I love our third floor apartment, built on top a large hill, our apartment's view faces east overlooking the foothills of the great Smokey Mountains. The sunrises are awesome and breathtaking. It in this setting that I spend time in reflecting on my studies and personal communication with the amazing Creator of the view I am blessed …
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Nineveh – A Lesson for America
There is a Jewish and a non-Jewish side to the story of Jonah. The story for the most part has been turned into a cute child’s tale about a man and a whale. When in all actuality it is not about a whale for the species of the great fish is not given in the …
Returning to the Tents of Shem
There seems to be a general disconnect when reading the book of Genesis. To the average reader of the Bible it has become more of a story book for children in Sunday school; it is seldom studied in depth from the perspective that it is an instructional book from the Creator. There seems to be a general disconnect when reading the …
“Only…”
Everyone has hopes, dreams, desires and big plans for the future, setting their sights on goals that they want to reach at certain points in their life. Have you ever stopped and taken note of the goals and dreams you have, to see where their origin comes from? Maybe it is from a person or …
The Journey is the Destination
One day while picnicking up on the Ocoee River we journeyed over to the Whitewater lodge and was browsing around the gift shop, when I came across a tee shirt with the quote “The journey is the destination”, ever since the it has become one of my favorite quotes. It has become the prime statement …
The Goal of Emuna
Everyday life can pull us in so many directions. A single day can have multiple issues tugging at us all at once. Our minds are consumed with so many worries about our jobs, families, house, car, food, pay check, health and the list can just go on. Without even thinking sometimes when the pressures of …
My G-d The King
Tehillim/Psalms 145 known also as the Ashrei prayer opens up with a statement by King David, “I will exalt You, my G-d the King…” In the Hebrew the word for “my G-d” is from the first Name of G-d that we are given in the opening passage in the Torah, Bereishis/Genesis 1:1 “E-l-o-h-i-m” This Name …
The Knowledge of G-d
This blog is inspired from a conversation I had with a Christian the other day. I was being asked about some of my beliefs by a fairly new Christian or at least one that had just started attending church again. I gave a brief explanation of what a Bnei Noach was and the 7 Laws …
The Two Trees Part 1
Every day we humans face the one thing that distinguishes us from the rest of creation and that is the operation of the one thing we truly own, the only thing we will take to our grave – our choices. There is hardly not a moment that goes by in our life where there is …
Dangerous Thoughts
The Baal Shem Tov is attributed to saying, “A person is where his thoughts are.” There is a set of passages early on in the Torah that is overlooked as instruction and is only seen as part of a story. These passages are given to us by the Creator early on in human history to …
Emuna Trek 