Hoy Searchers, need help? – May 2017

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05/31/17 “their open their mouth place the wafer on your tongue biblical” – hmmm, I had to read this a few times before I figured out what the searcher is saying. It seems to relate to communion rites as practiced by Catholics and other Christian churches/sects that use the round flat wafers. The searcher wants to know if this practice is “biblical”. We have no post that addresses this so we’ll just give the answer here. No, communion is not biblical although it is taught that the practice is rooted in the “last supper” which Jesus supposedly celebrated with his 12 apostles, before his betrayal by Judas. Our messianic teacher would correct that statement by connecting that supper with the Jewish Passover Seder and connect the symbolism of the food items (bitter herbs, hardboiled egg, salt, lamb shank, etc.) not so much to Israel’s liberation from Egyptian bondage but to liberation from spiritual bondage of believers in the Christian Savior. More to this than we can say here, this being the last entry for the month of May. So, searchers, see you in the June post!

05/22/17 “http://thejewishhome.org/counter/Psa2.pdf” – This is a back-up research featured in the post

Revisit: Psalm 2:12 “Kiss the Son” vs. “Yearn for purity . . .serve the Lord YHWH with fear”. If you haven’t noticed yet, when searchers click a post buried in our over-1000 list of published articles, we check out if our position expressed way back when is still relevant to our position today. ALL of the time, it still is, we have not changed our mind . . . except occasionally, we add even more arguments or ‘text-proofs

(not ‘prooftexts’) to bolster a point of contention.

05/20/17 “torah”

Sinaite Notes on The TORAH – 1

05/15/17 -“isaiah 66:23” – Isaiah and Israel’s major and minor prophets all prophesy a time when the nations, including errant Israel, will recognize the God of Israel as the One True God, and that all people will worship Him. We don’t have a post on this specific verse as yet, so for now we will just quote some of Israel’s prophets from ArtScroll Stone Edition of TANACH. This Jewish Bible does not print the Tetragrammaton and instead, uses the circumlocution “HaSHEM”. We believe in proclaiming the NAME for, how else will it be known? So it is inserted wherever “HaSHEM” is mentioned.

Isaiah 66:23

“It shall be that at every New Moon and on every Sabbath all mankind will come to prostrate themselves before Me, says HaSHEM [YHWH].”

Malachi 1:11

For from the rising of the sun to its setting, My Name is great among the nations, and in every place [where offerings’ are presented to My Name], and also pure meal offerings; for My Name is great among the nations, says HaSHEM [YHWH], Master of Legions.

Zechariah 14: 9,16

HaSHEM [YHWH] will be the King over all the land; on that day HaSHEM will be One and His Name will be One.

It shall be that all who are left over from all the nations who had invaded Jerusalem will come up every year to worship the King HaSHEM [YHWH], Master of Legions, and to celebrate the festival of Succos.

Habakkuk 2:14, 19

For the earth will be filled with knowledge of HaSHEM’s [YHWH] glory.

But HaSHEM is in His holy Sanctuary; let all the world be silent before him.

Zephaniah 3:9

For then I will change the nations [to speak] a pure language, so that they all will proclaim the Name of HaSHEM [YHWH], to worship Him with a united resolve.

Micah 4:1-2

It will be in the end of days that the mountain of the Temple of HaSHEM [YHWH] will be firmly established as the most prominent of the mountains, and it will be exalted up above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. Many nations will go and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the Mountain of HaSHEM [YHWH] and to the Temple of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us of His ways and we will walk in His paths.’ For from Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the word of HaSHEM [YHWH] from Jerusalem.

05/15/17 “everett fox five books of moses pdf” – The translation of Everett Fox is our official translation in this website, supplemented by Robert Alter’s version with the same title.

05/11/17 –hearoyisrael.net – search terms entered for this specific website lands on our website for understandable reasons; we featured its contents as well as its administrator quite extensively in 2013. It appears the website is no longer active and the searcher(s) somehow find their way here. Hopefully, they find answers to their specific search as well; the place to start is the Site Map. In connection with this, reproduced below is our answer to the same entries in April:

04/14/17 “benmara of hearoyisrael.net” – 2nd search entry, this time including the pseudonym of the owner/administrator of the website; please refer to the first entry below:

04/14/17 “hearoyisrael.net” – We are not surprised that this search term landed on our website. We hosted the administrator/owner of the website hearoyisrael.net circa 2013, for about 6 months; he went by the pseudonym “Benmara” (Hebrew for “son of bitterness”); a unique individual in many ways, definitely one of a kind. We featured his teaching as well as the unfinished bible translation he was working on which he titled “His Name Tanakh”. That translation was what made us link up with him, we were looking for a version that used the Name YHWH. None of the Jewish bibles would use it; The Artscroll TANAKH used “HaShem” (The Name) instead of the Tetragrammaton while the JPS (Jewish Publication Society) used the same term used in the Christian Old Testament, “LORD”. In fact, as unfinished as the version was, we made bookform printouts and added it to the Sinai 6000 library, so we still have copies of it. What made the version interesting to us at the time was the substitution of Hebrew names, titles, words in the text, similar to the Messianic Jewish Bible except the latter was really a Christian Bible in Jewish Dress”. It appears Benmara was not able to continue maintaining his website after 2013, actually and admittedly a good resource for non-Rabbinical and non-Christian interpretation of the Tanakh, from a different perspective of a self-taught and original Scripture-interpreter . We have some posts that still mention him and his work. We believe that as soon as he finds a patron who will support his website, both he and his website will be back on the world-wide-web.

05/06/17 – “SabbathSchool” – We do not have a post about a “sabbath school” but we do have articles about the Sabbath and of course, the Sinaite’s Liturgy for every Sabbath of the year. Please go to Site Map

and scroll down to the category A Sinaite’s Sabbath Liturgy.

As for posts on the Sabbath, reading these are virtually like attending “sabbath school”:

05/06/17 “the sermon on mount sinai” – There was no sermon on Mount Sinai even if our title used that word; what happened on Sinai was Revelation from the Creator, God of the Universe, Who made a covenant with a people/nation He formed through the lineage of Abraham-Isaac-Jacob. This post explains the difference: Revisit: The Sermon on Sinai vs. The Sermon on the Mount

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Nobody notices and no one could care less, about what? The title of this post has undergone a few edits and we’ve made yet another, this time, to reflect our language/dialect’s word to call attention: “Hoy”, a typical Tagalog word, particularly when you can’t remember or don’t know someone’s name; convenient fall-back meaningless word just like “kwan” (another Tagalog word for anything you can’t remember). So from “Oy searchers”, it’s now “Hoy searchers!” and perhaps we should say, “need help about kwan?”

That trivia out of the way, have you checked out Site Map, which has over 1000 articles posted under specific categories? If you don’t find what you need under the titles, enter a search term which will be immediately addressed in this post.

While we’re waiting for search entries, here are articles that give you an idea of what to expect in this website:

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Welcome, dear visitor to Sinai 6000! If you have not found the information you’re seeking on our SITEMAP, this post is intended to help searchers who are not familiar with our format; we check search term entries daily and whether or not our web visitor found articles that address their query, we post all existing articles that might help. This way, others who check out this post learn more information they might not have been aware of nor were seeking to know about. This search aid used to be fuller and busier in the past; but of late, less and less search terms end up on our website. Still, we continue it sometimes as a way of blogging current developments or new insights we have not touched on in our long formal articles.

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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