[This was first posted July 2,2012, , always a timely reminder, particularly during the Christian Lenten Season leading to Easter “Holy Week”.     We are often asked by our former Christian colleagues, “so how are you now ‘saved’ if you no longer believe in Jesus Christ as God/Savior/Messiah?”  We don’t attempt to explain the […]

[Introduction to Part I:  THE GENIUS OF JUDAISM, by Bernard-Henri Levy.  This book was lent to me by the president of the Jewish Club in my city of residence.  I recognized the author from his photo on the inside cover flap as someone I had just recently watched being interviewed on CNN, possibly about this recent […]

[First posted in 2014.  If there is one–and only one–people group or nation that has looked forward to a figure they call “Messiah” that would be Israel.  No other nation in the world has had a similar expectation, not one.     So if there is only one nation waiting for the appearance of a […]

[First posted in  2015; part of a series, check out these related links: MUST READ: SINAI & ZION – 1 SINAI AND ZION 2 – The Sinaitic Experience and Traditions About It Revisit: MUST READ: Sinai and Zion 3 – YHWH’S Home in No Man’s Land What happened on Sinai?  A lot.  Not the least […]

[First posted 2015.  Yes indeed, there was a first coming . . . that was on the mountain of Sinai, recorded in Shemoth/Exodus.  The Israelites and the mixed multitude among them who were liberated from bondage in Egypt arrived at the foot of Sinai to meet with their Liberator Who would make a ‘briyth’ or […]

[This book was lent to me by the president of the Jewish Club in my city of residence.  I recognized the author from his photo on the inside cover flap as someone I had just recently watched being interviewed on CNN, possibly about this recent publication  dated 2017.  As we often do with MUST READ […]

[First posted in 2012.     In our country, almost a week before November 1 which is the designated day for “All Saints” followed by “All Souls”, cemeteries “come alive” so to speak.  A huge part of our cultural tradition is the converging of the living in graveyards to clean and spruce up the burial […]

[The author of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, known as “Koheles (Koheleth), son of David, king in Jerusalem” — presumed to be the wise Solomon — writes about the reality as well as the enigma of life on earth:   “Everything has its season, and there is a time for everything under the heaven:   A time to […]

[First posted February 18, 2014, when we decided on another translation of the TORAH as S6K’s choice.—Admin1]   Welcome to Sinai 6000, Everett Fox [EF]! Good news for all: EF’s translation is downloadable for free as PDF; please go to this link:   THE SCHOCKEN BIBLE toby.weebly.com/uploads/2/7/4/8/2748917/everett_foxxstorah.pdf   I’ve had EF’s translation of THE FIVE […]

[First posted in 2014.  Some of the time, in a post where the same topic has been written about by Sinaites or Jewish websites, we refer the reader to those posts; we are never sure if readers do bother to check them out.  So occasionally, we simply feature those posts in a separate article.   […]