Posted by Navah on Oct 23, 2021 in The Patriarchs' Saga
Ishmael and Israel are the sons of Avraham and the founding fathers of two great nations. Each of them fathered twelve sons, who became the backbones of two peoples: Arabs and Israelites. While Ishmael and Israel took two quite different and even opposite turns in their development as nations, they share some common traits. As sons of the common ancestor Avraham, they have much in common. Both nations are regarded as Semites, the descendants of Shem son of Noach, and as...
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Posted by Navah on Sep 9, 2021 in Bible Study
How many of us realize that there are uninspired pages in the Bible whose authors are unknown. As surprising as this may sound to many, there are indeed two pages that were not inspired. These uninspired pages were not written by any of the prophets or by the disciples. The first page reads “The Old Testament” and is placed just before Gen 1:1 and the other reads “The New Testament” and is placed before Mat 1:1. The intelligent reader knows that...
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Posted by Navah on May 30, 2021 in The Origin
Do we know how the first man and woman were created? The Creator first created man from the dust of the earth and then from his rib He created the woman. The Tanak commentators understand that the narrative of the creation of man and woman in Gen 1:27 and Gen 2:21 refers literally to one of Adam’s ribs from which the woman was created: the Creator put man to sleep, took one of his rib, and in what appears to be “genetic engineering” He created the woman....
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Posted by Navah on Jun 10, 2020 in The Messiah
In the Scripture, there is a messenger of YHVH whose name remained hidden in secret. He appeared only at key points in the world history and his hidden identity had never been revealed to men. Who is this messenger who said, “Why do you ask My name, it is hidden?” From the Canon and Apocrypha, we know the names of YHVH’s messengers such as Micha’el (Who is like El), Gavri’el (Might of El), Rapha’el (Healing of El), Phanu’el or...
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Posted by Navah on Jan 5, 2020 in The Patriarchs' Saga
Who are the forgotten matriarchs of Israel, and why have they been forgotten in the first place? Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel are the matriarchs of Israel, and they have their honorable place in the nation’s history, as every Shabbat in the synagogues around the world the Jewish women are blessed in the name of “Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel”: “May the Lord make you like Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah!” But why only in the names of the four...
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Posted by Navah on Dec 10, 2017 in The Patriarchs' Saga
Something odd happened when Ya’akov (Jacob) remained alone that night: Jacob wrestled with an angel until the breaking of the day. What did exactly happen when Jacob wrestle with an angel of YHVH? Was that wrestling at all? Twenty years went by and Ya’akov left the land of Paddan Aram where he served Lavan his father-in-law (Gen 31:41). He headed for the land of Canaan with all his household, servants, and livestock. On his way the messengers of Elohim joined...
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Posted by Navah on Sep 3, 2025 in Bible Study, The Messiah
It is the object of this work to explain the Hebrew text of Zechariah 13 and to expose certain alterations in the KJV translation which significantly change the message in the prophecy. But this endeavor is only possible when we explore the issue from Hebraic perspectives. Once we know what the Hebrew text indeed reads and understand the meaning of its words and know its grammar, we can draw correct conclusions at the end of this study. We will explain the reason for this...
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Posted by Navah on Aug 19, 2025 in Prophecy Insight
The drones may be a modern-day technology, but their deadly impact was predicted more than three thousand years ago in the last book of the Torah, in the Torah portion “Eikev”, “Because” (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25), fully charged with prophecy and admonition. To this Torah portion we now turn. The common custom throughout all Israel is to complete the reading of the Torah in one year with the Torah divided into 54 portions. A portion of the Torah is read in the synagogues...
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Posted by Navah on Jul 27, 2025 in Prophecy Insight
The Druze people are an ethnoreligious group. Today, there are Druze communities in Syria (the largest one), Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan (the smallest one). The Druze culture and language are Arabic, yet their social customs are different from the mainstream Arab nationalism, as the Druzes integrate fully in their adopted countries. What is peculiar for the Druzes is that they maintain close ties within the community across the borders, yet they remain loyal to the host...
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Posted by Navah on Jul 17, 2025 in The Appointed Times of YHVH
At the head of the Creator’s appointed times in Leviticus 23, where all the appointed times are listed, the Sabbath Day (Hebrew, Shabbat) stands alone as the day which the Creator had already set apart from the beginning of creation, as His own rest and a day of rest for His people (Genesis 2:3). Much later in history, He will codify it as a law and one of the commandments in the Covenant in Exodus 20:8-11. We read the literal translation of the first account concerning the...
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Posted by Navah on Jun 26, 2025 in Bible Study
The whole subject of speaking evil in the Torah is extremely confusing, when we look at it only in the narrow context of a single story, even though well narrated. The reason why we find this important to emphasize in the very opening of our study will be made clear further on. In the following, it remains for us to explain the necessity of addressing the subject of speaking evil, which arises from the fact that there are several Scriptural passages in which it appears. It...
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Posted by Navah on Jun 15, 2025 in Bible Study
In Numbers 12, we find that Miriam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh concerning the Kushite woman whom he had just married. According to oral tradition, which is not well established, the rabbis have learned that the Kushite woman was Tsippora, the Midianite, the daughter of Yitro, who was called Kushite (Ethiopian) because she was beautiful as the Kushite women were. Although Tsippora was Mosheh’s wife, he had separated from her and refrained from marital relations in order...
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