Hebrews

receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful” (79). He would be grateful towards this mountain and all that it offers, because he is the opposite of ungrateful, as readers see when he stands up for the Hebrews. Moses would care for the mountain and its surroundings like he did for the Hebrews.…

Hanukkah, also known as “the Festival of Lights,” is an eight-day Jewish holiday celebrated during the Jewish month of Kislev, which is the ninth month of the Hebrew calendar falling between November to late December, starting on the 25th day. This holiday commemorates the purification and rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after it was defiled by the Greek Syrians, and it is also a time for rededication to the faith. The story of Hanukkah is found in the books of Maccabees I and II…

“YAHWEH” AND “I AM” EXODUS 3:13-15 Introduction There are many God’s names can be found in the Bible. These names in the Scripture are not merely denotative markers or labels, but also connote attributes and character. God reveals himself through different names in different stage. These names are not a random combination of sounds and words, but convey the…

Palestine is the Holy Land, though it doesn’t seem like it. For the past century, Palestinians and Israelis (Zionists) cannot seem to like each other or at least try not to kill each other. The hostility between these two “countries” is extremely controversial. The Palestinian revolts have been escalating and there have been two intifadas that have killed thousands of people; it is just a matter of time for the third one. With the way things are going it will likely happen sooner than later. The…

also went unrecognized for quite some time until Metropolitan Archbishop Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, head monastery of St. Mark’s Syrian Orthodox Monastery showed the Dead Sea Scrolls to Eleazar Lup Sukenik. Sukenik was a professor of Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After Sukenik seen pieces of fragments of the scrolls, he personally took a trip to Bethlehem to see the cave, where the fragments were originally discovered. Sukenik wrote in a diary entry December 1, 1947 stating,…

The day of Jewish rest Rest, Shabbat in Hebrew, begins at sundown on friday and ends on Saturday at sundown. On Friday night, Jewish families transition from their everyday lives to a more spiritual time where they share dinner together. Tables are set with good dishes and white tablecloths. The tables are placed with candles, wine, and challah loaves, which are needed to perform Sabbath religious rituals. “For six days work may be done; but the seventh day is the sabbath rest, a day for sacred…

Isaac became the second of the Patriarch's, spelled Yitshaq in ancient Hebrew, as the only son of Abraham and Sarah and according to the Old Testament becomes the first newborn boy to be circumcised at just eight days old. In order to test Abraham's faith, God requests that Abraham builds an altar for the purpose of sacrificing his young son Isaac. As requested, Abraham constructs the altar, ties his son to the altar, prepares to sacrifice Isaac when an angel tells Abraham to release his son and…

Life Lesson I Learned getting prepared for My Bar Mitzvah Being Bar mitzvah is a big honor in the jewish religion. A Bar Mitzvah is a solemn ceremony held in the synagogue to admit as an adult member of the Jewish community a Jewish boy 13 years old who has successfully completed a prescribed course of study in Judaism. It took a lot of preparation for this big day. I had to learn a whole new language in less than a year and I needed to write a speech about what I learned from reading my…

In an attempt to identify the parallelism in Psalm 1, we must first understand the three types of parallelisms found in the Hebrew Bible. Synonymous parallelism the thought or idea is carried over or reflected in the part of the passage using different language. In antithetical parallelism the thought or reference in the second part is opposite from that of the first part, and finally, in synthetic or formal parallelism, the second thought adds to the first idea or thought (Tullock & McEntire,…

begins on the first day of Tishrei, which is the first month of the Jewish civil year. This day marks the beginning of the year because it is held on the traditional anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, who are the first woman and man in the Hebrew bible. Because my patient is bed bound we watched the Jewish programs on the Tv and got to hear the sounding of the shofar which is a hollowed out ram’s horn. That night you enjoy a festive meal and the whole family came over and cooked and…