[First posted in 2014. Here is the original Introduction: The translation used here is a composite of various translations, though the main text is from The Complete Tanach by Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg, courtesy of Chabad.org. For the Book of Iyov/Job specifically, we choose to use “sons of God” instead of ‘”angels” or the Hebrew ‘malakim’, […]
Read moreKINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS [Original Tune: “Praise the Name of Jesus”/Revised Lyrics] Light one Sabbath candle as His blazing sun sets, darkness fills all the spaces, not in the minds where His True Light dwells, Let His Tree of Life be your Light. Light two Sabbath candles, Brighten up the darkness, One is good, two is much […]
Read more[First posted in 2012, reposted 2017, time for another repost. The original title was: “Who is the Shepherd in Tanach?”and then was changed to “Who is your Shepherd?” Does the current title reflect what this post is about? We have updated the message —please read the Postscript for the update. —Admin1.] ———————————- […]
Read moreKINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS Blessed are You, YHWH, Creator God, whose very first words recorded in Scripture were: “let there be light”, Whose LIGHT illuminated empty space before there ever was a created sun; Who designed heavenly luminaries for visual delight as well as for guidance. In Your theophanies as recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures, […]
Read more[First posted on April 28, 2012 when we had just started this website; at the time I did not know the source of the prayer and left a message at the end for readers to inform us if they knew; we never got a response. However, in a library book sale in Burlington CA, […]
Read more[First posted 2012. The occasion for the revisit in 2017 was this: Sinaites BAN & NSB attended a seminar held in Manila Stock Exchange on February 8, 2017. The guest lecturer? Rabbi Tovia Singer, who is based in Indonesia. Most of those who attended were former Christians/Messianics who ventured out of their religious roots, […]
Read more[Have you ever wondered if the tablets on which YHWH wrote His Ten Declarations REALLY looked like the arch-top/flat bottom tablets used in most depictions? The Rabbis present all kinds of possibilities, from the plausible to the fantastic. What is your imagination of the first as well as the second set of […]
Read more[First posted in 2013, reposted on the occasion of the commanded Leviticus 23 feast of Shavuot 2017, the anniversary of the giving of the Decalogue. Never need a reason to repost yet another reminder. We’ve chosen “declarations” in our title in place of “commandments” which is the Jewish preference. The reason for not using “commandments” […]
Read more[First posted in 2014. This is an introduction to another introduction—- there are two articles here, Who am I? and Who am I – 2. This is a 6th repost; why? Read through, it’s self-explanatory. Original Introduction: This is being revisited because of a recent development: one of our Sinaites had a life-threatening situation […]
Read more[First posted June 20, 2015.—Admin1] ————————- What comes to mind when you read the three images in the title of this post? If you’re biblically-oriented: the walking-talking serpent in the garden of Eden, one of the 3 categories of trees in Eden, and the “I” in Eden. What? There was an “I” in […]
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