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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Eurowalk

When I was young I was Achilles
It was excellence, honor, bravery, and blood,
All played out on the stage of the world.
Now I am Odysseus, a voyager, a traveler for travel's sake.
As if something was forgotten, I go East.
The star of the play now is the Earth itself,
Ireland to Istanbul.
In the beginning and at the end there was light.
The beauty of light finds a room in us.
What is it all but luminous?
Moishe New: Menasheh means, again, that a Jew doesn't forget where home is and ~ in case we've forgotten ~ we're being reminded of ET: we're, here; on a mission and we dare not forget that...

Mount Monashee

When I was small
I was River Phoenix
Memorizing My lines.

Now, I’m Kurt Cobain
Losing my voice.

From Seattle to Sunset Strip,
I descend.

In the beginning and the end,
There are titles and credits:

Death pawns our sword,
Where there’s no room

For Wise Men.

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