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09/15/17 – A searcher clicked this link, it’s the image of a book by Robert Schoen titled “What I wish my Christian friends knew about Judaism” –  i1.wp.com/sinai6000.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/51hho8XiThL._AA160_.jpg Here’s a post from the book: Revisit: Must Read – 6 – Robert Shoen/The Torah and the Law; Jewish symbols 09/11/17 – A searcher clicked this link, it’s our […]

[First posted in 2013.  This is part of the series The Bible as ‘Literature’ from the excellent MUST READ/MUST OWN:  The Literary Guide to the Bible, eds. Robert Alter & Frank Kermode.  Imagine!  Note:  Robert Alter is the translator of THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES, our alternate translation together with Everett Fox’s THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. […]

[How to navigate through this website? Go to Site Map, upper right box above scroll.]   08/31/17 “photo table de shabbat” –   One of our Shabbat dinners at the home of BAN&VAN features this photo of our dinner fare: shabbat-table  08/25/17  “does hashem answer the prayers of gentiles” –Revisit: Q&A: “How does a gentile pray to […]

[Our ‘musical’ liturgy borrows from Christian hymn composers though we take the liberty of revising the lyrics when the words do not reflect the Sinaite’s belief system.   To those familiar with the original words, the revisions might sound strange, even awkward, but to those who can’t remember the original lyrics, the rewritten text not […]

[A 5th Sabbath in a month is always a bonus and so it is with July 2017.  For this liturgy, we borrow prayers from GATES OF REPENTANCE,  The New Union Prayerbook for the Days of Awe.  This is a book I found in the Burlingame Public Library (Burlingame, CA, USA) discarded in  the “used” or “second hand” […]

Kindle the Sabbath Lights   Blessed are You, O YHWH, Creator and Master of the universe— Who blessed us with knowledge about Yourself and Your Way through Your Revelation on Sinai; Who set apart the sacred from the profane, a day of rest from six days of work,  Who first observed the Sabbath day on Creation Week, and […]

[For our musical liturgy,  we have no original music of our own so we borrow from Christian Hymnody and rewrite the lyrics unless the original reflects our Sinaite Creed.   We thank Christian composers for their music, inspired no doubt by their love for God.  If you are not familiar with the music, just recite the liturgy like prayers […]