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Sunday, 21 December 2008 00:00 |
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The purpose of this website is to provide instruction and insight regarding the health aspect of the Torah-based lifestyle and share secrets along the wilderness journey. May you find Shalom and Health as you follow the Guide Book! Baruch Hashem!
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 18 July 2010 21:49 )
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Trials, Refinement-- the Road Out of Egypt |
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Written by Ticvah
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Monday, 30 August 2010 20:59 |
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Trials, Refinement and the Road Out of Egypt
Over the past few days, words from Malachi have been echoing in my head.
"I Yehovah change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed..." What?
As I survey the events and trials of recent months and then look at what the third chapter of Malachi says, I find comfort. The comfort comes when I understand that it is not because the sons of Jacob are discovered in a state of willing obedience to the Torah, or because they are better people than the rest of the world, no indeed, rather they are often even more rebellious against the ways of the Creator than their complacent associates. Yet because of the promise made to Abraham Isaac and Jacob, Hashem reaches down in our day to snatch from the fire, as it were, sons and daughters, descendents of Jacob who have a heart to seek him, to challenge him and to Shema (hearken diligently to) his voice.
The Eternal makes it clear that it is not because of any past record of goodness on their part that he is choosing them.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 August 2010 21:38 )
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Leave Taking-- Lech Lecha |
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Written by Ticvah
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Saturday, 31 July 2010 04:46 |
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Lech Lecha—Leave Taking
“And YHVH said to Abram, Lech lecha…” (get, get you out). The Eternal told him to get out—to leave three things.
Gen 12:1 … 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee.
In the underlying story, laid out later in the Torah and explained other historical literature, we find that the religion of Abram’s kin was a religion of idolatry. The Bible does not directly specify that this was the reason God called Abram to leave his country, his kindred and his father’s house, but it is more than plausible. Most of the world at that time was swept up in sun worship and idolatry, but the Eternal saw in Abram one he could bless because Abram had a heart to follow him. He protested the worship of false gods.
Where and when does one receive the most vigorous persuasion to follow a particular religion? Many would agree that in early childhood years when the mind cannot distinguish between truth and error, when parents are viewed as gods, it is then that the mold is formed on the young mind that shapes the child’s religious views. Some follow the religions of their parents their whole lives. Few challenge them and leave as Abram did. The Eternal our God made several covenants with Abraham. The first one started with a call to come out from country, kindred and the home of his father. This call did not mention the keeping of Torah though that would come later to the descendants of Abraham. At this time, the obedience required to receive the promise that followed was to pack up and leave his familiar surroundings.
That was the condition. Now what was the promise?
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Written by Michael Tilton
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 20:03 |
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View of the Western Wall
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:00 )
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