I know that among the Seven Universal Commandments there is no command to be in or enter into the Creator’s presence. But we in the USA deal with a lot of folks coming in to the knowledge of the biblical 7 Laws with a Christian background who most likely have a history of the presence of God being preached …
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God’s Faith
There is a line of prayers that the Jewish men pray 3 times a day. The prayers were written by a group of men called ‘The Great Assembly’, there was approx. 120 men including many of the Prophets. One of the prayers is Gibor Adon-ai or Might of God, It deals with the resurrection, and …
This Lesson Is For All Of Us
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 …
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 …
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. …
Emuna Trek 