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  • The Four Species

    September 29th, 200902:21 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    "Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths" Leviticus 23:42 The Festival of Sukkoth begins on Tishri 15, the fifth day after Yom Kippur. Sukkoth is the last of the Shalosh R'galim ("three pilgrimage festivals"). One of the special commandments of Sukkoth is the mitzvah of the Four Species. Origin ...

  • The book of Jonah – the end of the Day of Atonement

    September 27th, 200902:21 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    The book of Jonah is one of the fascinating books in the bible. Jonah the prophet tries to escape his mission to tell the people of Nineveh that the end is near, that they have made so many sins that the Almighty decided to destroy them. The question that always arises to me when I am reading the book is what is the main theme of the book, because ...

  • tashlikh

    September 26th, 200901:24 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    What does it means? Tashkikh means "casting off". It is a traditional Jewish custom, which arose during the Middle Ages, usually performed on the first day of Rosh ha-Shanah (Jewish new year). The Tashlikh custom was derived from the Old Testament and can be found in The Book Of Micah 7:19- " יָשׁוּב יְרַחֲמֵנוּ, יִכְבֹּ...

  • Yom Kippur

    September 20th, 200912:46 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the tenth day of the month of Tishri. It is the holiest day of the Jewish year. On this day, God seals our fate for the coming year. The entire day is spent fasting and praying to God for forgiveness and a good year. In the Bible In the Bible Yom Kippur calls the day Yom HaKippurim , as mentioned ...

  • The Jewish calendar

    September 19th, 200904:03 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    The Jewish calendar begins with the creation of the world. According to the Jewish calendar, the creation occurred in 3761 B.C.E. The Jewish calendar is based on two astronomical phenomena: the rotation of the Earth about its axis (a day), the revolution of the moon about the Earth (a month and the revolution of the Earth about the sun (a year). T...

  • From one language to one language – a journey in the bible –part 2

    September 17th, 200902:03 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    After the confusion of the languages, when The Almighty decided to scatter the people in the world, we can find different cultures in the planet, from the Egyptian to the Babylonian - a lot of words, a lot of nations, a lot of virtual dictionaries. The differences created the disagreements, the wars, the competitions and the rivals. The world divi...

  • From one language to one language – a journey in the bible –part 1

    September 16th, 200904:48 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    In the beginnings of humanity, when all was one, when God created the world, there was only one language in the world, no one knows exactly the name or the kind of it- but all agrees about the number -one language. In the book of Genesis, after 10 chapters of sins and a moral deterioration , comes to us , the readers, chapter 11 and it stars with ...

  • Four Angels of the the Throne - Gabriel, Michael, Uriel and Raphael- part 2

    September 12th, 200901:53 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    In the Apocrypha Michael: The name Michael means "who is like God?".Michael is the guardian angel of Israel.According to the midrash, Michael is the angel who prevented Abraham from offering up Isaac at the Accede, informs Sarah that she will give birth to a boy and rescues Abraham from the furnace. Gabriel: The name Gabriel means "man of god". ...

  • Four Angels of the Throne - Gabriel, Michael, Uriel and Raphael

    September 09th, 200904:48 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    From the Kriat Shema: " בשם ה' אלהי ישראל מימיני מיכאל ומשמאלי גבריאל ומלפני אוריאל ומאחורי רפאל ועל ראשי שכינת אלי"... "To my right Michael and to my left Gabriel, in front of me Uriel and behind me Raphael, and over my head God's Shekhinah ..." The word "malakh", an ang...

  • The art of manipulation- Nathan the prophet

    September 08th, 200901:26 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    In the beginning of the book of Kings we are reading that King David is really old, the maidservant that his slaves sand him doesn't help to recover from his coldness, and this are the days before the old king is giving his thrown to the new one. In this point after that Adonijah the son of Haggith started to make his first moves to be the next kin...

  • Demons In Jewish Mythology- Naamah

    September 05th, 200910:51 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    Who was Nammah? Nammah was the Daughter of Lamech and Zillah and sister of Tubal-Cain as mention is Gensis 4:19, 22- " וַיִּקַּח-לוֹ לֶמֶךְ, שְׁתֵּי נָשִׁים: שֵׁם הָאַחַת עָדָה, וְשֵׁם הַשֵּׁנִית צִלָּה.. וְצִלָּה גַם-הִוא, יָלְדָה אֶת-תּוּבַל ק...

  • The ideal and the reality – an example from The Scriptures- part 1

    September 01st, 200903:00 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    There is always in our life a strong or big tension between what we wish for us, for our friends, for the world and between what is really happening, this tension between what we want and we get from our life is an old one , and in the scriptures there are a lot of examples that can describe it. Whenever I am teaching in the class and asking my pu...
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