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 Jan 1, 2026 in Hebrew Study
In grammar, words that are similar in spelling and pronunciation but different in meaning are paronyms (“near name”) aka near-homonyms. Paronym is also a word that is derived from the same root as another word. With this we coming to the object of this Hebrew study: The Hebrew paronyms for “widow” and “young woman”. This work has also a second object: to expose a certain alteration in some translations which significantly changes the meaning of the Hebrew words. We will...
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Posted by Navah on Dec 27, 2025 in The Patriarchs' Saga
Yoseph was the firstborn son of Ya’akov from Rachel, his beloved wife, and Yehudah was the fourth son of the unloved wife, Leah. Both sons of Ya’akov would become progenitors of two separate royal lineages: Yehudah’s future descendants and ultimately haMashiach of the Eternal Elohim on account of their father’s merits would deserve to become the kings of Israel through the Davidic dynasty, while kings would come from the loins of Yoseph too, even...
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Posted by Navah on Dec 2, 2025 in The Patriarchs' Saga
In the following survey, we would like to posit another way to look at the patriarch’s life and particularly at his journey to the foreign land of exile in reference to the 14 years wanting in his life. The matter will become clear once we understand when Ya’akov arrived in Charan. It all began with Ya’akov stealing the blessing that was meant for his brother Eisav, to which we now turn. There are instances where a Biblical hero goes to his soul mate, and there are...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 24, 2025 in The Patriarchs' Saga
The narrator of Genesis tells us that the matriarchs Sarah, Rivkah, Leah, and Rachel were barren. The birth of the promised son Yitschak came as a miracle, for Sarah was able to conceive and give birth in her advanced age. If the birth of Yitschak was a miracle, and the birth of Ya’akov was a double miracle, all the more the emergence of the nation of Israel. Each one of the matriarchs knew that she would have a son, because of the promised the Eternal gave to their...
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Posted by Navah on Nov 18, 2025 in The Patriarchs' Saga
At first glance, the story of the life of Sarah looks like nothing extraordinary, but a closer examination shows that much of it is lost in the story of the troublesome life of Avraham. Sarah is the only woman whose age is recorded in the Scriptures. Of all the women, only for Sarah are the number of her years as well as the place in which she was buried mentioned. This peculiarity comes to show how important her life was in the eyes of the narrator of Genesis. But all...
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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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