Category Archives: TORAH STUDY

[First posted November 11, 2013.    A national God who regulates every aspect of His chosen people’s life—that is the God of Israel.   Imagine including in the No-No’s such practices as transgender dressing, interweaving two different thread sources, sowing different seed species, and the like.    In the case of ‘transgender dressing’, most likely it […]

Deuteronomy/Davarim 22: "There is not to be a man's item on a woman, a man is not to clothe himself in the garment of a woman, for an abomination to YHVH your God is anyone doing these!"

[First posted November 11, 2013.    A national God who regulates every aspect of His chosen people’s life—that is the God of Israel.   Imagine including in the No-No’s such practices as transgender dressing, interweaving two different thread sources, sowing different seed species, and the like.    In the case of ‘transgender dressing’, most likely it […]

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Numbers/Bamidbar 21: The Brazen Serpent: " it shall be: whoever has been bitten and then sees it, will live."

[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 […]

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Exodus/Shemoth 24 – "the sight of the Glory of YHVH (was) like a consuming fire"

[This is a Sinaite’s perspective.  Translation: EV/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses.  First posted November 16, 2012.–Admin1..] Picture yourself as a clueless gentile among the mixed multitude of slaves gathered at the foot of Mount Sinai. You’ve known these Hebrew slaves since you ended as a slave yourself in Egypt.  You went through that whole experience […]

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The Creator – 6a – Making humans in God's Image

[Reposting from its first publication October 11, 2012.   This is the commentary from the post:   Genesis/Bere’shith 1: “At the beginning of God’s creating the heavens and the earth”    Sources are: Pentateuch and Haftarah, ‘EF’ is Everett Fox; ‘RA’ is Robert Alter.  —Admin1]   ————————— 26. God said:   Let us make humankind, […]

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The Sacrificial System in the TORAH

[This is first posted October 10, 2012 as part of a series under ‘Discourse’ between ex-Messianic Sinaites and their former bible teacher who became a Messianic missionary “MM” who founded Messianic congregations in several Southeast Asian countries.   The specific topic is on Temple ‘offerings’ in the TNK which was called ‘sacrifices’ in the Christian Old Testament.  —Admin1.] […]

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The WAY of YHVH – 3: To TORAH and TESTIMONY

[This was first posted July 1, 2012, a continuation of our MUST READ series featuring James Tabor’s THE WAY, Chapter 2 of his book Restoring Abrahamic Faith. Reformatted and highlights added. — Admin1.]   ———————- As human beings we long for the supernatural, we desperately seek some definitive revelation about the mystery of our existence.    Isaiah tells of a time […]

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