[After typing this whole article, I wondered if any visitor would bother reading . . . and if so, if he would persist reading to the end or give up after wondering about critical scholarship’s various theories debated herein. Admittedly, reading this is like attending a lecture on a topic you are totally […]
Read more[This is another lonnnggggg read but worth the time you spend on it; please read slowly and absorb not only the scriptural text but the valuable commentary by the Rabbis and Torah scholars. If it took time and patience for me to painstakingly type every word and punctation mark from the vast commentary of one […]
Read more[An Elohiym Who fights for His people . . . what a God! In reading about religions of the world, believers/worshippers of specific gods do not have this much assurance since their beliefs are based on man-made speculations on what their god is like. They probably never hear from that god, except in their […]
Read more[You will notice that in these posts, there is a discrepancy between the wording of the translation we use, EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses, and the translation used in the commentary Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. H.W.Hertz. It is not difficult to make the connection, the message is much the same. Also, while the commentators […]
Read more[Finally we reach the last book of the TORAH. Like Israel, we gentile readers/students of the “T” in the TNK have made our own pilgrimage from the account of Bereshiyth— the beginning of the created world, through the formation of the nation of Israel and its pre-Land history in Shemoth/Wai-qrah/Bemidbar. Hopefully in paying attention […]
Read more[In the broadway musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, one of the 3 daughters of Tevye falls in love with a Russian soldier and that poses a problem for this Jewish family. The disapproval of intermarriage of an Israelite with a non-Israelite is understandable in light of preservation of the covenant people, their cultural and religious […]
Read more[Inheritance—unworked for ownership of any asset, sometimes undeserved—is undoubtedly a blessing. Land occupied by another people, someone else’s territory such as the land of the Canaanites—promised to the patriarchs of a nation of slaves, landless, with no territorial claim to any property on earth except by Divine promise—this is the land that is surrounded […]
Read more[Imagine yourself among the 2nd generation of Israelites: you were born in the wilderness, you were born free unlike your slave-parents who have already died, never catching a glimpse of the Land, much like all their contemporaries except for Mosheh who sees the Land from a distance before he dies, and except for Yahushuwah […]
Read more[Let’s be honest. How many readers of the Hebrew Scriptures REALLY bother to look at and study the geography described in the journey of Israel and final conquest of the Land? Unless one has a STUDY BIBLE where the designers have taken pains to include maps and illustrations, does the average reader do the research […]
Read more[War waged by Israel against their enemy upon orders of their God is one of the issues raised by agnostics/atheists as to why they refuse to believe in the God of the Old Testament. It is likewise used by Christians as an argument for their NT version of God, who is full of grace and […]
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