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do I hate myself Though overabundant at times, aptly placed commentary elucidated the text the way it has not been done before because it is fresh, full of new historical evidences and scholarly research.
The reading experience is fluid and allusive resonances of the words of the original Hebrew scrupulously kept in order to show the links and the web of intertextuality that is carefully interwoven throughout the whole five books.
Splendid and a truly remarkable achievement of an objective and erudite writer, Mr. Alter achieved to be a poet, a scholar and a critic at once and carefully assigned himself which one to become throughout the text, I couldn't find the entire Bible read by David Suchet, except for a chronological version, So this represents all the books of the Bible, I read this as part of the Bible Reading Challenge, And most of my listening came while I walked,
I began listening to some random chap on an app but things changed and then the reader had background music, something to which I violently object.
I found Suchet while cycling through the Psalms and was hooked, He is the most expressive reader in a way that enhances instead of distracting, Words of life.
I listened using Hoopla and also on YouTube, this has seriously become my most wornout resource for preparing sermons on my shelf! Generally, I use the computer Bibles to prepare sermons, but whenever I am getting into the first five books, I take the time to go out and sit and soak up this book for the passage I'm using.
It often captures the Hebrew poetry and gives many new insights,
I occasionally disagree with this choice of words, and occasionally he misses things that I would think are important, so,. This book is a tremendous thing to read to your children for devotions because it will get them pronouncing names in Hebrew, I was going to add 'The Bible, ' But then it came to which one, If you don't know, the Torah is the Old Testament and the common ground for JudeoChristianMuslim world,
Simply put, it's the greatest story ever told, And it is retold on a weekly basis in synogogues and churches, and mosques around the world, It is the moral compass used to teach ethics, It is the foundation for our value system, The impact of this book is immeasurable and incomprehensible, Yet it is profoundly felt by all, whether believer or not, Genesis
The book of Genesis is such an amazing book, I love how it teaches so many life lessons of simply walking with God,
Abraham, who gave up everything and trusted in God implicitly, leaving all behind and travelling to a new country where he owned nothing, not even the land he set his tent up on.
Trusting God through childlessness. Trusting Him through war and loss of family, Trusting Him with his precious, only son,
Isaac, who waited patiently for a wife, Prayed patiently for children. Lived patiently waiting for the land to become his, Learned to trust God would provide for him,
Jacob, who endured his fatherinlaw and his sons, Who learned to trust God when everyone was out to get him and when life went terribly south,
Joseph, who suffered quietly for the right, Who stood strong even when he was unfairly hated and mistreated, Who bore no grudge but forgave freely, Who never lost sight of the Lord,
There is so much to learn about trusting the Lord and simply walking along with Him in this book,
Exodus
Exodus is amazing story of God's power over everything earthly,
Pharaoh was allpowerful, right Well, yeah, until God stepped in,
There wasn't any escape for Israel, right Well, yeah, until God stepped in,
Moses was absolutely helpless, right Well, yeah, until God stepped in,
The desert kills, right Well, yeah, until God steps in,
The most powerful army wins, right Well, yeah, until God steps in,
Our God is allmighty, and His will always comes to pass, No matter how much Pharaoh hardens his heart and oppresses the people and ignore the judgments,
Leviticus
When I started Leviticus this year I mentioned to my sister, “I wonder why God thought it was important for us to read all about that stuff.
” Well, it didnt take very long for the book to remind me how beautiful and full of truth it was, lt
The book of Leviticus shows how serious and costly sin is, The most everyday, “normal” sin TOOK A LIFE, And not just any old animal either, A GOOD animal. Nowadays Christians tend to forget the cost of sin because we dont see immediately how expensive sin is which is why we have to keep reading Leviticus.
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God, After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God, Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord, ”
Deuteronomy
This book is such a sobering reminder of choosing right vs, wrong. Its really nothing but constant reminders to Israel to be careful of their hearts, Over and over, God reminds them what Hes done for them freeing them from Egypt, feeding protecting them in the desert, wiping away their enemies and promises them blessing if they keep His commandments and obey Hima prosperous land, the glory of nations, fruitful families, and happy lives.
Over and over He reminds them that they must not take away or add to His lawsimply follow it wholeheartedly and teach it to their children.
He reminds them to firmly remove evil from around them and warns them of the cost of disobediencedeath, suffering, and shame,
If only theyd listened, If only we listened, The Torah is also the first five books of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, the Pentateuch, From Wikipedia: Bereshit/Genesis בראשית, literally "In the beginning" Shemot /Exodus שמות, literally "Names" Vayikra/Leviticus ויקרא, literally "And He called" Bəmidbar/Numbers במדבר, literally "In the desert of" Devarim/Deuteronomy דברים, literally "Things" or "Words".
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I'm not going to rate or review holy books, but I will mention a few things mostly for my own reference in case I want to return to something specific later.
Genesis has the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and his two wives Leah and Rachel, and finally Joseph.
Joseph becomes a big deal in Egypt because he is an effective food administrator,
After Genesis, the other four books are about Moses, Exodus is the most revolutionary, Leviticus has a lot of rules with harsh punishments, Numbers is largely a census that requires some skimming, Deuteronomy is very violent in the beginning, and then becomes a summary of the story of Moses and the rules of Leviticus, And then it becomes very violent again,
Some of the rules are fascinating, We hear about Biblical prohibitions of gay relationships all the time, but sleeping with a man's wife is also punishable by death that would affect a lot of Congressmen which is perhaps why they are so silent on the matter.
If a man rapes an unengaged virgin woman , the rapist must marry her, But if she was engaged to a man, the rapist must be put to death, Men may have multiple wives, but he can't disinherit his first born son even if the first born son comes from the wife he doesn't love as much.
No wearing linen and wool together, A widow must marry her brotherinlaw unless he totally refuses to marry her, which he shouldn't do, There is a harsh punishment for a stepbrother and stepsister that marry too, and various other marriages that don't involve blood relations, There are so many more but these stood out in my memory for obvious reasons,
Also, I'm strangley curious about the "Nephilim":
"When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.
Then the Lord said, 'My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh their days shall be one hundred twenty years, ' The Nephilim were on the earth in those daysand also afterwardwhen the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them.
These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown, " Genesis:, New Revised Standard Version
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"The Lord said to Moses, 'Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites'.
. . So they went up and spied out the land, . . And they told him: ', . . Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
' So they brought to the Israelites an unfavorable report of the land that they had spied out, saying, 'The land that we have gone through as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants and all the people that we saw in it are of great size.
There we saw the Nephilim the Anakites come from the Nephilim and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them, '" Numbers:. New Revised Standard Version.
Numbers and I think Deuteronomy also mention Anak, the Anakim, and the Rephaim, Everything is Gdliness, Gdliness is Everything,
Gd created the world from the Letters of the Torah,
If you want to know what is happening in the world this day, . . read the Torah parsha for this day, the day is woven from the Torah portion,
Such insight to what we are experiencing every day,
WORD OF GD ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the beginning and basis of all Western culture and literature, The book of Genesis is the richest and most complex writing humans have ever done, To be politically incorrect but completely honest, I have never read a book in which both the content and the “prose” were so bad that you couldnt decide which is worse.
Beliefs aside, this is arguably the worst book I have ever read not only because its so unethical and vile but also because it was just so b o r i n g I got constipated from the amount of times I had to get up “and make some tea” just to escape it for a couple of more minutes.
Golden Lessons from the Torah:
Gods chosen people have the right to kill anyone God hasnt chosen, kids included, because God says so.
“Put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey, ”
“Save alive nothing that breathes, ”
Whenever he reaches a new city, Abraham cowardly lies and says that Sarah is his sister and when hes believed and Sarah is taken to be another mans wife, God punishes the new oblivious husband instead thus proving that God does work in very mysterious ways.
Hebrews are so much cooler than Egyptians that god will kill even Egyptian babies just to win the Hebrews love and admiration.
Yet the Israelites wont stop whining and blaming Moses and his god for taking them out of Egypt which must be so hard for God after all that he had done for them.
Killing innocent people and stuff
Women suck, rape is more forgivable than homosexuality, and having slaves is kinda cool,
God is very detailoriented and likes random things done in very specific ways so you better pay attention.
. If a damsel gets raped in the city, kill her and her rapist because her screams werent heard whereas if a damsel gets raped in the countryside and her screams are heard, then only kill her rapist.
Well, guess whos moving to the country!!
I sincerely dont enjoy either preaching or shaming but people condoning nazism/racism/sexism/speciesm/terrorism or any other form of extremism while holding even the slightest respect for this book are either hypocritical, severely delusional, or they obviously have never even read the book.
Pretty weird. Pretty boring. I would recommend everyone of any religion read it sometime before they die, The Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition it inspires each successive generation, The current JPS translation, based on classical and modern sources,
is acclaimed for its fidelity to the ancient Hebrew, Scared the heck out of my parents during the couple weeks I was reading this baby, Oh, I read the Large Print edition, Much easier on the eyes,
From a literary perspective, it was in dire need of a good editor, I mean, every time God tells Moses something, we get the complete text of his speech, Then, we get the exact same text again when Moses tells everyone what God said, REDUNDANCY. Could have really tightened this piece up to make the plot move much swifter,
Had problems liking anyone in this book, God was a jerk. Moses wasn't so nice. And the rest were a bunch of gossipers, backstabbers, and liars,
Also, could we limit the number of animals we have to slaughter The gods must be crazy!
Some nice bits about how if your slave won't leave when you free him, take an awl and drive it through his ear into your door.
That's awkward.
Actually, the best bit was toward the end when they talk about helping your friends and family, Those bits were quite lovely and rational amp I got a sense of where the Jewish half of my family picked up their codes of generosity.
I'm an atheist, but religion fascinates me, primarily as a manifestation of culture, I read the Torah as I would any ancient text, and found it an amazing and instructive document of nationbuilding, From the most pragmaticlaws and norms, historical lessonsto the most spirituala genesis story, a spiritual justification, a historical and cultural sense of the nation, what is the meaning of being human, what the limits, what the goals, what the good and bad relationships, countless questions are answered, often in a satisfyingly absolute way though questions linger at other times.
The narrative is uneven, sometimes mythical, sometimes actionpacked, at times mindnumbingly detailed and repetitive getting through the measurements of the temple, or the census was a real struggle, but all of it adds up to an unparalleled document of a newly forming nation.
There are many, many interesting features in the Torah as a whole, but one that stands out to me is that often motivations human or godly go unexplained.
. . leading to the pragmatic and true to life conclusion that sometimes, things just are the ultimate explanation does not always exist or perhaps the religious would say does not always manifest to humans, even in a world with a divinity.
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