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07/15/17 – Sinai 6000 is grateful to WORDPRESS which has been our internet ‘host’; they sent us an anniversary greeting:
07/15/17 – “image of torah” – The illustrative images we use in this website are available in the worldwide-web, so if the searcher landed here (among other sites), it is because we have used many images for the Torah of YHWH, not only in our Sabbath Liturgy but for specific articles focusing or citing the Torah. We always include the original source of the image, giving credit where due. Our visitors are welcome to copy-paste those images as long as the original source is included, again, giving due credit is ‘Torah’.
07/14/17 – “the literary meaning of tob that jephthah flee to” [sic] – The Bible as “Literature” – 3 – Jephthah as “literary art”
07/10/17 “sacrifice in temple judaism”
- Revisit: Additional Notes to Leviticus/Wayyiqrah – 3/Understanding the Sacrificial Cult
- The Sacrificial System in the TORAH
- Revisit: TORAH 101: What were the animal sacrifices all about? – Jewish Perspective
- Revisit: Leviticus/Wayyiqrah 16 – What? They cast lots for a sacrificial goat and a scapegoat, wasn’t ‘Blood Atonement’ all about a “Sacrificial Lamb”?
- Leviticus/Wayyiqrah 17 – So, what’s with the “blood”?
- Revisit: Sacrificial goat, Scapegoat . . . what about the Lamb? Not on Yom Kippur.
07/09/17 – Some clicks by visitors are images we use; here are recents:
- All_thy_children_shall_be_taught
- 74deca34e675298b0fb8d95672d19929
- lightofisrael.typepad.com/home/about-mordecai-alfandari.html
07/08/17 – “noahide-ancient-path.co.uk” – Here’s a post that mentions the Noachide movement:
07/04/17 – We wish USA a joyful and peaceful celebration of their INDEPENDENCE DAY. Some Sinaites are “dual citizens” with family based there. FYI: July 4 is now observed as US-RP Friendship Day, though it used to be RP’s Independence Day as well until that observance was moved to the more appropriate date June 12.
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A bit of Trivia: “God bless America!” is a beautiful hymn composed by the Jewish-American Irving Berlin, and guess what else?
“Heaven Watch The Philippines”
Irving Berlin song dedicated to Gen. Douglas C. MacArthur
Legendary American composer Irving Berlin wrote a song in 1945 dedicated to Gen. Douglas C. MacArthur in commemoration of his liberation of the Philippines. The song is Heaven Watch The Philippines, the notes and lyrics of which are reproduced in this column.
The music sheet is illustrated by boy scouts while camping, drawn by no less than Fernando Amorsolo, later (in the ‘70s) named National Artist for Painting. The Boys Scouts of the Philippines owns the local copyright to the song.
The lyrics of the song:
Heaven watch the Philippines.
Keep her safe from harm.
Guard her sons and their precious ones
In the city and on the farm.
Friendly with America.
Let her always be.
Heaven watch the Philippines.
And keep her forever free. —RKC
Source: http://www.philstar.com/entertainment/565015/heaven-watch-philippines-irving-berlin-song-dedicated-gen-douglas-c-macarthur
Anybody interested in the original manuscript with Berlins’ signature: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IRVING-BERLIN-AUTOGRAPH-MANUSCRIPT-HEAVEN-WATCH-THE-PHILIPPINES-/330356844557
07/03/17 – Scrolling down Google’s Cluster Maps daily registry of visitors to this website is heartening to us, Sinaites, who can barely convince one more soul, whether family, friend or foe, to give us a hearing. There are people all over the world checking out what this website has to offer and in fact, some from our own country, specifically from Mariveles, RP seem to be downloading articles nonstop, day after day. We sure would like to hear from them and from anybody who cares to drop us a line! Please connect with us at: sinai6000@gmail.com.
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07/01/17 – From the trend we’ve observed this year 2017, less and less search terms land on this website. Whether that is good or not, and what it means, we don’t know. All we care about is that our web visitors find the articles that address their queries and topics of interest. We will continue this ‘search aid’ even if it turns out to be a blog and a way of updating, communicating with our web visitors, those one-time drop-ins as well as frequently-returning ones.
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And while we’re waiting, here’s to the month of 7th month, July, a birthday month for two of our Sinaites (a septagenarian and an octogenarian);
we wish them —
♥many more birthdays to celebrate on earth;
♥ more time to serve our awesome God YAHUWAH;
♥more opportunities to declare His Name to ardent Truth-seekers who cross their paths, as divinely arranged.
Speaking of birthdays, here’s a poser:
Should we celebrate birthdays of the deceased?
Isn’t a birthday an annual count-up to years measuring length of life on earth?
We normally post in personal profiles of those no longer living: beginning and end, date of birth and death. Once gone, there are no more birthdays to celebrate and in fact, the final glimpse of the deceased is what is etched in our memory, they don’t age anymore, their physical image is frozen at the time of their death.
Birthday celebrations of the dearly departed abound in different cultures. The common thread that runs through them is the sense of sentimental connection of the living with their dead; the ardent wish that the memory of the person would continue through generations and so understandably, celebrations even in the absence of the honoree serve that purpose.
It is so with national heroes who are honored on both their birth and death anniversaries. It is much the same with persons of significance to particular groups — founders of establishments, club leaders, pioneers of movements, etc. Noticeably, it is more understandable that the death anniversary is the date celebrated, for the individual has not accomplished anything at birth but would have a profile to speak of, whether good or bad, at the end of life. So why celebrate a dead person’s birthday? Well, why not?
While attending the death anniversary of a VIP who was given the title of “Chairman for Life” because he contributed much to the growth and expansion of a country club, the celebration included a worship service where prayers for the deceased constantly focused on “the repose of the soul of the dearly departed” and that “eternal rest be granted unto him”. Catholics believe in a place called ‘purgatory’ where the living can pray them out of that spiritual halfway house, until they’re purified enough to merit entry to heaven.
Hell is a permanent destination in the Christian belief system for the evil and unsaved, so no amount of praying can get a condemned soul out of that place of “eternal fire” where no soul ever gets burned up! There is no prayer wasted for those in hell; and actually no ‘prayor’ presumes the deceased is in hell or, for that matter, in heaven, so the ‘safe’ presumption is that the soul is ‘on the way’ to eternal bliss regardless of how many birthdays on earth he/she has already missed celebrating. As to the title “Chairman for Life”, chew on that for now.
Is such thinking biblical? Perhaps the question should be: What does the Revelator on Sinai say in the Torah about ‘life after death’?
Here’s a post that clarifies the Sinaite’s position:
Q: What is the Sinaite view on what happens to us after we die?