[First posted April 15, 2014. It is never too late to learn ‘new’ truths which are really ‘old’ if we had just understood them with fresh eyes and clear minds instead of reading with religious baggage bogging down the progress of understanding and learning. This is from one of our favorite resources: Synagogue Without Walls. It is listed on […]
[First posted April 15, 2014. It is never too late to learn ‘new’ truths which are really ‘old’ if we had just understood them with fresh eyes and clear minds instead of reading with religious baggage bogging down the progress of understanding and learning. This is from one of our favorite resources: Synagogue Without Walls. It is listed on […]
Read more[First posted in 2014. Despite attempts of commentators to explain this chapter, for us these questions remain unresolved: How does a man ‘wrestle’ with a ‘Divine Being’ and prevail’? Is the ‘Divine Being’ here a messenger/angel . . . or God Himself? Is this image of two beings (human and divine) a physical wrestling […]
Read moreAny inventor/maker/creator of any item that has to function properly and efficiently gives instructions to the user on how to take care of the item. And let’s say it’s a motor vehicle that uses a particular fuel, the manufacturer specifies ‘this’ and ‘not that’ fuel or it might bog down. I’ve gassed up my vehicle ignoring […]
Read more[First posted in 2010. We have since updated to adding yet another translation, this time by Richard Elliott Friedman who authored THE HIDDEN BOOK IN THE BIBLE which we will be featuring soon in the category MUST READ/MUST OWN. The reason his translation is mentioned here is because he uses a different word for this […]
Read more[Have you ever wondered if the tablets on which YHWH wrote His Ten Declarations REALLY looked like the arch-top/flat bottom tablets used in most depictions? The Rabbis present all kinds of possibilities, from the plausible to the fantastic. What is your imagination of the first as well as the second set of […]
Read more[First posted in 2013, reposted on the occasion of the commanded Leviticus 23 feast of Shavuot 2017, the anniversary of the giving of the Decalogue. Never need a reason to repost yet another reminder. We’ve chosen “declarations” in our title in place of “commandments” which is the Jewish preference. The reason for not using “commandments” […]
Read more[First posted June 20, 2015.—Admin1] ————————- What comes to mind when you read the three images in the title of this post? If you’re biblically-oriented: the walking-talking serpent in the garden of Eden, one of the 3 categories of trees in Eden, and the “I” in Eden. What? There was an “I” in […]
Read more[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[Have you ever wondered if the tablets on which YHWH wrote His Ten Declarations REALLY looked like the arch-top/flat bottom tablets used in most depictions? The Rabbis present all kinds of possibilities, from the plausible to the fantastic. What is your imagination of the first as well as the second set of […]
Read more[Have you ever wondered if the tablets on which YHWH wrote His Ten Declarations REALLY looked like the arch-top/flat bottom tablets used in most depictions? The Rabbis present all kinds of possibilities, from the plausible to the fantastic. What is your imagination of the first as well as the second set of […]
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