Posted by Navah on Apr 4, 2021 in The Origin
The Hebrew Scripture (Tanak) speaks of the human soul having three elements: nephesh, neshamah, and ruach. The sages are divided in their views about the nature of the human soul. Some of them (such as Maimonides in his introduction to Pirke Avot chapter) claim that the soul is a single force with three sub-categories: (1) the category which houses our desires, something men have in common with the animals; (2) the source of growth, something possessed both by animals and...
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Posted by Navah on Mar 21, 2021 in The Origin
There is a Jewish tradition that there is a bone in the human body called luz. The Hebrew word for luz, whose origin is unknown, is used only once in the entire Scripture. In the JPS translation, luz is rendered “almond”, but other translation may have it as “chestnut” or “hazel”, And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the...
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Posted by Navah on Oct 13, 2020 in The Origin
There is a peculiarity in the Creation story. All days of creation are declared good with the concluding formula “it was good”, but it seems that the second day, when the waters were separated above and below the expanse, was not declared good. Why the narrator of the Creation story has omitted it, or has he omitted it all? And who was the narrator of the Creation, in the first place, because it was impossible for Mosheh to know the epic work of the Creator...
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Posted by Navah on May 10, 2020 in The Origin
There is something curious in the Noach story. The apostle called Noach “a preacher of righteousness” (2Pe 2:5), but the only time he opened his mouth was to curse his grandson Kanaan. Why? Noach and his family left the ark to see a world devoid of living souls; they were the mankind on the face of the earth. The first thing Noach did was to plant a vineyard and grow the fruits of the vine. Then, he got drunk, because the righteous Noach struggled with his...
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Posted by Navah on Jan 26, 2020 in The Origin
The forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is as mysterious as the tree itself. But what was the forbidden fruit and what was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden? The Christian tradition holds that the forbidden fruit was an apple, but this tradition could have been associated with the pagan traditions of Athena with an apple (in the Greek mythology, Athens is a goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare,...
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Posted by Navah on Dec 24, 2019 in The Origin
The account in Gen 7:21-23 says that all flesh that moved on the earth, birds, cattle, beast, and every swarming thing that swarms, and all people perished in the universal flood. In other words, all in whose nostrils was the breath of life and all that was on the dry land, died. The Creator blotted out every living substance which was upon the face of the earth; only Noach and his family were left, and the living creatures that were with him in the ark. The words of Gen...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 28, 2019 in Oneness of the Creator, The Origin
The origin of life by the Spirit of Elohim and the inspiring with life from the Breath of the Almighty has always been a mystery. Elohim created man in His image and since then Adam’s creation is repeated in the formation of every human being. Thus, man became the image of Elohim not in the bodily form, but by the merit of His Breath by which he became a living soul. Man will never truly comprehend the mystery of origin of life and the way he was created. Yet, Newton...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 2, 2016 in The Origin
Albert Einstein’s formula E=mC2 is probably the most notable mathematical equation. But how Einstein’s formula relates to the Creation of the world, as recorded in Genesis? Let us start from the beginning: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” This is the most recognizable translation of the verse in the Scripture. But being faithful to the desire to discover the Truth in the details, we need to go deeper than this, as we will do...
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