Category Archives: ISRAEL

[First posted in 2012; time for a repost.    This recommended read is:  A HISTORY OF THE JEWS by Paul Johnson.   One reviewer, Merle Rubin of Christian Science Monitor says it best:  “An absorbing, provocative, well-written, often moving book, an insightful and impassioned blend of history and myth, story and interpretation”  (highlights added).   I most […]

THE HALLOWING OF HISTORY

[Originally posted in 2014.  “Hallowing” has nothing to do with “Halloween” except for the word “hallow” which means to “honor as holy or make holy; consecrate”. A bit of trivia since this is being posted on . . . er . . .coincidentally Halloween 2013: “ORIGIN late 18th cent.: contraction of All Hallow Even (Even —the end […]

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Who is the “Light of the World”?

[First posted in 2012; another timely seasonal clarification as we enter the season of “festival lights” — the answer to the title’s question is  from the Sinaite’s perspective and understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures.—Admin1]     Let us be absolutely clear about what Sinaites believe: First of all, the Light of the World is YHWH. […]

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Why the Jews?

[First posted in 2012. We’ve often been asked the same question and have answered much in the same way as the author of the book featured here.—Admin1]   ————————–   This is a question asked by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his book FUTURE TENSE; JEWS, JUDAISM, AND ISRAEL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, specifically Chapter 4 […]

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THE HALLOWING OF HISTORY

[Originally posted in 2014.  “Hallowing” has nothing to do with “Halloween” except for the word “hallow” which means to “honor as holy or make holy; consecrate”. A bit of trivia since this is being posted on . . . er . . .coincidentally Halloween 2013: “ORIGIN late 18th cent.: contraction of All Hallow Even (Even —the end […]

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The Names of God – A Jewish Perspective

[First posted in 2012,  here’s the original Introduction: This article was sent in by VAN@S6K; source:   mordochai.tripod.com/biblical.  It presents a different view from what we have so far understood about saying and writing the Tetragrammaton;  our stand has been — how can God’s Name ever be known if people don’t ever hear it or ever see it […]

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