[First posted in 2013. This is from: The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Reformatting and highlights added.–Admin1.] —————— The Canon Frank Kermode This chapter offers some explanation of the processes by which the Bible came to include the books it does—insofar as that can be done […]
Read moreKindle the Sabbath Lights LORD YHWH, Your glorious sun has set, its light and heat has faded from our vision and our horizon. And yet, just like You Yourself, O YHWH, Light of our lives, Who is ever present in our lives, we know your sun continues to light other parts of our world, even […]
Read moreKINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS O Creator of all existence, of all things visible and invisible to our naked eye, the Eternal, YHWH, God of Israel and the nations! We welcome Your Presence once again to our celebration of this holy and blessed day, unique and set apart by You Yourself, when You […]
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Read more07/21/18 – So, 3 weeks after the first entry on July 1st, there was not a single “search term” entry which tells us that there is no need for a post like this unless we turn it into a blog. One item we would like to take up though — a website we discovered in […]
Read more[Every other Sabbath, we sing our Liturgy; we have no original music of or own; our roots are Christian and we are familiar with their hymnody, so we borrow their music. When the lyrics reflect our belief system, we leave them as originally written; otherwise, we make minor revisions, if not do a total rewrite, […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012, reposted every year on the occasion of Father’s Day.—Admin1] ——————————- Since we did an article in May on the track record of mothers in the bible on the occasion of ‘Mother’s Day” [The hand that rocks the cradle . . .], on the occasion of ‘Father’s Day” […]
Read more[First posted in 2012, shortly after we started this website. When a visitor clicks old posts, it gives us the opportunity to review it and decide if it is still relevant to our ever-developing current understanding and convictions. This week, Israel is again in the news, battling it out with an old old enemy that […]
Read moreSimply follow the logical progression: If man is the only created being made in God’s image and given free will, then man is the only one who can use that free will for good or for bad, for right and for wrong, for compliance with God as well as against God’s will. Only man […]
Read more06/09/18 . “what does Torah say about suicide?” – Nothing. . . unless suicide is relegated under the 6th commandment: Thou shalt not murder. For that is virtually what it amounts to, the snuffing out of the “breath of life” of another individual or of oneself. Suicide — the murder of the self. Is that a “sin”? Is […]
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