[A ‘musical Sabbath’ — as we have often explained, our hymn background comes from our former Christian worship tradition; we have committed to memory music and lyrics. However, our beliefs are no longer in sync with the lyrics so we have taken the liberty of revising them, but still adapting their music. For those familiar with […]
Read more{First posted in 2012; ever relevant to both long-time bible-students and those about to venture into reading the book that is purported to be “the very words of God”. —Admin1] ————– First let’s get one thing straight: when we say “bible,” what exactly do we mean? Casual use of the word refers to […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012. The original title was: Where in what bible is His Word? For this post, we have retitled it “Where in What Bible is Whose Word?” This, we feel, well reflects any book that claims to be “the very words of God” and therefore, it is no wonder that the […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. The source is one of the most valuable on our list of Resources, virtually a study bible which we have featured almost from page to page; not only a MUST READ but a MUST OWN for any serious student of the TORAH: Pentateuch & Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J. H. Hertz, published […]
Read more[First posted June 10,2012.—Admin1]. The originators of the Christian Bible who decided to append the Hebrew Scriptures to the canon of the New Testament did not only tack it as a prequel but transformed it in subtle ways, then renamed it the “Old Testament.” Understandably so. Had they left it as it originally was, it […]
Read moreMany of the lives of Jesus that have appeared in recent years have tried to pin him down with a single epithet. Can he be understood as— a hasid, a Jewish holy man, or a prophet, “a magic man,” a miracle worker, a teacher, a “marginal Jew,” a peasant leader, even a revolutionary? Each has had […]
Read more[This entire explication is from Torah for Dummies by Arthur Kurzweil (http://www.dummies.com) As explained in the previous article, Sinaites do not consider the Oral Torah as part of God’s revelation; however, as this write up will explain, it provides some valuable information in understanding the Written Torah. We consider the Oral Torah as “Jewish” […]
Read more[Continuing Chapter 8: Jesus from Charles Freeman’s The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason; this book is downloadable from amazon.com on the kindle app. Reformatting and highlights ours.–—Admin 1] ————————- Jesus came to prominence only in the last years of his life, and the story essentially begins […]
Read more[Introduction to Part I: THE GENIUS OF JUDAISM, by Bernard-Henri Levy. This book was lent to me by the president of the Jewish Club in my city of residence. I recognized the author from his photo on the inside cover flap as someone I had just recently watched being interviewed on CNN, possibly about this recent […]
Read more[In 2010 at the start of our Sinaite’s spiritual pilgrimage to biblical Mt. Sinai, i.e., the Revelation of YHWH, we encountered a lot of opposition and criticism from our Christian colleagues, understandably. This article —first posted in 2012, was in answer to the exact words in the title. We add this to our current series explaining […]
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