Comments on Forgiveness In an article titled “Evil and Forgiveness,” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks cites Hannah Arendt’s insight into the absolute necessity of forgiveness. I offer these citations today, in a world where forgiveness seems an antiquated idea, where past sins are hauled before the public in order to force submission through humiliation, where the politics…
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [p]suitable for him.” Genesis 2:18 NASB Not good – God’s words, lōʾ ṭôb, are an amazing assessment of the human condition. According to the first chapter of Genesis, everything was good. In fact, more than good. Very good. Blessed. Exactly as intended. But less than 17 verses later, after…
A worthless person, a wicked man, is one who walks with a perverse mouth, who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who points with his fingers; who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, who spreads strife. Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing. Proverbs 6:12-15 NASB No healing…
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Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it; Psalm 127:1a KJV Except – In the Hebrew text, this two letter word is attached to God’s name. The expression is ‘im-YHVH. English separates what Hebrew sees as one single concept. The particle ‘im is translated according to the context. It can mean “if,” “since,” “when,” “whether,” or (as in this…
A worthless person, a wicked man, is one who walks with a perverse mouth, who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who points with his fingers; who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, who spreads strife. Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing. Proverbs 6:12-15 NASB Will come suddenly – I’d like to believe this…
A worthless person, a wicked man, is one who walks with a perverse mouth, who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who points with his fingers; who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, who spreads strife. Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing. Proverbs 6:12-15 NASB Walks –…
I love waterfalls, especially when I can get the water to look silky smooth. There’s a trick to that. You have to shoot very slow, like 1/8 of a second. So you need to adjust the ISO and the aperture to reduce the light of a normal exposure. Or you can use a neutral density…
Sicily morning in both directions Topical Index: photo, Sicily, sunrise
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; Genesis 12:1 NASB Go from – Of course, by now you know that lĕk-lekā’ (lekh lekha), does not mean “Go from.” It is literally, “Go towards yourself,” an idea we have investigated several times. But perhaps we need to…
