[This is a work in progress; simply featuring the translation of Everett Fox’s THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. It does not include all the commentaries we usually insert after each verse, from PENTATEUCH AND HAFTORAHS, Everett Fox’s as well as Robert Alter whose translation is the same title as Fox. We hope we can finish […]
Read more[The Jewish Mystique by Ernest Van Den Haag. This book was donated to our Sinai 6000 library by a Filipino doctor who enjoyed going to estate sales in the USA, where ‘treasure finds’ sell for a pittance. This half-a century hardback edition (1969) was published by Stein and Day, a husband & wife printing-venture in New […]
Read more[Revisiting an old article first posted in 2012. Source: Pentateuch & Haftorahs, ed.Dr. J. H. Hertz, published by The Soncino Press; Excerpts from: EXODUS—ADDITIONAL NOTES . Reformatting and highlights and images added.—Admin1.] ————————– Israel and Egypt represent two world-conceptions, two ways of looking on God and Man that are not merely in conflict, but mutually […]
Read more[This article was first posted in 2012. The occasion for the article was a comment made by a former colleague of the Messianics among us, regarding the identity of the ‘writer’ who goes by ‘Admin1′. We think that ultimately, the message is what is most important, not the messenger who is merely the ‘delivery person’ […]
Read more[First posted in 2013 with the following introduction: If this was worth the typing, all the more it is worth reading! So prayerfully and hopefully, you—visitor to this website—will take the time to discover and truly understand the Jewish perspective on the Oneness and Unity of Israel’s God as stated in the opening line of […]
Read more[This post was in the back burner for 6 months; we’ve been reluctant to feature this book, you’ll understand why. The hypothetical title should be enough to pique anyone’s curiosity to either invest or waste money in buying it. Human nature being naturally curious, our added negative comment, instead of discouraging, probably further strengthens the […]
Read more05/31/17 “their open their mouth place the wafer on your tongue biblical” – hmmm, I had to read this a few times before I figured out what the searcher is saying. It seems to relate to communion rites as practiced by Catholics and other Christian churches/sects that use the round flat wafers. The searcher wants to know […]
Read more[Sinaites have been asked about our stand on “prophecy”; instead of writing a new article on it, here’s an excerpt from one of the most frequently visited posts: Revisit: Q&A: “Israel prophecy” – “veiled in obscurity”? Here’s the unedited ending of the recommended link, lengthy enough to merit an independent post. Unedited, because we have not […]
Read more[First posted 2012; one of 40 essays written by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH) circa 1953, in a collection edited by his daughter Susannah Heschel, titled: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity; another excellent MUST READ/MUST OWN for serious students of the “Bible”. What AJH calls “the Bible” is only the TNK, the Hebrew Scriptures, not the Christian Bible, […]
Read moreEvery Friday evening, after meeting Sinaites for erev Shabbat, I tune in my car radio to a Christian station to check on a pastor whose ministry has a radio outreach featuring questions from listeners which the Pastor answers. The reason for my interest in this pastor is — when I was a zealous Christian who drew […]
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