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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วันจันทร์, สิงหาคม 07, 2560

วันอังคาร, มิถุนายน 06, 2560

วันศุกร์, มิถุนายน 02, 2560

מרדכי ואנונו
I Am Your Whistleblower by Mordechai Vanunu 
I am the clerk, the technician, the mechanic, the driver.
They said, Do this, do that, don't look left or right,
don't read the text. Don't look at the whole machine. You
are only responsible for this one bolt. For this one rubber-stamp.
This is your only concern. Don't bother with what is above you.
Don't try to think for us. Go on, drive. Keep going. On, on. 
So they thought, the big ones, the smart ones, the futurologists.
There is nothing to fear. Not to worry.
Everything's ticking just fine.
Our little clerk is a diligent worker. He's a simple mechanic.
He's a little man.
Little men's ears don't hear, their eyes don't see.
We have heads, they don't. 
Answer them, said he to himself, said the little man,
the man with a head of his own. Who is in charge? Who knows
where this train is going?
Where is their head? I too have a head.
Why do I see the whole engine,
Why do I see the precipice--
is there a driver on this train? 
The clerk driver technician mechanic looked up.
He stepped back and saw -- what a monster.
Can't believe it. Rubbed his eyes and -- yes,
it's there all right. I'm all right. I do see
the monster. I'm part of the system.
I signed this form. Only now I am reading the rest of it. 
This bolt is part of a bomb. This bolt is me. How
did I fail to see, and how do the others go on
fitting bolts. Who else knows?
Who has seen? Who has heard? -- The emperor really is naked.
I see him. Why me? It's not for me. It's too big. 
Rise and cry out. Rise and tell the people. You can.
I, the bolt, the technician, mechanic? -- Yes, you.
You are the secret agent of the people. You are the eyes of the nation.
Whistleblower, tell us what you've seen. Tell us what the insiders, the clever ones, have hidden from us.
Without you, there is only the precipice. Only catastrophe. 
I have no choice. I'm a little man, a citizen, one of the people,
but I'll do what I have to. I've heard the voice of my conscience
and there's nowhere to hide.
The world is small, small for Big Brother.
I'm on your mission. I'm doing my duty. Take it from me. 
Come and see for yourselves. Lighten my burden. Stop the train.
Get off the train. The next stop -- nuclear disaster. The next book,
the next machine. No. There is no such thing. 
-1987, Ashkelon Prison

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วันศุกร์, เมษายน 28, 2560

วันพุธ, กุมภาพันธ์ 01, 2560

วันจันทร์, กันยายน 05, 2559

วันอังคาร, สิงหาคม 30, 2559

Corey Scott Feldman: I was awakened at 8:30 this morning by my brother and sister knocking on my bedroom door. They informed me of the loss of my brother Corey Haim. My eyes weren’t even open all the way when the tears started streaming down my face. I am so sorry for Corey, his mother Judy, his family, my family, all of our fans, and of course my son who I will have to find a way to explain this to when he gets home from school. This is a tragic loss of a wonderful,beautiful,tormented soul, who will always be my brother,family, and best friend. We must all take this as a lesson in how we treat the people we share this world with while they are still here to make a difference. Please respect our families as we struggle and grieve through this difficult time. I hope the art Corey has left behind will be remembered as the passion of that for which he truly lived.

วันจันทร์, กรกฎาคม 25, 2559

วันศุกร์, เมษายน 22, 2559

A Church worker burns old palm fronds that was used in last year’s Palm Sunday observance at the St. Peter’s Church in Quezon City on Tuesday in preparation for today’s Ash Wednesday rites. In the Roman Catholic Church, Ash Wednesday is a reminder to the faithful that “thou art dust and unto dust thou shall return.” (Mark Balmores)

A hooded Filipino penitent flagellates during Good Friday rituals to atone for sins on April 3, 2015 in Pampanga province, northern Philippines. [Pic by Aaron Favila]

Luke 9:60
God of the dying
[Let the dead bury their dead].
God of the living…

วันพุธ, มีนาคม 09, 2559




วันอาทิตย์, กุมภาพันธ์ 28, 2559

Рамза́н Ахма́дович Кады́ров: My time is past. Every human has a limit. I believe Kadyrov has passed his peak. Family, personal life, Islamic studies – that’s where I see myself.

วันพฤหัสบดี, กุมภาพันธ์ 25, 2559

הצילו אותם מהאש ואילו עם האחרים התנהגו באהבה וברחמים אך היזהרו שלא תתפתו בעצמכם לחטוא כמותם

بثينة شعبان: If it were not for the support by regional parties ~ in particular Turkey and Saudi Arabia ~ it would not be difficult to defeat ISIL.

วันจันทร์, กุมภาพันธ์ 22, 2559

Chaim Kanievsky: Moshiach is not just on the way. He is at the very door.

วันศุกร์, มกราคม 29, 2559

วันพุธ, มกราคม 27, 2559

S.O.S.

נשלחתי אל צאן האובדות של בית ישראל בלבד

Samaria doesn’t need to be saved. Judea doesn’t need to be saved. Jerusalem doesn’t need to be saved. Archipelagos don’t need to be saved. They don’t need to be saved because the Savior comes from them.

It’s Israel that needs to be saved;
The Church’s Debt to Heretics, Jones, 1924, pp. 15–16: What we may properly call "Galilean Christianity" had a short life, though there have been notable attempts to revive it and make it live again, and here and there spiritual prophets have insisted that anything else other than this simple Galilean religion is "heresy"; 
Roderick C. Meredith: Contrary to the heretical Protestant ideas that the Apostle Paul was used by God to "reinvent" Christianity, the real Apostle Paul of the Bible constantly showed deep respect for the original apostles and deferred to the leadership of Jerusalem in all major matters [Galatians 2:1–2]. 
Edward Gibbon: The first fifteen bishops of Jerusalem were all circumcised Jews; and the congregation over which they presided united the law of Moses with the doctrine of Christ. It was natural that the primitive tradition of a church which was founded only forty days after the death of Christ, and was governed almost as many years under the immediate inspection of his apostle, should be received as the standard of orthodoxy. The distant churches very frequently appealed to the authority of their venerable Parent.

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