WEST VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIA

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"A giant wild barred owl flew down the chimney of a Virgina family's home and promptly perched itself high atop a Christmas tree." 🦉🎄

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Wikipedia: Five Guys Enterprises, LLC (doing business as Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Five Guys), is an American fast food chain focused on hamburgers, hot dogs, and french fries. It is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.

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ANN MCLEAN: We patriotic Americans were raised to think that our fathers and grandfathers fought World War II to defeat fascism. How can we be fascists ourselves? Instruction at the University of Virginia is less and less about education and more and more about indoctrination, which to me, sounds kind of… what's the word I'm looking for? Oh… fascist.

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Watch: Caron Nazario, a Black Army lieutenant, was driving through Windsor, Va., on Dec. 5, 2020, when two officers drew guns and doused him with pepper spray, according to a lawsuit filed this month. https://t.co/lKlE3KX6Np pic.twitter.com/HhJyQg4AuL

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 11, 2021

Decision Desk HQ projects that @JoeBiden has won Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes for a total of 273.

Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States of America.

Race called at 11-06 08:50 AM EST

All Results: https://t.co/BgcQsEyt3j

— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 6, 2020

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Requiescat In Pace United States of America.

machinesofgod: Hey! It's Germany's equivalent to West Virginia!

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DONALD JOHN TRUMP SENIOR

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WIKIPEDIA: The Cemetery is divided into 70 sections, with some sections in the southeast and western part of the cemetery reserved for future expansion. Section 21, also known as the Nurses Section, is the burial site for many nurses, and the location of the Spanish–American War Nurses Memorial and the Nurses Memorial. Another section – Chaplains Hill – includes monuments to Jewish, Protestant, and Roman Catholic military chaplains.

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Judy Smith Photography: Happened in Richmond 6-7-2020: Graffiti at the Davis Monument

THE HOURS

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AZTLANNA

HOLLYWOOD

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VICTOR URECKI: The lack of young people is a problem in every congregation. We’ve got to find a way to engage younger people, but we have not found that secret sauce yet.

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בֵּית מִרְיָם

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Raymond Arroyo: A few years into her confinement, one of Mother Angelica’s sisters entered her room and asked the abbess if she wanted to get into her wheelchair and venture out onto the patio for some fresh air. Mother instantly responded, “No, this is where I am supposed to be. In this room.” To her nuns this statement conveyed a resigned sense that Angelica understood the bedroom to be part of her spiritual lot — the final arena where she would prove her sanctity, the place where God desired that she continue her work spiritually.

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Pew Research Center: Christians currently make up just 2% of Israel’s adult population. Tithing – that is, giving a percentage of one’s income to the church – is less common among Christians in Israel; 39% say they tithe.

"Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi rules that giving a tenth one’s earnings to charity is a rabbinic obligation. The Gemara adds that while it is generally forbidden to test G‑d, in the case of maaser it is allowed"

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Pope Gregory to Mellitus in June 601: Tell Augustine that he should be no means destroy the temples of the gods but rather the idols within those temples. Let him, after he has purified them with holy water, place altars and relics of the saints in them. For, if those temples are well built, they should be converted from the worship of demons to the service of the true God.

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KIA OSWALT: I noticed the chaplain went on to anoint my entire house, inside and out. He prayed in every room. He blessed every single doorway and window, and he even blessed my outside shed. I was overwhelmed by what he was doing. I had no idea there was an actual Blessing of the Home, but it will be something I remember and cherish for the rest of my life.

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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church –

I keep it, staying at Home –

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"For a grave cause, it is permitted to reserve the Most Holy Eucharist in some other fitting and more secure place, especially at night."

HAILEE STEINFELD

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"I think the fact that our ancestors chose this place to establish our roots is something special. Particularly as it still continues."

SHARON FEIEREISEN: Many American adults see their families only once or twice a year. 

In Israel, if you don't see your family once a week on Shabbat, at the minimum, you're outside of the norm. In the same vein, Israelis will invite someone they barely know for Shabbat dinner (either at their own home or at their parents' house) because they don't want anyone to be alone, especially on a holiday. 

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Two Orthodox Jewish Households (New Neighbors) erected a Sukkah each on their Decks around the Block.

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Cross on the Deck

כבוד המת

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Sivan Rahav~Meir (Translation by Yehoshua Siskin): Education is tested not when parents are there but when they are not, yet their children see their image, are reminded of their character, and act accordingly.

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CAMERON SHINGLETON: while "ancestor worship" sounds like a slightly chilly business, the Vietnamese name suggests otherwise: "đạo ông bà" means literally "the belief in grandpa and grandma."

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WAYNE DOSICK: Tradition teaches that in the year following death our loved one's soul is being judged.

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Jorge Mario Bergoglio: Even when healing is not possible, care can always be given.

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MATTHEW LIBATIQUE DARREN ARONOFSKY

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RICHOKA: it was the custom of the firstborn males to serve as the household priests and perform certain religious rituals and rites on behalf of their respective families.

-The firstborn was responsible for bringing gifts such as food, oil, and water etcetera to his deceased parents because he believed that’s where their spirits dwelled. During this ritual, he would chant his parents’ names in a prayer to keep his parents’ spirits alive.

-The firstborn was responsible for appealing to the spirits of his dead ancestors to have them intercede on his family’s behalf with the gods.

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Kyle Smith: For centuries, Christians have cared for their saints, curating their deaths as examples of holiness. Martyrs' stories, lurid legends of torture, have been told and retold, translated and rewritten. Martyrs' bones are alive in the world, relics pulsing with wonder. Martyrs' shrines are still visited by pilgrims, many in search of a miracle. Martyrs have even shaped the Christian conception of time, with each day of the year celebrating the death of a saint.

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Shira Smiles: Rav Tzvi Hebel, in the sefer "The Neshamah Should Have an Aliyah," quotes the idea that the mere mention of the deceased's name has an impact on their neshamah. On a mystical level, Rav Hebel notes, when a soul's name is mentioned, it is renewed.

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Mercedes Millano Evangelista Fabro Rivera~Khan going through the Bedroom Closet of Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera and Sixto Enriquez Rivera

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THE INDEPENDENT: People aged 65+ spend 80% of their time at home

And I wonder if you know

That I never understood

That although you said you'd go

Until you did I never thought you would

Never thought the words you said were true

Never thought you said just what you meant

Never knew how much I needed you

Never thought you'd leave, until you went

Morning comes and morning goes with no regret

And evening brings the memories I can't forget

Empty rooms that echo as I climb the stairs

And empty clothes that drape and fall on empty chairs

And I wonder if you know

That I never understood

That although you said you'd go

Until you did I never thought you would

PATRICIA KARLIN~NEUMANN: The Hebrew letters kaf, bet, dalet—the sounds equivalent to K, V, D, forms the root for the word Kavod, honor. 

The most well-known occurrence of this root is found in the 10 commandments: Kabed et avicha v’et imecha, “Honor your father and mother that you may long endure...” (Exodus 20:12) 

If kavod habriyot is to honor human beings, the other most familiar usage of kavod in Judaism is the mitzvah, the obligation for kavod hamet—honoring the dead. Living in a time of COVID urges us to consider kavod, to think about what and who we honor. What does it mean to honor our father and mother in such a time as this?

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JOSE FRANCISCO SYQUIA: The devil has power over anything electrical. 😈⛈️

SHRAGA SIMMONS: The obligation to honor and respect parents applies even after they have passed away.

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David William Duchovny: ,,,the question becomes, you know, what do you owe or, you know, what's your responsibility?

Two Birds on a Wire on a Foggy Afternoon

SALLY MARGARET FIELD

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Stuffed Shrimp 🦐 courtesy of Next Door Neighbor Kevin

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MARTHA CAMPBELL PLIMPTON

LAURA JEANNE REESE WITHERSPOON

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FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA WINERY

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THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

ETAN J. TAL: A two-handled Natla (נַטְלָה) cup photographed in a Jerusalem public lavatory.

Intercession of the living for the living is overrated.

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SAMMY YAHIA: With travel currently restricted, we want to make this unique Israeli experience accessible for the Filipinos this Holy week, so we created a portal for them to send their personal notes. To access the western wall e-note portal, Filipinos should click the link https://israel.travel/ph/westernwall/

B"H

Dear father Sixto Enriquez Rivera and Mother Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera,

It's been about a year since both of You passed on to the Cosmos. It's Passover. I miss You dearly. Please, keep Your Son-in-Law Anthony Hamid Khan, Your Grandson Phoenix Micah Khan, and Your Daughter Mercedes Millano Evangelista Fabro Rivera~Khan in Your prayers. I'm still adjusting to Your absence.

Peace and Love,

CR

Thank you for taking part in Western Wall eNOTE and sending your message with us. We hope that all your wishes will be granted. We wish to see you soon in Israel!

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Single-Handled Natla (נַטְלָה‎) or Tabo for Ritual Hand-Washing.

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VISION BEAR: FOREVER YOUNG

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IRWIN KELLER: We read this in Psalm 27: My mother and father have left me, and Adonai gathers me in. Adonai gathers me in. The magic of the gathering is that, like the waves and the shore, it is not a net gain or net loss, but a rearrangement, a reconfiguration. 🎣

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ALEX MCLEOD: Confucius suggests a three-year mourning period following the death of one's parent.

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MARY HELEN BERG: Some nights still, Brown, 65, awakens and imagines Johnnie Mae sleeping next to her. During the day, Brown remembers the tasks that consumed so many hours of each day for so many years. She would prepare meals, get Mom situated in her chair, make sure the important items — the TV remote, her Bible — were within arm’s reach.

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Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy: A child is completely dependent upon the care of his parents for the first three years of his life- this is why the three-year mourning period is the common practice throughout the world.

Naftali Silberberg: The very body that died will be resurrected.

Stuart Swetland: An aspect of their beauty, of course, like the visible wounds of our Lord's resurrected body, will be the visible wounds of love that will show forth in every saint a unique aspect of how their self-sacrificing love reflected the brightness of Jesus' love for them. In this sense, the saints will be like a prism, reflecting the brilliant light of Christ into the myriad aspects of human love well and faithfully lived.

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