Category Archives: Old testament

What is the best jewelry for the neck?

In the book of Proverbs the good woman appears as a metaphor of wisdom.it was and still is customary for a woman to put necklaces or other jewelries around her neck. The passage that you are about to read is one of my favorites in the Hebrew Bible, as written: ” בְּנִי תּוֹרָתִי אַל-תִּשְׁכָּח; וּמִצְו‍ֹתַי, יִצֹּר [...]

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Are you hungry?

Amos 8 is one of the chapters that I read few times in the last week. As a teacher I must prepare the material before I am entering the class, and this week I am going to teach my students few verses from this chapter. When we need to speak about spiritual food, the end [...]

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How to identify a murderer?

Sometimes I am reading the newspapers and there is an article about someone, who killed all his family and no one knew. All the people who met him said that they felt shocked once they understood that there was a murderer in their building. In the book of Numbers there is almost a whole chapter [...]

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What did cows drink?

Usually when you think about cows, in our eyes we can imagine meat or milk. In his eyes Amos looked at different cows. He pondered about the cows as a symbol for the rich women, who lived in Samaria, the capital of the Israeli Kingdom. , let us see his words, as written in Amos [...]

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