Thanks.
I love these types of articles because they invite the reader to plumb the depths of meaning.
In this one, Midian is described as a spiritual place/condition: very low (place of strife), or very high (above the fray).
Reminds me of the conceptual space diagrammed and described here, with the link to its opposite which is actually its"counterpart":
Many moons ago, I happened across that page and immediately noticed the etymological information because... Joseph. Joseph was the "nazir" ---the one separated from his brothers.
And here we are in the same place [of strife].
Since the concept of being below is itself somewhat vague, scientists define the nadir in more rigorous terms. Specifically, in astronomy, geophysics and related sciences (e.g., meteorology), the nadir at a given point is the local vertical direction pointing in the direction of the force of gravity at that location. The direction opposite of the nadir is the zenith.
Here's the wikionary page for the Arabic word.
Bible-oriented wordniks would notice that here is a place where z's swap with d's. nazir/nadir.
(gold, for example: Hebrew zahab; Aramaic dahab)
Is it time for the eye rolls yet? Because I'm just some unknown of no background. Even my own name is an enigma.
If I were Habakkuk, nobody would know and it wouldn't matter.
Back to Midian because it all connects:
It's a word deriving from din*, from judgment:
The holy Zohar connects Midian to the word madona quarrel. Midian is the womb of all quarrels, disputes, divisiveness and intolerancethe diametric opposite of the realm of holiness where all is oneness and harmony.
Or rather, the counterpart.
Diagram showing the relationship between the zenith,
the nadir, and different types of horizon.
Note that the zenith is opposite the nadir.
Zen. From the Sanskrit root dhyai contemplate, meditate, think of.
It's a profound meditation, a state of rest,
"an approach to an activity, skill, or subject that emphasizes simplicity and intuition rather than conventional thinking or fixation on goals."
As such, by applying a reverse-Babel on the languages we can plainly observe that zen is like zenith, which is:
From Middle English cenyth, from Medieval Latin cenit, from Arabic سَمْت (samt, “direction, path”), from the fuller form سَمْت اَلرَّأْس (samt ar-raʾs, “direction of the head”).
Follow the way and it'll take to an alley (a narrow way) -- Latin semita, from which the Hebrew word for alley (simta, סמטה) derives.
antonym: via
That's an important link because look at that word play going on with the meaning of semita in Italian.
There I go again, rambling off on my own. People hate that because it's an approach to an activity, skill, or subject that emphasizes simplicity and intuition rather than conventional thinking or fixation on goals.
Dreamers do what dreamers do, just go on ahead, above the fray, with nothing but their dreams, the visions in their heads to contemplate. Here's a famous dreamer:
Gen 45
7. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance:
8. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt:
Purim is famously called the "flipped over story" based on the phrase "venahafoch hu" in Esther 9:1, because everything turned to the contrary for Haman. For Haman, it all "went south", so to speak.
Another jewel from Chabad:
There is a placethe fiftieth gate, they call itso high that all things are equally nothing from there. There is no good, no evil, nothing can be added or taken away, the righteous are dust, the wicked are dust, nothing is of consequence, all is but dust.
Drunk with the joy of Purim, a Jew travels higher and higher until he reaches that place. And there he proclaims that the oppressed have been saved; the wicked overthrown; and light, joy, happiness and peace rule throughout the universe.
As for this high place, he declares, I am not impressed. It too was created for the purpose of our joy below!
Its secret exposed, the fiftieth gate itself is redeemed.https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/39635/jewish/Cursed-and-Blessed.htm
But how can an unbounded irrationality be conquered?
The master Kabbalist, the Ari, taught that there is a holy Midian as well. It is the place in the human soul of unconditional love, love that has no reason other than it is divine to love one another.
The Messiah goes to work there every day. It's the name of his business.
On the one hand, he's nowhere near Mars. It's a place named after the god of war.
On the other hand, he's right there, having been born there from perseverance..
On the other hand, he's right here back on earth, his business being but a stone's throw away from Mars. A short walk, anyway.
All of the above: it's the same as what Bilaam saw. It's way more literal than people may suspect, because the parable is the literal meaning:
Num 23
8. How shall I curse, he whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, he whom the Lord has not defied:
9. For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him; lo, the people shall live alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations:
10. Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his:
11. And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them:
This stuef could be pounded into stone with photo documentation and date stamps, and people still wouldn't believe their eyes!
Joseph warned his family that there were yet five years of the famine. Is there a place in the text where the end is documented? Serious question, because seemingly the end of the famine is unaccounted for.
Be that as it may,
Who doesn't remember the intro to the original Star Trek, a series modeled after the Wagon Train which traveled from St. Joseph to Sacramento (the name origins/context are easy enough to track down):
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!
"The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2260s."
Kirk and Spock were Jews in Space. You could really go places if you run the corresponding Torah dates.
Where or when does it ever end?! Never ending.
Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon for decades.[4] Fans of the franchise are called "Trekkies" or "Trekkers". The franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. From 1998 to 2008, there was a Star Trekthemed attraction in Las Vegas. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The constructed language Klingon was created for the franchise.
"from the fuller form":
Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law (1966)
... and the law won:
Mosaic Law
Remember how Bilaam taught the King of Moab to curse Israel?
The Wanderer *(from Dion)
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What's is going to take for people to catch on and bring laughter and music back into the house? Or rather, to stop shutting it out?
Have you all forgotten? Because the hills are alive, with the sound of music.
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him:
Re'eh, a drop of golden sun
Time to make hay while the sun shines. Hay as in the Letter Hei of G-d's Name Havayah, for Teshuvah is Tashuv Hei, Return the [letter] Hei that has fallen because of our failure to keep Him before us always.
Daily Zohar - Re'eh Day 1
Blessed is HE hu comes in the name of the LORD.
Put it all together with Joseph's Egyptian Secret Squadron name and you know what that means?
Captain Midnight said "WATCH" for the target. It's even right there in the WEBB address in case you missed it.
Watch the hidden place of the north. The Master Comedian knows how to bring down the house, because
Remember the scene from the Ten Commandments about the identity of Moses, of knowing he was an Hebrew because of that particular cloth?
The North Face Born To Wander Long-Sleeve Tee Shirt - $30.00
(in Gush Red)
Wrap your firstborn in this.
Torn from a Levite's robe.
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/ten-commandments-script-transcript-10.html
In Rama a voice was heard. Just check how the script begins.
A special striped robe of "many colors":
The "ketonet passim" was Joseph's coat and the coat worn by the king's virgin daughters (e.g. Tamar).
Dressed in light which by nature is here, there, and everywhere.
Prophets are everywhere. They disappeared because they were disappeared - redefined out of existence.
Here's Dion again, along with the beautiful mountains, in the role of Joseph, the teenager who loved his brothers:
Each time we have a quarrel
It almost breaks my heart
'Cause I'm so afraid
That we will have to part
Each night I ask
The stars up above
Why must I be
A teenager in love?
One day I feel so happy
Next day I feel so sad
I guess, I'll learn to take
The good with the bad
'Cause each night I ask
The stars up above
Why must I be
A teenager in love?
I cried a tear
For nobody but you
I'll be a lonely one, if you
Should say we're through
Well, if you want to make me cry
That won't be so hard to do
And if you should say goodbye
I'll still go on loving you
A Teenager In Love - The Very Best of Dion & the Belmonts
Midian sits at the core-essence of every maladaptive human quality. So that, once it is conquered, all the rest of a persons character is opened to transformation.
Could go a long way in expaining why Joseph told his brothers not to be grieved that *they* sold him into Egypt, when the account of the sale IDs the Midianites.
They were the ones who "drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit."
If they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't have done that. Good thing nobody knows which end is up, heh.
How many collective years of study has gone into the name Moses, for example. It's not even a Hebrew name.
But wait just a minute, if anyone has the most Hebrew of names, Moses is right up there!
Exodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
She fished him out of the water. And Moses, as the entire world knows, is
the fish that got away.
Everybody out of the pool!
Now if anything has eluded capture it's the intel Jacob had concerning the last days:
Gen 49.1 And Jacob called to his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days:
Hebrew naming conventions. Gotta love 'em!
Sweet singer of Israel, ruddy David wasn't able to build his dream Temple to the name of the Lord God of Israel because of his many WARS.
But his son, a little kid at heart, got to playing with refrigerator magnets and
MARS...
#MarsHelicopter pushes its Red Planet limits. Helicopter The rotorcraft completed its 9th and most challenging flight yet, flying for 166.4 seconds at a speed of 5 m/s. Take a look at this shot of Ingenuity’s shadow captured with its navigation camera. http://go.nasa.gov/ingenuity
12:54 PM · Jul 5, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1412092497552019458
Ingenuity is still alive. In Hebrew it's literally the power of invention.
Take that 9th flight down a narrow alley because the Revolution Happens Here.
Luck of the Irish -- its origins go back to the Gold Rush, and the Wagon Train:
"During the gold and silver rush years in the second half of the 19th century, a number of the most famous and successful miners were of Irish and Irish American birth....Over time this association of the Irish with mining fortunes led to the expression 'luck of the Irish.'
"Of course, it carried with it a certain tone of derision, as if to say, only by sheer luck, as opposed to brains, could these fools succeed."
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/where-did-luck-of-the-irish-come-from
