When I try to translate The Scriptures to my students I am trying to be as close as I can get to the meaning of the text, without changing the original meaning of it.
This is sometime a very impossible mission, like the great T.V. program in the sixties….
There is an easy way to solve the problem of the translation- Learn Biblical Hebrew with us!
So why should you do it?
A. Don’t you want to be as close as you can to The Lord’s words?
B. The sacred language should be for all of the people in the world as written in the book of Zephaniah 3:9-
“Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzi-bah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel”
One of the best questions that a man can ask is why. This question gives us, the people of the world the opportunity to understand that the curiosity still exist in our crazy world. If why is the best question that a man can ask, all the more so in a religious context. Today we will speak about Manasseh
This is a king that has done a lot of sins in his life, maybe the worst sins ever. He put a statue of the god Astarte in the temple- this is the place that you should serve The Lord and nothing but The Lord. He killed a lot of people in Jerusalem that the bible said that Jerusalem was full of blood from end to end.
Manasseh was a king that if you had to give him a grade the grade was the most negative to you can imagine- a big F. and still the question remains- why did he reigned more time then David and Solomon- why?
Main phrases of the post + transcription + translation
This week’s Torah reading is in fact the combination of two portions. These two portions are often combined, since the system of dividing the Torah into portions is designed so that there will be enough portions for all of the Sabbaths of the year. The weekly portion is not read on holidays that come out on the Sabbath, and therefore, when there is a year during which many holidays do, some portions are joined together to that the Torah will still be completed during the year.
VaYakhel, , literally "and he gathered", is thus named because it begins with Moses
gathering all of the Israelites and commanding them to keep the Sabbath.
Pekudey, , literally "the sum" or "the records", is thus named because it begins with
listing all that was gathered from the Israelites for building the desert Tabernacle – in gold, silver, bronze, jewels and cloth.
Hello dear readers, I am sorry for being away last week, this was a week with sickness to me and to my family.
Due to this reason, I decided to write today about sick people in the bible.
In the book of Ruth we can find two very sick persons without telling us that they are sick, these are mahlon and kilion, the two sons of Naomi and elimelech as written
“And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and kilion”
Seemingly, it seems to be that nothing is written about someone that is sick, but if we will look closely to the nouns that appear in the names mahlon and kilion, we will see that machlon derives from the noun Machala, which means sickness or illness; kilion derives from kelaya, which means extermination.
It’s not a surprise that few verses after we can find this:
“וַיָּמֻתוּ גַם-שְׁנֵיהֶם, מַחְלוֹן וְכִלְיוֹן”
“And Mahlon and chilion died both of them”
If you have a name with sickness you will be sick.
I wish everyone to be healthy, Eli
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