Proverbs, Chapter 27

“As iron shrpens iron, so 1 man sharpens another.”

Proverbs 27:17

Don’t boast about tomorrow. For you don’t know what a day may bring forth. Let another praise you. Not your own lips. Someone else, & not your own lips. Stone is heavy & sand is a burden. But provocation by a fool is heavier than both. Anger is cruel & fury overwhelming. But who can stand before jealousy?

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a friend can be trusted. But an enemy multiplies kisses. He who is full loathes honey. But to the hungry, even what’s bitter tastes sweet. Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who starts from his home.

Perfume & incense bring joy to the heart. The pleasantness of one’s friend springs from his earnest counsel. Don’t forsake your friend & the friend of your dad. Don’t go to your brother’s house when disaster strikes you. Better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Be wise, my son, & bring joy to my heart. Then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt. The prudent see danger & take refuge. But the simple keep going & suffer for it. Take the garment of 1 who puts up security for a stranger. Hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.

If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse. A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day. Restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand. AS iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens another.

He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit. He who looks after his master will be honored. As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. Sheol & Abaddon are never satisfied & neither are the eyes of man. The crucible for silver & the furnace for gold. But man is tested by the praise he receives.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you’ll not remove his folly from him. Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds. For riches don’t endure forever, & a crown isn’t secure for all generations.

When the hay is removed & new growth appears & the grass from the hills is gathered in. The lambs will provide you with clothing. The goats are worth the price of a field. You’ll have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you & your family & to nourish your servant girls.

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Proverbs, Chapter 24

“An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.”

Proverbs 24:26

Don’t envy wicked men. Don’t desire their company, for their hearts plot violence, & their lips talk about making trouble. By wisdom a house is built & through understanding it’s established. Through knowledge, its rooms are filled with rare & beautiful treasures.

A wise man has great power. A man of knowledge increases strength, for waging war you need guidance, & for victory many advisers. Wisdom is too high for a fool. In the assembly at the gate, he has nothing to say.

He who plots evil will be known as a schemer. The schemes of folly are sin, & men detest a mocker. If you falter in time of trouble, how small is your strength! Rescue those being led away to death.

Hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” doesn’t he who weighs the heart perceive it? Doesn’t he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done? (Check out Romans 2:6.)

Eat honey, my son, for it’s good. Honey from the comb is sweet to your taste. Know also that wisdom is a future hope for you. Your hope will not be cut off. Don’t lie in wait like an outlaw against a righteous man’s house.

Don’t raid his dwelling place. For though a righteous man falls 7x, he rises again. But the wicked are brought down by calamity. Don’t gloat when your enemy falls. When he stumbles, don’t let your heart rejoice.

Or the Lord will see & disapprove & turn his wrath away from him. Don’t fret because of evil men or be envious of the wicked. For the evil man has no future hope, & the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

Fear the Lord & the king, my son. Don’t join the rebellious, for those 2 will send sudden destruction on them. Who knows what calamities they can bring?

These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judging isn’t good. Whoever says to the guilty, “You’re innocent.” Peoples will curse him & nations denounce him. But it will go well with those who convict the guilty. Rich blessings will come upon them.

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips. Finish your outdoor work & get your fields ready. After that, build your house. Don’t testify against your neighbor without cause. Or use your lips to deceive.

Don’t say, “I’ll do to I’m as he has done to me; I’ll pay that man back for what he did.” I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment. Thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, & the stone wall was in ruins.

I applied my heart to what I observed & learned a lesson from it. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest. Poverty will come on you like a bandit & scarcity like an armed man.

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"What is a holiday like #Purim doing on the #Jewish calendar? What is a #book like #Esther doing in the #Tanakh? Was the holiday really established the way that the book of Esther describes, following intrigue at the #Persian court and the last minute intervention of a Jewish queen that saved her people from massacre? (And let’s not forget the massacre of Persians that happens instead.)

The story itself belongs to a genre that stretches back to #Joseph’s time in #Egypt, that of the Jewish courtier ensconced in a foreign court, and it is a genre that continues today wherever a #Jew is portrayed as a fish out of water in the #Diaspora and ends up in a position of influence. Another early story of this type, #Daniel, has its protagonist trying to survive in the court of #Babylon, and some scholars have guessed (because we can only guess) that the story of Esther began circulating around the same time as Daniel, perhaps during the fourth century #BCE."

https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/the-origins-of-purim/

The first chapter of the Song of Songs is so gorgeous and plentiful, I keep thinking about it so I felt like sharing

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine.

Because of the fragrance of your goodly oils, your name is 'oil poured forth.' Therefore, the maidens loved you.

Draw me, we will run after you; the king brought me to his chambers. We will rejoice and be glad in you. We will recall your love more fragrant than wine; they have loved you sincerely.

#religion #tanakh #ketuvim

Shedim

Romanized name: Sedim; singular: Sed.

These are spirits or demons in Tanakh & Jewish mythology. Shedim weren’t considered evil demigods. But the gods of foreigners. They were envisaged as evil only in the sense that they weren’t THE Hebrew god.

They show up 2x in the Tanakh (Psalm 106:37 & Deuteronomy 32:17). In both passages, the text deals with child or animal sacrifices. With the translation of Hebrew texts into Greek, with the influence of Zoroastrian dualism, shedim was translated into Greek as daimonia with negative connotations. Later, in Judeo-Islamic culture, shedim became the Hebrew word for jinn.

According to 1 legends, the shedim are descendants of serpents, or of demons in serpent form. This may be an allusion to the story of the serpent in Eden as told in Genesis. Another view is that they’re the offspring of Lilith. This is from her union with Adam or with other men.

While a 3rd version says that God created them on the 6th day, starting to fashion their bodies but failed to finish the job because he was observing the Sabbath. Even after the Sabbath, He left them as they were to show that when the Sabbath comes, all work still unfinished at the beginning of the Sabbath must afterward be viewed as complete.

As a result, the shedim have souls like humans, but don’t have bodies to contain them. Yet a 4th story says that the shedim have their origins with the builders of the Tower of Babel. In this 4th story, these beings were divided by their motivations into 3 groups of which the 3rd & worst comprised of those who sought actively to wage war against God & were punished for their sacrilegious hubris by transforming into the shedim. Finally, the Zohar describes them as offspring of the demons Azazel & Naamah.

According to Rashi, shedim like lillin (We mentioned these entities in our post about Lilith.), has a human form. Although no human body. They eat & drink as mortals do. They can cause sickness & misfortune, follow the dead, & fly around graves.

1 is admonished not to do anything that could invoke the shedim, such as whistling or even saying the word: shedim. The shedim aren’t always malicious creatures. They can be helpful. Some are said to be even able to live according to the Torah, like Asmodeus.

Conjuring shedim isn’t necessarily forbidden. Depending on whether the theologian discusses the topic views such as summoning to constitute sorcery. Even if summoning shedim is an act of sorcery & thus forbidden, consulting shedim conjured by a non-Jew would be permissible.

In early midrashim, shedim are corporeal beings. They take the form of men, but have no shadow, 7-headed dragons. If a man could see them, he would see them he would lack the strength to face them.

Although he can see them by throwing the ashes of the fetus of a black cat around his eyes, or by scattering ashes around his bed he can trace their footprints similar to those of roosters in the morning.

To see if the shedim were present, ashes were thrown to the ground or floor, which rendered their footsteps visible. Shedim can shape shift. Sometimes assuming a human form, the Talmud tells how Asmodeus assumed King Solomon’s form & ruled in his place for a time.

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFI0bUdPKKH/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 02 December 2024 :

#DominiqueA, #ShaneAspegren, #TheCure, #Diabologum, #DivisionNuit, #DivisionNuit, #EinstuerzendeNeubauten, #GeggyTah, #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor, #GogolBordello, #HisNameIsAlive, #HumanError, #Hyperculte, #PhilippeKaterine, #LaTène, #LSR #Kid606, #Migala, #PointeDuLac, #Seefeel, #Tanakh, #TheCatsMiaow, #TheFrankAndWalters, #ThousandYardStare, #ToutDebord, #TristwchYFenywod, #VoxLow, #SanaeYamada,

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La #GocciaProfetica di #Lilith ci dice che i #tempifinali hanno questi numeri 5276 (dai versetti della Torah).

Il numero 5276 corrisponde al versetto della #Torah Deut 13:3, il cui valore #gematrico è 4343.

4343 si trova alla posizione 6810 nel #PiGreco. Il versetto 6810 della #Tanakh è Giudici 9:55, il cui valore gematrico è 2247.