Up and Down, High and Low
The STONE the builders rejected has become the CORNERSTONE. By the LORD has this been done, it is wonderful in our eyes. (Psalms 118:22-23)
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to Earth, the only art of Earth we take to Heaven. - Walter Savage Landor
You are Peter, and upon this ROCK I will build my church and the Gates of Hell will not prevail against it. (Matthew 16:18)
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the Earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into Heaven and say there is no God. (Abraham Lincoln)
See, I am laying a STONE in Zion, a STONE that has been tested, a precious CORNERSTONE as a sure foundation. He who put his faith in it will not be shaken. (Isaiah 28:16)
A Tanna taught: The hornet did not pass over Jordan with them; but behold it is written: And I will send the hornet before thee! R. Simeon b. Lakish said: It stood by the bank of the Jordan and injected a virus into the Canaanites which blinded their eyes above...as it is said: Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars...yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath. - Sotah 36a
The STONE the builders rejected has become the CORNERSTONE. By the LORD has this been done, it is wonderful in our eyes. (Psalms 118:22-23)
R. Ishmael son of R. Jose exclaimed, ‘He of whom the holy people is in need may well stride over the heads of the holy people; but how dare he of whom the holy people has no need stride over the heads of the holy people!’ (Yebamoth 105b)
This is the Seal of the Living God. The Symbol of God the Father.
This is the Seal of the Living God. The Symbol of God the Father.
And the other said: The eyes of him who offers up prayers shall be directed towards the Heavens above, for it is said Let us lift up our heart with our hand. (Yebamoth 105b)
From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler- all of them together.(Zechariah 10:4)
How do we know that the castration of a man is forbidden? From the verse, neither shall ye do thus in your land: this means ye shall not do [thus] to yourselves: the words of R. Hanina! (Shabbath 110b)
Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?’ (Matthew 21:4)
Resh Lakish said: 'He who devotes his strength to prayer below has no enemies to overcome above.' R. Johanan said: ‘One should ever implore mercy that all Heavenly beings may support his effort in prayer so that he may have no enemies on high.’ (Sanhedrin 44b)
May the LORD God bless you in the name of the Judeo-Christian Tradition.
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