KINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS [Original Tune: “Praise the Name of Jesus”/Revised Lyrics] Light one Sabbath candle as His blazing sun sets, darkness fills all the spaces, not in the minds where His True Light dwells, Let His Tree of Life be your Light. Light two Sabbath candles, Brighten up the darkness, One is good, two is much […]
Read moreKINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS Blessed are You, YHWH, Creator God, whose very first words recorded in Scripture were: “let there be light”, Whose LIGHT illuminated empty space before there ever was a created sun; Who designed heavenly luminaries for visual delight as well as for guidance. In Your theophanies as recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures, […]
Read more[First posted in 2013. This prayer is featured in the collection A Modern Treasury of Jewish Thoughts: An Inspiring Collection of Writings on Jewish Deed, Doctrine, and Destiny. This is one of four books donated to our Sinaite 6000 library resources by Dr. “T”, collector of rare books which he buys from estate sales in the USA. The […]
Read more[Welcome March! Once in a while, a search term or phrase lands on our “Site Stats” page, so this post is intended to direct our website visitors to particular article(s) that address/answer their specific query/interest/topic. We have over a thousand posts, check them out by clicking Site Map above the scroll. —Admin1] ———————- […]
Read more[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 […]
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