If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. Romans 11:16 ESV Root – Nothing too unusual about this word, rhiza. Root of a plant. Foot of a mountain. Depths of the sea. By the time rabbinic Judaism developed in the…
And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Psalm 130:8 NASB His – How will God rescue you? How will you be delivered? Careful, now. Both of these questions already lead you in the wrong direction. Most of the time, we have the answers to the wrong questions. We want to say, “The Lord…
In the beginning, God created . . . Genesis 1:1 NASB In the beginning – It is little wonder that some rabbis spent their entire lives contemplating the opening three words of Scripture. We have spent quite a bit of time on the same subject. At last count, there are half a dozen or more…
and now Israel, what does the LORD require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, . . . Deuteronomy 10:12 ESV Israel – One of the principal differences between…
I thought you might like to read some of the comments that participants made about the recent learning trip to Israel. We will be going again in 2013, just in case you are interested. Here are three: Thanks for a wonderful life experience for which there are both immediate and life long implications. My short…
Some memories of the Land Father and Son at the Western Wall A Man with the Worn Book Casting shadows
Here are the rest.
Apparently I messed up with the gallery of pictures from Israel. I meant to set up a gallery where you could enlarge the picture by clicking on it, but it did not work for some people. So I am posting them again.
