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See and Seen

Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.  Exodus 34:23  NASB Are to appear – You probably know about this requirement.  According to Jewish practice, three times a year all Israelite males had to appear before the Lord.  In the days of the Temple, this…
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The Divine Pointer

Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; Genesis 1:26a Image – Biblical words about the creator of humanity have occupied theologians for centuries.  Most of that time has been spent trying to determine what precisely is meant by the term “human.”  Since the Bible uses both ṣelem (translated “image”) and dĕmût…
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Two Worlds

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  Genesis 1:1 NASB The heavens and the earth – God is in Heaven, right?  Well, not exactly.  You see, if we believe that God is transcendent, that implies He is other than His creation, and that means Heaven, which is also part of creation, is not His…
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Idolatry in Action

He who gives vent to anger commits as grave a sin as though he worshipped strange gods.  Tractate Shabbat 105b Anger – Referring to Job 18:4, Luzzatto follows the Sages by connecting anger with idolatry.  We don’t usually think like this, but perhaps we should.  Stone’s commentary on Luzzatto shows us why: “[Anger] is the…
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Identity Documents

So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives, and placed them outside the camp of Israel.  Joshua 6:23  NASB Young men – Apparently the author of the book of Joshua can’t really make up…
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