[This article is reprinted with permission granted by Meaningful Life Center. For better readability, we have reformatted the article, and highlighted in bold or underlined the texts that we deem important to note and remember.] The World a Home Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Why are we here? This, the mother […]
[This article is reprinted with permission granted by Meaningful Life Center. For better readability, we have reformatted the article, and highlighted in bold or underlined the texts that we deem important to note and remember.] The World a Home Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Why are we here? This, the mother […]
Read moreIn the previous post Want to cyber-eavesdrop? you got a glimpse of a commentary that went progressively nasty; we now feature a different kind of commentary where bloggers were much more respectful of one another, even if they did not agree with the article nor with each other’s opinion. As we have repeatedly stressed, often the comments […]
Read moreGrandpa VAN@S6K recounts the bible study he had with his grandson who has not had any Christian orientation regarding foundational Scripture. It went somewhat like this: VAN: What is the very first animal ever mentioned in the book of Beginnings, specifically Genesis 3? GS: Snake! VAN: So, when the first man and woman violated the […]
Read more[I was tempted to post these chapters without any comment and echoed a title I had previously used in Exodus/Shemoth 35-39: Do we have to read these chapters? When you start reading through, you will understand why; it reads like a medical student’s textbook about excreted body fluids after childbirth that are considered impure; and […]
Read more1 Kislev Waging War Against Canaan In 2009, when Israel went into Gaza and killed a lot of people, I was discussing religion with one of my friends, and he said that in the Torah, God told us to go out and murder people that we don’t like. The verse he quoted was in Deuteronomy about […]
Read moreWould the Author of TORAH leave out an area of human life that would not only enhance the quality of life but also extend the quantity of life? YHWH is the Source of Life, would He not include instructions about how to best sustain life, specially human life? “Let thy food be thy […]
Read more[What in the world is ‘fire’ that is —- “outside” fire [EF] or “alien”[AST] “strange” [NASB] This is one time that the Christian translator’s choice of “unauthorized” [NIV] fire makes more sense. Possibly, it refers to some deviation from the exact instructions on how to prepare or handle or put the right portion of […]
Read more[The obvious questions we should be asking by this time are: if YHWH devoted a whole book-length on instructions regarding the Tabernacle, the Levitical Priesthood that would take care of it and the offerings/sacrifices (animal and produce)—- why are we—who are living in this day and age—-no longer fulfilling these requirements? Were they simply […]
Read more[This chapter and book begins with the word “And” which is strange unless it is intended to connect to the previous book, Exodus/Shemoth. The Covenant had been cut; Israel had been born as a “nation” with laws to govern its national life, by a new Master, a Ruler who at the same time happens to […]
Read more[The third book in the Torah — familiar to most as “Leviticus” connects it to the Levitical priesthood which is mostly what the content is all about. Expectedly, it has a different title in the Hebrew Bible. There are two spellings that surface: Wayyiqrah and Vayikra; the first is explained as “And He (the Lord) called” while […]
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