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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วันเสาร์, สิงหาคม 13, 2559

วันศุกร์, มิถุนายน 05, 2558

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat: We need to attain and sustain Joy not because it feels good.

We need to sustain Joy because it is our only chance of reaching the Wisdom necessary to rectify our Worlds.

I am not talking about being in a state of blissful ignorance. I am talking about being on the highest level of creative moral intelligence that we can so as to be able to see the solutions to problems that we cannot see from lower levels.

We need to attain JOY not for ourselves but for the Creation.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat: The rejection of the current "laws of nature," based as they are on low-grade morality which we both attribute to all of nature and which determine how we attract phenomena to us is what I call Mystical Anarchy. 
Because most Anarchists reject all mysticism, they are never going to get a better socio-economic structure of the ground. Their rejection of laws extend only to the rejection of those laws they realize are man-made, not realizing that ALL laws are man-made. We cannot artificially transplant a just socio-economic system on a reality that is reflecting our own malevolence. We have to transmute that malevolence to benevolence and then ALL laws will be on a higher, more liberal, more elastic level. 
I’m also convinced that the gateway to breaking out of our attachment to these laws is finding the courage to stop payment of all loans and taxes and unjust charges.

วันเสาร์, พฤษภาคม 03, 2557

"Simply Knocking on the Air"

I willed you from the air
Or did I simply hear you knocking? 
Visions of you played
like two second sitcoms
in my brain. 
There you were in a diaper
on the stream rocks. 
There you were
catching baby trout
in your fingers. 
Before you were born,
I heard whispers
in the forest and dawn. 
I reached back to grab hold
of the cord which tied me
to my grandmother. 
She willed this too from the beyond.

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