הַמַּלְאָךְ֩ הַגֹּאֵ֨ל אֹתִ֜י

Justin Bond: Yeshua asked how could we understand spiritual things if we don't understand the natural. Jacob, Jacob's physical descendents, The Land, United Kingdom/Political Entity under the rule of David and Solomon, The 10 Northern Tribes, The Jews who returned from the Babylonian Exile, Judaism as a whole, and the modern political state and its citizens can all be described as physical or legal Israel. "Kingdom Israel" is made up of both physical (Legal) and non-physical (Spiritual) Israelites who are believers in Messiah Yeshua. It's long overdue for us as believers to start trying to understand these things in the here and now for a foretaste of the future.

Miyerkules, Hunyo 26, 2024

Underlined by Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera

Thomas Montgomery Newman

SHMULEY BOTEACH: I have no idea what God is up to with the global resurgence of antisemitism. But none of that is my business. My job is to be an Israelite, "he who wrestles with God."

"Jacob Wrestling with the Angel" by Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré

Adam Seth Boehler: We are the United States. We are not an agent of Israel.

STEPHEN JOSHUA SONDHEIM

THE WHITE HOUSE: The Secretary shall, consistent with applicable law, reform the Foreign Service and the administration of foreign relations to ensure faithful and effective implementation of the President's foreign policy agenda. 👼

LIRAZ MARGALIT: Israel must take note. For Trump, the idea that the US serves as a moral guardian of democracy is obsolete. Israel must recognize that in a world where alliances are increasingly transactional, gratitude is not a currency, and moral arguments do not always outweigh strategic calculations.

Reuven Chaim Klein: Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg (1785-1865) writes that the word malach is related to the Hebrew word malachah (“creative labor”) because a malach is an agent — whether angelic or not — who carries out a certain task on one's behalf. Though the comparison between these two words is not readily understood, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) offers a penetrating insight: The word malachah denotes the thinking man's ability to bring his ideas into reality through creative work, while malach is the personification of the thinking man's ability to use a proxy to realize his ideas. He also writes that the word malach sometimes refers directly to G-d because He constantly engages in the malachah of creating the world.