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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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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Posted by Navah on Jun 8, 2025 in Bible Study
In the Book of Numbers, there is a phrase that seemingly is easy to understand, when we look only at what has been revealed to us in the narration. But the Hebrew text tries to tell us something beyond what is immediately obvious. In such a case, we need to resort to the writings of the Rabbis to make better sense of the whole episode. It is, therefore, the object of this work to explain the Hebrew text of Numbers 7 and to interpret its literal translation. This matter can...
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Posted by Navah on May 25, 2025 in The Exodus
In this introduction to our survey of the Book of Numbers, we would like to clarify an obscure passage in the census of Israel with which this book begins. In the following, we would like to posit to the studious reader another way to look at this, specifically in reference to the censuses of Israel in Numbers 1 and Numbers 26. The matter will become clear to the reader once we understand why the second census shows fewer numbers than that of the first one and what...
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Posted by Navah on Apr 20, 2025 in Bible Study
If one puts a bookmark at the page called “The New Testament” and then compares the volume of “The New Testament” vs. “The Old Testament”, he/she will find the mere disproportionate “new” of “The New Testament”. “The New Testament” writings present about a quarter of the entire Bible, and if we consider the parallel accounts in the synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) this percentage drops down significantly. Therefore, it seems like the average Christian reads a...
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Posted by Navah on Apr 15, 2025 in Bible Study
Did God allow us in Gen 9:3 to eat any animal flesh, as we desire? Man has absolute freedom of choice, which is not interfered with, and for this reason he can choose what he desires and can direct his activities to a given purpose. A man is free to choose, but he is not free of the consequences. In the issue of clean vs unclean food, there is a common mistake made when it is asserted that the Creator had changed His mind when in one place, He allows something and in...
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Posted by Navah on Mar 5, 2025 in Bible Study
Idolatry undoubtedly is the most serious violation against the Creator of the universe. To Him and to Him alone, and to the exclusion of everyone else, honor is due. The most pronounced example of the prohibition of idolatry is what is spoken in the Covenant. The Eternal prohibited the making of images of any idol, of what is in heaven, what is in the earth, and what is in the water. Five chapters later, however, He told Mosheh to make two images of pure gold of what is in...
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