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The daughter of Solomon - a story of destiny-part 1

January 23rd, 201003:18 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

Some says that you can't run away from your destiny, goral in Hebrew. Today we are going to meet a story, some say it's a legend, but we can say this about everything in the old ages, don't we? King Solomon wanted to see who will be his son-in-law, so he looked at the zodiac and saw that a poor one would be the husband of his daughter! In order to...
Is it better to be rich - Ecclesiastes 5:11-12?

January 23rd, 201006:37 AM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

In the book of Ecclesiastes one man can find a lot of saying about the life. This book, traditionally written by King Solomon at the end of his life, tells us a lot about life from every point of view that we need. It considered being one of the books of wisdom in The Scriptures among with the book of Proverbs and the book of Job. The argument whe...
How to communicate with The Lord - the Urim and Thumim- Part 1

January 21st, 201001:28 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

In the old ages not all the people knew how to communicate with God, not all the people were chosen to be prophets, not all the people knew what was the intention of the Almighty.... In order to solve the problem there were three kinds of solutions: the first is asking the prophet; the second is to pray for God; the third is using the the Uri...
The two night natural sources- equal or different?

January 19th, 201002:07 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

We all know the two great lights that there in the sky, the sun and the moon, the first comes in the day; the second comes in the night. In their size they are different, but the bible in the beginning describes them equals and then different as written in Genesis 1: 16- "וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-שְׁנֵי הַמְּאֹרֹ�...
One king, 4 exaggerations in his life-part 1

January 16th, 201007:08 AM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

In the year of 960 B.C.E approximately there was a new king in Israel, the king Solomon, which became a one after a great manipulation of Nathan the prophet in the beginning of 1 Kings 1. Solomon is considered as a king with a lot of dignity and honor from the old ages till today, I must say. In this blog I want to speak a little bit about e...
The mark of Cain

January 13th, 201001:27 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

"וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹ יְהוָה, לָכֵן כָּל-הֹרֵג קַיִן, שִׁבְעָתַיִם, יֻקָּם; וַיָּשֶׂם יְהוָה לְקַיִן אוֹת, לְבִלְתִּי הַכּוֹת-אֹתוֹ כָּל-מֹצְאוֹ." "And the LORD said unto him: 'Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him...
A story of devotion- Elisha say goodbye to his master, Elijah

January 07th, 201002:04 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

Whenever I want to exemplify to term devotion to my pupils I am telling them the story of Elisha, the prophet the became a prophet due to the over zealousness of Elijah, the prophet that left his mother , his father and his work as a farmer and went to replace someone which is irreplaceable in one way or another. In the second book of kings ...
Demons in Jewish Mythology- Shavriri

January 04th, 201002:02 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

According to Jewish legend, Shavriri is the demon of blindness .Shavriri is not dangers during the day. He acts at night and lives in water. The Rabbis of the Talmud, in Avodah Zara 12, explain that a man should not drink water by night, for thus he exposes himself to the power of Shavriri. But what can one do when he is thirsty in the middle of t...

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