Oy Searchers, need help? – December 2017

12/18/17 – artscroll.com – Why this searcher landed on our website while looking for “artscroll” is because we have featured their website and the Artscroll TANACH as one of our MUST READ/MUST OWN books. Aside from our preferred official translations of ‘The Five Books of Moses’ by Everett Fox and Robert Alter, we feature Artscroll for the whole TNK, not just the Torah.

12/17/17 – “hearoyisrael.net“ – We featured this website in 2013-2014; it has been showing up in “search terms” since and landing on our website. It appears the website has been discontinued; we have had no connection since 2014 with the owner/administrator who went by the pseudonym “Benmara” in his website.

12/17/17 “Why nine candles on that menorah?” – A non-believer friend of Sinaites posed this question when he received a photo of our hannukiah (9-stem menorah) with 5 candles on day 5 moving toward the 8 days when Hanukkah is celebrated by Jewry.

Here’s a link for those who have the same Q in mind:

Another friend, the president of the Jewish Club in our city reacted with this:

“beautiful . . . now put star of David on top of x-mas

and become instant Hanukkah bush”.

12/16/17 “http://theologicalmisc.net/2015/10/love-for-enemies-in-the-old-testament/” – Check this out to correct misconceptions about Jesus sermon on the mount. We have a post that tackles the same topic: Revisit: The Sermon on Sinai vs. The Sermon on the Mount

12/16/17 – “noahide sabbath liturgy” – We’re not “noahides”, we’re “Sinaites” and what we offer in this website is a whole Category of Sabbath liturgies for every Sabbath of the year. Please go to Site Map , scroll down the to where you will find the CATEGORY titled A Sinaite’s Sabbath Liturgy.

Hereunder are our liturgy for Sabbaths in December:

12/10/17 – “jewish mystique” –

MUST READ/MUST OWN – The Jewish Mystique – Ernest van den Haag

MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest van den Haag – Preface & Epilogue

12/07/17 – Searcher landed in this website while looking for this, check it out to learn a lot about things Jewish: zunal.com/newpage.php?w=166419&n=16025

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Ah December! The month Christianity celebrates as a joyous season for the coming of its Messiah. Today, the rest of the non-Christian world simply celebrate the ending of another year through family reunions, gift-giving, decorating public and private spaces, overeating and getting drunk! To the Jews (and Sinaites follow their tradition), it is the season to celebrate the “festival of Lights” — Hanukkah/Chanukkah. To each his/her own, live and let live, let’s all just celebrate December! Here are posts to check out for the “wonderers”:

Source: Exodus/Shemoth 24 – "the sight of the Glory of YHVH (was) like a consuming fire" -- We gentiles living in this 21st century are able to experience that climactic moment [God appearing on Sinai] by reading and studying this portion of the TORAH. Indeed, we see YHWH not quite as dramatically as the mixed multitude did, but perhaps even better through these accounts recorded in Exodus. There is a saying that hindsight is 20/20 vision, i.e., we begin to see and understand the question marks in our past only later in our lives, as we mature and hopefully become wiser and more introspective about the meaning or seeming meaninglessness of happenings in history, whether personal, national, or universal. Søren Kierkegaard adds a twist to this: “Only 20:20 vision is hindsight. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” As we endeavor to understand each portion in the TORAH of YHWH, much of it will seem irrelevant to our current situation but if we see beyond the time-bound cultural and religious situations and begin to understand what truly has not change—human nature and the Great Revelator who designed the perfect blueprint for living in peace, happily and contentedly with family, community, country and the nations, the unquestionable conclusion is: TORAH is relevant to ALL humankind, not just to Israel, to this very day.

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