VIRGINIA MILLANO EVANGELISTA FABRO~RIVERA'S WILD IRISES IN THE TOWN OF RAMAPO, NEW YORK
Dovid Rosenfeld: In fact, the Sages state that we should not stare at a rainbow because it is tantamount to staring at God Himself (Talmud Hagigah 16a).
פִסְחֵנוּ הַנִּזְבָּח
"I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple" (New International Version, Revelation 21:22 Multilingual).
The New Moon's Monthly International Produce: "down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations" (New International Version, Revelation 22:2). 🧘🏾
Murad Sadygzade: Here it is especially important to understand the difference between military temptation and political prudence. The issue would no longer just be strikes on Israel, but the systematic intensification of attacks on the US military presence in Iraq, Syria, and the Gulf states, as well as the entire regional infrastructure that enables the US to wage this war.
Put simply, the deeper the US enters this theater, the harder Iran will try to turn it into an American problem, not merely an Israeli-Iranian confrontation. The strikes already carried out against bases, diplomatic sites, and regional infrastructure show that this approach has already been implemented in practice.
Fyodor Lukyanov: Over the past decades Western Europe's ability to guarantee its own security has steadily declined. As a result, its states have grown increasingly dependent on American power. The price of autonomy has become too high.
Now European NATO members, along with Canada, Japan, South Korea and Australia, face a difficult choice. They can join an escalating military confrontation that they did not initiate, risking casualties and further destabilization. Or they can resist the wishes of their principal ally. For now, most appear to be choosing the latter.
The situation is even more precarious for the Gulf monarchies. These states sit directly in the conflict zone and host numerous American military installations established after Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Those bases were originally presented as a shield against regional threats.
In reality, they have also become targets.
President Donald Trump and his administration have suggested that their European and Asian partners should deploy naval forces to the Strait of Hormuz to ensure freedom of navigation. In practice, this means asking them to protect their own energy supplies after those supplies were jeopardized by the US-Israeli attack on Iran.
Tehran had repeatedly warned that it might attempt to close the strait if attacked. Washington and Tel Aviv dismissed these threats. They assumed Iran would not dare, or would not be able, to act.
JONATHAN SACKS: God told Noah in advance that [H]e was about to bring punishment to the world. Noah did not protest. To the contrary, we are told three times that Noah “did as God commanded him” (Gen. 6:22; 7:5; 7:9). Noah accepted the verdict.
Jorge Mario BergoglioEndorsement: They are Children of God and have a right to a Family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable over it. What we have to create is a Civil Union Law. That Way they are legally covered. I stood up for that.
Clifford Fabro Rivera (Whining): Awe, I feel It. Don't Come Out yet.
WIKIPEDIA: (נֹחַ, Hebrew for the name "Noah", the third word, and first distinctive word, of the parashah) is the second weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 6:9–11:32.
GIDON ROTHSTEIN: Yehudah makes clear he expects yibum le~hakim shem, to establish the name of the deceased (yibum is an ancient secret linked to the formation of children in the mother’s womb, known to the wise men of old). It captures an element of Jewish thought I think even rationalists like Rambam accept in some places: the workings of “nature” are not as mechanistic as scientists of all eras want to believe (I think, for example, the second paragraph of Shema inescapably links the Jewish people’s conduct in Israel with the weather patterns of rain and drought there); Ramban thinks the same is true of genetics, metaphysical concerns will affect how the genes are arranged in creating a fetus.
WIKIPEDIA: In the Hebrew Bible, the coat of many colors (Hebrew: כְּתֹנֶת פַּסִּים ketonet passim) is the name for the garment that Joseph owned, which was given to him by his father Jacob. The phrase is used one other time in the Hebrew Scriptures, to describe the garment worn by Tamar, daughter of David, in 2 Samuel 13:18-19.
MOHAMAD ZREIK: unprecedented strategic decisions indicate a state of confusion for the US, which paves the way for a new world order.
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: God promises to provide rain to the land of Israel in return for the Jewish people following the commandments. ⛈️
Martes, Abril 30, 2019
The Baptism of the Eunuch by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
*oil on panel
*63,5 x 48 cm
KITTREDGE CHERRY: Literally meaning “the keepers of the bed,” the eunuchs served and guarded the women in royal palaces and wealthy households. Their employers wanted to be certain that the eunuchs would not get sexually involved with the women they were supposed to protect, so many eunuchs were castrated men, homosexual men, and intersex folk. Many, but not all, were both castrated and homosexual. Eunuchs were trusted officials who often rose to senior posts in government.
REV. ELDER NANCY WILSON: He was a functional, if not physical, eunuch. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ redefined eternal life, dissociating it from the necessity to produce children.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
"The Terror you inspire and the Pride of your Heart has deceived you, O Dwellers in the Clefts of the Rock, who Occupy the Heights of the Hill, who says in his Heart, 'Who will bring me down to Earth?' Though you may rise High like the Eagle and though you set your Nest among the Stars, from there I will bring you down, declares YHVH" (Obadiah 1:3-4 Multilingual, Jeremiah 49:16 Multilingual).
Translation: "The United States of America which is called, according to The Spirit, 'In the Name of Sedom and Egypt,' where also their Lord was crucified" (Apocalypse 11:8 Multilingual).
Timofey Bordachev: In sum, the category of "international order" may soon follow "multipolarity" into conceptual obscurity. It will be talked about, invoked in speeches, and cited in academic papers – but it will no longer describe how the world truly works. We are moving into an age where power is distributed differently, where the mechanisms of control are less formalized, and where legitimacy is negotiated in real time rather than bestowed by inherited institutions.
