ZAYIN – 7
I have been “journaling” for a MANY years. I started “blogging” about 14 years ago. As I state on the description of my blog, “I write to think.” As you read my blog, you are tracing my thought process. Writing reveals things to me! Thus, you see the basis for my conclusion! Come along with […]
YUD – 10
Exodus 6.6 — Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. Some letters are bigger […]
Nicodemus Knew
John 3:1-2 — Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with […]
Tenach Tenach
Sarah Said, “God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.” –Gen. 21:6-7 At last night’s Jewish Federation Hanukkah party I got the idea […]
REDEDICTION
The last night of Hanukkah, the 8th night, falls on the 1st day of 2025. It feels like Adonia is telling us something. On the holiday of Hanukkah the Maccabees dedicated the ancient Temple after it was desecrated by the Greek Seleucids and the madman Antiochus Epiphanes IV. The word ḥănukkāh means “dedicate.” The root of the […]
TZADE – 90
Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof (צֶ֥דֶק צֶ֖דֶק תִּרְדֹּ֑ף) “Justice, justice you shall pursue” Deuteronomy 16:20 The Hebrew letter Tsade is the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Tsade’s gematria value is 90. In it’s rare final form at the end of a word, Tsade’s value is 900. Its design features a bent Nun with an ascending Yod, representing humility […]
HANUKKAH ROLL-UP
With Hanukkah around the corner I figured, rather reinvent the wheel, which is to say repeat things I have written before about Hanukkah, I would do a post with links to my previous blog posts. Here it goes: Here’s links to my blogs related to Hanukkah: It takes a hammer to drive a nail Hanukkah […]
RIDDLE ME THIS…
Riddle me this: What letter do you add to the name of God to get access into Heaven? Isaiah 12 (NIV) — Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation”. Isaiah 12 teaches about the […]
FAITH RESTS ON MONUMENTAL EVENTS
Genesis 28.16 — And Jacob awakened from his sleep, and he said, “Indeed, the Lord is in this place, and I did not know [it].” Jacob dreamed of a “gate to heaven.” He dreamed of a ladder set up on the ground and its top reached to heaven. He saw angels ascending and descending […]
The Premonition of My Father’s Death
We are all a bit nuts. I don’t think I’m crazy but if someone else told me this, I might wonder if they were. Especially the part about being followed by a number. LOL. Yesterday, 12.2.24 was my father’s funeral. He passed away at 3:38 am on 11.24.24. But I think his soul started to […]