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It is official, I am a JEW!
I came out of the mikvah May 21, 2009 in Los Gatos, CA and claimed my Hebrew name, which in English is Jacob.
There are many differing reactions to this particular event, some of which you are experiencing even as you read this. Besides the Congratulations and Mozal Tov types of responses, there are also the, “Why?”, and “Are you kidding?”, types of responses.
I would like to tell you why I decided and chose to be a Jew. The challenge for me here is to make it short but understandable.
Foundation: I […]
Tuff Questions about G_D
Today I am asking questions and this time I would like your response(s)…. if you have them.
To set up the questions I need to present some assumptions:
1) The G_D of Abraham, Issac and Jacob IS G_D.
2) Moses was told by G_D what to write in what we call, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Therefore, if the original text is wrong, G_D made it flawed. —I have not found a flaw, only our misinterpretation and misunderstanding.
3) G_D loves all of HIS creation, especially mankind. When we make a mistake, we really only […]
Those who can not see? Part One
This is an unrecognized, real situation, existing from Moses’s time until today, which was spoken of in the Torah and Tanach. Even in the news and on the radio today, comments are made regarding how most people can look at a thing for a long time and still not grasp anything of importance.
An example for today would be speeches made by a politician. Very often they tell the truth regarding what their real intentions are, but most will not perceive this. Later people say “Where did that come from? I never heard […]
What If . . . . has started so many statements, I doubt that there is a means to estimate the usage of that phrase.
Statements like: What if G-D is not real?; What if people wrote the Books of Moses in order to give power to …?; What if the Torah and Tanach are just lies? ; ….
My response is, What if . . . .it is TRUE, all of it?; What if G-D IS and the Books of Moses were dictated to Moses?
The Next Big question: So how can we know the Truth?
–I know that […]
While I am loath to discuss only a portion of a verse or a few words, but I must start this writing with:
“I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words, and as for My teaching, they have rejected it.”
The evil in this partial text is the “Fruit of their thoughts”(JPS1917) or “The outcome of their own schemes”(JPS 1999). Often we read the evil or curse as something which G-D decrees upon us. This allows us to blame G-D for the tragedies in out lives, which […]
Commandment TWO — Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 4 thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
We have just completed a day of mourning called the 9th day of Av or Tish […]
Prayers –a commentary
by yaakov » Sep 23rd, ’12, 09:50 Today is Sunday 23 Sep 2012, Yom Kippur starts on Tuesday at Sun down, a.k.a. The Day of Atonement. Leviticus 16:29) And it shall be a statute for ever unto you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger that sojourneth among you. 30) For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the LORD. 31) It […]
A friend recently inquired of me, “So what does GOD want from me?”
Shortest answer is: “He wants us to choose HIM”! Now Wait, wait just a minute. That answer was really short, but was it accurate? We will come back top that in a little while.
My second answer comes from Isaiah 56: א כֹּה אָמַר יְהוָה, שִׁמְרוּ מִשְׁפָּט וַעֲשׂוּ צְדָקָה: כִּי-קְרוֹבָה יְשׁוּעָתִי לָבוֹא, וְצִדְקָתִי לְהִגָּלוֹת. 1 Thus saith the LORD: Keep ye justice, and do righteousness; for My salvation is near to come, and My favour to be revealed. ב אַשְׁרֵי אֱנוֹשׁ יַעֲשֶׂה-זֹּאת, וּבֶן-אָדָם יַחֲזִיק בָּהּ–שֹׁמֵר שַׁבָּת מֵחַלְּלוֹ, […]
How important am I?
A question I think almost every person has asked at least once.
One answer is in the story of a man with a single note in each front pocket of his pants. In the right pocket, the note reads “I am nothing but dust and ashes” And in the left pocket the note reads “For ME the world was created.” When he is full of his own importance he reads the Right Pocket. When he is down and troubled he reads the Left. In this way he finds balance in his life. –the proof of the […]
Human Relationships Then and Now — Adam and Eve
(Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help-mate for him.’) JPS 1918 version.
Adam does not appear to be without knowledge. He is the master of his world(Gen. 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that was to be […]
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