[This was first posted in 2012. Reposting on the celebration of Shavuot which falls this year on June 9-10,—Admin1]. ——————– On Shabbat way back in May 26, [2012]. we devoted our Torah Study time to SHAVUOS ROADMAP, issued by Torah Mates: Exploring Judaism Together. If Jews today identify with the Israelites of that […]
Read more[First posted in 2014; part of the series whose title went through 3 changes: “the Outsiders”, then “the Other”, and finally “the UNchosen.”— ‘who they’? Non-Israelites, Gentiles, just like us Sinaites, who were not “chosen” but who chose and embraced the God of Israel and joined the “mixed multitude” who left symbolic “Egypt” the […]
Read more[This is part of our series on THE OTHER, i.e. the UNchosen or anyone who is not in the line of the CHOSEN, the line of Jacob/Israel. Related posts: The UNchosen – Esau/Edom – A Second Look The UNchosen — “Call me Ishmael” The UNchosen – My servant Caleb – a different spirit We Sinaites […]
Read moreWhat would you have expected to read in this post if the title grabbed you enough to check it out? Would you have expected that this would be about the Revelator-God on Sinai, the God of Israel, the God of all nations? Well, in an indirect way, this is about Him, YHWH and what […]
Read more[First posted in 2014, part of our series of commentaries on Torah, specifically the book of Exodus. When we were Christians, we were taught that Christians are under “grace, not “law” because of what the Christian Savior — God Himself as Son-Man, Jesus the Christ — had accomplished on earth. What accomplishment is that? Obeying […]
Read more[This is part of our series on THE OTHER, i.e. the UNchosen or anyone who is not in the line of the CHOSEN, the line of Jacob/Israel. Related posts: The UNchosen – Esau/Edom – A Second Look The UNchosen — “Call me Ishmael” The UNchosen – My servant Caleb – a different spirit We Sinaites […]
Read more[First posted April 15, 2014. It is never too late to learn ‘new’ truths which are really ‘old’ if we had just understood them with fresh eyes and clear minds instead of reading with religious baggage bogging down the progress of understanding and learning. This is from one of our favorite resources: Synagogue Without Walls. It is listed on […]
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[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[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 […]
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