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08/31/17 “photo table de shabbat” – One of our Shabbat dinners at the home of BAN&VAN features this photo of our dinner fare:
08/25/17 “does hashem answer the prayers of gentiles” –Revisit: Q&A: “How does a gentile pray to Hashem?”
08/17/17 – “creation-day-4” –
08/09/17 – “l’chaim?” – Q: What does “L’chaim” mean?
08/08/17 – hearoysrael.net – This link used to be among our featured websites, ca. 2013-2014; the owner/administrator who went by the pseudonym “Benmara” (in his own words, “son of bitterness”) featured a translation of the Torah which is similar to the Messianic Jewish Bible (MJB), an adopted English translation where names/titles/selected words were changed into the original Hebrew terms. The website also had teachings according to the interpretations of Benmara. It appears the website was discontinued sometime in 2015 and has not been restored.
08/03/17 – “what does uncircumcised lips mean in the bible” –
08/02/17 – “the five books of moses everett fox pdf” – Two excellent English translations of the Hebrew Bible are featured in this website, both titled The Five Books of Moses. Everett Fox is our first choice because he uses a poetic format and the Tetragrammaton Name “YHWH”. Our ‘alter’-native choice (in prose) is Robert Alter. Both translations supplemented by Jewish translations give us a better grasp of the original text in Hebrew. Here are a few links to Everett Fox and Robert Alter:
- MUST READ/MUST HAVE: The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox – 3
- MUST READ/MUST OWN: The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox – 2
- Revisit: MUST OWN: The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox – 1
- Introduction to The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter – 2
- MUST OWN: Robert Alter – The Five Books of Moses
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The month of August would indeed be welcome if it weren’t for the problems it brings our way. The climate on our side of the globe normally undergoes the expected this time of the year: rainy weather, howling winds, we’re into typhoon season. We don’t have the 4 seasons in these tropics, simply “wet” and “dry”. And as it happens in our third world country where the internet service is widely acknowledged to be the slowwwwwwwest, service conks out during inclement weather because power goes out; as a result, access to our website is affected.
Weather reports about other parts of the world which are undergoing summer are suffering from unusual heat waves. We shouldn’t complain! This is our excuse for now for hardly being able to upload new posts or even reformat old ones. Please bear with us!