Parshas משפטים is jammed packed, besides the many mitzvos that are written in it. This Parsha is the conclusion, the נעילה of the ימי השובבים, in a regular year. It is also the first of the four Parshios that are read surrounding the great י”ט of Purim- שקלים. It is also שבת מברכים אדר, that…
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ADV Parsha Beshalach
שבת שירה בשלח בס”ד The number of pesukim in בשלח is 116, the סימן being יד אמונה, based on the pasuk ויהי ידיו אמונה עד בא השמש. Moshe’s hands were spread out in ‘faith’. However there were still doubts in אמונה, by the yidden, as they were on the 49th level of טומאה in Egypt. Hashem took the yidden to…
Advanced Parsha 08 – Vayetzei Zohar
1 “And Ya’akov went out from Be’er Sheva…”In this section of secret Torah teachings, Rabbi Chiya discusses the symbolism and meaning of Ecclesiastes’ resonant verse, “The sun also rises,and the sun goes down, and hastens to its place where it rises again.” The verse refers to Ya’akov, when he was in Be’er Sheva and went…
The Diatessaron
The first harmony of the Gospels tr. Hope W. Hogg modified by Alan Humm The underlying English translation was done by Hope W. Hogg, (see citation below), as part of the monumental Ante-Nicene Fathers series and turned into electronic form by the Christian Classics Etherial Library whose efforts have gone so far to extend the…
Ancient Hebrew
Languages from the World of the Bible edited by Holger Gzella De Gruyter 4197-017-0FM.indd iii 11/9/2011 9:55:56 PMISBN 978-1-934078-61-7 e-ISBN 978-1-934078-63-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Languages from the world of the Bible / edited by Holger Gzella. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-934078-61-7 (alk. paper) Middle Eastern philology. 2. Semitic philology….
