•   Isaiah 50:11: “Behold, as all of you who kindle fire, who are surrounded in sparks, walk (a righteous walk) in the light (of) your fire in your burning. From My hand this shall be for you in pain  (so) you will lie down.”   Those who have even been in any of my classes

  • Hosea 14:9: “Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.”   The Talmud teaches that the Torah is comprised of two aspects – spirit and matter, revelation and concealment, the Tree of Life and the Tree of

  • Ezra 7:10: “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”   You read about Ezra and the word that comes to mind is fanatic. This old boy devoted himself to the Word of God. Jewish tradition teaches that

  • The letter Vav (ו) is the 6th letter in  the Aleph Beit and as a prefix to a noun, Vav means “and” . It is a letter of connection and  can represent the continuity and unification of both time and space. In this role, vav inverts time, connecting and transmitting past and future. When Vav

  • Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Exodus 11:7: “But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that  you may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.” An Internet news service just recently released what they felt were the

  • WORD STUDY – INSIGHT I Chronicles 12:32: “And the children of Issachar which were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred and all their brethren were at their command.” “Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills.”   Shakespeare – “Hamlet.” Insight:

  • WORD STUDY:  TITTLE Luke 16:17; “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle to the law to fall.” Greek: Keras – Tittle, stroke Most of our modern translations translate the word “tittle” as either “stroke of the pen,”   “a comma” “a pronunciation mark (which it is not),”  “the smallest letter (which

  • Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim; Psalms 36:12: “Let not the foot of pride overtake me.”  “I am very proud to be called a pig.  It stands for pride, integrity and guts.”  Ronald Reagan One reason why so many people liked Ronald Reagan was that he could be intelligent without being an

  • Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim: Nehemiah 7:5: “Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogies.” I was reading the various commentaries on this passage and it seems all of them pretty much said the same thing and

  • I Samuel 17:49:  “And David put his hand into his bag, and took thence a stone and slang (it) and smote the Philistine in his forehead that the stone sunk into his forehead and he fell upon his face to the earth.” Original Hebrew had no vowels.  The vav was sometimes  used for “u” and