THE TORAH – GENESIS/Chapter by Chapter

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[Every new day is

a good time

for starting anew. Every new day, one could consciously decide to return to foundational truth,

the basics in bible study . . .

so here’s the Book of Beginnings,

the first of the Five Books of Moses,

known as the TORAH,

Instructions for Living,

Guidelines for Life,

conveniently listed for the serious student,

a product of Sinaites’ final reorientation

to the Sinai Revelation.

—Admin1]

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GENESIS/BERESHITH

SINAI 6000 COMMENTARY

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.

THE TORAH – GENESIS/Chapter by Chapter

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