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  • How did Abraham discover The Lord?

    March 30th, 201005:16 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    In genesis 12:1 The Lord is telling to Abraham to go to the land of Canaan. The bible is not sharing with us the information how Abraham knew that there was one God in the universe. We need to remember that monotheism was not a famous idea in those days.... The famous story about Abraham our father is the breaking of the statues, smashing them ent...

  • Did God have raw materials in the creation?

    March 30th, 201005:13 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    One of the hardest questions that need to be asked about the creation of the world is: Did The Lord have materials in his hands when he created the world or he the world was without any materials at all? This was a really hard question for the sages of Israel and today I will give you only one answer of the sages and only one option, and this is t...

  • If I am embarrassed, what the bible will say?

    March 30th, 201004:24 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    Whenever I want to remember the time I was a little boy, embarrassed, innocent, naïve there are two stories in the scriptures that remind me this time. The first is the beginning days of Solomon when he was a lone after defeating all of his internal enemies in 1 Kings 2 by the help of benaiah. Solomon said to God this lovely saying: "וְעַתָ...

  • Idioms from the book of genesis- biblical and modern meaning

    March 25th, 201002:35 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    The book of genesis is not just the beginning of the world or the creation of it but also a book that gave to us the first idioms that are eternal. Today we will focus on some of them. Let us start with the commandment to Abraham in genesis 12:1. The days are the days after the destruction of the tower of Babylon, wh en The Lord decided to conf...

  • To leave the best job in order to rehabilitate your people- part 1,2

    March 21st, 201002:07 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
     Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country said John F. Kennedy in 20/1/1961. This famous quote is attached to Kennedy, but we can see the implementation of it can be found in the old ages, when a people was in problems with all the aspect a man can think about, economically, socially and security. The pe...

  • How David the king died?

    March 21st, 201002:01 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    When David was 70 years old, the angel of death came to him, after the commandment of The Lord to do it, in order to take his soul the angel of death found David sitting in his house, singing to God, cause it was the day of Sabbath; this was the day that David sanctified all of his life. The angel of death couldn't reach David because the singing t...

  • Moses and the white wolf

    March 19th, 201004:01 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    Some legends that we know from childhood seems to be forgotten and from time to time we want to remember the time we were kids, the time that the kindergarten told us the stories, the legends that we loved to hear all the time. Usually the wolf in the legends is the symbol of the bad type, the one who kills, the one that we can't rely on, but not ...

  • Shamir - The magical worm

    March 15th, 201005:26 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    According to Hebrew Scriptures, the Shamir was a supernatural organism that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. According to legend, the Shamir was a worm whose mere touch could cleave rocks. The Shamir have been created at the twilight of the first Sabbath Eve during the Six Days of Creation. . (See "Ten things w...

  • Five reasons to Learn Biblical Hebrew

    March 13th, 201003:14 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    When I try to translate The Scriptures to my students I am trying to be as close as I can get to the meaning of the text, without changing the original meaning of it. This is sometime a very impossible mission, like the great T.V. program in the sixties.... There is an easy way to solve the problem of the translation- Learn Biblical Hebrew with us!...

  • One king that rules 55 years - part 1

    March 11th, 201006:56 AM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    Chapter 21 in 2 Kings start like this: " בֶּן-שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה, מְנַשֶּׁה בְמָלְכוֹ, וַחֲמִשִּׁים וְחָמֵשׁ שָׁנָה, מָלַךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָם; וְשֵׁם אִמּוֹ, חֶפְצִי-בָהּ. וַיַּעַשׂ הָרַע, בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָ...

  • The name and the meaning - mahlon and kilion

    March 09th, 201010:14 PM ET
    By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com
    Hello dear readers, I am sorry for being away last week, this was a week with sickness to me and to my family. Due to this reason, I decided to write today about sick people in the bible. In the book of Ruth we can find two very sick persons without telling us that they are sick, these are mahlon and kilion, the two sons of Naomi and elimelech as ...
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