Today’s Word
Masoretic Mistakes
But with an overflowing flood He will make a complete end of [a]its site, And will pursue His enemies into darkness. Nahum 1:8 NASB Of its site – As you know, virtually all contemporary translations of the Tanakh rely on the Tiberian Masoretic text. This Hebrew text from about the 10th century CE added vowel points and standardized the reading. …
Read It Again
who keeps faithfulness for thousands, who forgives wrongdoing, violation of His Law, and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, inflicting the punishment of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” Exodus 34:7 NASB Yet by no means leave – This is a bit tricky, so pay attention. Here is…
Double Dependency
Our Father, our King, we have no King but You. Our Father, our King, act [benevolently] with us for the sake of Your Name. Avinu Malkeinu For the sake – According to Gordon Tucker’s comment in Abraham Heschel’s work, Heavenly Torah, these first two lines of the prayer Avinu Malkeinu are attributed to Rabbi Akiva. …
The Paradigm
For I gave you an example, so that you also would do just as I did for you. John 13:15 NASB Example – How many times have you searched all over to find something and then discovered that it was in plain sight all the time? My wife often points out that when I go to…
A Touchy Subject
Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and rested there. Joshua 2:1 NASB Rested – Hebrew avoids explicit sexual descriptions. It prefers double entendre, innuendo, allusions, and hints. Perhaps…
I’m Not Appreciated
but only one thing is necessary; for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Luke 10:42 NASB The good part – (an excerpt from Jesus Said to Her) Martha will forever be remembered as the one who missed the point. Mary chose to hear the teaching of Yeshua. Martha chose to…
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