The inspiration for this blog came from something Pesach of Tzfat, Israel said to me in our conversation. I had been investigating the passage of God’s conversation with Cain since at least 2008 of even before. I told my wife way back then that something in me told me that the answer to life was …
Tag: sin
Forever Kindness
While at work the other day, I heard a radio playing in the background in another department. On that day the station was set on one of those stations that played old time Christian gospel songs which is very popular here in the South USA. One of the songs was an old favorite to many …
Eye Of The Tiger
The other morning, while listening to the radio on the way to work one of my favorite songs from the Rocky movies came on. As I sang along with the radio some of the words of the song took on a different meaning to me. Coming from a background of studying for Orthodox Jewish conversion, …
Deceit Pt.1
There are at least two commercials that I have seen on TV that does not reflect what a God fearing person should be striving for. In these commercials they promote lying to get a desired want. The one lies to a little girl to teach exercise; the other one has a man hiding something so he has …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Being Righteous Not Perfect
Proverbs 24:16 “For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked stumble under adversity.” As I was taking a walk one day this past winter with my camera taking pictures of the beautiful snow fallen land around me a scripture popped in my head, Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and …
Emuna Trek 