Yo! Searchers can we help you? – January 2015

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[Hear this often? “Time goes by so fast!” Actually, time goes by the same way it always has since the beginning of time, taking its own sweet time. What they probably mean is, toward the end of the year, it seems time went so fast . . . but when you REALLY look back, it took a YEAR for time to go from beginning to end. Whatever. Anyway, welcome 2015!

A most blessed year to our dear visitors who frequent this website; hopefully in your individual search for truth and for the One True God, Creator of the universe, Sinai 6000 has managed to answer some lingering doubts and questions to encourage you to continue your own journey of faith. We praise our Lord YHWH for giving us the opportunity to add to lighting His Way and we thank our benefactor, Bruce Silverman of SilverConnect for hosting our website for free!

May YHWH’s bountiful blessings touch your lives in a way that is significant for you! Blessed 2015 to one an all! —Admin1]

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01/30/15 “judaism torah” – The First Torah-based Religion – Judaism

01/30/15 “the jewish mistique” –

01/30/15 “keturah and abraham images” – Genesis/Bereshith 25a: “Yitschaq and Yishma’el buried him in the cave of Makpelah”

01/30/15 “conservative judaism symbols” – Must Read – 6 – Robert Schoen/The Torah and the Law; Jewish symbols

01/25/15 – “rod of aaron that budded” – Numbers/Bamidbar 17 – ” And it will be that the rod of the man whom I will choose will bud;”

01/25/15 – “was Cain not in adam’s likeness but seth was” – Q&A: Why is Seth the one “in the likeness of Adam” instead of firstborn son Cain?

1/25/15 “sinai and zion summary” – MUST READ: SINAI & ZION – 1

01/25/15 “the sermon on the mount and mount sinai” – The Sermon on Sinai vs. The Sermon on the Mount

01/25/15 “explain the direction Judah took when he went down . . .” –

01/24/15 “who are amalekites” – Exodus/Shemoth 17 – Who is the Rock? Who are the Amalekites?

01/23/15 “www.bing.com/search?q=the+miracle+of+jephthah+becoming+a” – The Bible as “Literature” – 3 – Jephthah as “literary art”

01/21/15 “the pentateuch and haftorahs 1868″ – MUST OWN: PENTATEUCH AND HAFTORAHS – Versions and Commentators Consulted

01/21/15 “burn evil out of our mist” – Deuteronomy/Davarim 13: “so shall you burn out the evil from your midst!”

01/21/15 “adam and eve monkeys” – Q: ” “a 15th century rabbi claimed adam and eve had the faces of monkeys”

01/21/15 – “serpent” – Imagine, one word that evokes a whole theology on evil symbolism, at least to Christianity. Here’s a whole list of articles to ponder if the symbolism is appropriate, if not remotely related:

Image from www.christianpost.com

01/17/15 “images of abraham with 3 men” – Journey of Faith: YHWH, Abraham and “3 men”

01/17/15 “uncircumcised lips of moses” – Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?

01/17/15 “sacrificing lamb at yom kippur” – Sacrificial goat, Scapegoat . . . what about the Lamb? Not on Yom Kippur.

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01/16/15 “egyptian relief of ham,shem and japheth”

Oy, the new things we learn from searchers who land on this website. This one was searching for actual images of Noah’s sons but what is amazing about the search term is the identifying of the bas relief as specifically of Egyptian origin. Of course, he/she didn’t find it here, but we’re pasting images anyway, courtesy of pinterest, one of our favorite sources.

The questions that come to mind upon seeing this are:

where did the Egyptians learn about Noah
and the flood,
and more specifically his three sons and their names?
Why was there a sculpted artistic portrayal of these sons
Why not Noah?

While thinking aloud, possibly one answer is because the sons repopulated the earth after all humankind supposedly perished in the flood. As it is taught, we all come from Noah through whom the Creator did a ‘take-2’ or ‘start-up’ race. Noah supposedly came from the righteous line of Seth, so starting over from a ‘good’ line should have some positive impact on the future generations, shouldn’t we think? (Check the Scriptures, actually the tower of Babel follows the Flood and then the focus narrows down to Abraham and his lineage.)

Did the Egyptians think this way? We won’t know from this sculpture, but perhaps their religious literature might elaborate.

Or we could simply connect the dots provided in Scripture itself: that actually, the descendants of Ham were supposed to be people of color, and the Egyptians would be among them. Eureka, that’s it! Perhaps that is why they did have a sculpture portraying the sons of Noah, they are among the “Hamites”.

Here’s a post: Genesis/Bereshith 10: “. . . these are the begetting of the sons of Noah. . . Sons were born to them after the Deluge.”

01/15/15 – “jews and heaven and hell” – Does Judaism believe in heaven and hell?

01/14/15 “3rd monotheistic of islam” –

01/14/15 ” rabbi answer to genesis 3:15″ –

01/14/15 “uncircumcised lips in torah” – Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?

01/13/15 “serpent”

01/12/15 “dostoyevski quotes on god” – “Without God, everything is permitted.” – Dostoyevsky

01/12/15 “jesus superstar” – “Superstar” – Confessions of an Idolater

01/12/15 “what does uncircumcised lips mean” – Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?

01/12/15 “hallellu yah” – Not “Hallelujah” . . . but Hallelu YAH!

01/11/15 “el elohe israel” – “God, the God of Israel”; this is from our post: https://sinai6000.net/revisited-%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%AA-bereshiyth-33-i-have-enough-my-brother-what-you-have-let-it-remain-yours/

specifically verse 20 and the commentary from Pentateuch and Haftorah and Robert Alter’s The Five Books of Moses:

20 There he set up a slaughter-site

and called it: El/God, the God of Yisrael!

altar. In gratitude to God, who had permitted him to return in safety to the land of his fathers.

El-elohe-Israel. A profession of faith in the one true God, made at the moment when Jacob comes to dwell among the heathen Canaanites (Ryle).

[RA] El-Elohei-Israel. The name means “El/God, God of Israel.” Claus Westermann makes the interesting argument that Jacob marks his taking up residence in Canaan by subsuming the Canaanite sky god in his monotheistic cult: “El, the creator God, the supreme God in the Canaanite pantheon, now becomes the God of the people of Israel.”

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01/11/15 “triadic line genesis” – Ah, the things we learn from searchers and their search terms, this is a great example! Clueless as to what this searcher was looking for, we resorted to google and discovered quite a variety of topics associated with the first word “triadic” (a threesome anything). We picked only 3 to feature here, relating to biblical issues:

One article focused on the Holy Spirit:

The Deity of the Holy Spirit | Grace Communion International

https://www.gci.org/God/deityHS

Triadic formulas: Several passages discuss the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as … The Holy Spirit does work that only God can do, such as creating (Genesis 1:2; …. the creeds sought to do justice to the essential biblical data along these lines.

Another focused on translators’ use “dyadic” or “triadic” in prosody (the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry or the patterns of stress and intonation in a language), particularly its use in translation of psalms by Robert Alter (one of our choice translators) which is challenged by another translator, James Kugel.

http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/2007/09/robert-alter–1.html

The third (among many listings) seems to be what this searcher was looking for: “A triadic construct in Jubilees 30” :

Publications on Old Testament ethics often use triadic constructs to explain the moral impact
of Biblical passages. In Genesis 11:27–50:26, Ezra 9:6–15, Nehemiah 7:72b–10:40, Damascus
Document (CD) V:1, 2–6 and Jubilees 8–9 and 23, constructs of three interrelated concepts are
used, all related to the issue of marriage

http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/article/download/801/797

01/10/15 “sinai torah” – Must Read – 6 – Robert Schoen/The Torah and the Law; Jewish symbols

01/08/15 “origins of prophecy in israel”

01/08/15 “hebrew symbol for l” — This searcher should check out any of the Jewish websites on our link.

01/07/15 “five books of moses fox revised edition publication date” –

The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (The Schocken Bible, Volume 1) Paperback – February 8, 2000 by Everett Fox (Translator)

01/05/15 “ john.d.levenson 1987 sinai and zion” – Jon D. Levenson, SINAI & ZION: An Entry into the Jewish Bible.

MUST READ: SINAI & ZION – 1

01/05/15 “were the two silver trumpets in numbers 10 shofars?” – Numbers/Bamidbar -10- Two silver trumpets, not the Shofar

01/03/15 “jacob reconciling with essau” – Genesis/Bereshith 33: “I have plenty, my brother, let what is yours remain yours. “

01/03/15 “sabbath messages”/ “happy sabbath quotes” – We have our own Sinaite’s Liturgy for every Sabbath of the year — please go to the category: A Sinaite’s Sabbath Liturgy. Aside from our own prayers and revised hymn lyrics that reflect the Sinaite’s creed, we have images from the internet that contain “Sabbath messages.” Please feel free to use any of our material; this website offers everything for ‘free’ and for use of anyone interested. If used for publication, we would appreciate acknowledgment of source so that others might be referred to this website.

01/02/15 “shema symbols”

01/02/15 “gentiles at mt sanai” – Exodus 12: 38

37 The Children of Israel moved on from Ra’amses to Sukkot,

about six hundred thousand on foot, menfolk apart from little-ones,

38 and also a mixed multitude went up with them,

along with sheep and oxen, an exceedingly heavy (amount of) livestock.

Also, check out this post where the LAWGIVER YHWH commands that His instructions or guidelines for living for His chosen people, Israel, are applicable as well to the non-Israelites among them: Leviticus/Wayyiqrah 24: “One standard-of-judgment shall there be for you; as the sojourner, so shall the native be”

01/01/15 “kazantzakis it is the responsibility of every man to be the savior in a world in which there can be no salvation” –

Tempted by ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’? Kazantzakis’ Jesus: “Salvation cannot be founded on lies.”

Source: Exodus/Shemoth 24 – "the sight of the Glory of YHVH (was) like a consuming fire" -- We gentiles living in this 21st century are able to experience that climactic moment [God appearing on Sinai] by reading and studying this portion of the TORAH. Indeed, we see YHWH not quite as dramatically as the mixed multitude did, but perhaps even better through these accounts recorded in Exodus. There is a saying that hindsight is 20/20 vision, i.e., we begin to see and understand the question marks in our past only later in our lives, as we mature and hopefully become wiser and more introspective about the meaning or seeming meaninglessness of happenings in history, whether personal, national, or universal. Søren Kierkegaard adds a twist to this: “Only 20:20 vision is hindsight. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” As we endeavor to understand each portion in the TORAH of YHWH, much of it will seem irrelevant to our current situation but if we see beyond the time-bound cultural and religious situations and begin to understand what truly has not change—human nature and the Great Revelator who designed the perfect blueprint for living in peace, happily and contentedly with family, community, country and the nations, the unquestionable conclusion is: TORAH is relevant to ALL humankind, not just to Israel, to this very day.

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