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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Haiku in memory of Joseph Ileto


Remember Joseph
Son of Jacob and Rachel
Writing on the Walls

www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10678-mene-mene-tekel-upharsin

วันพฤหัสบดี, สิงหาคม 10, 2560

2 Iranian have been suspended from the natl football team for facing@MaccabiTLVFC as members of a Greek club team. https://t.co/fyzR2pSRUj
— (((WJC))) (@WorldJewishCong) August 10, 2017
#Iran continues to fund #Hezbollah which continues to threaten #Israel's existence. RETWEET & demand action: https://t.co/c16IAzvdUF pic.twitter.com/Vv99yhEihz
— Gabriel Rosenberg (@GabRosenberg) August 10, 2017

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วันจันทร์, มิถุนายน 12, 2560

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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.

วันเสาร์, พฤศจิกายน 12, 2559

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วันพุธ, กันยายน 14, 2559

INSTEAD OF SONS (VAYECHI) by Rachel Barenblat

วันอังคาร, มิถุนายน 28, 2559


Seeing as it Is by Ocean Vuong

In the hospital room’s white
indifference, a small girl waits
while gloved hands unravel layers
of gauze from her eyes.
She will see for the first time
the objects we’ve limited
through naming. The gauze falls,
light enters her pupils, diffracts
like ribbons falling
in an empty room.
She steps to the window
where a city sparkles a million
reflections of sunlight. And there,
against the morning skyline,
a plane veers, smashes into
that great tower. Without a sound,
a breath of fire spews
into immaculate blue.
A slow river of smoke
flows across the sky.
She imagines that this
is the image of music
as she presses her nose to the glass
and says without blinking Mommy,
you were right. This world
is beautiful.

วันเสาร์, มีนาคม 05, 2559

The Gay Agenda

Now, G-d was doing Queer miracles at the hands of the Lone Wolf so that even towels or aprons healed the diseased and released the possessed, but there were touring Messianic Magicians practicing Gay conversion therapy by vain invocation declaring, “We exorcise you in the Name of Yeshua whom Paul worships!” Curious, the thorn of Satan over Asia Minor suddenly replied, “Yehoshua I know and Shaul I know, but do I know you?” Then the afflicted man molested the Levitical Clan and they fled out of Beit Rachel naked and wounded.

วันเสาร์, กุมภาพันธ์ 27, 2559

Final Nightmares by Alex Epstein

Eric Herschthal: Epstein shares many traits with Israeli writers of his generation — a surrealist, often playful touch; a less homogenized and momentous view of Israeli life than their literary predecessors. But in other ways he is strikingly different. The first thing any reader will notice is his brevity, with stories often no more than a single sentence long.

วันพฤหัสบดี, มกราคม 21, 2559

Yoni Kempinski: Beit Rachel and Beit Leah

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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;

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