Category Archives: Bible Verses

Stones in our pocket?

One of the amazing things that you can find while reading the Hebrew Bible is the amount of different, some will say odd, laws that you must maintain and keep. Today we will meet one of them, that appears in Deuteronomy 25:13-16- ” לֹא-יִהְיֶה לְךָ בְּכִיסְךָ, אֶבֶן וָאָבֶן: גְּדוֹלָה, וּקְטַנָּה. לֹא-יִהְיֶה לְךָ בְּבֵיתְךָ, אֵיפָה וְאֵיפָה: [...]

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Psalms 114- the exile from Egypt

One of the most beautiful passages in the Haggadah is taken from the Old Testament. Every year we sit around the table, singing the songs of Passover, one of them is this- ” בְּצֵאת יִשְׂרָאֵל, מִמִּצְרָיִם; בֵּית יַעֲקֹב, מֵעַם לֹעֵז. הָיְתָה יְהוּדָה לְקָדְשׁוֹ; יִשְׂרָאֵל, מַמְשְׁלוֹתָיו. הַיָּם רָאָה, וַיָּנֹס; הַיַּרְדֵּן, יִסֹּב לְאָחוֹר. הֶהָרִים, רָקְדוּ כְאֵילִים; גְּבָעוֹת, [...]

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The ninth plague- Darkness

One of my dearest students in E-teacher asked me to explain to him about the ninth plague, the darkness. So today we are going to discuss the “choshech”, meaning darkness in Hebrew. The first time that we encounter this word is in Genesis 1:2, where we see the state of the world, before the beautiful creation [...]

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What happens when the name changes?

In the Hebrew Bible we encounter some passages where there are changes in the name of a person, place or even people. One of the most famous examples can be found in Genesis 17, as written: “וְלֹא-יִקָּרֵא עוֹד אֶת-שִׁמְךָ, אַבְרָם; וְהָיָה שִׁמְךָ אַבְרָהָם, כִּי אַב-הֲמוֹן גּוֹיִם נְתַתִּיךָ.” “Neither shall thy name any more be called [...]

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