[This was first posted May 24,2012. Updated for this repost. —Admin1.] “Inconvenience” is defined by the dictionary as “trouble or difficulty caused to one’s personal requirements or comfort” and, may we add, difficulty caused to one’s desire to do as he wishes. God’s Truth is inconvenient to the man who would rather ignore […]
Read more[This was first posted May 28, 2012. Recently Sinaites had a discussion about details of this narrative and none of us could remember exactly how old Noah was before and after the flood, how many years did it take him to build the ark . . . we don’t blame our forgetfulness on so-called ‘senior […]
Read more[And so the Discourse between Sinaite “VAN” and “CP” long time friend and Head of a very successful metropolitan church continue. Their spouses, partners in life and in ministry, are included since they all worked together under the umbrella of Christianity. Until we have their permission to reveal their identity, for now we use ‘aliases’. […]
Read more[This is the continuation of JOURNEY: “Truth set me free!” —contributed by a former Christian pastor who writes for his flock and sends us texts of his teaching.—Admin1] ————————– My Spiritual Journey — Part 2 — Is Blood Necessary? Because my spiritual journey has led me to question the most fundamental tenets of the […]
Read more[First posted July 3, 2012. This concludes Chapter 5, “THE WAY” of the book we have been featuring in this series: James Tabor, Restoring Abrahamic Faith. We consider this book a “wake-up call” not only for ourselves but our Christian colleagues with whom we attempted to share its contents. Our former messianic teacher called […]
Read more[First posted July 3,2012. More on James Tabor’s Restoring Abrahamic Faith, Chapter 5: THE WAY, concluding section; edited and reformatted for website reading.] ——————- Jewish tradition tells us that the entire TORAH, or Five Books of Moses, contains 613 Commandments (mitzvot). At least two-thirds of these deal with—- matters of the […]
Read more[This was first posted October 25, 2014. These are introductions to the first book comprising the TORAH. They are from two of our MUST READ/MUST HAVE resources: one is from our translation of choice — Everett Fox (EF), The Five Books of Moses while the second is from Robert Alter (RA) who has also done his […]
Read more[If the the name of the first month January came from Janus, god of beginnings, this second month February comes from Februa, the feast of purification. For the source of the name of months in our calendar year, here’s a link: http://www.calendar-origins.com/calendar-name-origins.html. You’ll also learn about the origins of the names of the week and other trivia […]
Read more[This was first posted ay 8, 2013; an essay from A Modern Treasury of Jewish Thoughts: An Inspiring Collection of Writings in Jewish Deed, Doctrine, and Destiny, edited by Sidney Greenberg, Introduction by Charles Angoff. The book is one of four donated to our S6K resources by Dr. Tiglao. a collector of rare books that he finds […]
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