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How to identify a murderer?

September 27th, 201102:21 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

Sometimes I am reading the newspapers and there is an article about someone, who killed all his family and no one knew. All the people who met him said that they felt shocked once they understood that there was a murderer in their building. In the book of Numbers there is almost a whole chapter that might help us with this issue. In the bible the...
What did cows drink?

September 27th, 201102:19 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

Usually when you think about cows, in our eyes we can imagine meat or milk. In his eyes Amos looked at different cows. He pondered about the cows as a symbol for the rich women, who lived in Samaria, the capital of the Israeli Kingdom. , let us see his words, as written in Amos 4:1-3- " שִׁמְעוּ הַדָּבָר הַזֶּה, פָּרוֹ�...
Who won't run away from G-d?

September 27th, 201102:16 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

One of my favorite prophets is Amos. At the time of prosperity, when there was no war in the area, he didn't hide the truth from his people. When I spoke with my students today about the difference between rich people and poor ones, they said that in a time of prosperity two things can happen: the gaps between those two groups can be reduced or can...
What happened to Jerusalem?

September 27th, 201102:12 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

The book of Lamentations is for me one of the books that cause me to cry. We are reading this book or this scroll every year when we remember the destruction of the first Temple. According to the tradition Jeremiah wrote the book, while he mourned and cried in Jerusalem, seeing the destruction. The author of Lamentations described Jerusalem as a w...
Who will live in the promised land?

September 27th, 201102:10 PM ET

By Eli Dahan, Biblical teacher at eTeacherBiblical.com

Ezekiel was a prophet that lived in Babylon , but always thought about Israel. When I read the end of chapter 47, something new popped into my eyes. It was a another small revelation, as my wife is telling me all the time, that every day is a time for new and small revelations. When G-d showed Ezekiel the promised land he also told him these words...