Ten Tribes Studies (28 August 2016, 24 Av, 5776)
Contents:
1. Belated Reflections on the Royal Wedding
2. Proverbs 24: 27-34 Do What You Can with Good Intention
3. Possibly of Interest?
(a) Video: Amazing Replica of Solomon's Temple
(b) Is It Time to Reestablish the Davidic Kingdom in Israel? By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
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1. Belated Reflections on the Royal Wedding
Quotation:
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_William_and_Catherine_Middleton
Extracts:
The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton took place on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom. The groom, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is the eldest son of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales, and second, after his father, in line to succeed his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The bride, Catherine "Kate" Middleton is the eldest of three children of Michael and Carole Middleton of Bucklebury Manor at Pease Hill, Berkshire. .... William's best man was his brother, Prince Harry, while the bride's sister, Pippa, was maid of honour. The ceremony was attended by the bride's and groom's families, as well as many foreign royals, diplomats, and the couple's chosen personal guests. After the ceremony, the couple made the traditional appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. As Prince William was not the heir apparent to the throne, the wedding was not a full state occasion and many details were left to the couple to decide, such as much of the guest list of about 1,900.
Prince William and Kate Middleton met in 2001. Their engagement on 20 October 2010 was announced on 16 November 2010. The build-up to the wedding and the occasion itself attracted much media attention, being compared in many ways with the 1981 marriage of William's parents. The occasion was a public holiday in the United Kingdom and featured many ceremonial aspects, including use of the state carriages and roles for the Foot Guards and Household Cavalry. Events were held around the Commonwealth to mark the wedding; organisations and hotels held events across Canada, over 5,000 street parties were held throughout the United Kingdom, and one million people lined the route between Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace. The ceremony was viewed live by tens of millions more around the world, including 72 million live streams on YouTube. In the United Kingdom, television audiences peaked at 26.3 million viewers, with a total of 36.7 million watching part of the coverage.
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Reflections:
It was a wedding, not a coronation.
The Bride, is of mixed British common and noble stock but even the nobles were mainly commoners who had worked their way up.
The Bride, Kate Middleton, according to accounts had decided she would marry the prince, no matter what, even when she hardly knew him and he was more interested in others. And she succeeded. This is to be admired.
The groom was not [yet] a reigning monarch but rather merely one in potential.
The UK today is a minor world power economically, politically, and militarily. It is no longer a major world leader.
The interest shown in the event is consistent with, or even far exceeding, what one would expect to be extended to any other ruler of the world.
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2. Proverbs 24: 27-34 Do What You Can with Good Intention
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/proverbs/proverbs24.html
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Proverbs 24:
27 Do Life-Changing things in their correct order.
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/proverbs/proverbs24.html
NASB
27 Prepare your work outside
And make it ready for yourself in the field;
Afterwards, then, build your house.
Yair
27 Make ready on the outside your work,
And reserves for yourself in the field afterwards,
and then build your house.
Commentary:
The Sages recommended that a person do what you they have to do according to the order of its priority and each stage in its own time.
They said that ideally a may should first have a livelihood, then build a house, and afterwards marry a woman.
I was told that in our time conditions are a little different and in some cases this prioritization may not necessarily comprise an impediment.
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Proverbs 24:
28-29 Do not be needlessly spiteful and officious.
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/proverbs/proverbs24.html
NASB
28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
And do not deceive with your lips.
29 Do not say, 'Thus I shall do to him as he has done to me;
I will render to the man according to his work.'
Yair
28 Do not be a witness without reason against your neighbor,
Do not seduce with your lips.
29 Do not say, "As was done unto me so will I do unto him."
[So] I will requite a man as his work.
Commentary:
This attitude of "As was done unto me [by others] so will I do unto him,"Â is familiar to us from our childhood.
We probably think we have grown out of it but such is not necessarily the case. We are sometimes needlessly spiteful to others because we are still carrying baggage, attitudes, and resentments around with us acquired in infancy.
We have rendered the second part of this verse as if God is saying,
"[So] I will requite a man as his work."
This is how it seems to us but the rendition of the NASB is also possible.
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Proverbs 24:
30-34 Do What is Needed
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/proverbs/proverbs24.html
NASB
30 I passed by the field of the sluggard
And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense,
31 And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles;
Its surface was covered with nettles,
And its stone wall was broken down.
32 When I saw, I reflected upon it;
I looked, and received instruction.
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest,
34 Then your poverty will come as a robber
And your want like an armed man.
Yair
30 By the field of a lazy man I passed
And by the vineyard of a man without a heart [i.e. without sense].
31 Behold there were thistles all over it, and its face covered with weeds.
Its wall of stones had been destroyed.
32 And I beheld, I set my heart to it, I saw, I took reproof.
33 A little sleep, a little drowsing off, a little folding of the arms to lie down.
34 And your poverty comes as a new arrival, your lacking like an armored man.
Commentary:
One should do what needs to be done when one can. Prepare yourself for contingencies. Otherwise you may not have what you need when you need it.
The Hebrew uses the expression of lacking heart as meaning lacking sense. We may extend this in so far as someone who acts foolishly and does not do they should is in effect being cruel to themselves to those dependent on them or otherwise connected with them. They lack heart.
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3. Possibly of Interest?
(a) Video: Amazing Replica of Solomon's Temple
https://israel365.com/2016/06/video-53/?utm_source=Israel365+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=3b8e65c4c9-Israel365+email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c014d47a2a-3b8e65c4c9-20933049&mc_cid=3b8e65c4c9&mc_eid=f9fdfe776b
(b) Is It Time to Reestablish the Davidic Kingdom in Israel?
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz August 16, 2016 , 12:30 pm
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/74034/king-davids-descendants-ready-rebuild-davidic-kingdom-jerusalem/#uFVIcZFbo5h8U8sy.99
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