Free Choice, Evil Inclination, and the Satan

Posted by on Oct 31, 2024 in The Origin

There is no free choice, if one cannot exercise his free will. Each man lives by his free will. Had Adam and Chavah not been endowed with free choice, they never could have defied the Creator’s will not to eat from the Tree of Good and Evil. He therefore had to resort to a plan to make them desire to eat from it to test their faith. He achieved this by using the personification of evil inclination without interfering with their basic freedom of choice. Everything is...

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The Time When Gog of Magog Will Be Dragged Like a Beast

Posted by on Oct 21, 2024 in The War of Gog of Magog

The prophecy in the Book of Ezekiel, Chapters 38 and 39, address the End of Days and describes a large-scale war a coalition of international armies will wage against Israel. The head of this massive army is obscurely identified in Ezekiel as “Gog of the land of Magog”. But who is he? We are asking the reader to consider what we intend to say in this study. Considering the unique standing of this figure, the reader has therefore to expect that the subject mentioned in this...

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Guide for the Perplexed in the World of Dualism

Posted by on Oct 15, 2024 in Oneness of the Creator

Does the Eternal Creator share with someone else His kingship and sovereignty, and has He given His government of the world to any “external control”? It is the object of this work to seek the answers to these questions. This work has also a second object: to explain the Hebrew text of certain Messianic passages in the Book of Isaiah in relation to the subject of belief in a single Deity. In this study, we will take a different approach to studying the issue of...

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Interpretation of Dreams According to Torah

Posted by on Oct 10, 2024 in The Patriarchs' Saga

The young Yoseph dreamed two dreams concerning his family. In his first dream, all his brothers bowed to him. In the second dream, his father and mother, and his brothers bowed. Later in Egypt as a viceroy, he orchestrated the things in a such way that all his brothers and father would come to bow down to him. Was Yoseph trying to bring what he dreamed of to its realization? It is the object of this work to seek the answers to this question, as we will seek to clarify what...

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Do the Tax-exempt Donations to the Poor Repay in Heaven?

Posted by on Sep 29, 2024 in Bible Study

According to Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, Maimonides, the sacrifices have no intrinsic value in the Temple service. They are part of a legal procedures, which do not benefit the Eternal but humans, for nothing that men do has an effect on Him. But what men do can affect others. And the Eternal does not look at what is offered but rather who offers it. Thus, the Torah concept of charity differs greatly from the world notion of it. When gentiles give, they see charity as a kind...

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The Prophet Like Mosheh

Posted by on Sep 22, 2024 in The Messiah

It is very difficult to imagine the picture which floated in Mosheh’s mind, when he urged the people to await a prophet like him, for he is speaking of a future state but in images drawn from his current world. What was in his mind when he uttered these words? And whose words were they indeed? It is the object of this work to seek the answers to these questions, as we will present to the readers a new approach so that they can have the confidence to delve into the meaning...

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Hebrew Word: Prophet, Prophecy

Posted by on Sep 15, 2024 in Hebrew Study

It is the object of this work to explain the Hebrew words for “prophet” and “prophecy”. Usually, when people talk of a prophet, it is meant a chosen person who divines the future, and of a prophecy: knowledge of the future said to be obtained from a divine source, i.e., a deity. But the Hebraic concept of prophet and prophecy should not be confused with the divination or fortunetelling found among the nations. So, who is a prophet, and what a prophet...

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When a True Prophet Presumes To Speak, It Is Decided in Heaven

Posted by on Sep 8, 2024 in Prophecy Insight

Prophecies often address existing sins necessitating urgent either-or choices in case of crises. Crises make people choose. When people choose, they take sides. When they take sides, they face the dilemma to do the will of their Maker or their own will. The Supernal One sets everyone in a situation to make a choice; His prophets included: whether they will speak His words or their own words. But the truth of a prophet’s word could only be determined after an event has come...

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Hebrew Words: Sign, Wonder, and Prophet

Posted by on Sep 2, 2024 in Hebrew Study

The children of Israel did not believe in Mosheh because of the signs and wonders he performed in Egypt and in the desert. Indeed, one who believes because of miracles can be easily deceived, since a “miracle” can be done by trickery or sorcery. Rather, all the miracles Mosheh performed were by necessity, not to prove or legitimize his prophecy. It was necessary to turn the staff into a snake and do all ten plagues upon Egypt, because Pharaoh did not let people go. It was...

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Hebrew Word: The End

Posted by on Aug 25, 2024 in Hebrew Study

Do we have any way of knowing how the Eternal values our performance of different laws of the Torah, so that we would know what rewards are in store for us for their performance? For it has indeed been said to us because we have guarded and performed the commands of the Torah, the Eternal will also guard unto us His Covenant. Our Hebrew word in question is the word “because” in the translation. Many translations tend to flatten out Hebrew text to create a...

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Bible Code: The Gods of Wood and Stone

Posted by on Aug 19, 2024 in The Bible Codes

It is the object of this work to seek the answers to the Bible codes concerning the idol-worship as found in Deuteronomy 4. In the following, we would like to touch upon those obscure passages in the Hebrew Scripture that much have been avoided in the traditional commentaries, as we will address them in due course. In this endeavor, we are fully aware that we cannot remove all the difficulties we will come across, but it is worth trying, as the reader will understand...

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Metatron: The Messenger with the Eternal’s Name

Posted by on Aug 11, 2024 in The Messiah

Metatron, a central figure in Jewish mysticism, holds a unique hierarchical position over other spiritual entities. Some sources (Gevurot Hashem 55:9) describe Metatron as a unique angel who is superior to all other angels, having great power but being utterly subservient and far inferior to the Eternal. This angel (Metatron) is a created being. The primary texts of Kabbalah, the Zohar and Pardes Rimonim, describe Metatron as a servant of the Eternal. Yet, despite his...

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