Yo searchers! Need assistance? – February 2015

[If the the name of the first month January came from Janus, god of beginnings, this second month February comes from Februa, the feast of purification.  For the source of the name of months in our calendar year, here’s a link: http://www.calendar-origins.com/calendar-name-origins.html. You’ll also learn about the origins of the names of the week and other trivia related to the ‘days of our lives’ so to speak, such as who reversed the progress of centuries and millenia back down to year ‘0’ and why. . . while the normal and logical reckoning of time according to the biblically calculated calendar progresses toward the 7th millennium in another 300+ years.

 

In case you haven’t noticed, soon as christmas decorations were taken off the malls, shoppers were reminded of the next occasion to spend our hard-earned money on: valentine’s day (in fact as early as January!)  What would business establishments do without holidays and themed celebrations, eh?

 

We did post an article that came out of curiosity why February 14 has become the focus of the 2nd in the Gregorian calendar: Valentine – Who was he, why does he deserve a day, does anybody really care? —Admin1.]

 

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02/28/15  “can gentiles say hashem” – Anyone can say HaShem, the Hebrew equivalent of “The Name”, one of the euphemisms resorted to by Jews who refuse to pronounce or write the Name revealed to Moses by the God on Sinai—YHWH.  Now, if the real question of this searcher is —“Can gentiles say YHWH?”  We’ve explained many times why we, gentiles, Sinaites, have chosen to write and say the Name “YHWH” — please refer to the many posts explaining our position:

• Q&A: “How does a gentile pray to Hashem?”
• Exodus/Shemoth 20: “I am YHWH”
• How it happened that Jews do not say nor write the Name
• The Names of God —- Perspective of a Noahide
• Abrahamic Faith – 2 – The Awesome Name of God
• God Has Two Names?
• IN HIS NAME: What’s in a name? – 1
• IN HIS NAME – 3: Disagreements on Declaring the Name
• IN HIS NAME: The problem with Ha Shem, G-d, L-rd – 5
• IN HIS NAME: The Revelation of The Name in Exodus – 6

 

02/28/15  “did shepherds eat sheeps aish” –  If the shepherds were Israelites, sheep is clean meat, permitted in Leviticus 11.  If the context of this question is Exodus when Jacob’s descendants had multiplied in Egypt and at the prophesied time would be liberated, most likely there would no ‘Egyptian shepherds’ raising sheep for food consumption, since the lamb was one of the gods of Egypt. That is why the lamb was the chosen animal that would figure in the Passover liberation night, blood splattered on lintels, roasted to be eaten by each family—in effect a bold act for slaves to insult one of the gods of their master-nation. Read the Exodus narrative for details. 

 

02/28/15  “uncircumcized of lips” –  Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?

 

02/27/15  “torah jewish bible” – There are Hebrew translations of the TNK (Tanach, Tanakh) or the Hebrew Scriptures, most of them avoid using the Tetragrammaton Name “YHWH”—the two best known are—

• the “JPS” or Jewish Publication Society which follows the Christian translators’ substitution of “LORD” in place of “YHWH”;
• and the ArtScroll Mesorah Publications TANACH which substitutes  “Hashem” or “The Name” for “YHWH”.  

This website insists on declaring the Name for, as far as we know, there is no prohibition in the TORAH in uttering or writing the Name “YHWH” as long as it does not violate the 3rd commandment, using it “in vain” or with dishonor or disrespect or casually or flippantly.  How will people know God’s Name as He revealed it Himself to Moses and the Israelites, unless we keep declaring it to as many as are eager to know the One True God?  So we searched for a TORAH translation that prints the Name and found it in Everett Fox’s The Five Books of Moses which has now become our official translation.  He has recently come out with a sequel to Torah, titled The Early Prophets:  Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings.  Alternately we also use Robert Alter’s The Five Books of Moses,  though he does not use the Tetragrammaton Name and instead follow the Christian use of “LORD” as substitute.  Alter has come out with his translation with commentary of “The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings” titled Ancient Israel. We love both Fox and Alter as translators because, as one reviewer says it best, both have made it their career-long effort to make us think seriously about the Bible as literature.  Amen to that!

 

02/27/15  “hebrew symbol for marriage” –  This search phrase made us look it up in google (of course) and got educated on it— there appear to be many symbols, we only thought of the chuppah or the symbolic overhead sheet propped up by 4 poles covering  the couple. This has become more elaborate and part of the wedding decorations; one image also shows the white shawl with blue stripes placed over the couple —- Christian marriages use that shawl as well as the cord as ceremonial symbols uniting two lives united in marriage.  Check out: Images for hebrew symbol for marriage

 

02/27/15  “images on abraham’s test of faith” – Journey of Faith – Whose test of faith, Abraham’s or Isaac’s?

 

02/26/15  “lead me lord quotes” – We have many quotes asking for God’s leading, but better yet, here’s a musical one,  rewrite of a Christian hymn; if you know the music (accompaniment provided), here’s the revised lyrics from the post:  A Sinaite’s Musical Liturgy – 1st Sabbath of December.

 

 

1.  Lord of my life, please light my way, all through the darkness be,

lest I get lost, can’t find my way, over my life, please be!

 

2.  Thou art my Shepherd, lead me to pastures of green to feed.

call out my name that I may hear warnings that I should heed.

 

CHO:  Lest I forget Thy voice I heard,

lest I remember not Thy word,

lest I forsake the True Path I’ve tread,

lead me back, LORD, to Thee.

 

3.  Teach me just like the Israelites, all that I need to be,

show me just how to sacrifice, show me what pleases Thee.

 

4.  Best of all that I own and have, unworthy tho’ they be,

best of my mind and soul and will, all are reserved for Thee.

 

CHO:  Lest I fall short of Thy command,

lest I let go of Thy precious Hand,

light up my path, my eyes, my life,

lead me back, Lord, to Thee.  

 

02/25/15  “shemoth 20″ – Exodus/Shemoth 20: “I am YHWH”

 

02/25/15  “jacob and laban speckles streaks and spots color pages” –  Genesis/Bereshith 30: Battle for Babies and Battle of the Wits

02/24/15  “uncircuncised lips” – Exodus/Shemoth 6-b: Do you have “uncircumcised lips”?

 

02/22/15  “the tree of life grew right beside the tree of knowledge of good and evil” – The Tree of – ‘the Knowledge of’/’the Knowing of’ – Good and Evil

02/22/15 ” joseph’s tunics” –  Genesis/Bereshith 37 – “Yisrael loved Yosef above all his sons”

 

02/21/15 – “shabat shalom blessings” – We have a Sabbath liturgy for observant gentiles for every Sabbath of the month (except for a few in June and July). Please click the box Search our Site [Site Map] and go to category ‘Sabbath liturgy’.

02/19/15 “i will dwell amidst them” – Exodus/Shemoth 25 – “Make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.”

02/17/15  “serpent” – This has been a popular search term lately, so here are the posts we’ve been recommending over and over:

• Prooftext 1b – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “serpent”?
• Shedding without blood . . .
• Prooftext 1c – Gen. 3:15 – Who are the “seed,” “offspring”?
• Prooftext 1d – Serpent Symbolism – Postscript
• Q&A: “If the devil doesn’t exist, how come the snake/serpent in the story was punished by the Creator for tempting Eve?”
• Q&A: Why did God take an animal’s life to provide covering for Adam and Eve

 

02/17/15 “tabernacle in time” – The Sabbath: A Tabernacle in Time

• The Sabbath – Its Meaning for Modern Man – Prologue
• The Sabbath – Its Meaning for Modern Man – Epilogue

 

02/16/15  “molting snake” – Shedding without blood . . .

02/16/15  “all greek gods together” –  Must Read: Reuven Firestone – 4 – Chosenness in the Ancient Near East

 

02/15/15  “the explanation of seven dangers of human virtue by mahatma gandhi” – Seven Dangers to Human Virtue

 

02/14/15  “fallen angels in the tanakh” – The posts listed hereunder are not arranged chronologically (according to sequence of thought progression) but they all argue that there is not such thing as “fallen angels” in the TNK.  The thread that runs through all is the premise that only one creature was given free will and therefore could make a choice and that is humankind.  Only the creature made in the image of God can choose to rebel against his Maker/Creator.  “Angelic” beings, also “created”  disembodied spirits have no free will, therefore they cannot not obey the biddings of their Creator God; as messengers they are programmed simply to obey.  

 

If you don’t agree, read through and get educated on what the TNK teaches:

• If the Tanakh does not promote belief in fallen angels, why are they so prominent in the New Testament?
• TNK” ha satan” vs. OT “Satan”/NT “Devil”
• Ha Satan got a bad rap!
• Does Judaism believe in heaven and hell?
• Ezekiel 28:1-19 is NOT about the Devil
• Isaiah 14:12-15 is not about the Devil
• So if there’s no devil and demonic spirits, explain the occult.
• If there’s no Devil, then there’s no hell?
• Q&A: “If the devil doesn’t exist, how come the snake/serpent in the story was punished by the Creator for tempting Eve?”
• Ask the Rabbi: 1 Samuel 28:1-25/Saul and the Spirit Medium
• Ask the Rabbi – Saul and the Spirit Medium – 2
• Ask the Rabbi: Saul and the Spirit Medium – 3
• The Christian Devil Finally Goes to Christian Hell
• Is YHWH the source of evil?
• Ha Satan in YHWH’s Heavenly Court?
• Ready to tackle the book of Job?

02/14/15  “his name is yhwh” – 

• Exodus/Shemoth 15 – “Who is like you among the gods, O YHVH!”
• Exodus/Shemoth 20: “I am YHWH”
• IN HIS NAME: The problem with Ha Shem, G-d, L-rd – 5
• IN HIS NAME: What’s in a name? – 1
• IN HIS NAME – 3: Disagreements on Declaring the Name
• YHWH – Not The Name, but only one of many appellations for the One True God?

 

02/14/15  “in to day`s times who is sedom and amorah?” – Sodom and Gomorrah in the biblical narrative was destroyed by YHWH for the sin of homosexuality.  Today, the ‘third gender’ or ‘third sex’ (gays, lesbians, transgender, etc.) are accepted as “being born that way” and anyone who declares this sexual aberration as sinful is branded homophobic, close-minded, bigotted.  Times truly have changed, liberal views predominate. Will the world today experience divine judgment similar to Sodom and Gomorrah? Heaven seems silent for now, although religionists say AIDS is the modern version of divine judgment.  Others say “hate the sin, love the sinner.”  We repeat: if Noah had boarded a pair of the same gender of any species, including his human family, that would have been the end of the human race.  These articles might help:

•  So what’s wrong with building a high tower?
• Journey of Faith – Lucky Lot

 

02/14/15  “bereshiyth 10:25″ – Here is the specific verse and commentary:

 

 

02/14/15 – “shabbat shalom blessings” – Here’s a Sinaite’s valentine tribute to our great God YHWH: A Sinaite’s Musical Liturgy – 2nd Sabbath of February

 

02/14/15  – “did members of the firestone family once live in israel” – The name “Firestone” rings a bell to motorists who relate it to a tire brand but the name is also shared by a Kabbalah female rabbi named Tirzah Firestone.  Her biography on her website does not indicate she ever lived in Israel.  Here’s a link to a message she delivered on Yom Kippur 5771 where she opens with this quote:

 

The Kotzker Rebbe was once asked: Where does God dwell?

He answered: God dwells wherever we let God in. 

 

 http://www.neveikodesh.org/rabbi/writings_podcasts/YomKippur5771.html

 

We have also featured another “Firestone” in the person of Reuven Firestone, author of our MUST READ/MUST OWN:  

 

• Must Read: Reuven Firestone – 4 – Chosenness in the Ancient Near East
• Must Read: Reuven Firestone – 3 – In the beginning …
• Must Read: Reuven Firestone – 2 – The Language of Chosenness
• Must Read: Who are the REAL Chosen People? – by Reuven Firestone

In answer to the Q of this searcher, did the Firestone family ever live in Israel? If referring to Reuven Firestone:  

“Professor Firestone has lived in Israel, Egypt and Germany and regularly lectures in universities throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.”

 

 

 

02/13/15  “анти валентинки” – Hmmm, clueless about this search term, but ever dependable google has a listing; from the images it appears to be related to Valentine’s Day . . .heck,  what do we know???

02/12/15 “prove yeshua is messiah from tnk” – Oy vey, as the Jews would say . . . we Sinaites did exactly what this searcher is checking out:   Does the TNK, as in Hebrew Scriptures point to “Yeshua” [Hebrew for the Christian Messiah whose Anglicized name is Jesus]?  If one is checking out the “Old Testament” first part of the Christian Bible, the answer will predictably be: YES,  because you will see Jesus all over the OT.  Why?  Because OT has been reprogrammed for you to discover exactly that and your own Christian orientation will make you ‘connect the dots’,  all the OT verses selected out of context or some even within context as ‘prooftext’.  Yes definitely, you will see Yeshua in OT. . . but just as definitely, you will not see him in the TNK or Hebrew Scriptures.  In fact, you will see YHWH instead, and a ‘messiah’ in the Hebrew prophetic expectations who is human and nothing like the Christian messiah-savior-God-man.  But only if you leave your Christian reading lenses behind and decide to read TNK afresh, leaving all the baggage of Christian teaching where it belongs—the New Testament—and not apply what you learned there in reading the TNK.  Get a copy of the Hebrew Bible, it comes as a single package without a sequel. We have written many posts explaining this, please go to SITEMAP or UPDATED SITE CONTENTS and start your re-education in the Hebrew Scriptures and not the Christian version called ‘Old Testament’.  

 

02/12/15  “blue serpent” –  Wow, when somebody remembers the image of a blue serpent in a post and returns to re-read the post, that’s the kind of Truth/God-seeker who is serious about learning as much as he/she can.  Glad we chose a visual that was deposited in someone’s memory bank:  Prooftext 1b – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “serpent”?

 

02/12/15  “image children of israel encamped” – Numbers/Bamidbar 22-23-24: “I behold him: here, a people, alone-in-security it dwells, among the nations it does not need to come-to-reckoning.”

 

02/11/15  “bamidbarsilvertrumpets” – Numbers/Bamidbar -10- Two silver trumpets, not the Shofar . . .

02/10/15 ” jesus christ superstar” – “Superstar” – Confessions of an Idolater

 

02/10/15  “did yhwh save yaakov directly from esau” – 

• Becoming Israel – Esau and ‘Israel’
• Genesis/Bereshith 33: “I have plenty, my brother, let what is yours remain yours. “
• Journey of Faith: Esau/Edom – A Second Look
• Genesis/Bereshith 36 – “That is Esav, the tribal-father of Edom.”
• Genesis/Bereshith 35 – “Esav and Yaakov his sons buried him.” 

 

02/10/15  “judas art” – Judas – did he really exist?

 

02/09/15  “jacob saw god in the face of easu”

• Becoming Israel – Esau and ‘Israel’
• Genesis/Bereshith 33: “I have plenty, my brother, let what is yours remain yours. “
• Journey of Faith: Esau/Edom – A Second Look
• Genesis/Bereshith 36 – “That is Esav, the tribal-father of Edom.”
• Genesis/Bereshith 35 – “Esav and Yaakov his sons buried him.”

 

02/08/15 “serpent“

• Prooftext 1b – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “serpent”?
• Shedding without blood . . .
• Prooftext 1c – Gen. 3:15 – Who are the “seed,” “offspring”?
• Prooftext 1d – Serpent Symbolism – Postscript
• Q&A: “If the devil doesn’t exist, how come the snake/serpent in the story was punished by the Creator for tempting Eve?”
• Q&A: Why did God take an animal’s life to provide covering for Adam and Eve

 

02/08/15  “jewish symbols” 

• Signs and Symbols from the SHEMA
• Ever wonder about the Star of David symbol?
• Must Read – 6 – Robert Schoen/The Torah and the Law; Jewish symbols

02/08/15  “jewish symbols” 

• Signs and Symbols from the SHEMA
• Ever wonder about the Star of David symbol?
• Must Read – 6 – Robert Schoen/The Torah and the Law; Jewish symbols

02/07/15 “sabbath day” – We have a liturgy for every Sabbath of the year except for 6 weekends between June and July.  For this this week, here’s the liturgy:  A Sinaite’s Liturgy – 1st Sabbath of February.  

 

For articles on the Sabbath day, here are a few posts:

• Genesis/Bere’shith 2 – The Sabbath and Humankind
• The Sabbath – Its Meaning for Modern Man – Epilogue
• The Sabbath – Its Meaning for Modern Man – Prologue
• An Inconvenient Truth: THE SABBATH of YHWH

 

02/06/15  “sinai mount painting” – We have used many images for Sinai in both articles and liturgies; all of these are google-sourced while our logo is the sketch of BBB@S6K (artist based in San Francisco, CA); enhanced color shading by our former webdesigner Eric P.  and lettering further improved by our current server  staff from Silverconnect.

 

02/05/15  “serpent” – 

• Prooftext 1b – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “serpent”?
• Shedding without blood . . .
• Prooftext 1c – Gen. 3:15 – Who are the “seed,” “offspring”?
• Prooftext 1d – Serpent Symbolism – Postscript
• Q&A: “If the devil doesn’t exist, how come the snake/serpent in the story was punished by the Creator for tempting Eve?”
• Q&A: Why did God take an animal’s life to provide covering for Adam and Eve

 

02/05/15  “jewish torah” –  Must Read – 6 – Robert Schoen/The Torah and the Law; Jewish symbols

• TORAH Through Time – Rabbi Shai Cherry

 

02/04/15 “a snake molting” – Shedding without blood . . .

 

02/04/15  “sermon on mount sinai” – Haha, that’s what we get for using a title like:  The Sermon on Sinai vs. The Sermon on the Mount.  The self-revealing God on Sinai did not give a ‘sermon’!  As the article explains:  

“Quite a provocative title for a controversial discourse—actually it should be reworded to “The Revelation on Sinai vs. The Sermon on the Mount,”  because there is a vast difference between a revelation and a sermon. Anyone can preach a sermon but only God can reveal Himself and His will initially to Israel, though intended for all mankind.”

 

02/04/15 “jewish symbols” – Signs and Symbols from the SHEMA

• Ever wonder about the Star of David symbol?
• Must Read – 6 – Robert Schoen/The Torah and the Law; Jewish symbols

 

02/04/15 “serpent” – 

• Prooftext 1b – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “serpent”?
• Shedding without blood . . .
• Prooftext 1c – Gen. 3:15 – Who are the “seed,” “offspring”?
• Prooftext 1d – Serpent Symbolism – Postscript
• Q&A: “If the devil doesn’t exist, how come the snake/serpent in the story was punished by the Creator for tempting Eve?”
• Q&A: Why did God take an animal’s life to provide covering for Adam and Eve

 

 

02/03/15  “shabbat” – We have completed a year of ‘A Sinaite’s Liturgy’ (except for 6 Sabbaths in June/July.  We are in process of revising and improving what has already been posted.  Please feel free to use all our Sabbath material: prayers, revised lyrics, and even our musical accompaniment for the ‘musical Sabbath’. We’re just too happy to share materials on our website with anyone interested in using them to make known and glorify the God we worship, YHWH, God of Israel, God of the nations, Creator, Revelator on Sinai.

 

 02/03/15  “serpent” 

• Prooftext 1b – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “serpent”?
• Shedding without blood . . .
• Prooftext 1c – Gen. 3:15 – Who are the “seed,” “offspring”?
• Prooftext 1d – Serpent Symbolism – Postscript
• Q&A: “If the devil doesn’t exist, how come the snake/serpent in the story was punished by the Creator for tempting Eve?”
• Q&A: Why did God take an animal’s life to provide covering for Adam and Eve?

 

02/03/15  “jewish belief based on revelation not blind faith” – Blind Faith vs. Belief based on Evidence

 

02/03/15   “ernest van den haag jew –  The Jewish Mystique by Ernest Van Den Haag

• “Is there a Jewish character? ” – The Jewish Mystique/Ernest Van Den Haag
• “What makes the Jews so Jewish?”
• Israel is the Promised Land . . . but not for American Jews

02/03/15 “judaism torah” – 

•   The First Torah-based Religion – Judaism
• Must Read – 6 – Robert Schoen/The Torah and the Law; Jewish symbols
• Where Judaism Differed – 3
• Where Judaism Differed – 2
• Where Judaism Differed – 1
• MUST READ: What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about JUDAISM by Robert Shoen

02/02/15  “pictures with sabbath messages” –  Our Sabbath liturgy all year round are full of sabbath messages superimposed on beautiful photographs, all taken from the web, thanks to the great service that google does.  There is a glut of images on practically every topic, so take your pick, just as we do!  Thanks google!

 

02/02/15  “as a deer panteth” – “Soul Thirst” – Art by AHV@S6K

 

02/01/15 “yahweh wallpaper” – All the images we feature in our posts come from where else, google of course, so this searcher will most likely find what he’s specifically looking for there.  But thanks for dropping by!