You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5 NASB Heart – One of the wonders of Hebrew is that it communicates on multiple levels. This fact is much more than the rabbinic PaRDeS approach. The structure of Hebrew (the way…
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:10-12 NASB Heart – In Hebrew the…
Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Your highways are in their heart. Tehillim 84:5 ISR Highways – In most translations, the grammar is altered to reflect proper English, but in Hebrew there are some significant oddities to be noticed. First, the Hebrew word translated “man” isn’t ish. It is adam but it…
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are of a clean heart. Psalm 73:1 Hebrew World Clean heart – Christians are quite familiar with Paul’s argument in Romans that those who are cleansed by Yeshua are included in the true Israel. But Paul didn’t originate that idea. The psalmist…
for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7 NASB Heart – This is only a part of verse 7, but a very important part. Even more interestingly, the translation from the New American Standard (above) is not exactly what…
And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind. Ecclesiastes 1:16 NJPS Mind – When were you last in the Garden, standing in front of that Tree? You know, the one that promises knowledge, that tempts you to think you can…
The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; he who would destroy himself does it. Proverbs 6:32 Lacking Sense – The perennial excuse for adultery is an appeal to the heart. “I was carried away by my heart.” “I had this great need for a heart companion.” “I just followed my heart.” …
And you shall love YHWH your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5 Heart/ Soul/ Might – If we are commanded to love God with all (kol) we’ve got, obviously that command affects the entire body of behaviors. Rather than allow us to fumble around…
