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A Literary Approach to the book of Esther/Hadaççah

[If there is evidence that the literary approach greatly aids one’s understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures, it would be the book of Esther/Hadaççah(Haddasah). This particular discussion first posted in 2013, feels like you’re reading a commentary of a Shakespearean play — plot, characterization, denouement, etc.  In fact, the whole story of Esther begins to sound like […]

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What!? A snake with 4 legs, really?

[First posted Nov. 8, 2015.  A visitor recently checked it out, so we did too . . . and decided it’s time for a revisit.  Why? Self-explanatory!–Admin1]     ————————–   DVE@Sinai6000, our Admin 2 sent in this link: http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/07/25/proof-of-the-torah-snake-fossil-with-4-legs-found/     Proof of the Torah? Snake Fossil With 4 Legs Found by ADMIN in CULTURE […]

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Q&A: Who is the “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” in Isaiah 9:6 [ESV]?

[First posted December 2013.   We are resurrecting this topic for the benefit of one Sinaite who had dropped out of our community in 2014 for medical reasons and became home-bound, unable to attend our Shabbat meetings.  Not a computer-user, she had no access to updated articles on the continuing series of teachings in our website.   […]

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MUST READ: “MAN IS NOT ALONE – A Philosophy of Religion” by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Among our 2017 book acquisitions for our Sinai 6000 library is surprisingly this more-than-half-century old publication, copywrite 1951 by AJH, reviewed 1979 by Sylvia Heschel.   As we do with books we feature, we start with the CONTENTS which is what all book-browsers do before deciding whether a book is worth purchasing; then if there are […]

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Revisiting the 4th: "God gave the seventh day his blessing, and he hallowed it, for on it he ceased from all his work . . ."

[This was first posted 2013;  reposted every year thereafter.  Two reasons for this repost:  one is as usual–a visitor recently checked it out; the second is our dismay  that even among our Sinai 6000 core community, there is a casual attitude toward the Sabbath commandment. Business goes on 7-days a week, some even forget it’s […]

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