[This was first posted in 2012, reposted every year thereafter. We’re approaching another Halloween trick or treat fright night when not only children but grownups party in ‘spook-tacular’ costumes. Live and let live, we now say, since we discovered there is no devil, no demonic spirits, no ghosts to feel threatened by dressing up as […]
Read more[An oversight, this chapter was not previously posted when we started the series on Torah books in 2014; we just discovered it was missing at this time while working on the current series of 2017 THE TORAH: Chapter by Chapter. So, all there is here is plain text from our official translation, Everett Fox—no commentary […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. In our country, almost a week before November 1 which is the designated day for “All Saints” followed by “All Souls”, cemeteries “come alive” so to speak. A huge part of our cultural tradition is the converging of the living in graveyards to clean and spruce up the burial […]
Read more[The author of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, known as “Koheles (Koheleth), son of David, king in Jerusalem” — presumed to be the wise Solomon — writes about the reality as well as the enigma of life on earth: “Everything has its season, and there is a time for everything under the heaven: A time to […]
Read moreTell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin Let your home be a meeting place for sages. – Pirkei Avot 1:4 Ask a question and you’re a fool for three minutes – don’t ask a question and you’re a fool all […]
Read more[This was first posted October 2012, reposted a few more times whenever another act of terror by someone claiming to hear voices in his head is what compelled him to commit mass murder. Lately, international media have been busy covering such horrific acts by lone perpetrators against untold numbers of innocent victims. Is this the new […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012, it is now 2017. The relevance? The Great Divide. What was the Sinaite position 5 years ago has not changed, despite continuing efforts of our Christian colleagues to convince us to change course, back to our roots: Christianity. To the credit of some of them, they continue to be […]
Read moreWhy feature yet another translation of the Torah? Are we not content with our translation of choice, Everett Fox’s THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES? As we have previously announced, once we are able to secure a copy of THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES by Robert Alter (RA), we will feature it as well, to […]
Read more[First posted February 18, 2014, when we decided on another translation of the TORAH as S6K’s choice.—Admin1] Welcome to Sinai 6000, Everett Fox [EF]! Good news for all: EF’s translation is downloadable for free as PDF; please go to this link: THE SCHOCKEN BIBLE toby.weebly.com/uploads/2/7/4/8/2748917/everett_foxxstorah.pdf I’ve had EF’s translation of THE FIVE […]
Read more[Our former Bible teacher (identified in many posts as “RW”, particularly in the DISCOURSE category), has recently restored us on his “send” list. Usually his missives are exclusive for his flock among the congregations of Messianic Judaism, (i.e. ‘Christian Theology in Jewish Dress’) that he ‘planted’ all over the Asia Pacific region. This is only a short […]
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