Yesterday: [American] Mother's Day - the same day this year as Jerusalem Day, when the US delegation arrived in Israel. And today..
Galatians 4:26 But JerUSAlem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey.[1] The two never met.[2]
Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, "Pikes Peak", first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. At that time, the poem was titled "America" for publication. Ward had originally written the music, "Materna", for the hymn "O Mother dear, Jerusalem" in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.[3] Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful. The song is one of the most popular of the many U.S. patriotic songs.[4]
Cross-referenced to the lyrics of "O Mother dear, Jerusalem":
| O mother dear, Jerusalem, When shall I come to thee? When shall my sorrows have an end, Thy joys when shall I see? O happy harbor of the saints! O sweet and pleasant soil! In thee no sorrow may be found, No grief, no care, no toil. No murky cloud o’ershadows thee, Nor gloom, nor darksome night; But every soul shines as the sun, For God Himself gives light. There lust and lucre cannot dwell, There envy bears no sway; There is no hunger, heat, nor cold, But pleasure every way. Thy walls are made of precious stones, Thy bulwarks diamonds square; Thy gates are of right orient pearl, Exceeding rich and rare. Thy turrets and thy pinnacles With carbuncles do shine; Thy very streets are paved with gold, Surpassing clear and fine. Thy gardens and thy gallant walks Continually are green; There grow such sweet and pleasant flow’rs, As nowhere else are seen; Quite through the streets, with silver sound, The flood of life doth flow, Upon whose banks on every side, The wood of life doth grow. |
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And every gain divine! O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! |
There trees forevermore bear fruit,
And evermore do spring,
There evermore the angels sit,
And evermore do sing.
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Would God I were in thee!
Would God my woes were at an end,
Thy joys that I might see!
Why is the song of Ha’azinu so special that God commanded Moses to ensure it will always remain in the mouths of Israel? A careful reading shows that Ha’azinu essentially incorporates all of the central themes of the Torah. We are first reminded that God is perfect, “and all His ways are just” (32:4). While it is common for people to become angry at God and wonder why He is seemingly making life so difficult for them, Ha’azinu reminds us that there is no injustice in God, and that all suffering is self-inflicted (32:5). The Talmud reminds us that hardships are issurim shel ahavah, “afflictions of love”, meant to inspire us to change, grow, repent, learn, and draw us closer to God. Isaac Newton said it well:
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician gives because we need them; and the proportions, the frequency, and weight of them, to what the case requires. Let us trust His skill and thank Him for the prescription.
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So important is Ha’azinu that it is always read during the High Holiday period, usually on Shabbat Shuvah, the Sabbath of Repentance, or Return. So important is Ha’azinu that it is most often the first parasha read in the New Year. And so important is Ha’azinu that it was commonly believed the entire Torah is encoded within it. When our Sages derived the mitzvah of writing the Torah from the command of writing Ha’azinu, they literally meant that Ha’azinu encapsulates the whole Torah! The Ramban went so far as to teach that all of history, including the details of every individual, is somehow encrypted in Ha’azinu.
https://www.mayimachronim.com/the-most-important-torah-reading/
And so important is Ha’azinu that it was commonly believed the entire Torah is encoded within it.
America (אמריקה) permutes to the excessive spelling of ha-Mikra (המיקרא):
Mikra
Mikra (also spelled Miqra) (מקרא) is a Hebrew word derived from קרא, Kärä, meaning "that which is read", and refers to the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh.
מקרא
1.(biblical) announcement, declaration
2.(definite) scripture, the Bible
3.a biblical verse
4.legend, key (such as of a map)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%90
When shall I come to thee for amber waves of grain?
Gen 43-44
25. And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food:
26. And we said, We can not go down; if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us:
27. And your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:
28. And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
29. And if you take this also from me, and harm befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol:
30. Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life:
31. It shall come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and your servants shall bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol:
32. For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to you, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever:
33. Now therefore, I beg you, let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers:
34. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come on my father:
1.Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all those who stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me; And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers:
1 Kings 8:17. And it was in the heart of David my father (אבי, avi) to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel:
That's a word play between English and Hebrew and Greek (Δαβίδ) but the word avi, "my father" = 13 = ahava (love) and echad (one). It was in the heart (center) of David (father of her being made complete) to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.
Speaking of songs and their endings, "Yerushalayim shel Zahav" is "Jerusalem of Gold". City of David. Gold or David, 14.
ירושלים של זהב
The end letters say "from the heart."
A heart of gold is a crown of gold.
Yerushalayim Shel Zahav - Ofra Haza
(w/ Hebrew and English lyrics)
You have to ask yourself how come Joseph had to spend so much time in Egypt, in the house of bondage (ward). To show Esav (well, everyone) by example how to perform a proper mitzvah. From the heart.
And the 'end times' experts don't have a clue where America is in Bible prophecy. Joseph in Egypt; Joseph in Edom. Same Divine plotline, different names. Short term/microcosm, long term/macrocosm.
Samuel, A. Ward composed the music. You really can't make this stuff up.
1.(biblical) announcement, declaration
Ezekiel 37
19. Say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and will put them with him, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand:
20. And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes:
stick = tree. Same word, etz, which is formed when the two letters that are shaped as forked tree branches (sticks from trees) are put together as one word:
עץ
There trees forevermore bear fruit, And evermore do spring.
הַאֲזִינוּ — Hebrew for "listen" when directed to more than one person...
הַאֲזִינוּ is gold (79, aurum).
oracle (n.)
late 14c., "a message from a god, expressed by divine inspiration," from Old French oracle "temple, house of prayer; oracle" (12c.) and directly from Latin oraculum "divine announcement, oracle; place where oracles are given," from orare "pray, plead" (see orator), with material instrumental suffix -culo-. In antiquity, "the agency or medium of a god," also "the place where such divine utterances were given." This sense is attested in English from c. 1400.
auricle (n.)
"external part of the human ear," 1650s, from Latin auricula "ear," diminutive of auris "the ear" (see ear (n.1)). As a chamber of the heart, early 15c., from Latin, so called from a perceived similarity in shape to an animal's ear.
Myosotis (/ˌmaɪ.əˈsoʊtɪs/;[2] from the Greek: μυοσωτίς "mouse's ear", which the foliage is thought to resemble)...
forget-me-not (n.)
the flowering plant (Myosotis palustris), 1530s, translating Old French ne m'oubliez mye; in 15c. the flower was supposed to ensure that those wearing it should never be forgotten by their lovers.
In Hebrew the name is a positive commandment: "remember me" flowers (zichrini).
Gen 31
22. And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb:
23. And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach:
24. And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son:
Rachel's 'another son' was the son she saw through Joseph: Benoni, the lad who was spirited away along with the soul of Rachel, never to be mentioned again.
Never say never, because Benoni "son of my [Rachel's] strength, vigor" permutes to "Yinon comes".
The US delegation arrived on Mother's Day, JerUSAlem Day.
It goes on and on, but who cares to read even the small portion that is in this post?
Apologies for any typos that I didn't catch.