Monthly Archives: March 2010
Moses and the white wolf
Some legends that we know from childhood seems to be forgotten and from time to time we want to remember the time we were kids, the time that the kindergarten told us the stories, the legends that we loved to hear all the time. Usually the wolf in the legends is the symbol of the [...]
Weekly Torah Portion – VaYikra
Meaning of the name The portion is named VaYikra, , literally "and he called out", because it begins with God calling out to Moses from the Tent of Meeting. The portion, which begins the Book of Leviticus, begins the ongoing detailed description in this book of the different sacrifices which are to be brought [...]
Shamir – The magical worm
According to Hebrew Scriptures, the Shamir was a supernatural organism that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. According to legend, the Shamir was a worm whose mere touch could cleave rocks. The Shamir have been created at the twilight of the first Sabbath Eve during the Six Days of [...]
Five reasons to Learn Biblical Hebrew
When I try to translate The Scriptures to my students I am trying to be as close as I can get to the meaning of the text, without changing the original meaning of it. This is sometime a very impossible mission, like the great T.V. program in the sixties…. There is an easy way to [...]
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