O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian: were doubtless men of public spirit and zeal. Preserve me from the enemy who has something to gain: and from the friend who has something to lose. Remembering the words of Nehemiah the Prophet: The trowel in hand, and the gun rather loose in the holster. -- T. S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock V.1-4 Mama, sing my favorite hymn (baruch Eloheinu) where we make plowshares from our swords (baruch Adonenu) and the masons barber trims our Christmas tree (baruch Malkenu) in the Oneness of our Lord (baruch Moshienu) what grace surrounds! (mi cheloheinu) what strange perfection! (mi chadonenu) Mama, sing my favorite hymn and remind me (mi chemalkenu) everyone is him. -- mewithoutYou, Four Fires Now Maccabeus and his followers, the Lord leading them on, recovered the Temple and the city; and they tore down the altars which had been built in the public square by the foreigners, and also destroyed the sacred precincts. They purified the sanctuary, and made another altar of sacrifice; then, striking fire out of flint, they offered sacrifices, after a lapse of two years, and they burned incense and lighted lamps and set out the bread of the Presence. And when they had done this, they fell prostrate and besought the Lord that they might never again fall into such misfortunes, but that, if they should ever sin, they might be disciplined by Him with forbearance and not be handed over to blasphemous and barbarous nations. -- II Maccabees 10.1-4 Happy Chanukkah.
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