[This is the continuation of JOURNEY: “Truth set me free!” —contributed by a former Christian pastor who writes for his flock and sends us texts of his teaching.—Admin1] ————————– My Spiritual Journey — Part 2 — Is Blood Necessary? Because my spiritual journey has led me to question the most fundamental tenets of the […]
Read more[First posted July 3, 2012. This concludes Chapter 5, “THE WAY” of the book we have been featuring in this series: James Tabor, Restoring Abrahamic Faith. We consider this book a “wake-up call” not only for ourselves but our Christian colleagues with whom we attempted to share its contents. Our former messianic teacher called […]
Read more[First posted July 3,2012. More on James Tabor’s Restoring Abrahamic Faith, Chapter 5: THE WAY, concluding section; edited and reformatted for website reading.] ——————- Jewish tradition tells us that the entire TORAH, or Five Books of Moses, contains 613 Commandments (mitzvot). At least two-thirds of these deal with—- matters of the […]
Read more[This was first posted October 25, 2014. These are introductions to the first book comprising the TORAH. They are from two of our MUST READ/MUST HAVE resources: one is from our translation of choice — Everett Fox (EF), The Five Books of Moses while the second is from Robert Alter (RA) who has also done his […]
Read more[If the the name of the first month January came from Janus, god of beginnings, this second month February comes from Februa, the feast of purification. For the source of the name of months in our calendar year, here’s a link: http://www.calendar-origins.com/calendar-name-origins.html. You’ll also learn about the origins of the names of the week and other trivia […]
Read more[This was first posted ay 8, 2013; an essay from A Modern Treasury of Jewish Thoughts: An Inspiring Collection of Writings in Jewish Deed, Doctrine, and Destiny, edited by Sidney Greenberg, Introduction by Charles Angoff. The book is one of four donated to our S6K resources by Dr. Tiglao. a collector of rare books that he finds […]
Read more[In A Sinaite’s Liturgy – 5th Sabbath in January we featured an image in the Torah discussion which is actually a book written by Aryeh Kaplan entitled: Sabbath: Day of Eternity. We had hoped it would be available in downloadable ebook from amazon.com but unfortunately, it is only available in paperback edition. It was originally issued in […]
Read more[This was first posted on November 4, 2012. Commentary is from a Sinaite’s perspective. Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.–Admin1.] ———————- If the New Testament is merely a continuation, a fulfillment of the “Old Testament,” then how did NT church practices veer so far away from the original? It is explained that […]
Read more[Four years ago at the start of our Sinaite’s spiritual pilgrimage to biblical Mt. Sinai, i.e., the Revelation of YHWH, we encountered a lot of opposition and criticism from our Christian colleagues, understandably. This article first posted June 6, 2012 was in answer to the exact words in the title.—Admin1.] ————————– WHO […]
Read moreSinai 6000 and the core community, in case you didn’t know, was birthed and is based in the only Christian country in Asia, where Catholicism was introduced by Spain in 1521. The Philippines is predominantly Christian; Filipinos are a very spiritual people. As such, it is no wonder that this country historically linked […]
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