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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วันพฤหัสบดี, ธันวาคม 08, 2559

DOV BAR-LEIB: Binyamin ben Rachel can only partially defeat Amaleq, never quite destroying him at his root. Only Yosef, who Rav Kessin calls a Chetzi Av, a Half Patriarch, and Ephraim ben Yosef veOsnat can defeat Amaleq at his root in the world. The koach to do this seems to at least in part from Yosef and his descendants being impervious to the Evil Eye. He alone can "stare down Esav whose eyes are Amaleq", and win.

วันพุธ, กันยายน 14, 2559

INSTEAD OF SONS (VAYECHI) by Rachel Barenblat

วันศุกร์, มีนาคม 04, 2559



Robert Ash: For centuries, up through today, European-descended Christians have exclusively portrayed our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as being European in virtually every visual representation they have made including paintings, books, television, and films, but overuse and abuse of European images have "given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme" Him (2 Sam 12:14) by calling Christianity a "white man’s religion," a religion of racial prejudice, when it is neither. This has even continued decades after it has become widely known that Jesus was not a European at all.



Robert Ash: Egyptians were very prominent in bloodline and ethnic heritage of Israel. They were in Egypt for over 400 years and they didn’t grow from 70 people to 2.5 million people just marrying each other. Joseph married an African woman while he was president of Egypt. Her name was Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of the city of On [Gen 41:45]. Joseph’s children were half-African and each of his two half-African children [Ephraim and Manasseh] became a tribe of Israel. Because the tribe of Levi was not counted in the census of armed men for Israel’s army, Joseph was given two half-tribes. Two of Israel’s tribes were fathered by men who had African blood in their veins. All of the Jews from both of these tribes had an African forefather and they’re not the only ones. A large mixed multitude of Africans came out of Egypt with the Israelites [Ex 12:38].

วันศุกร์, มกราคม 15, 2559


Mom and dad went to a show. Dropped me off at Grandpa Joe's. Kicked and screamed. Said, "Please don't go!" Grandma take me home... Wanna be alone. Had to eat my dinner there. Mashed potatos and stuff like that. Couldn't chew my meat too good. Grandma take me home... Wanna be alone. Said, "Why don't you stop your crying? Go outside and ride your bike." That's what I did. I kicked my toe. Grandma take me home... I wanna be alone. After dinner I had ice cream. Fell asleep and watched TV. Woke up in my mother's arms... Grandma take me home... I wanna be alone.
Back through the years I go w@nderin' once again back to the seasons of my youth and I recall a box of rags that someone gave U.S. and how my mama put the rags to use. There were rags of many colors, but every piece was small. I didn't have a coat and it was way down in the Fall. Mama sewed the rags together sewin' every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was so proud of. While mama sewed she told a story From the Bible she had read about a coat of many colors Joseph wore and then she said "I hope this coat will bring you good luck and happiness" and I just couldn't wait to wear it and mama blessed it with a kiss. My coat of many colors that my mama made for me made only from rags, but I wore it so proudly. Although we had no money I was rich as I could be in my coat of many colors mama made for me. So with patches on my britches and holes in both my shoes in my coat of many colors, well, I hurried off to school just to find the others laughing and making fun of me and my coat of many colors mama made for me. And oh I couldn't understand that 'cause I felt I was rich and then I told them of the love my mama sewed in every stitch. I even told 'em all that story mama told me while she sewed and why my coat of many colors was worth more than all their clothes. They didn't understand it and I tried to make them see one is only poor only if they choose to be. Oh yeah it's true we had no money, but I was rich as I could be in my coat of many colors my mama made for me; made just for me.

วันอังคาร, มกราคม 05, 2559



וְיִשְׂרָאֵל אָהַב אֶת יוֹסֵף מִכָּל בָּנָיו כִּי בֶן זְקֻנִים הוּא לוֹ וְעָשָׂה לוֹ כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים
Jacob Siegel: Unlike many female characters in the Bible, Osnat has a name. Being identified by name humanizes her in the text.

Angela Standhartinger: Her name is no longer Asenath but "city of refuge." Her transformation is shown by new shining clothes (comp. 2 Enoch 22).
Joseph and Aseneth 1:8-9: And she was as tall as Sarah, and as beautiful as Rebecca, and as fair as Rachel; and this virgin’s name was Aseneth. And the fame of her beauty spread through all that land, even to its remotest corners;

วันอาทิตย์, สิงหาคม 02, 2558

วันอังคาร, พฤษภาคม 26, 2558

วันศุกร์, ตุลาคม 24, 2557

Angela Standhartinger: Her name is no longer Asenath but "city of refuge."

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Gen 41:45, 46:20, Soferim 21 (43b), Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer 36, 38, Aptowitzer: Asenath is the offspring of Dinah’s rape, who was brought to Egypt, where she married Joseph and was reintegrated into the family of Jacob.

Tamar Kadari: Gen. 43:24–34 relates that Joseph invited his brothers to eat with him when they went down to Egypt to procure food. In the midrashic depiction, this was a family meal in which Joseph’s wife and children also participated. Joseph sat his brothers before him, "from the oldest in the order of his seniority to the youngest in the order of his youth" (v. 33), and brought the portions to the meal. Joseph gave each one, including Benjamin, his portion, and then he took his own portion and gave it to Benjamin. Asenath took her portion and gave it to Benjamin, as did Ephraim and Manasseh. Thus, there were five portions next to Benjamin, as is recorded in v. 34: "But Benjamin’s portion was five times that of anyone else" (Tanhuma, Vayigash 4). The verse then continues: "And they drank their fill with him," on which the midrash comments that all those years during which Joseph had not seen his brothers, he did not imbibe of wine, nor did his brothers until they saw him; now they drank with him, to intoxication (Gen. Rabbah 92:5). In these midrashim, Asenath and her children shared Joseph’s sense of loss all the years that he lived apart from his family, and they also participate in the excitement and joy when he is reunited with Benjamin, his only maternal brother. 
The Torah relates (Gen. 48) that when Jacob was old and infirm, Joseph came to visit him, together with his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim. Jacob blessed Joseph’s sons and declared that, for him, they were equal to his own sons and they would receive a double land portion.
In another midrashic unfolding, Joseph began his request by saying: "Father, my children are righteous like me." He brought their mother Asenath before his father and said: "Father, please, even if only on behalf of this righteous woman." When Jacob saw this, he told Joseph (Gen. 48:9): "Bring them up to me that I may bless them." Joseph brought them to his father, who began to embrace and kiss them, and rejoiced in them (Pesikta Rabbati [ed. Friedmann (Ish-Shalom)], chap. 3, fol. 12a).

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