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 …
Tag: Torah
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 …
“Baruch ata…”
There are time when I pray, the only words I want to utter are those of Tehillim/Psalms 145. So I grab my book of Tehillim and recite each word with intent , the intent that they are my own words to the Creator. Tehillim 145 is the culmination of all the Tehillim wrapped up into …
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 …
New Vlog
I haven't forgotten my blog, just been going through my own test and growing pains in my own emuna. In the mean time I have been working putting together everything to do a vlog on YouTube as a sister to my blogs. My vlog goes under the same name as Emuna Trek. Below is a …
Emuna Trek 