Jonathan Sacks is the Chief Rabbi of the British Orthodox Synagogues. He has published about 10 books and maintains a website www.chiefrabbi.org. We have featured another of his books as MUST READ: To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility. This series is his running commentary on the five books of the TORAH. ————————————————————————————– Publication […]
Read moreDear CF, I agree with you, God will be whatever He chooses to be. But in His choices, will He contradict HIS revealed Word, that HE declared in the Old Testament? If Jesus is truly His son, would He offer His son, and contradict His word that human sacrifice is an abomination […]
Read more[Reformatting ours, highlighting in original text.–Admin1.] ———————– Dear BAN, The God you love and worship is my God also. And being God, He can be whoever and however He chooses. He is a spirit and in the O.T. was only “seen” by His glory- the shekina glory and we are told no one can […]
Read more“CF” to BAN: Let’s just use Scripture now. List the scriptures you see as proof texts as you mention for the issues of God, he alone is God, our Savior and redeemer. —————————————————————– Hi “CF,” As you have requested, here are some of the proof texts declaring GOD alone is […]
Read more[The previous post on this chapter titled Strange Interlude: Judah and Tamar featured the Sinaites’ discussion, without the aid of commentaries. Here, three commentaries are featured, as usual. Unbracketed commentary is from Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; additional commentary from RA/Robert Alter, and the translator of The Five Books of Moses , EF/ Everett Fox; this is a free […]
Read moreAs usual, in our thinking aloud while rereading the final chapters in this book of beginnings . . . Here is yet another switching of the younger for the older son in the bestowal of blessing upon the firstborn. As dim as the eyes of Jacob were and even with Joseph’s guidance on which […]
Read more[We have to hand it to these two dear friends to keep this up . . . now we’re getting curious who will be the first to give up on the other.–Admin1.] ——————— Dear “CF,” So glad you had a wonderful 3 days in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and still able […]
Read more[This chapter connects with Genesis/Bereshith 15 : 13 And he said to Avram: You must know, yes, know that your seed will be sojourners in a land not theirs; they will put them in servitude and afflict them for four hundred years. Highlights: God assures Jacob-now-Israel that this move has been divinely-arranged, that […]
Read more[Unbracketed commentary is from Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; additional commentary from RA/Robert Alter, and EF/Everett Fox whose translation The Five Books of Moses is featured in this website.] Genesis/Bereshith 44 The chapter sets forth Joseph’s device to test still further the sincerity and loyalty of his brethren. 1-17. THE DIVINING CUP 1 Now he commanded the steward […]
Read moreFamiliarity with the Joseph story breeds not contempt but saturation. Let’s leave the biblical text alone for now, it sufficiently tells a straightforward story without unnecessary interpretive assistance, though the subsequent posts will feature as usual the three commentaries we’ve chosen as aid to readers. Below the maps are chapter 42 and 43 for straight […]
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