[If you haven’t read the prequel to this, please go to: MUST READ/MUST HAVE: The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox – 1 To encourage our visitors to get a copy of the book recommended here for their personal library, we are featuring excerpts from TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE and ON THE NAME OF GOD AND […]
Read more[As it is our practice, we are featuring only the FOREWORD and the INTRODUCTION, enough to give the curious the push and the shove to purchase your personal copy of this book. This is a christian perspective on the Book of Job; it treats the book not as a true story about a literal/historical figure, […]
Read more[Esau . . . the last words we heard from his mouth was revenge: 27:41 Now Esav held a grudge against Yaakov because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esav said in his heart: Let the days of mourning for my father draw near and then I will kill Yaakov my brother! […]
Read more[The one thing we will never get back is every minute that ticks away. Past is past, future is a tick away, what we have at all times is each moment and yet that is so . . . ‘momentary’? One tick and it’s gone and time continues to tick away. If you are the […]
Read more[First posted in 2014. The Sinaite’s Library is full of every translation available of the book that claims to be “the very words of God.” Understandably such a claim draws the skepticism and scrutiny of those who challenge that claim. Religionists simply swallow it and consider the challengers as irreverent, irreligious, blasphemous, anti-Christs, etc. And […]
Read moreOne of the longest ‘search terms’ landed on our website on 1/12/14. Automatically, it was added to the daily updated post intended as aid for searchers: Yo Searchers! Can we help you? – January 2014. Since it was in the form of a question which had ‘loaded’ implications coming from a mindset that was obviously […]
Read more[Read the title of this post, who would you think spoke these words to Yaakov? Surprise, surprise, his two sister-wives Leah and Rachel, vs. 16.. Actually it should not be a surprise: Adam listened to Eve’s voice, Abram listened to Sarai’s voice, Yaakov listened to Rebekah’s voice. This is contrary to the status of women […]
Read more[The title of this post states exactly what this chapter is about: One. Yaakov’s sister-wives try to out-baby each other going to the point of using their maidservants as surrogate mothers. What is it about having babies that obsess these rival sister-wives? It couldn’t possibly be a scramble to fulfill prophecy; it must simply be […]
Read more[Let us not forget why Yaakov is on this journey . . . search for a wife is the official reason, but mother Rebekah has decided it would be best for her favored twin to be away from father Yitzchak they both had deceived and twin Esau who was angry over losing his birthright. The […]
Read more[Seriously, my first exposure to this story is through what used to be called “Negro Spirituals”; the lyrics went like this: “Jacob dreamt he saw a ladder reachin’ to the sky; angels comin’ up and downin’; climb up chil’lun climb!” I’m not sure if race sensitivity has changed what is considered as offensive language from “Negro […]
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