[First posted August 13, 2014.  We are into the ‘season of light’, more like the season of artificial lights.  Man-made spectacles using light dominate this month of December—enjoyable, impressive maybe, but never reaching the level of “awesome” even if that word is quite overused and in fact badly or wrongly or mindlessly used.  What exactly […]

[First posted July 27, 2013.  This is the 4th book in the series we are featuring from one of the best resources in our S6K library, a MUST-READ/MUST-OWN book titled The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter and Frank Kermode.  As we keep reiterating, a non-religious, non-theological approach to the Hebrew Scriptures which focuses […]

[First posted October 23, 2013.   A God Who dwells among His people, Who travels with them, fights with them in their battles, performs miracles, instructs, reminds and warns . . . and forgives when true repentance is evidenced . . . .how blessed indeed is Israel compared to any other nation?  But with chosen-ness […]

[This was first posted October 12, 2013.  —Admin1].   ———————   Sinaites’ first exposure to the “bronze serpent” was guess where? The New Testament gospel of John whose opening line echoes Genesis/Bereshith . . . “in the beginning”.   The Word Became Flesh/ John 1:1-5 (NIV)   1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word […]

[In the broadway musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, one of the 3 daughters of Tevye falls in love with a Russian soldier and that poses a problem for this Jewish family. The disapproval of intermarriage of an Israelite with a non-Israelite is understandable in light of preservation of the covenant people, their cultural and religious […]

[Inheritance—unworked for ownership of any asset, sometimes undeserved—is undoubtedly a blessing.   Land occupied by another people, someone else’s territory such as the land of the Canaanites—promised to the patriarchs of a nation of slaves, landless, with no territorial claim to any property on earth except by Divine promise—this is the land that is surrounded […]

[Imagine yourself among the 2nd generation of Israelites:   you were born in the wilderness, you were born free unlike your slave-parents who have already died, never catching a glimpse of the Land, much like all their contemporaries except for Mosheh who sees the Land from a distance before he dies, and except for Yahushuwah […]

 [Let’s be honest.  How many readers of the Hebrew Scriptures REALLY bother to look at and study the geography described in the journey of Israel and final conquest of the Land? Unless one has a STUDY BIBLE where the designers have taken pains to include maps and illustrations, does the average reader do the research […]