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  • The first feminist precedent in the Bible Daughters of Zelophehad-part 1,2

    November 30th, 200901:45 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    In the Book Of Numbers we can find a very unique story in the ancient time: the story of Zelophehad 's daughters. Zelophehad was a man of the tribe of Manasseh. He had five daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah, but no sons. Zelophehad followed Moses out of Egypt and died in the wilderness before reaching the promised land. The daught...

  • The tenth commandment- an improvement in the women status?

    November 28th, 200907:21 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    As we saw last time in our journey to understand the biblical Hebrew, the ten commandments appear two times in The Scriptures- the first in the book of Exodus; the second in Deuteronomy. A question that always rises is why Moses needed to say the Ten Commandments twice? One time isn't good enough? Though those 40 years have passed by, the generati...

  • The Ten Commandments

    November 23rd, 200901:18 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    The Ten Commandments, or the Decalogue (10 words), are ten mitzvoth in Holly Scriptures that God has command the people of Israel just after The Exodus. God himself wrote the Ten Commandments on two stone tables (luchot Ha'brit) and gave them to Moses on Mount Sinai to serve as principles of moral behavior for all mankind. The Ten Commandments can...

  • The story of the spies - two kinds of point of views- part 2

    November 21st, 200901:32 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    The two different descriptions of the promise land is the two main voices of the people of Israel: one sais that they should come back to Egypt, to the well known slavery, but with confidence about their life; the other sais let us believe in our God, let us go to the promise land, we can fight with the giant people there- wee can be the grasshoppe...

  • The story of the spies - two kinds of point of views- part 1

    November 21st, 200905:00 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    In the book of Numbers, we can find one of the interesting stories in the time when the people of Israel had been in the desert- the story of the spies. The Lord commanded Moses to send to the land of Canaan 12 men in order to explore the land that he gave to the people of Israel. From each tribe Moses needed to send one person. Moses sends the sp...

  • The Nehushtan

    November 17th, 200901:24 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    The Nehushtan is the name of a bronze serpent made by Moses in the wilderness and placed on a pole to cure the Israelites of the venomous bites of the fiery serpent. According to the story, the people of Israel sinned and spoke against God and against Moses. God deiced to punish them by sending venomous snakes among them. The people of Israel came ...

  • Why Moses did break the tablets of stone? - Part 3

    November 16th, 200912:20 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
     If the almighty commended Moses to break the tablets, there is a big question that arise- why The Lord waited that Moses will go down from the mountain of Sinai And then he told him to break them?  Another story that is very common is the fight between Moses and the 70 old people from Israel on the breaking of the tablets. Moses held th...

  • Why Moses did break the tablets of stone? - Part 2

    November 16th, 200909:32 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    The first answer to the question above is that Moses didn't break the tablets deliberately. According to few Hebrew interpretations the letters of the Ten Commandments saw the joy and the happiness in the camp, and they decided to run away from the tablets, when they flew out of them- the strength of Moses wasn't with him anymore. Another commentar...

  • Why Moses did break the tablets of stone? - Part 1

    November 14th, 200905:06 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    Whenever I am thinking about the story of the golden calf, I imagine myself the people dancing, drinking to the visible "god", thinking that this is him - this is their Lord, who took them out of Egypt to the promise land. This story brings to me a lot of question every time when I read it. Today we will focus on one of them- why the father of the...

  • The story of Susanna

    November 14th, 200905:01 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    The story of Susanna ("Lily") is one of the books of the Protestant Apocrypha, entitled in some manuscripts "The Judgment of Daniel". There are no early Jewish references to the book. If you take a look in the Hebrew Scriptures you will see that there are 12 chapters in The Book of Daniel.However, in the Old Testament you will see that there are 13...

  • The Burning bush

    November 03rd, 200912:45 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    " וַיֵּרָא מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה אֵלָיו, בְּלַבַּת-אֵשׁ--מִתּוֹךְ הַסְּנֶה; וַיַּרְא, וְהִנֵּה הַסְּנֶה בֹּעֵר בָּאֵשׁ, וְהַסְּנֶה, אֵינֶנּוּ אֻכָּל. וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה--אָסֻרָה-נָּא וְאֶרְאֶה, אֶת-ה...
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