[First posted on June 7, 2012. The Hebrew Scriptures often communicate divine truths in fictional as well as historical narratives. We read story after story about God in conversation or interacting with men from Genesis through Deuteronomy. Teachings, instructions and laws as well as examples are embedded in these stories. That is why they […]
[First posted on June 7, 2012. The Hebrew Scriptures often communicate divine truths in fictional as well as historical narratives. We read story after story about God in conversation or interacting with men from Genesis through Deuteronomy. Teachings, instructions and laws as well as examples are embedded in these stories. That is why they […]
Read more[First posted in 2012, part of the Exodus series. Translation: The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox “EF”; where text is unclear, it will be supplemented by AST/Artscroll Tanakh and Robert Alter’s The Five Books of Moses. The commentary are from S6K and AST and EF.–Admin1] ——————————————– Exodus/Shemoth Chapter 20 God spoke all these statements, saying: S6K: […]
Read more[First posted in 2012, part of the Exodus series. Translation: The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox “EF”; where text is unclear, it will be supplemented by AST/Artscroll Tanakh and Robert Alter’s The Five Books of Moses. The commentary are from S6K and AST and EF.–Admin1] ——————————————– Exodus/Shemoth Chapter 20 God spoke all these statements, saying: S6K: […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012 and time for a repost as part of our “looking back” series during this season of introspection in preparation for the biblical feast of Shavuot, the giving of the Torah on Sinai. What does it mean for humankind to be made in God’s “image” or “likeness” —- when He has no […]
Read more[First posted November 26, 2013. This is from Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H.Hertz. We are greatly indebted to the best of Jewish and non-Jewish commentators who have contributed their lifelong work, all compiled in this resource book which we have included in our MUST READ/MUST OWN list.—Admin1.] ——————————- THE BOOK OF GENESIS The […]
Read more[This was first posted 2012. It explains why we chose to call ourselves Sinaites and rooted our foundational beliefs on the Revelation on Sinai by the Creator-God who chose that neutral site and that time in history and the people He gathered there to declare His Name and His Way of life for all humanity. […]
Read more[This was first published in 2012, reposted thereafter at this time every year and updated, our way of reminding ourselves and our readers to make an individual inventory of how badly we have fared in living the instructions and teachings of the God we believe in. If YHWH the God of Israel is the God […]
Read more[First posted in 2012 and the source is Pentateuch and Haftorah, published by the Soncino Press, edited by Dr. j.H. Hertz; this is one of the books we highly recommend as MUST OWN. Reformatted for post.—Admin1.] THE SHEMA ITS MEANING AND HISTORY THE MEANING OF THE SHEMA : ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD […]
Read more[First posted 2012. Here is an article written by blogger who goes by “Frum Heretic” – frumheretic.blogspot.com, originally posted MARCH 31, 2009; reformatted for this post. —Admin1.] Sheep Worship in Ancient Egypt Apropos to the upcoming Pesach holiday, a recent guest post on DovBear asked the question “why was a sheep chosen for the […]
Read more[This is being reposted in memory of Sinaite VAN@S6K who entered his final Sabbath Rest in 2016. Originally posted in 2013, our transitional year when our core group were still reviewing what in Torah is for the Jew and what is for the gentile, at the beginning, we ‘played safe’, particularly because some of us had just […]
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