55. Answers, continued

If there is anyone out there that I have not yet offended, read here. I will surely offend you today. Again, simply trying to share a few of thousands of connected threads in the Hebrew. Your choice to hear or not. Let’s return to this image: This discussion is purposely a continuation of the previous …

54. Answers

In life are many blessings. They come in many forms. Ofttimes we don’t recognize the blessings, thinking they may be curses. It all goes back to our inability to really comprehend what is consumed from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God knows. We try our best to understand, but God’s perspective …

53. Jerusalem-City of Jebus

I began a project to take another look at “All Those Nations” we discussed in Post #43, the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, Jebusites, by using some of the newer tools we have been working with recently. I began with the last on the list, the Jebusites. You will see that this is a study …

52. Restraint

● Jeremiah 18:2-6 2 “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.” 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel(h0070. אֹבֶן ’ôḇen). 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so …

51. Look for the Name

Many of the tribe of Judah call God by the name of HaShem, meaning “the name,” השם. First, I did a search of the word השם in the Hebrew Scriptures without prefixes or suffixes. It seems we always get some surprises with these searches. AlHaTorah השם no prefixes and no suffixes  https://library.alhatorah.org/Search?mode=basic&p=0&c=1&s=0&t=השם&distance=10&inorder=0&en=1&notes=1&tree=shallow Tanakh (9 results) 1. Bereshit 6:4 (Mikraot Gedolot) הַנְּפִלִים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם וְגַם אַחֲרֵי כֵן אֲשֶׁר יָבֹאוּ בְּנֵי  הָאֱלֹהִים אֶל בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם וְיָלְדוּ לָהֶם הֵמָּההַגִּבֹּרִים אֲשֶׁר מֵעוֹלָם אַנְשֵׁי הַשֵּׁם. Genesis 6:4 …

50. “Book of Remembrance”

Apologies that there are very few apparent connections among the past couple of entries and this one. There are so very many connections to be made and so much background information in Oder for the connections to make sense. So, here we are going to be introducing a very important concept about “to remember,” which …