Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7 NASB Will be given – Rabbi Shraga Freedman makes an astounding claim in his book Living Kiddush Hashem. “If Hashem were to answer the tefillos of people who do not follow His ordinances, it would…
And the men of Ai struck and killed about thirty-six of their men, and pursued them from the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them on the mountainside; and the hearts of the people melted and became like water. Joshua 7:5 NASB Struck and killed – You know the story. Joshua sends out his army…
“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you will be the father of a multitude of nations.” Genesis 17:4 NASB Father – How is this promised fulfilled? Clearly it must extend beyond the Jewish population. Av hamon goyim means Abraham is to be father to those outside the Synagogue. Christians have understood this…
As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” Psalm 42:10 NASB Taunt – Do you bear insults to God? Are you injured when His name is diminished? According to the reading by Rabbi Shraga Freedman, David’s cry is in response to chillul…
By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Genesis 2:2 NASB Seventh – I’ve included two short articles in this study because I believe it is important to see the difference between serious scholarly approaches to the text…
and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the people of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy. Genesis 46:27 NASB Seventy – Recently we looked at the role of scholarly biblical criticism as a way of examining the development of our Bibles. I though you might like…
All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 2 Timothy 3:16 NASB By God – Text and transmission. It seems as if the crucial issue about the authority of the Bible comes down to these two words. Who wrote it and how did it come to us? …
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? …
Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 NASB God said – “How can…
