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There are lessons for the modern ger (stranger) in the account of Avram. We also explain historic and legal points about Melchizedek, Hagar and circumcision in this week’s torah portion, Lekh-Lekha (GO!).
Monthly ArchiveOctober 2018
"Now YHWH said to Avram, “Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you." Bereshit 12:1
17
Oct
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“I will make you into a threshing-sledge, new, with sharp, pointed teeth, to thresh the mountains and crush them to dust, to reduce the hills to chaff.”
When do you know when biblical text is literal or metaphoric? We look at how to understand biblical metaphors and idioms with this week’s haftarah in Isaiah 40 and 41.
13
Oct
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In this short podcast, we look closer at some of the interpretations of what Cham did to Noach and the sources of these interpretations.
12
Oct
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Who stole my bible?! In this week’s torah portion, Noach (Noah), Yoel further addresses the claim that parts of the Tanakh were stolen from other cultures and writings by examining elements of the account of the flood.
10
Oct
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“For me this is like Noach’s flood. Just as I swore that no flood like Noach’s would ever again cover the earth, so now I swear that never again will I be angry with you or rebuke you.”
We learn about Samaritans and the origins of the haftarah readings as a supplement to this week’s haftarah from Yeshayahu 54.
5
Oct
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We open our renewed Torah cycle in Bereshit (In the beginning) with an academic comparison and contrast of the elements in the Torah with other creation stories.
4
Oct
When examining the narrative of Genesis 2-3, the Hebrew word for Evil רע-r’a is used in a manner which raises questions over what this evil is, and how it affects the narrative. In this article I will examine the different aspects of this matter, and will try to present an interpretation of this subject.
3
Oct
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“The blind I will lead on a road they don’t know, on roads they don’t know I will lead them; I will turn darkness to light before them, and straighten their twisted paths. These are things I will do without fail.”
Some history of ancient temple liturgy precedes our presentation of Haftarah Bereshit in which Isaiah describes the powerful promise to save and restore YHWH’s exiled covenant people.
1
Oct
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Join Yoel and Jeff Gilbert as we wrap up this year’s Torah cycle with Vezot Haberakhah (this is the blessing).
30
Sep
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“Only be strong and very bold in taking care to follow all the Torah which Moshe my servant ordered you to follow; do not turn from it either to the right or to the left; then you will succeed wherever you go.”
Our haftarah presents the transition of leadership from Moshe to Joshua. This lesson is supplemented with history on the Torah reading cycle traditions.
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