There was a great man of the Jewish faith, a non-Jewish man approach him and asked him to tell him everything the Jewish Torah said while standing on one foot. The reply of the Jewish man was one as such, “What is harmful to you, do not do to your fellow. The rest is commentary …
Category: Bnei Noach
Abraham Prays
While reading commentary this week, I learned several things about Abraham I did not know. The more I study Genesis, the more I learn. When doing some studies about Abraham’s prayer over Sodom, 1. Abraham approached God about the righteous of the cities of the plain Sodom, his approach to God could have been like …
Don’t Hide Your Noah
In the Parsha dealing with Abraham and Sodom, we will find Abraham praying that if 50 righteous, that is at least ten from each city in the plain of Sodom. The book of Ezekiel tells us why God destroys the cities, that is another study in itself. When reading the English we do not get …
Laws of Kindness
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Warning: There Is A Snake In The Garden
This is a lengthy article, bear with me, it had to be written in one piece. For over a decade now I have concluded in my own mind and soul that the book of Bereishit/Genesis has all the answers for life contained with in it. Our Creator saw fit to make it the very …
A Grain Of Sand
Have you ever seen what sand looks like from under a microscope? The borrowed picture from the internet on the left is a sample of what sand looks like up close. It has a magnificent beauty from the Creator; it also has a hidden strength assigned to it by the Creator as we will see. …
Emuna Trek 