[First posted July 26, 3013. This is part of the series on a literary approach to the books of the Torah. Please read the introductory note in Bereshith/Genesis if you have not yet done so. If serious readers/students of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Scriptures were literature-majors, these documents of ancient antiquity would […]
[First posted July 26, 3013. This is part of the series on a literary approach to the books of the Torah. Please read the introductory note in Bereshith/Genesis if you have not yet done so. If serious readers/students of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Scriptures were literature-majors, these documents of ancient antiquity would […]
Read more[First posted July 26, 2013. The good thing about a ‘literary approach’ to Scripture is that it reminds us that first and foremost, Scripture is “language” and not simply communicated information with the use of spoken/written words but in the case of Scripture, the written record smacks of literary expressions full of figures of speech […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2014. Sukkot this year 5777/2016 falls on October 17.—Admin1.] ———– The first time I attended a Sukkot festival was when (then-messianics-now-Sinaites) VAN and BAN invited me to their congregation’s celebration. If I didn’t know they were into Christ-centered Messianic Judaism (that sounds like a triple oxymoron), I would have […]
Read more[First posted on September 26,2012. Who better than the Rabbis best explain the feasts of Israel, and particularly Yom Kippur which is observed sundown Oct. 12 to sundown Oct. 13 this year of 5777/2016. We checked all the Jewish websites on our links and decided the best teaching article to feature here is that of Chief Rabbi […]
Read more[First posted inv2013. The instructions for the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) are found in this chapter. For an informative discussion of this most important holiday of the Jewish year, please go to http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm except remember that Jews today observe this commanded feast without a Temple and therefore without the animal sacrificial offerings. The original […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. This is from Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. What is strange to us gentiles who stand to gain from an informative book like this, is the fact that the book was actually intended for Jews who are— […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. This is from Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. What is strange to us gentiles who stand to gain from an informative book like this, is the fact that the book was actually intended for Jews who are— […]
Read more[First posted September 1, 2012. Here’s the original introduction: “Becoming Israel’ is a series that feature the Sinaite perspective on this chapter. It features Chapter 32 without intrusive commentary so you can read straight through without having to read through the three commentaries we feature on the post that usually follow this series. Translation is […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012, reposted 2014, on the occasion of Father’s Day.—Admin1] ——————————- Since we did an article in May on the track record of mothers in the bible on the occasion of ‘Mother’s Day” [The hand that rocks the cradle . . .], on the occasion of ‘Father’s Day” it […]
Read more[On the occasion of Father’s Day, this was first posted in 2012. Why on father’s day? Who is the father being focused on here? Well, for one, Noah whose drunkenness causes his son Ham to show disrespect for him. For another, Ham’s dishonoring of his parent had a consequence for his son Canaan who is […]
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