Monthly Archives: July 2010

Idioms in the book of Genesis

If you want to define exactly, without any mistakes the terms for a contract or a covenant, you will use today in the Modern Hebrew an expression that appears in Genesis 29:18, as written: “  וַיֶּאֱהַב יַעֲקֹב, אֶת-רָחֵל; וַיֹּאמֶר, אֶעֱבָדְךָ שֶׁבַע שָׁנִים, בְּרָחֵל בִּתְּךָ, הַקְּטַנָּה“ “And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said: ‘I will serve [...]

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The fish in the story of the flood

When the rain started to fall down from the skies and the people of earth figure out that they cannot sin anymore, there were kind of animals that the water wasn’t new to them – the fish. We never ask the question about the fish; what happened to them during the flood? When The Lord [...]

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The angels were fighting and man has been created!!!

We all know the famous verse from the story of creation, that tell us about the consolation between the Lord and his angels about the creation of the man, as written in Genesis 1:26- “וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ; וְיִרְדּוּ בִדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם, וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכָל-הָאָרֶץ, וּבְכָל-הָרֶמֶשׂ, הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל-הָאָרֶץ.” “And God said: ‘Let us [...]

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Psalm 8- God, the world and the man

If you are looking for a psalm that will tell you the power of God, his control all over the world and the futility of man against the eminence of God, you should read psalm 8. This psalm starts with music; the psalm of David is being played in the temple with the instrument called [...]

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