Manna - definition of manna by The Free Dictionary.
Manna, any of a variety of plants and plant products known for their sweet taste. Certain resins produced by the camel’s thorn plant (Alhagi maurorum) are known as manna; it is a spiny-branched shrub less than 1 metre (about 3 feet) tall and is native to Turkey. An edible white honeylike substance known as manna forms drops on the stem of salt cedars, or French tamarisk trees (Tamarix gallica).
Manna author, retired missionary Fred Morris (USA), established Manna Publications (USA) in the year 1990 and Manna Publications (UK) in the year 2000. The first overseas printings of his Genesis Bible teaching commentary Part 1 were with his former missisonary contacts in Mongolia and Kenya. To date, 561,130 low-cost A5 booklets have been printed in 42 countries and as many languages at.
Manna grass Bot., a name of several tall slender grasses of the genus Glyceria. they have long loose panicles, and grow in moist places. Nerved manna grass is Glyceria nervata, and Floating manna grass is G. flu. -- Manna insect Zool, a scale insect (Gossyparia mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarisk tree in Arabia.
Drone delivery start-up Manna says crisis shows importance of technology Founder says drones could offer delivery options for essential food and medicines Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 04:00.
Before becoming Manna’s executive director, Kim spent his career working for non-profit and faith-based organizations, including the American Red Cross, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Reformed Church in America. Kim has two sons, Luke and Adam, and is an avid sailor and downhill skier. Kim is dedicated to increasing the quality and nutritional value of the food Manna makes available.
This essay was originally published on Basic Income News in June 2014. Marshall Brain is a science writer (both fiction and non-), futurist, founder of the website How Stuff Works, and a long-time advocate of basic income.His book, Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future, makes a case for basic income—and for a post-work society altogether—through the vehicle of science fiction.
Ancient interpreters contemplated the substance of manna, a food that traverses the chasm between divine and mundane realms, falling from heaven to be consumed on earth. In kabbalistic thought, the Zohar presents manna as granting the desert generation an embodied experience of knowledge of God; such an opportunity is available to mystics in everyday eating and through birkat ha-mazon (Grace.