Hebrew Scriptures

Reversal*

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Written by: Roy Gane
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Grethe, our landlady, called my wife and me outside to help her find Mykiko, a Siamese kitten. She could hear him mewing plaintively near the wood pile, but she could not see him. Thinking he had gotten stuck somewhere between the pieces of wood, we dismantled the pile. But Mykiko was not there. Then he mewed again. I looked up and saw the pathetic puss way up in the pine tree over the wood pile.

The Sacred Tent of the Cohen

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Written by: Jacques B. Doukhan
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Type of the famous temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem

This tent, the worship center of the Israelites in the desert, concerns all of us.

Choosing Life with God

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Written by: Jacques B. Doukhan
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The first word of God to the first man concerns a mitzvah. Indeed, the text uses the verb tsavah (to command), from which comes the word mitzvah, to describe God’s address: “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die’” (Genesis 2:16–17).