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Parsha B'reishit - Genesis

10/18/2018

By Richard Sison 2018

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The Hebrew Bible differentiate itself with the rest of the world for it declared in the beginning of its book that G-D created the heavens and the earth and not the other way around. The Hebrew text writes: B’reishit bara Elohim et hashamayim v’et ha’aretz, which means “In the beginning G-D created the heavens and the earth.”

The first ever foreign translation of Hebrew Torah, known as LXX wrote it in a different format: “G-D created the world in the beginning.”"

“In his [Moses] exordium, as I have already said, is most admirable; embracing the creation of the world, under the idea that the law corresponds to the world and the world to the law, and that a man who is obedient to the law, being, by so doing, a citizen of the world,arranges his actions with reference to the intention of nature, in harmony with which the whole universal world is regulated.”

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise,and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the L-RD. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Proverbs 8:29-36

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Parsha V'zot HaBracha - This is the Blessing

10/6/2018

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By Richard Sison 2018

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V'Zot HaBerachah is a Hebrew for "and this is the blessing," It covers Deuteronomy 33:1 to 34:12, which sets out the final farewell and blessing of Moses for the 12 Tribes of Israel. The parsha concludes with the death of Moses in an undisclosed location.
Moses was 120 years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated (v. 7). The Israelites mourned for Moses for 30 days. Joshua was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him, and the Israelites followed him (v. 9).

And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the L-RD knew face to face, In all the signs and the wonders, which the L-RD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.

Deuteronomy 34:10-12

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Parsha B'reishit - Genesis

By Richard Sison 2018

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Parsha V'zot HaBracha - This is the Blessing

By Richard Sison 2018

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