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1 Wisdom has built herself a house;
she has carved her seven pillars.
2 She has prepared her food, spiced her wine,
and she has set her table.
3 She has sent out her young girls [with invitations];
she calls from the heights of the city,
4 “Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!”
To someone weak-willed she says,
5 “Come and eat my food!
Drink the wine I have mixed!
6 Don’t stay unsure of yourself, but live!
Walk in the way of understanding!”
7 “He who corrects a scoffer only gets insulted;
reproving a wicked man becomes his blemish.
8 If you reprove a scoffer, he will hate you;
if you reprove a wise man, he will love you.
9 Give to a wise man, and he grows still wiser;
teach a righteous man, and he will learn still more.
10 The fear of Adonai is the beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of holy ones is understanding.
11 For with me, your days will be increased;
years will be added to your life.
12 If you are wise, your wisdom helps you;
but if you scoff, you bear the consequences alone.”
This verse comes up again and again in my life when I hear people defend their faith. I think that I’ve heard this verse used a lot as a hand wave. “You may think this thing, and I don’t have an answer, but your own understanding isn’t good enough to get you to the truth anyway. Just believe.” But I think that, really, this is a verse that calls for more thought, not less. To trust means to put weight on something. The reason your own understanding fails you is because it is like a flimsy guard rail; the second pressure is put on it, it crumbles and you fall into the direction you were already leaning. This must mean that if you push on your faith, push and test it, it will not be able to budge. However, that must mean that you’ve got a lot of testing to do. After all, what if you push on something you thought was of the LORD and it falls apart? Do you think that there is no such thing as truth? Maybe some do. But I think the best course of action is to realize that that thing you thought was God to you was just an idol that needs to be discarded for a pursuit of truth. I’m not the same person I was when I was a kid. I’ve done a lot of pushing and reevaluating over my life, and this year I want to dedicate to continuing to push and put my weight on truths to find the Ultimate Truth. I want to be the best man that I can, submitted to the best ways that I can walk, but I need to do more and more pushing to find that straight path. #bibleverse #bible #biblejournaling #biblestudy #bibleverses #verse #verseoftheday #dailyverse #verseoftheday📖 #verses #proverbs #proverbs3 #proverbs3v5and6 #proverbs3v5to6 #proverbs3verse5and6 #judaism #christianity #jewish #christian #religiousstudies #religioustext #tanakh #ketuvim https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9GJcWun0W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
The pomegranate eaten on Rosh Hashanah has great significance, The most outstanding aspect of the pomegranate is its seeds. As we say before eating the pomegranate on Rosh Hashanah, “May it be Your will, G-d and G-d of our fathers, that we be filled with mitzvot (good deeds) like a pomegranate is filled with seeds.”
The times were bad, a poor woman was having a hard time finding food for her…
Remember that line from the Nazi Zombie Flesheaters minisode? Sick and twisted. And we need to talk about the reason why, even though the magic trick in question is nowhere near as spectacular as the Bullet Catch. Let’s start with a quick recap:
The farthing was a British coin worth one quarter of a penny, discontinued in 1961 due to its plummeting worth. The reverse featured the image of a wren, one of Britain’s smallest songbirds with plumage in rather drab shades of beige and brown. Reminding you of someone?
A popular design of a sixpence, the bigger coin in this set, minted in the 1920s and 30s depicted oak branches with acorns. Which means that seen from close quarters, so basically Crowley’s perspective, Aziraphale’s vanishing coin trick leaves empty branches with no bird in sight.
As if that image wasn’t traumatizing enough for almost everyone in the Good Omens fandom post S02E06, the etymology of wren’s name in most European languages refers to royalty in some way. Like a literal king or otherwise supreme bird. That’s why killing a wren or harassing its nest is traditionally associated with bad luck. In certain parts of France it’s still believed that the robbing of a wren’s nest will render the culprit liable to be struck by lightning.
In Irish the wren is called a trickster, which connects to the ancient (as in: mentioned by Aristotle, Aesop, and Pliny) fable on how wren became crowned in the first place — by proving that intellect beats strength:
On one occasion a general assembly of birds resolved to chose for their king that bird which could mount highest into the air. This the eagle apparently did, and all were ready to accept his rule when a loud burst of song was heard, and perched upon the eagle’s back was seen an exultant wren that, a stowaway under its wing, had been carried aloft by the kingly candidate. The trickiness angered the eagle so much, says one tradition, that he struck the wren with his wing, which, since then, has been able to fly no higher than a hawthorn-bush. (Ernest Ingersoll)
In art and folklore this little bird symbolizes rebirth, immortality, protection, and the promise of spring. As a luckbringer it was supposedly present at the stable in Bethlehem when Christ was born; and and Irish proverb runs: “The robin and the wren are God’s two holy men.”
But there’s also a catch. According to legends, it was the flapping of the wings or the song of the wren that betrayed the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen, while hiding from the mob, and led to his stoning by the Sanhedrin — the highest tribunal consisting of the Head Priest and the Jewish elders.
That’s why December 26, his remembrance day, is celebrated in the UK and Ireland as Wren Day. Its highlight was a traditional bird hunt, where the wren as king of the birds was hunted and subsequently paraded through the town and rural areas on top of a pole or holly branch, decorated with ribbons and colored paper, as a substitute of the ancient human sacrifice of the Year King for winter solstice. The wren boys still travel from door to door singing, dancing, and playing music, demanding money to “bury the wren”, but fortunately no more animals are harmed in the process.
With Aziraphale being chosen as the new Supreme Archangel and literally disappearing from the face of the earth in the season finale, his becoming a scapegoat or a sacrifice to a greater, communal goal might be a real possibility when something goes wrong with the Second Coming. The good news is that this level of danger should be enough to get the Ineffable Husbands back on speaking terms.
there’s a jewish proverb that “pessimists go to new york; optimists go to auschwitz” and that’s the lens through which i see all these anti-trans laws being passed in america. not only am i entirely pessimistic about the future i’m also constantly trying to convince my friends to have an exit plan