Torah Nuggets
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Above Him Stood the Seraphim
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If you open up any page in the Hebrew Bible, you will see little signs beneath and above each word which, at first glance, give the impression that someone did a sloppy job of printing. The fact is that these marks – which look like ׀ ׃ ˛ play a very important role in our ability to derive meaning from the text.
מחיר:0.00 ש"חBut it Makes no Sense!
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Every now and then, the Hebrew-speaking person who reads the Bible will come across a verse that makes no sense at all. Sometimes, this is simply the result of the gap between Biblical Hebrew and modern Hebrew. Such is the case, for example, with Isaiah 54:12 where the word ekdach (אֶקְדָּח) means “carbuncle” or “ruby” in Biblical Hebrew – and “pistol” today.מחיר:0.00 ש"חFiery Law
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Hapax legomenon is a Greek term for a word that appears only once in the Bible. The rarity of such words makes them difficult to understand, especially if their grammatical form is unique. A perfect example of the hapax phenomenon is the Hebrew word אֵשְׁדָּת (eshdat). This word appears only once, in Deuteronomy 33:2, which says: “The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, and He came with ten thousands of saints: from His right hand went a fiery law [eshdat] for them” (kjv).
מחיר:0.00 ש"חIsrael’s Rebirth in the Book of Esther
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A few weeks ago, Jews around the world celebrated the feast of Purim, which commemorates the people of Israel’s miraculous escape from Haman’s plan to annihilate them. Towards the end of the book, in chapter 9, we are told of the destruction of the enemies of the Jews, in much the same way as occurred in the Exodus. Among the dead were Haman’s ten sons, who are listed by name. A careful examination of these names reveals that three of them contain three letters that are smaller than the rest and look like this:פרשנדתא (Parshandatha)פרמשתא (Parmashta)ויזתא (Vaizatha)מחיר:0.00 ש"חKamatz Patah
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Anyone who reads the Bible in Hebrew will find many words that are not spelled the way they normally are––little letters and big letters, strange punctuation marks, and so forth. Since early times, this phenomenon caught the eye of its Jewish readers, who endeavored to explain it. Jesus likewise revered it, even telling his listeners that no one is allowed to treat even a jot or a tittle lightly, let alone ignore them. Yet since no real authoritative stamp could be given to interpretations on the basis of such minute details, they were treated as desserts, treats for the serious Torah student.
מחיר:0.00 ש"חNot Just a Stone
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In our modern times, mystical things are looked upon with skeptical eyes. The notion that what cannot be seen or felt does not exist is as common as Walgreens. Yet the Bible gives ample evidence of a mystical dimension hidden underneath its literal meaning. Such is the case with a mysterious stone that first appears in Genesis and continues to surface throughout the Bible.מחיר:0.00 ש"חRead “Freedom” not “Engraved”
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Think whatever you like of the Law, but for the Jewish people, the Torah never possessed a gloomy image of a people enslaved under the yoke of countless commandments. For the pious Jew, the law was always a delight and the doing of the commandments pure joy (cf. Ps. 119:174, 143). Nonetheless, any kind of explicit demand was conceived as contrary to freedom.מחיר:0.00 ש"חThe Power of Allegory
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Allegory has been long rejected as a legitimate form of interpreting Scripture. It cannot be denied, however, that people still see in it a vital tool for understanding sacred texts. So much so that the book Song of Songs would not have made it into the canon unless the Jewish Sages had understood it as an allegory concerning the relationship between Israel and her God. In chapter two of this book we find a verse that, although at first glance appears plain enough, had a powerful effect on the modern history of Israel. The verse reads: “Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires” (SoS. 2:7). In Hebrew, the word “charge” means “put under oath” – a strong word for asking not to awaken love.
מחיר:0.00 ש"חThe Secret of Lev Kamai
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If you open your niv or nasb Bible to Jeremiah 51:1, you will read for the first – and last – time about the mysterious inhabitants of Lev Kamai: “See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Lev Kamai,” says the prophet, in no uncertain terms. But who are these unknown people? To solve the riddle, some translations––such as the kjv––made a calculated guess and turned the verse into something which looks quite different and reads like this: “Behold, I will rise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me …
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