This blog was inspired by a conversation I had with my youngest daughter, who in the past few weeks turned 24. She is an amazing young lady, I have said many of times that I love my adult children, having intellectual conversations with them is awesome form a father's point of view. She has one …
Author: Emuna Trek
Welcome to my blog where I share my spiritual thoughts and studies.
My Loves: My wife of 30 yrs, my 2 daughters
My Work: Derby Chain Solutions - Reach Truck operator
My Likes: I enjoy nature, being on the river and in the mountains, walking on the beach with my wife. I like old Chrysler products; my dream car is 1968-1974 Plymouth Barracuda. I like '40s Chrysler convertibles. Reading and writing.
Favorite Drinks: Ice cold sweet tea, Dr Pepper, Maker's Mark Whisky, The Glenlivet Scotch 12yr, Coke & Rum, Coke & Jack, Coconut Rum
My Hobbies: Reading, writing, photography
My Beliefs: I am a Bnei Noach (Child of Noah. A Bnei Noach is one who keeps the seven laws given by the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob to the non-Jewish nations. The Laws were given from Adam through Noah. Bnei Noach/Noahide are modern terms for the non-Jewish followers of the G-d of Israel. There are a few ancient biblical names, in the Hebrew they are, Yiras Hashem (God Fearers), Ger/Gerim (this term appears many times in the biblical text, depending on the context it can mean a stranger or foreigner who keeps the Bnei Noach covenant.
The Seven Law
1. Awareness of God
a. The belief in the One True non-corporeal God
2. Prohibition of blasphemy
a. The obligation to respect God's Name, to revere and fear God .
b. Prohibition of cursing any of God's Names
3. Prohibition of murder and injury
4. Prohibition of forbidden sexual relations
5. Prohibition of theft
6. Prohibition of eating meat that was separated from a living animal.
7. Establishment of laws and courts.
More info about the life of a Bnei Noach/Noahide can be found at www.asknoah.org and beingnoahide.com
A Time To Reflect
I am in the midst of reading Seven Gates of Righteous Knowledge by Rabbi Moshe Weiner and Dr. Michael Schulman. Yesterday morning I read something about the Shabbat that I had not thought of and found it very thought provoking. In Chapter 2 'Contemplation Of The Noahide Commandments and Lessons from the Hebrew Bible' The …
A Movement of Modern Blasphemy?
Recently I have began a cover to cover read of The Divine Code by Rabbi Moshe Weiner. This morning I began the chapter on the prohibition of blasphemy. As usual there are many very interesting points to ponder. It was during the discussion on blasphemy and the image of the Creator a particular line of …
Something I Need To Say
The Creator, the G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac and the G-d of Jacob. The One True G-d of Israel in Whom no form has been shown and in Whom there is no mediator between Him and His Creation is Awesome and He alone is G-d and there is no other. Today I had …
The Blessing of Being You
There is something amazing and freeing that over takes a person on the day they wake up and stop striving to be something they're not. A new world and life opens up before them, they take those first steps in becoming who they were created to be. You see, that was me just over a year ago. …
Meat Taken From a Living Animal
After the great Flood the Creator gave mankind permission to eat meat but it came with instructions. This new instruction completed the list of basic laws that mankind was to live by; which today are known as The Seven Noahide Commandments. The Creator instructed Noah in Genesis 9:3-4 "Every moving thing that lives shall be food …
Servants
Rabbi Shalom Arush in his book The Universal Garden of Emuna in chapter 17, The 7 Noahide Commandments - Spiritual Principles For All Mankind - wrote, “Those who live according to the Seven Noahide Commandments are not practitioners of other religions for they are direct servants of the Creator..." When one examines the commandments that …
