And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. James 3:6 NASB Sets on fire – June 4, 1391. Seville, Spain. Ferrand Martinez sets fire to the Jewish quarter…
Can a man take fire into his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Proverbs 6:27 NASB Fire – I suppose you imagine that this little investigation is going to be about moral purity. Or maybe you think that we’re going to investigate the relationship between ‘es (fire) and ‘ish (man). But no, I’m going…
Eliyahu Kitov relates the teaching of the famous sage, rabbi Akiva. Akiva’s insight bears directly on this duality resident in human beings and, in particular, with the ‘ezer kenegdo. “Some of our sages probe not only the words of the Torah, but each individual letter as well. The foremost exponent of this method was Rabbi…
Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh. Genesis 2:24 One Flesh – Everything important happens in the first three chapters of Genesis*. Sometimes what’s important isn’t quite as obvious in our language, so we need to take a look at the insights of…
