Oy Searchers! Need help? – November 2016

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[This post is intended to help web-visitors find articles that address their search entry terms/phrases.  If we do not have a post on the exact topic, we refer the searcher to one of  the sites on our links.  The first recourse is of course the SITEMAP, click the upper-right most box above the scroll; and 2nd recourse is the UPDATED SITE CONTENTS.  We have resorted to extra aids such as this because of many difficulties our web-searchers have encountered in navigating our website. —Admin1]

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12/01/16  “jacob meet esau” –  Here’s a series of posts on the biblical twin brothers but the last on the list is what this searcher is specifically looking for:

• Journey of Faith – Yaakov/Jacob, “the heel”
• Journey of Faith: Yitchak, Isaac – lol!
• The UNchosen – Esau/Edom – A Second Look
• Genesis/Bereshith 36 – “That is Esav, the tribal-father of Edom.”
• Genesis/Bereshith 35 – “Esav and Yaakov his sons buried him.”
• Genesis/Bereshith 36 – “That is Esav, the tribal-father of Edom.”
• Genesis/Bereshith 35 – “Esav and Yaakov his sons buried him.”
• Revisit: Becoming Israel – Esau and ‘Israel’
• Genesis/Bereshith 33: “I have plenty, my brother, let what is yours remain yours. “

11/30/16  –  “i forgive all those who may have hurt or aggravated me either physically, monetarily, or emotionally, whether unknowingly or willfully, whether . . .” – This entry comes from the recommended “forgiveness prayer” for those who are struggling with unforgiveness which, as psychologists and spiritual counselors say we should let go of, not so much for the sake of the object of our anger, but for our health (mental, physical, psychological, spiritual), admittedly not an easy thing to do.   HOWEVER, let us remember that doing so does not get the offending party off the hook from doing their part to correct the wrong they have done; justice must always prevail, but how?  On a one-to-one relationship, this is an individual matter, a decision the offended party makes regardless of the behavior of the offending party who, most likely, hasn’t asked forgiveness because there is no consciousness or acceptance that an offense has been committed.

  On a national level, should it be applied?  For instance,  current events in two countries are facing the dilemma of their divided population: one side clamoring for ‘forgive and forget’ while the other side standing for ‘no forgiveness without restitution’ and ‘never again’.   The passing on of dictator Fidel Castro in Cuba coincided with the 2-decade-waiting-to-be-buried in the national heroes cemetery of Martial Law dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.  We will deal with this in a post that has long been waiting to be written.  Meanwhile, here’s the link for this searcher:

• Revisit: Why forgive/how to deal with angry relatives, former friends, enemies . . .

11/30/16   “joshua 1:8-9 images” – We have designed this quote on a scroll which hangs in the Sanctuary of the University of the Cordilleras in Baguio City, Philippines:

• Scroll: Joshua 1:8-9

11/28/16  “hearoyisrael.net’ –  Whoever entered this search term landed on this website, partly because it is no longer accessible on the net and partly because we added it as one of our links at the time it was still current.  In fact the administrator of the site, Benmara, became one of our resource persons.  We used his translation titled [HNT] His Name Tanakh that he made available in his website, for free downloads.  For a while it became our official translation of the TNK because we wanted a Hebrew translation that would print the Name and not a substitute or circumlocution like ‘HaShem” which is what ArtScroll Tanakh does.  Later however, we discovered that HNT was still a work in progress, on its 9.0 revision and that the translator did not speak nor read Hebrew and simply substituted Hebrew names, titles, words in his “translation”.  In fact HNT did much the same thing as the finished and complete bible use by Messianic Judaism, titled the Complete Jewish Bible [CJB].  Fortunately, we did find two translations which we now use, we have featured them in many posts to explain our choice:  Everett Fox’s  The Five Books of Moses and Robert Alter’s The Five Books of Moses, which share exactly the same title.  Both are working on the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures (Neviim /The Prophets and Ketuviim/The Writings) to complete their TNK.  We are looking out for these forthcoming publications as well as James D. Tabor’s The Original Bible Project or Transparent English Bible [TEB].  Rest assured we will be featuring them all in this website.

11/19/ 16  “aSabbathBlessingd” – Part of our Sabbath Liturgy is the blessing — thankfulness and gratitude for the good in life, particular people—loved ones, family, friends,  Please go to the Site Map

or UPDATED SITE CONTENTS and scroll to the category A SINAITE’S SABBATH LITURGY where you can sample a blessing for every Sabbath of the year.  Here’s a sample blessing for this 3rd Sabbath:

How could we not meet this day,

 it’s Your Time.

11/17/16  “shiloh meaning” – The searcher who entered this phrase might have landed in this website though he would not find the answer to his search.  We checked out jewfact. com and judaism101, neither bother to deal with this word.  Why?  Because it is a word only Christians make a big deal of since they connect the word to their Christian messiah, Jesus Christ.  So this searcher must have resorted to google as we all and this is what he/she would have found, indeed the Christian perspective on this word, here’s a sample list:

11/17/16  “the-only-true-god” –

• Revisit: Abrahamic Faith – 1 – Knowing God
• Revisit: The Awesome Self-Description of God
• MUST READ: God According to God, Gerald L. Schroeder
• Revisit: IN HIS NAME: YHWH – the True Name of The One True God? – 4
• GOD’S DOMAIN – The UN-KNOWABLE
• Where God is Found

11/16/16  “insightsfromthebookofesther” – 

• A Literary Approach to the book of Esther/Hadaççah
• Revisit: Insights on the book of ESTHER

11/16/16 “davarim” – This is the Hebrew title of the 5th book of Torah, known in its Greek translation as Deuteronomy.  We have a whole category under Torah featuring ALL the chapters of this last book and to save the searcher time and trouble, here’s the whole list:

Deuteronomy/Dabarim

• Deuteronomy/Davarim – Introduction

• Revisit: A Literary Approach to the book of Deuteronomy/Davarim
• Revisit: Deuteronomy/Davarim 24: Immorality defiles the land.
• Revisit: “Choose Life” . . . how?
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 28: “And it will come to pass . . . IF . . .”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 22: “There is not to be a man’s item on a woman, a man is not to clothe himself in the garment of a woman, for an abomination to YHVH your God is anyone doing these!”
• Understanding the SHEMA
• Deuteronomy/Davarim: Forgotten in the Kingdom Period
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 34: “But there arose no further prophet in Israel like Moshe, whom YHVH knew face to face”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 33: “who is like you, a people delivered by YHVH”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 32: “at-a-distance you shall see the land, but there you shall not enter”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 31: “Here, you are about to lie beside your fathers”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 30: “Rather, near to you is the word, exceedingly, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 29: “But YHVH has not given you a mind to know or eyes to see or ears to hear, until this day.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 27: First duty in the Land: build an altar to YHWH
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 26: Recognition of God is the Source of All Blessings
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 25: “you are to blot out the name of Amalek from under the heavens; you are not to forget!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 23: ‘Kindness must not be abused.’
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 21: “you are not to leave his carcass overnight on the stake, rather, you are bury him on that (very) day, for an insult to God is a hanging-person “
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 20: “When you draw-near to a town, to wage-war against it, you are to call out to it terms-of-peace.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 19: “the (accidental) murderer who flees there, that he may stay-alive”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 18: “How can we know it is the word that YHVH did not speak?”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 17: “When you enter the land that YHVH your God is giving you, and you possess it and settle in it, should you say: I will set over me a king like all the nations that are around me . . .”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 16: “You are to slaughter the Passover-offering to YHVH your God . . .in the place that YHVH chooses to have his name dwell.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 15: “However, there will not be among you any needy-person,”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 14: “3 You are not to eat any abominable-thing!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 13: “so shall you burn out the evil from your midst!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 12: “How do these foreign nations serve their gods?”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 11: “See, I place before you today a blessing or a curse:”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 10: ” And now, O Israel, what does YHVH your God ask of you. . .”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 9: “YHVH your God, he is the one who is crossing over before you, a consuming fire”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 8: “You must bear-in-mind YHVH your God, that he was the one who gave you the power to produce wealth”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 7: “YHVH your God chose for him as a treasured people from among all peoples.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 6: “Hearken O Israel: YHVH our God, YHVH (is) One!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 4:44-49/ to 5: “Not with our fathers did YHVH cut this covenant, but with us, yes, us, those here today, all of us (that are) alive!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 3:23-29/4: “Surely this great nation is a wise and comprehending people.”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 2-3,1-22: “You are not to be afraid of them, for YHVH your God, he is the one who wages-war for you!”
• Deuteronomy/Davarim 1: “These are the words that Moshe spoke to all Israel “
• Deuteronomy/Davarim – Introduction

11/11/16 “insightsonthebookofesther” – 

• A Literary Approach to the book of Esther/Hadaççah
• Revisit: Insights on the book of ESTHER

11/05/16  “glittering shabbat shalom” –  Don’t know how this web visitor remember this image, it is an unattached image still on file, but now that he/she has reminded us about it, we will use it in a Sabbath liturgy—

– http://sinai6000.net/alaska2008239/

11/02/16  “hebrew food restrictions” 

• What is “the Tree of Life”? –1
• Revisit: Biblical Diet 1
• Revisit: Leviticus/Wayyiqrah 11a – Dietary Laws
• Biblical Diet 2—UNclean Meat
• Leviticus/Wayyiqrah 17 – So, what’s with the “blood”?
• Leviticus/Wayyiqrah 11 – As a Torah-observant Jew, what would Jesus have eaten?
• Biblical Diet 3—Leviticus 11
• Biblical Diet 4a: NT Perspective: Did Jesus declare all foods clean in Mark 7:19?
• Biblical Diet 4b: NT: Matthew 15:1-20
• Biblical Diet 4c: Peter’s Vision in Acts 10:9-23

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November born?  You’re in good company, here’s a short list of famous people  born this month:  Albert Camus (20th century author), Andrew Carnegie (Businessman),  C S Lewis (English author and scholar), Charles M Schulz (US cartoonist), Claude Monet (French painter),  Condoleezza Rice (National Security Adviser, in the USA),  Mark Twain (American author),  Martin Scorsese (Director), Pope John XXIII, Winston Churchill (Wartime British Prime Minister).  Of course that’s only the ‘good company’ list,  never mind people of notoriety.  Actually,  individual character development has nothing to do with birth month, that’s the fascination of astrologers.

10 Interesting facts about November, from grablists.com:

Among the months that have 30 days in the Gregorian or Julian calendar, November is the last one. The first is the month of April, followed by June and then September. But when we will base it to ancient Roman Calendar, the month of November is the number nine.

Below are the 10 amazing and interesting things that must be known when it comes to the month of November:

#10. In the beautiful country and continent Australia, the month of November is the time that Australian men grow a mustache. On the other hand, two major countries have November as the month to celebrate for No Shave Month and National Beard Month. These two major countries are Canada and the United States.

#9. When it comes to birthstones, there are two of them for the month of November. These are the Topaz and the Citrine. Topaz is a precious stone that symbolizes friendship. This is why a lot of people who are born in this month are extremely friendly. This stone actually has several colors available. However, the exact color for November is the orange-yellow one. On the other hand, Citrine is simply a quartz crystal. Its color ranges from yellow to orange.

#8. November 29, 1929 was the exact date when several people firstly discover the things in the South Pole. It is because it was the day when Commander Richard E. Bryd and three of his companies flew out on that destination.

#7. This month is a very significant day for a world renowned American Author that published very excellent writings. This particular famous American Author was none other than Mark Twain. He was exactly born on November 30, 1835. Another famous author was also born in this month. This was the author of the best-selling book titled Gulliver’s Travel. He was none other than Jonathan Swift.

#6. Another famous person was born in the month of October. He was a painter who was French in nationality. November 24, 1864 was the exact date when he was born. This famous painter was none other than Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

#5. People who are born in this month has two possible zodiac signs. These are the Sagittarius and the Scorpio. Scorpio is for those who were born on November 1 up to November 21. Sagittarius is for those who were born on November 22 up to November 30.

#4. The month of November is also a very historical one. Have you remembered the Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln? Well, it was on November 1863 when he delivered it.

#3. In the beautiful country of Finland, November is also a month that has full of meaning. In this country, people called November as “marraskuu”. “Month of the dead” is the exact meaning of this word.

#2. Push button phone was firstly introduced in the month of November. This kind of phone was invented by Bell Telephone Company. November 18, 1963 was the exact invention date of this phone.

#1. November is also a significant month for New York. It is because this was the time when the Erie Canal was opened formally. This happened on November 4, 1825.