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Parashah: Ki Tetse” (when you go out) DEUT 21:10-25:19 In this Bible/Torah study, we encounter numerous common-sense commandments that are relevant today, and we can also examine some commandments to see how we can apply them, perhaps not so much literally, but spiritually and morally. In some...

Torah (Bible) portion: “Shoftim” (judges) DEUT: 16:18: -21:9 This parashah starts off with; “Judges (shoftim) and officers (shoterim) (We could also call them police) shalt thou make thee at thy gates, which YHVH thy Elohim giveth thee…. they shall judge the people with 'righteous judgment…”...

Then I dropped to my knees and lifted up my hands towards the heavens and just cried. I cried and I cried, thanking this God for my salvation, for his mercy on this soldier-scribe of Egypt. I praised and thanked this God. I tried to remember his name as my friend Jacob wrote his name in the...

My lips moved yet my voice was low so as my fellow soldiers would not hear me. No sooner did I say these words, that my name was called by my immediate commanding officer; “Nakhti Ankh Amun, come here at once” I heard him say. I then ran over to where he was, and he gave me these instructions...

It was the third day after the Hapiru had left that Pharaoh called his army together. They would pick up the trail of the Hapiru and bring them back to Egypt. They would pay dearly for the suffering they had caused the Egyptians. Our commanders were shocked at this announcement. Didn’t Egypt...

All of us soldiers wondered how this meeting would turn out. For what purpose did Moshe and Aaron want a meeting with Pharaoh? Finally, our commander ordered us to resume our training exercises. Little did I know then how this fateful meeting with Pharaoh would be the beginning of the end of...

A SCRIBE'S STORY (This is one of my longer short stories, so if you feel overwhelmed, you can read it a little at a time, and come back later to read more) My name is Nakhti Ankh Yah, a scribe to Pharaoh, king of Upper and Lower Egypt. I’m old now, and Pharaoh does not call upon me as...

I figure that it must have been still packed in one of the many boxes lined up alongside the walls of our garage. For a while, I gave no more thought of the radio, out of sight, out of mind. The months passed. The 1966-67 school year started. I entered into the awesome world of 7th grade...

THE RADIO As far as I can remember, the radio was always on top of grandfather's oak cabinet downstairs in the basement. The basement in our house in Chappaqua, N.Y., was a lonely, quiet place of boxed up memories of the past. A place of boxed up stuff, this-and-thats, decorations, furniture...

THE RUN-AWAY CHICKENS The account of the “Runaway chickens” goes back to the early 1960s. It took place at the home of one of my family’s dearest friends, the “Teal” family. The family consisted of Earl Teal, who was from Germany, his wife, who was from Sweden, and their daughter, Glenda, who...

Parashah: “Re’eh” (see) DEUT: 11:26-16:17 Re’eh means “see,” yet it is not so much “physical sight” but “insight” To be aware of following the LORD , his commandments, through our faith walk. It is also about “understanding” (Binah) Adonai’s will for us, understanding more Torah...

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ISAIAH 49:14-51:3 Israel cries out, “The LORD hath forsaken me and forgotten me,” but the prophet, through the Holy Spirit, assures the people, NO, the LORD has NOT forsaken you. There is a big difference between “abandonment, forgetfulness, and chastisement”. The fact that YHVH has...

In a way, I felt sorry for John that his closet was a passageway to hell. At home in Chappaqua, I also had a clothing closet, and the devil never came out of that one to drag me to hell. I remember my dad telling me a little about hell, how bad boys and girls would end up there. Kids who were...

IN MY COUSIN'S HOUSE My cousin John lived in a nice, quiet suburb in Flushing, N.Y. His house, or rather my aunt and uncle's house, was, to me, neither small nor big, rather medium-sized, as seen in the eyes of a child back in the early and mid-1960s. It lay nestled in a nice little...

“THOU shalt not kill; THOU shalt not commit adultery; THOU shalt not steal”. Ever wonder why these are listed together? Example, if one commits adultery, takes the wife of another in sex, that person is “killing” that relationship and is “stealing” what does not belong to him. The word “Kill”...

PARASHAH; “V’et’ Chanan” (and I pleaded) DEUT 3:23-7:11 Moses continues to recount the experiences of his life to the Children of Israel as his life comes to a close. He is like a father on his deathbed, and causes all of his children to come near and listen to their father’s experiences, or...

Torah Study: “D’varim” (Words) DEUTERONOMY 1:1-3:22… The word "Deuteronomy" comes from the Greek words "Deuter" and "Nomo" (Second or repetition and "law") Not that there is a different "law" from what was received on Mt. Sinai, it is the same, yet a repetition of the same, reminding the...

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Yes, it is good when it is time to go home. I want to be active until my last day. I am 71 years old and today, I was lifting 50 pounds of dirt to mix with cement and worked alongside of those young guys (50 year olds) helping a small church build an altar platform. It is good to be active...