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Yo Searchers! Can we help you? – September 2013

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[September ushers in the autumn feasts . . . September leads us into the season of our new beginning as Sinai 6000, in Tishri 5772 we ventured into a different direction that led us back to the revelation on Mount Sinai, as recorded in book of Shemoth/Exodus.  It has been a lonely path with few takers among former colleagues who have all but ‘dropped’ us, but what a journey it has been so far and the wonder of it is — there are all of you out there, some 6000+ landing here by chance or seeking us out intentionally, checking out this and that post.  We are blessed to cross paths with you whoever you are, on the internet highway. May you find your way to Sinai, just as we did and discover YHWH Who spoke and Whose words reverberate through 6 millennia right into our days and times.

 

This post started as an aid for searchers who land on our website because of the Search Engine Terms ( terms people used to find this site).  This serves as an aid to searchers with specific topics in mind. This is updated daily so if you failed to find your post today, come back and check the articles listed on your search term, if not we give a helpful FYI on it.] 

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9/28  “was seth born in the image and likeness of adam” – Q&A: Why is Seth the one “in the likeness of Adam” instead of firstborn son Cain?

9/28  “read through the tanakh in a year 5774” – Revisiting the 4th: “Sabbath”: Year II/ 5774

9/28 “light of israel karaite” – Ever heard of KARAISM?

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9/26  “700 club asia topic messianic hebrew” – This searcher landed here instead of an article that relates an interesting story that might have been what he wanted to read about, so here it is, even I found it extremely interesting:  Kosher Judaism • View topic – ‘Messianic’ Newspaperman Comes …www.kosherjudaism.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1120‎While being interviewed in the “700 Club” studios, he got his first whiff of “messianic” Judaism. When an opening turned up at TheMessianic Times, the owner …

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9/25 “what makes the book of daniel literary” – A Literary Approach to the Book of Daniel

9/25  “meaning of ” i lift my eyes to the mountains ” psalm 121″ – A Literary Approach to the PSALMS – Specific excerpt:

Psalm 121, a very different sort of poem about divine protection, displays just these stylistic features:

A song of ascents

I lift my eyes to the mountains—

   from whence will my help come?

My help is from the Lord,

   maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot stumble,

   your guardian will not slumber.

Look, he neither sleeps nor slumbers,

   the guardian of Israel!

The Lord’s your guardian,

   the Lord’s your shade at your right hand.

By day the sun will not strike you,

   nor the moon by night.

The Lord will guard you from all evil,

   he will guard your life.

The Lord will guard your going and coming

   now and forevermore.

The archetypal sweep of the poetic landscape in this brief piece is remarkable. The speaker lifts his eyes to the mountains and, in a characteristic biblical association of terms, moves from mountains to heaven and earth and their Maker. A second binary pair that harks back to Genesis 1 is quickly introduced, day/sun and night/moon. The poem is a powerful realization of the meaning of “guarding” and “guardian,” the terms recurring, with anaphoric insistence, six times in eight lines. Metaphoric elaboration is not allowed to intervene in this process of realization. The only weak candidates for figures of speech in the poem are the minimal synecdoche of the slipping foot in verse 3 and the conventional “shade” for shelter in verse 5, which is immediately literalized in the next line as a protection against sunstroke and moonstroke (the latter perhaps referring to madness supposedly caused by exposure to the moon). The point of the poem is that the Lord is quite literally a guardian or watchman who never sleeps, who always has his eyes open to keep you from harm. The concluding note of benediction on “forevermore” is, it might be argued, a formulaic device for ending a psalm, but here it ties in beautifully with the beginning of the poem because an arc has been traced from the eternity behind mankind when heaven and earth were made to the eternity stretching out ahead. Altogether, the poem is a quintessential expression of the poetic beauty of Psalms in its artful use of a purposefully limited, primary language to suggest a kind of luminous immediacy in the apprehension of the world through the eyes of faith.

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9/22  “literary value of leviticus” – A Literary Approach to the book of Leviticus/Wai’qrah

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9/21  ” +images of abram sacrifices genesis 15:7-21″ – Journey of Faith 7 – Whose test of faith, Abraham’s or Isaac’s?

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9/20  “18 וַיִּקְרָא” – ויקרא Leviticus/Wa’iyqrah 18: The Land is affected by the sins of its inhabitants.

9/20    “job the bible hashem asked the devil from where have you came” – Ha Satan in YHVH’s Heavenly Court? & Ready to tackle the book of Job?

9/20  “discovering esoteric knowledge encrypted in hebrew scripture” – Why should there be such a thing as this – “esoteric knowledge” and “encrypted” at that, in the sacred scriptures of Israel?  If YHWH, the Revelator on Sinai who described Himself and His requirements for His covenant people who had the burden of modeling His Way to the nations, the gentiles, the non-Israelites —- would YHWH not CLEARLY communicate?  Would He resort to codes available to only a knowledgeable few?  When you read the Hebrew Scriptures, you discover the simplicity and clarity of the language; it’s full of instructions, commandments and laws embedded in the history of the custodians of record of YHWH’s communication to Israel.

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9/19   “hebrew teaching on uncircumcised lips” – Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?

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9/18  “pepe and pilar bantay” – Unbelievable!  This searcher remembers the reading rules explained in this post:  Prooftext 1a – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “woman”?

9/18   “what is your understanding of leviticus” – A Literary Approach to the book of Leviticus/Wai’qrah

9/18   “yom kippur scapegoat it is finished” –  This is a strange combination of terms for the reason that “it is finished” is associated with the final words of the Christian god-human sacrifice Jesus just before he supposedly gives up his spirit as recounted in the Gospel accounts.  Yom Kippur, on the other hand, requires the strange requirement of two goats, one to be slain for sacrifice and the other to be set free in the wilderness.  For the latter, please check out this post:

9/18   “how is god vengeful in amos” – We have posts and a MUST READ book discussing the perception of the “Old Testament God” as vengeful and angry; in fact next to “circumcised lips” it shows up frequently in search terms that land on this website.  Please check out: Jeffrey Cranford:  “Angry, vengeful God” of OT vs. “Merciful loving God” of NT

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9/16  “pilate and quid est verum and jesus” – Pilate: ‘Quid est veritas?’ – Gospel Truth? – 1

9/16  “+yahh i am a princes song” – Clueless about this search term, sorry, we don’t have a post.

9/16  “no religion is an island words” – No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel

9/16  “reform jewish views on animal sacrifice” – TORAH 101: What were the animal sacrifices all about? – Jewish Perspective

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9/15  “mordecai alfandari – what must we do to be saved” – About Mordecai Alfandari – Light of Israel Tract Center Archive

lightofisrael.typepad.com/home/about-mordecai–alfandari.html
  1. What It Means To Be A Jew · What Must We Do To Be Saved? …Mordecai Avraham Alfandari, the restorer of Karaism and a great teacher to the nations, may he …

9/15  “what does uncircumcised lips mean in the bible” – Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?

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9/14  “1.618 and the positioning of levite cities” – JOURNEYS – sinai 6000/www.sinai6000.net/category/pilgrimage/‎

  1. 2 days ago – … במדבר Bemidbar/Numbers – 4 – Levites ages 30 to 50 . . .serve in the ….. 377 — He also saw that the ratio of any two adjacent numbers was approximately 1:1.618 …… During a conference held in Baguio City, it dawned on me that Jesus was … the Old and New Testament that shook my spiritual position.

9/14  “jack sasson ‘the lord of hosts seated over the cherubim'” – We have no post on this but here’s a link: Curriculum Vitae | Jack Sasson | Vanderbilt University/https://my.vanderbilt.edu/jacksasson/vita/‎

Jack M. Sasson Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible Home 3335 … 2000-“’The Lord of Hosts, Seated overthe Cherubs’,” pp.

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9/13  “sabbath as a tabernacle of time” – The Sabbath: A Tabernacle in Time

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9/12  “tanakh resurrection” – Q & A: What does the Tanakh say about the afterlife? — 19/12  “the moment on sinai” – “The Moment at Sinai” — An Essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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9/11  “how to pick sacraficial goat for yom kippur” – Sacrificial goat, Scapegoat . . . what about the Lamb? Not on Yom Kippur

9/11  “is there true justice” – Is there true justice on earth?

9/11  “tanakh afterlife” – Q & A: What does the Tanakh say about the afterlife? — 1

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9/10  “hifen 6000″- YO!, you would think: what in the world is this searcher looking for? But evidently he/she had already read a post he/she wanted to recheck and lo and behold, “hifen” means “hyphen” which is part of the post’s title; now how 6000 lands him/her in this website is one of internet wonders, unbelievable!  So here’s the post he/she wanted: Jesus – “The Hyphen that Unites Us” – happy now?

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9/9  “free ebooks about the nation of the jews” – Must Download: Free ebook on Jewish History

9/8  “rite of passage prayer” – AMEN – 3 – Prayers for Children and Rites of Passage

9/8   “esau not the progenitor of edomites” – Esau/Edom – A Second Look

9/8   “two goats and a lamb for yom kippur” – Sacrificial goat, Scapegoat . . . what about the Lamb? Not on Yom Kippur.

9/8   “celebrating fall in his name” – And He Called”: Celebrating the Fall Festivals in the biblical calendar – 5773 (September 2012)

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9/7  “the sermon on the mount and sinai” – The Sermon on Sinai vs. The Sermon on the Mount

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9/6  “the way of yhvh – mordecai alfandari” – Sorry, we don’t have a post on this but Google yields several entries including this: http://jewsandjoes.com/yhvh-yhwh-ha-shem-the-great-name.html

9/6   “jordan ruben and acts 10” – Dr. Jordan Rubin wrote a book titled “The Maker’s Diet“, a MUST READ for all those who wish to understand how modern medicine had to catch up with what the Israelites were told by no less than the “Maker” or “Creator” Himself, let’s refer to HIm as the “Old Testament” God or the God of Israel.  The Maker of all things, including clean and unclean animals, designed everything for a purpose.  As we have explained in the purpose for unclean animals, they are designed to be the ‘cleanup crew’ who remove from the earth, rotting flesh, by feeding on these—call them ‘scavengers’.  As such, they were designed NOT FOR FOOD! They have in their flesh, 2 ‘death enzymes’ called cadaverine and putrescine . . . so make your conclusions from those 2 words if you still want to eat the flesh of unclean animals.  Pork for one, shellfish (crabs, oysters, shrimp, lobsters, clams) etc.  Eat them at your own risk, just be informed why the Maker indeed gave a prohibition and why even Noah was instructed to bring in 7 clean and 2 unclean animals.  Connect the dots, that’s what we’re given brains for; then make a choice, that’s what we’re given free will for.  Then face the consequences if you didn’t gain wisdom from being informed by the Maker HImself, as well as medical practitioners who now say, when patients come chronic ailments caused by diet and lifestyle, what ‘meats’ to avoid . . . and most likely, unclean animals are on the list!  Here’s a post that mentions Dr. Rubin in the last paragraph:

9/6  “explain leviticus 16;7-22″ – ויקרא Leviticus/Wa’iyqrah 16 – What? They cast lots for a sacrificial goat and a scapegoat, wasn’t ‘Blood Atonement’ all about a “Sacrificial Lamb”?

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9/5  “rosh hashana thoughts rabbi sacks” – Thoughts on Rosh Hashana from Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

9/5   “evidence yhwh” – Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence”

9/5  “dramatic irony in exodus” – Dramatic Ironies in the Book of Exodus

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9/4  “rabbi jonathan sacks quotes on rosh hashana” – Thoughts on Rosh Hashana from Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

9/4   “rosh hashana thoughts” – Thoughts on Rosh Hashana from Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks

9/4  “ israel2a” – Becoming Israel – 2a – Bere’shiyth 29-35

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9/3  “karaite wisdom” – Nehemiah Gordon and Meir Rekhav

9/3  “devine renforcement bible study” – Not sure what this is about, still checking it out.

9/3  “jhwh evidence” – Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence”

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9/2  “different spirit from kaleb” – My servant Caleb – a different spirit

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9/1 “two silver long trumpets online” – במדבר Bemidbar/Numbers -10- Two silver trumpets, not the Shofar . . .

9/1  “why is the book of ruth read on trumpets” – A Literary Approach to the Book of Ruwth/Ruth

9/1  “what did moses mean by i am of uncircumcised lips” – Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?

9/1  “let us make man in our image let those err that will” – Q&A: “Let US make man in OUR image”

The Creator 5: That pesky “Let US . . . ” in Genesis/Bere’shiyth 1:26

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