private courtesy. 
excluding that single message before and this one now, i have not responded to your barrage of messages in hopes of indicating that i am not interested in conversing. i posted that i acknowledged your messages existed (and felt alarmed by them) to drive that point home, hopefully with as little confrontation as possible.

clearly the message didn’t come across. so here it is: 
respectfully, leave me alone. 
al: and Ur still at it. i’m glad you had a fairly pleasant shabbat supper, while jews are being held hostage far away from snitches like you. don’t practice magick. to reiterate, you’re not qualified. secondly, if you decide to do the opposite of what i advise, then don’t out aids patients, for starters, because you clearly have a tendency to shiite through that slit of a mouth of mine. likely, a deposit of the myriad of jesus’ betrayers: your father’s mamzerim friends.

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