[In time and culture and religious practices, we are so far removed from the ‘idolatrous’ foreign nations being referred to in the Hebrew Scriptures: we don’t offer our children and young virgins at the altar of the gods of our creation or imagination, we do not indulge in the ‘abominations’ that Israel’s God YHWH wanted […]
Read more[Commentary from our excellent source book: Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.–Admin1.] Deuteronomy/Davarim 11 1-9. LET PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF GOD’S WONDROUS DEEDS ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL LEAD TO LOVE AND OBEDIENCE 1 So you are to love YHVH your God, you are to keep his charge, […]
Read more[Commentary from our excellent source book: Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.–Admin1.] Deuteronomy/Davarim 10 RESULTS OF MOSES’ INTERVENTION The grant of the Second Tables; the institution of the priestly and Levitical services; and the permission to march onward and take possession of Canaan. 1 At that time […]
Read more[Commentary from the best of Jewish minds are collected in our excellent resource book Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admin1.] Deuteronomy/Davarim 9 WARNING AGAINST SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS Israel’s victories over the Canaanites are due not to any exceptional merits of Israel, but to the wickedness of those nations, and because of […]
Read more[Commentary from Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz, the best compilation of Jewish interpreters of their own Hebrew Scriptures; translation is different from our translation of choice, EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admin1.] Deuteronomy/Davarim 8 FATHERLY DISCIPLINE OF GOD–THE LESSONS OF THE WILDERNESS The long wandering in the Wilderness had been designed to teach Israel humility and […]
Read more[Commentary from the best of Jewish minds, collected in an excellent resource: Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; our translation of choice is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses..—Admin1] Deuteronomy/Davarim 7 Observance of the Fundamental Laws–the Ten Commandments and Shema–demands avoidance of intermarriage, and the destruction of all idolatrous worship in the Promised Land. 1 […]
Read more[This is the latest article contributed by “RS” who has sent previous articles and teachings; please check out his previous posts if you haven’t yet read them: Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence” Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence” – 2 Christian discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence’ – 3 – A Look Into The New Testament YHWH, God […]
Read more[Continuing our featured resource, commentary from the best of Jewish minds all in one book, edited by Dr. J.H. Hertz, titled Pentateuchs and Haftorahs; our translation of choice is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses—Admin 1.] THE SHEMA THE ONENESS OF GOD AND ISRAEL’S UNDIVIDED LOYALTY TO HIM Deuteronomy/Davarim 6 1 Now this is the […]
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