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08/18/15 “the scorpion and the frog” – Revisit: The Scorpion and the Frog
08/18/15 “veiled in obscurity” – Q&A: “Israel prophecy” – “veiled in obscurity“?
08/17/15 “the origins of prophecy remain veiled in obscurity.discuss” – Q&A: “Israel prophecy” – “veiled in obscurity“?
08/10/15 “religion is not an island” – We featured parts of a book written by one of our favorite Jewish philosophers-writers, Abraham Joshua Heschel. Here are excerpts from that book that can be found under our category MUST READ/MUST HAVE:
- No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel
- No Religion is an Island – 2 – “To equate religion and God is idolatry” – AJHeschel
- No Religion is an Island – Conclusion – “Revelation to Israel continues as a revelation through Israel.”
08/07/15 “the last temptation of christ novel study” – Tempted by ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’? Kazantzakis’ Jesus: “Salvation cannot be founded on lies.”
08/05/15 “obey god” – Let me rephrase this, “obey YHWH’s Torah”. Name the god you want to obey, if you know all that he has commanded. The God of Israel who revealed Himself as YHWH had specific laws for specific situations, people, individuals, etc. and what has become known as the “ten commandments” breaks down to a simple two: love YHWH above all and your fellowman. How to live the simple two is what the whole Torah is about, if one reads it and understands it in its original historical and cultural context and determine its universal application to Jew and Gentile alike. The articles in this website attempt to explain how gentiles like us, Sinaites, “obey God” or specifically the God we have come to know, love, worship and obey.
08/04/15 ” uncircumcised lips meaning” – Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?
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Welcome August!
Question: An ardent truth-seeker asked how Sinaites know if we’re celebrating the sabbath on the actual day YHWH ordained it on Creation week?
Answer: In this day and age, when the whole world goes by the Gregorian calendar, we will just presume the Sabbath we celebrate might indeed be on the original 7th day of Creation Week and if not, then may our gracious Lord of the Sabbath, YHWH, correct those of us with hearts that will to obey the 4th commandment. Meanwhile, we will just trust the same sabbath date that observant Jewry seem to go by on the same universal calendar, because that is all one can do until corrected further by Divine enlightenment.
It is no wonder though, that the question even comes up, since the calendar the world goes by is somewhat confusing. For instance, Sept (7) , Oct (8), Nov (9), Dec (10) apply to the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th months of the Gregorian calendar year. Previously, the August was named ‘Sextillis’ but by decree of the people who messed up our calendar, here’s the account from http://www.infoplease.com/spot/history-of-august.html:
Augustus for ‘August’
After Julius’s grandnephew Augustus defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and became emperor of Rome, the Roman Senate decided that he too should have a month named after him. The month Sextillus (sex = six) was chosen for Augustus, and the senate justified its actions in the following resolution:
Whereas the Emperor Augustus Caesar, in the month of Sextillis . . . thrice entered the city in triumph . . . and in the same month Egypt was brought under the authority of the Roman people, and in the same month an end was put to the civil wars; and whereas for these reasons the said month is, and has been, most fortunate to this empire, it is hereby decreed by the senate that the said month shall be called Augustus.
Not only did the Senate name a month after Augustus, but it decided that since Julius’s month, July, had 31 days, Augustus’s month should equal it: under the Julian calendar, the months alternated evenly between 30 and 31 days (with the exception of February), which made August 30 days long. So, instead of August having a mere 30 days, it was lengthened to 31, preventing anyone from claiming that Emperor Augustus was saddled with an inferior month.
To accommodate this change two other calendrical adjustments were necessary:
The extra day needed to inflate the importance of August was taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was now reduced to 28 days (29 in a leap year).
Since the months evenly alternated between 30 and 31 days, adding the extra day to August meant that July, August, and September would all have 31 days. So to avoid three long months in a row, the lengths of the last four months were switched around, giving us 30 days in September, April, June, and November.
Among Roman rulers, only Julius and Augustus permanently had months named after them—though this wasn’t for lack of trying on the part of later emperors. For a time, May was changed to Claudius and the infamous Nero instituted Neronius for April. But these changes were ephemeral, and only Julius and Augustus have had two-millenia-worth of staying power.
For further reading:
Calendar: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year, David Ewing Duncan (New York: Avon, 1998).
—Admin1.]