WIKIPEDIA: Virginia is a feminine given name derived from the Ancient Roman family name Virginius, a name probably derived from the Latin word Virgo, meaning "Maiden" or "Virgin."
The state of Virginia was named in honor of Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen."
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JOSEPH'S ABSENCE
bondonk: In Vayikra chapter 13 (laws of tzaraat), there are 59 verses. 'The Kohen' is mentioned 56 times. It seems peculiar that in the story of Miriam, the involvement of 'the Kohen' is absent.
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PHYLLIS TRIBLE: Despite the instructions of God and Moses, the people refuse to continue the march in the wilderness until the diseased Miriam is restored (Num 12:15).
ISMAR SCHORSCH: The biblical priest is not a medical man. That is the domain of the prophet, who alone intercedes with God to effect the cure of someone struck down by illness.
NAFTALI BRAWER: The great biblical scholar Nachmanides, who ironically earned his living as a physician, states in his commentary on Leviticus 26 that in the idealised period of the Bible when the righteous fell ill, they wouldn’t turn to a physician but rather seek the healing powers of a prophet.
It is common among contemporary Jews, particularly though not exclusively among Sephardi and Chasidic communities, to seek the blessing of a holy man to alleviate illness. One can question the efficacy of such practices but not their Jewishness.
JONATHAN ROMAIN: there is nothing wrong or un-Jewish in visiting a healer. Some people have special skills that we cannot explain. If they can alleviate pain or even expedite cures, that is to be praised. To the religious mind, it is a gift from God and not to be shunned.
YISSOCHER FRAND: If you have been in the rabbinate or the teaching business or even the parent business, you see that sometimes you preach and preach and preach and maybe it takes twenty, thirty, or forty years but when people get older they may indeed admit, “You know, what you told me way back when made a lot of sense.”
CHICKEN JOY
YISSOCHER FRAND: Rashi comments on the fact that birds are uncharacteristically the key component of the metzorah's offering: This is because lashon hara [evil speech] is the cause of the negaim [skin blemishes]. Lashon hara is loose speech, a kind of thoughtless chirping on the part of the person. The symbolism of the birds is that these creatures too constantly utter chirping sounds with their voices. Therefore, the Kapara [atonement] for the Metzorah is bringing birds. As a moral lesson for one who “chirped too much” he symbolically uses incessantly chirping creatures in his atonement ritual.
Moved with compassion
Yeshua stretched out His hand:
"I'm willing. Be cleansed."
NATHAN JOINER: It's not a show. Like, you just really care and you really want to see someone better.
NATHAN JOINER: So, we need to view healing not so much as a way to prove God for ourselves, but, rather, as our natural response to His generous love for us. You see? And this is Good News because it means we can respond to God's call to pray and we can pray with a high level of expectation, but the burden of whether or not someone is healed is not on our shoulders. Faith lies in our willingness to pray regardless of the results.
NATHAN JOINER: I just want to say that every follower of Yeshua has the ability to pray for the sick.
NATHAN JOINER: So, sometimes, listening to a person share is the healing itself.
NATHAN JOINER: Help People to feel comfortable. Help them to build confidence.
NATHAN JOINER: But, again, if nothing seems to be happening, then just bless them! You know? Everyone should leave prayer feeling encouraged and loved, regardless of whether healing took place.
הָדוּר נָאֶה זִיו הָעוֹלָם. נַפְשִׁי חוֹלַת אַהֲבָתֶךָ. אָנָא אֵל נָא רְפָא נָא לָהּ. בְּהַרְאוֹת לָהּ נוֹעַם זִיוֶךָ. אָז תִּתְחַזֵק וְתִתְרַפֵּא. וְהָיְתָה לָהּ שִׂמְחַת עוֹלָם.
Moshe Alshich, Vayikra 13:2: Only when the Jewish people are in an otherwise advanced spiritual state do they merit to have the miraculous sign of tzara'at.
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BRADLEY ARTSON: Without Miriam, there was no more water.
CAROL OCHS: What qualifications would there be for Miriam’s successor? Moses, in that one prescient moment, understood that a vital piece of the community might have died with Miriam. With the death of Miriam, the well dried up. How can we best understand what Miriam’s Well represented? But whoever was to succeed Miriam would have to qualify directly through God’s gift, because no one had thought to name a successor.
Due to the merits of Miriam, a mysterious well, created on the eve of the first Sabbath, accompanied the children of Israel in the desert.
It followed her everywherelike a lover, easing us to rest,springing from hidden placesin our wanderings.
Always, we were thirsty. Angeredby our wailing, she'd stamp her feet.Even from the pools of her heelprintswe drank.
Once in anguishshe beat the rocks with her bare handsagain and again, weeping.Water gushed, cleansing her blood,soaking her hair, her robe.She cupped her hands, rinsed her mouth,spat; she splashed, she played.Laughing, we filled our bellies.
She was the one we followed,who knew each of us by name.Healing rose from her touch as drinkfrom the deep, as song from her throat.
She was the well. In our heartswe called her not Miriam, bitter sea,but Mayim, water.
From All the Women Followed Her, ed. Rebecca Schwartz (Rikudei Miriam Press, 2001), p. 37.
SHMULEY BOTEACH: In Judaism, life would be defined as anything that changes its environment. Thus, the Patriarch Jacob is declared by the ancient Rabbis to still be alive because the monotheism and commitment to a godly lifestyle that he instilled within his children continues till this very day. Because his legacy lives on in their daily lives, and because he continues to impact upon his environment, he is still relevant, still alive.
SHMULEY BOTEACH: Jews respond with the triumphant words of King David, “Lo amut ki eh’yeh, I shall not die for I shall live and speak the glory of God.”
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SARAH SILBERBERG: Miriam meant well.
So, why was she punished so harshly?
Because she was Miriam.
Interestingly, we are instructed to remember “what G‑d did to Miriam” and not “what Miriam did.” What Miriam did was so innocuous that it is difficult to even call it a sin!
So why was she punished so severely?
Consider the way a small stain may not even be noticeable on a plaid shirt, but will stand out sharply on a white shirt. Miriam is the white shirt. A wrongdoing so slight it might not be noticed in another, stands out sharply against her pristine background.
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Clifford Rivera~Millano Enriquez~Lopez: The Philippines might change their Name.
Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera: To what? "Virginia"?
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Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera: What? It should be okay.
Viene para sanarte milesinarteComo Miriam a LevyQui sinava y milseinavaYo todo mal se lo quitavaY a la mar lo echavaThis comes to heal you and bring you medicinelike Miriam the Levitewho would bring medicine and healand take all the illness awayand throw it to the bottom of the sea.(Source: Derya F. Agis, “Beliefs of the American Sephardic Woman Related to the Evil Eye,” 2010).
JAMIE BERNSTEIN: I think there was a part of my father that believed that if he just wrote a good enough melody that maybe he could heal the world with his notes.
Babylonian Talmud, Nedarim 40a: Ravin also said in Rav's name: How do we know that the Divine Presence (She'Chinah) rests above the bed of a sick person? From Psalm 41:3, "The L_rd sets Himself upon their bed of suffering," which indicates that G~d is, actually, over their bed
Talmud Bavli, Berachot 12b: Whoever has the power to pray on behalf of another and fails to do so is a Sinner.
DEBRA ROBBINS: We can all use all the prayers for healing that we can possibly get.
DEBRA ROBBINS: What we can all do is offer a prayer and that that would be our gesture – our Way – of helping to bring about healing to be G~d's partner.
DEBRA ROBBINS: We must only do the best we can in prayer as in science. We need them both. We don't just turn it over to medicine. We don't just turn it over to prayer. We do both.
MICHAEL KURLAND: Relax and be healed.
VIRGINIA MILLANO EVANGELISTA FABRO~RIVERA: YOU HAVE TO PRIORITIZE.
JANET MARDER: It is a mitzvah, a sacred obligation, the halacha says, for us to visit the sick. But the mitzvah is not complete “ad sheh-bikesh rachamim alav – until we have prayed for the sick person” [Tur, Yoreah Deah 335].
When the medical arts have reached their limit, prayer remains to sustain the soul -- to remind us, if we allow ourselves to believe it, that we do not suffer alone. It is possible, even in the midst of illness, to sense that you are cared for, that you are held in the embrace of a God whose love encompasses you forever.We pray when we have done everything we can and there is nothing else that we know how to do. We pray when our own resources are exhausted and we need another source of strength. We pray as an expression of human love and attention, in the hope that pain and solitude can be eased. We pray in the hour of extremity, so that we can go on to face whatever we will have to face. We offer words of prayer when those are the only words we have left.
Rosh Hashanah 16b: Four things, even five, annul the decree that seals a person’s fate: namely, charity, crying out, changing one's name, changing one's actions, and some even say changing one's place.
Mishneh Torah: Hilchot Avel (Laws of Mourning) 14:4: Whoever ignores a sick person is a Murderer.
Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 328:2: If a person is sick and there is no question their life is in danger, then not only are we allowed to violate Shabbat, but we are commanded to do so. One who hurries to do this is praiseworthy; one who hesitates to do this is a Murderer.
Talmud Bavli Massekhet Nedarim 40a: Whoever visits the sick will be spared the punishments in the World to Come.
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AYELETT SHANI: For example, if someone who is very ill goes to a rabbi, the rabbi may instruct him to change his name or to add a letter to it, in order to be cured.
GIRLS IN TROUBLE: I think Miriam is the kind of leader who is truly part of the people. In my Parasha the people do a lot of grumbling. What does Miriam do at the end of the Parasha? She grumbles like everyone else. She is in the same mode as the people. I see her as someone who has a distinct connection to God but is not distanced from the people by that connection.
SYLVIA ROTHSCHILD: We never find out the fate of the unnamed woman from Ethiopia, but we do have one shaft of light at the end of this story. The people wait for Miriam to be healed and brought back to the camp before they move on. She may be chastened, but Miriam is back in the public space, and one day she may yet sing with her unnamed black sister, their voices raised up – and heard and responded to by all.
PHYLLIS TRIBLE: Miriam with Aaron also challenges the prophetic authority of Moses. She asks, “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” (Num 12:2). She understands leadership to embrace diverse voices, female and male. But the price of speaking out is severe. Though God rebukes both Miriam and Aaron, the deity punishes only her. Metaphorically, the divine nostril burns in anger to leave her stricken with scales like snow.
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John is now walking
The Breadth of Olde Earth
Following Miriam's
Footsteps in the Snow
JESSE: May She smile upon us 💕
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Coronation of the Virgin, Mosaic, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Giovanni Bellini. Pesaro Altarpiece. 1471-74. Oil on panel, 262 x 240 cm. Musei Civici, Pesaro, Italy.
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Oil on wood panel
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome
Catarino. Coronation of Mary. 1360s. Tempera on panel, 120 x 75 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
WENDY ZIERIER: In unvocalized Hebrew, as in the Torah scroll, the name Miriam (מרים) and the word marim, “bitter,” are identical. If marim is read as “Miriam,” the final part of the verse can be read, “That is why she [Miriam] is named Bitter.” Both narrative contiguity and wordplay associate Miriam’s name with bitterness.
Before striking the rock to bring out water, Moses calls out to the people, שמעו נא המרים, “Listen ye rebels,” using a term for “rebels,” מֹרִים, that is identical to Miriam’s name in the unvocalized text. Once again, a wordplay on “Miriam” strengthens the notion that Miriam is somehow synonymous with Israelite insurrection.
Micah 6:4 calls out for a different portrait of Miriam, which foregrounds not bitterness but triumph, not rebellion but divinely ordained leadership.
Miriam was beloved.
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ELIZABETH SPRING: Zot be'er Miriam kos mayim chayam.This is the well of Miriam, the cup of living waters.
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I stand at the sea and turn
to face the desert stretching endless and still.
My eyes are dazzled
The sky brilliant blue
Sunburnt sands unyielding white.
My hands turn to dove wings.
My arms
reach
for the sky
and I want to sing
the song rising inside me.
My mouth open
I stop.
Where are the words?
Where the melody?
In a moment of panic
My eyes go blind.
Can I take a step
Without knowing a
Destination?
Will I falter
Will I fall
Will the ground sink away from under me?
The song still unformed— How can I sing?
To take the first step—
To sing a new song—
Is to close one’s eyes
and dive
into unknown waters,
For a moment knowing nothing risking all—
But then to discover
The waters are friendly
The ground is firm.
And the song—
the song rises again.
Out of my mouth
come words lifting the wind. And I hear
for the first
the song
that has been in my heart silent
unknown even to me.
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Yocheved Zhelezhniak, In her 1939 poem “Miriam,” for example:
—With you, with you in the storm,your body protruding like a timbrel,with you in your dance facing enchantment,smell of sands and infinity.—I shall tell, jealous and leprous,I shall tell, complaining, of myself.I adjure you, in your unrelenting seclusion,in your resplendent isolation, do live!
—אתך, אתך בסערגופך משתרבב כתוף,אתך במחולך מול להטריח חולות ואין סוף.
—אספר מקנאה ומצורעת,אספר מלינה על עצמי.השבעתיך בנזירותך לא נכנעת,בבדותך הזהורה נא חיי!
“You know, sister. I never wanted this post. I tried to tell the voice in the burning bush that I was not suited for this. But God insisted and told me to make snakes out of sticks. The voice in the burning bush said, ‘If you want to see My powers as expressed in you, put your hand into your bosom and then pull it out.’ And there it was before me: covered with snowy scales! Don’t you see? God has now spoken to you too from a cloud. Beware of what you ask for, my sister. For God has answered you and etched the power of prophecy onto your skin. Now you too can bear the burden of this people, whom I have neither fathered nor mothered, but nevertheless, carry on my back.”
MARY W. MATTHEWS: The prophet Miriam appears in relatively few scenes in Exodus and Numbers, but her role in the Judeo~Christian tradition cannot be underestimated. Miriam's importance was such that by the time Jesus was born, 40 percent of all women were named Mary (Maryam, Miriam, Mariamne, Maria).
TAMAR MEIR: In the Rabbinic portrayal, the Angel of Death had no power over Miriam and she died with a kiss by God, which is a death reserved for the righteous (Cant. Rabbah 1:2:5; BT Bava Batra 17a).
Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera: Mamamatay na Akko, Anak. Be with me, please, Lord. Thank You, Lord, for having a Good Son, for being with me. In Jesus's Name, Amen.
YIRMIYAHU ULLMAN: The Torah’s description of her burial place as Kadesh in the Wilderness of Tzin would locate it somewhere in the desert region southeast of the Dead Sea. This is in the general area of the burial place of her brother Aaron, which is identified by Josephus (Antiq. 4.4.6) as being near Petra. There seems to be some record of pilgrimages to the burial place of Miriam in the area of Petra until the 4th century CE, but since then the tradition and location have been forgotten and lost.
TAMAR MEIR: The Torah tells of her death in the portion of Hukat (Num. 19:1–22:1); the Rabbis deduce from the juxtaposition of her death and the law of the red heifer that the death of the righteous atones for the sins of Israel: just as the red heifer atones, so, too, did Miriam’s death atone (BT Mo’ed Katan 28a).
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Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera: Okay. Give me more Drink and I will Sleep. Don't leave me alone, until I fall asleep. You're my Caregiver. Good experience, also.
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Guido di Pietro
SELMA BLAIR BEITNER: I worship you , Mom.
عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين:
Our job then is to look at the glass half full.
Our job then is to look at the glass half full.
HERB KEINON: the lack of reactions from States to the details that have leaked out about the plan so far is an indication that governments will be careful not to reject it
VIRGINIA MILLANO EVANGELISTA FABRO~RIVERA: I'm dying on the Cross, Anak.
PAMPLEMOUSS: As an agnostic Jew, I always describe Jesus as a radical brown socialist Jew who didn't put up with slut~shaming or anti~immigration bull.
CCNA: How many of us can become saints in one life-time? Clearly such an elevated level of development is pretty hard to achieve for the majority of humanity in one lifetime, but if more lives were part of God’s plan, then this possibility grows for everyone. We can continue to develop and become more evolved human beings and also progress towards a relationship with Christ more in keeping with a mature responsible adult, as opposed to that of a child who is satisfied with merely the forgiveness of sins. An expanded vision of our journey as going beyond one lifetime can be supported by our trust in the enduring love of Christ; knowing we can get it wrong, ask for forgiveness, make amends and try again. Our comfort is not based on forgiveness of our sins but from knowing we have the time and opportunity to grow beyond sinning – to work out our own salvation, our own resurrection.Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera's Collection of Keys 🔑 Found in Her Vintage Luggage
