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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วันอาทิตย์, ตุลาคม 29, 2560

วันพุธ, ตุลาคม 11, 2560

اور گِرفتار ہوکر بابُل جانے کے بعد یکُونیاہ سے سیالتی ایل پَیدا ہُؤا اور سیالتی ایل سے زرُبّابُل پَیدا ہُؤا۔

วันพุธ, สิงหาคม 09, 2560

วันพุธ, เมษายน 12, 2560

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วันศุกร์, สิงหาคม 05, 2559

วันเสาร์, มีนาคม 26, 2559

วันเสาร์, มกราคม 02, 2559

Sue Glover: I was told that Jewish families often prefer Filipino carers because of their Christian values and spirit of service.

วันอังคาร, ธันวาคม 15, 2558

วันอังคาร, ธันวาคม 08, 2558

From SHOAL by Rosebud Ben-Oni

לכו עתה וזכרו שאני שולח אתכם כשלוח כבשים בין זאבים אל תיקחו אתכם כסף, חפצים אישיים ואף לא זוג נעליים נוסף ואל תעצרו בדרך לשוחח עם איש בכניסתכם לכל בית ברכו אותו תחילה לשלום אם באותו בית גר אדם אוהב שלום הברכה תתקיים, ואם אין הוא אוהב שלום באותו בית – הברכה תשוב אליכם בבואכם אל כפר או עיר אל תעברו מבית מארח אחד לאחר אלא התארחו בבית אחד בלבד ואל תהססו לאכול ולשתות כל מה שמגישים לכם כי הפועל ראוי לשכרו
You are in a windy Lower East Side square. 
Henry Street, arid and slow.
An elderly street without monuments.
Arched in inner city catheters
bending the sun. A contradiction but warm. 
Crackling in exhaust fumes.
Cracking like Rivera’s murals at the New School
where you write of the idolatry of the Wailing Wall
opaque and palpable. 
You cross Brooklyn bridge.
A river a summons a cemetery
a howl cut short,
barbwire overcast. 
Pages scattering from a mausoleum,
you fall out of its doorway, taken
as sacrament. Useless vandal.
Evicted tenant.
*You call yourself an Annex Jew— 
from the Frick’s untouchable pools
sinking down
an upright bass on the Bowery 
you and the pianist climb the terrace of Beatrice Inn 
you are lost among long tables of refugees
and folk hymns muffled on Allen Street 
Sabbath morning, coarse and whimsical
leaks its veil in Chinatown’s oils 
sober and lit without sleep
alone on a pier
the edge of Battery sharpens 
pampas along the surf howl and stretch 
here strikes your last prayer
a bruised howl in the wall
and oh, to sleep
to sleep through 
the brute of dawn

วันเสาร์, ธันวาคม 05, 2558

วันจันทร์, ตุลาคม 05, 2558

How to Self Harm.









Before you self harm in any way, you should probably know what you’re getting into. Before you make that cut, please keep in mind that you will find the pain release and blood strangely addictive.
You may think to yourself that you’ll be able to control it, that you won’t let it get out of hand. You may think that you can just stick to a few small, shallow cuts here and there that won’t be deep and that will heal quickly and easily.
But you’re wrong. You can’t control it, it’s impossible to control. It controls you. It’s an addiction. The cuts will get deeper, they’ll scar. They’ll take weeks to months to heal and years for the scars to actually begin to fade. You’ll find that soon, you depend on it. You can’t go more than a few days without cutting. You’ll go crazy as your skin itches and burns, your hands shake, your head pounds, your vision goes blurry as you try to keep your mind off it, try to hold back from giving in. But you will.
If you think you can limit the cuts to just one area of your body, you better think again. It’ll spread slowly but steadily, like a deadly virus. It’ll spread as you run out of skin, from your wrists to arms, past your elbows, up your shoulders down to your stomach, across your hips and waist and soon will cover your every inch of your legs right down to your ankles. I hope you’re prepared to withdraw from others and live in a constant state of shame and guilt. Even if you have been the most honest person to ever live, you will lie to your friends, family members, everyone around you who you care about.
You’ll find yourself jerking back from the touch of someone, as if their fingers and hands have been bathed in a toxic, burning poison. You’ll be terrified that they will feel a scar or cut from beneath the fabric of your shirt or because it just plain hurts so much to simply be touched.
Be prepared to become your own worst enemy. You’ll fear yourself, your head, the urges that taunt you every minute of every day. You’ll come to fear the next time you cut because you don’t know how bad it’ll be.
Wait for the 10 cuts to turn into 20 then 50 then 100. You’ll be covered in scars and cuts. Your entire life will begin to revolve around your addiction. You’ll constantly be thinking about cutting, covering up your cuts, how you’ll hide your blades, scissors, bobby pins and the other objects you use to destroy your body. And then..the first time that you cut “too deep.” The bleeding won’t stop and you’re gasping, shaking, panicking, fear takes over you. You pray and hope that the bleeding will stop. Your purpose wasn’t to die, you won’t ever go that deep again. Right? Wrong. You’ll go there again, and deeper. But don’t worry. You’ll learn how to take care of your cuts so you don’t have to take a trip to the hospital every night. The better you get at treating your wounds, the worse they become.
You’ll lie to yourself and try to justify it when you go to the pharmacy and drug store, finding yourself spending all your money on dressings, gauze, alcohol wipes and sterile strips. You’ll tap your foot impatiently, hoping that no one stares and asks you why you’re buying all of these things. But at the same time..you hope someone asks, so you know they care. Be prepared to spend even more money on an entire new wardrobe. Long sleeved shirts, hoodies, long pants, boots, bracelets, wristbands. The list goes on forever.
You’ll keep scanning other people’s bodies for signs of self harm, hoping that there is someone else out there who feels the same way you do. Hoping, praying that they will be like you. But that’ll never happen. You’ll see clean, uncut, unmarred arms and feel even more alone and ashamed than before.
You’ll do a lot of things alone, be prepared to kiss your social life goodbye. You’ll always be doing your laundry, always in private so no one sees the blood stained towels and clothes. You’ll be spending hours scrubbing blood from the bathroom floor, and wiping dried blood off of your keyboard.
You won’t be able to make it a day without cutting. You’ll carry an emergency kit in your wallet or purse. A key, safety pin, a needle, a paperclip, even a pencil. Everything around you will become a weapon. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it gives you that feeling that sends you reeling. Next thing you know, you’re in the bathroom stall at your school or work, picking open the scab of an old cut with a needle.
Say goodbye to all of the things you took for granted. Shorts, sandals, tank tops, swimming in the summer, going to the beach. All of these things will be a far off memory. I hope you like itching and scratching non stop. You will itch and itch and itch. It’ll be so much that it’ll look like you have some sort of flesh eating disease. You will become an expert on your body as you carefully destroy it, taking it apart piece by piece. You will dream of cutting, dreaming of getting caught. It will haunt you day and night, in your dreams and when you are awake. Cutting will take over your life. It now has it’s hold over you, it controls you.
You’ll hate yourself, hate yourself for making that first cut that threw you into this vicious, neverending cycle. You’ll wish you never made that first cut. You’ll wish you had read something like this, or that someone had told you what would happen. But as much as you hate your addiction and self harm, you love it and can’t live without it. You’d rather die than go just a few weeks without cutting.

วันจันทร์, สิงหาคม 03, 2558

שמעון בר יונה‎ [כיפא‎]: עתה אני רואה בבירור שאלוהים אינו מאפיל

TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG: Church of St. Joseph yelled about how the locks had already been changed.

Mark Kauzlarich: Yosefina Kim at a vigil outside of Our Lady of Peace.


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Elmer G. Cato: It is safe and stable, here. We know, there are a lot of development opportunities. We want to expand our country’s relationship further than just economics. We will take what we see and deliver the message to Manila. They feel safe and protected, by the KRG. They say that the way Kurds treat them is different than other countries. They say, they feel like part of the family here. We still think we’ll be able to strengthen our relationship with all of Iraq, strengthen not only government to government relations, but also people to people relations.

Nadene Goldfoot: Afghana, born around 1,000 BCE, was the grandson of King Saul (Talut) of the 11th century BCE. His father was Saul’s son Irmia (Jeremiah). King Saul’s father was Kish of the tribe of Benjamin. Benjamin’s father was Jacob and his mother was Rachel, Jacob’s first love. The prophet Samuel had selected Saul to be king. At the time there was a military threat from the Philistines and Ammonites. Saul organized a trained army at once and defeated the enemy in battles.
They had a terrific victory at Michmash which stopped the Philistine danger. Then they went after the Moabites, Ammonites and Arameans. He purified Judaism by eliminating witchcraft. Somehow, he made Samuel the prophet angry and Samuel appointed David as the successor. David had been Saul’s armor-bearer and was a friend of his son, Jonathan. He became the husband of Saul’s daughter, Michal. He settled in Hebron and declared himself king of Judah.
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Nadene Goldfoot: Not only the Pathans, but also the Afghan Royal family has a very well-known tradition placing its origin as coming from the tribe of Benjamin. 
Another important person whose ancestor was the tribe of Benjamin was Mordechai, son of Jair, the uncle of Queen Esther (Hadassah) of Persia. 

วันอาทิตย์, สิงหาคม 02, 2558

Anders Ingvar Ygeman: You should not notify the police, if an Eagle has abused a Rabbit or Even that a shower Jet is too hard; or that you have received an Ugly sweater for Christmas; 
if you receive an Ugly sweater [From your Mother], for Christmas, you should take it up with Her and not with the police;

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