Monthly Archives: July 2010

When someone wants to use the root ‘bd (to lose/perish)

When a special person is dead, whether he or she is closed to you or not, the book of Micah expresses an idiom the speaks of the good quality of this person as written in Micah 7:2- “אָבַד חָסִיד מִן הָאָרֶץ” “The godly man is perished out of the earth” If that man was one [...]

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One meeting – a lot of meanings

In genesis 33 Jacob and Esau finally meets after the escape of Jacob to Laban’s house, when he stole the blessing of his brother. If someone would have read the story in Genesis 33 without knowing Jacob’s perforations, he could understand even then the relationship between Jacob’ his wives and his children , soon to [...]

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The lion in the Bible-part 2

When we are looking at the heroes of The Scriptures, some of them fought with the lions in order to show us their strength and courage, when they competed with them. The first story is with Samson, who fought against the whelp of lion as it written in judges 14:5-6- ” וַיֵּרֶד שִׁמְשׁוֹן וְאָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ, [...]

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The lion in the Bible

We all saw or heard about the famous movie the lion’ king; there is no kid that didn’t heard the words timon, pumbah, simba and muphasa!yet we all have to ask the question why the lion is the king of the animals? Is there any connection to the bible and to this saying about him? [...]

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