Tag Archives: water

The lack of water

In Exodus 17 we can find one of the first stories that deal with the people of Israel and water. The water is a sign for belief, for knowledge, for the control of G-d over nature. The people of Israel were in the desert, after they crossed the red sea, and before they went to [...]

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What The Lord showed Jonah in the belly of the fish?- part 2

In the belly of the whale, God showed Jonah the history of the people of Israel especially all the events that relate to water. The eyes of the fish were the mirror that showed him the real picture, the reality of the acts of God. The first was off course the crossing of the sea [...]

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Can people change, even if they are old? – Part 2

Rabbi Akiva left the world of the stone, which is a symbol to someone who can’t change, to the world of the water, which represent the change that a man can have in his life, a change that occurred in one point, due to a one reason, one moment in life, even if it happened [...]

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The metaphor of water

In Jeremiah 2 it seems to be that there is a journey to the past, the good past according to the prophet , when the people of Israel have been in the desert and they served The Lord with a great commitment, without complaining, though that the conditions were bad- the desert was the place [...]

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