Source: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2803.htm Proverbs Chapter 3 מִשְׁלֵי א בְּנִי, תּוֹרָתִי אַל-תִּשְׁכָּח; וּמִצְוֹתַי, יִצֹּר לִבֶּךָ. 1 My son, forget not my teaching; but let thy heart keep my commandments; ב כִּי אֹרֶךְ יָמִים, וּשְׁנוֹת חַיִּים– וְשָׁלוֹם, יוֹסִיפוּ לָךְ. 2 For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to thee. ג חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת, אַל-יַעַזְבֻךָ: קָשְׁרֵם עַל-גַּרְגְּרוֹתֶיךָ; […]
Read more[This is still part of our series from our MUST READ/MUST OWN resource: The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. We have found this totally objective approach to be helpful to readers/students, since no doctrinal interpretation is infused, thereby distorting the plain meaning of the text. This concludes the series, i.e. we’ve […]
Read more[September ushers in the autumn feasts . . . September leads us into the season of our new beginning as Sinai 6000, in Tishri 5772 we ventured into a different direction that led us back to the revelation on Mount Sinai, as recorded in book of Shemoth/Exodus. It has been a lonely path with few takers among former […]
Read more[This is still part of our series from The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. We have found this totally objective approach to be helpful to readers/students, since no doctrinal interpretation is infused, thereby distorting the plain meaning of the text. This concludes the series, i.e. we’ve featured all the OT books, […]
Read more[Why is Israel’s sacred scriptures included their national history where their failures and successes are recorded for all the world to read? Imagine students and readers of the Hebrew Scriptures expecting to learn about God and how to live His way and yet they get far more than just laws and commandments, but a record of […]
Read more[This is still part of our series from A Literary Guide to the Bible. Please note once again that the critic approaches the Hebrew Scriptures from purely non-theological point of view, and even if Samuel is a historical/prophetic book, the critic simply looks at form, structure, poetic language if any, figures of speech, etc. We […]
Read more[Have you ever wondered why a book like ‘Song of Songs’ is part of the Hebrew canon? Even if it is interpreted as a beautiful love song that is a metaphor about divine love for . . . well . . . take your pick, Israel? Church? Humankind? Still, it is most likely skipped by […]
Read more[What a ‘visual’ God is YHWH, Who teaches clearly with words and action. The beauty of these narratives recounting the exodus and wilderness wandering is that there are so many concrete images deeply embedded in every teaching moment for the liberated former slaves who have yet to learn, step by step, many new lessons from their Liberator, […]
Read more[Commentary from Pentateuch and Haftarahs, ed. Dr. [J.H.Hertz; he uses the Soncino edition; reformatting and highlights added. S6K preferred translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.—Admn1] ————————————————- THE GREAT MUTINY In the last Sedrah we had seen the people threatening to appoint a chieftain who was to take them back to Egypt. It was ominous of […]
Read more[First posted 2013; the background of this MUST READ/MUST HAVE book is explained in the introductory post: MUST READ/MUST OWN – The Jewish Mystique – Ernest van den Haag We usually feature only ‘book-end’ chapters of our MUST READ/MUST OWN and sometimes, we throw in a few more. Our intent is to encourage our readers […]
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