PARSHA LECH LECHA / Go for Yourself
Beresheeth / Genesis 12:1 – 17:27
By Matthew Moshe Nolan
LECH LECHA – LAMED-KOF-LAMED-KOF means Go for yourself or Go alone!
BERESHEETH/Genesis 12:1: VAYOMER YHWH EL-AVRAM LECH LECHA ME’ARTZECHA UMIMOLADETECHA UMIBEIT AVICHA EL-HA’ARETZ ASHER AR’EKA.
YHWH said to AVRAM, “Go from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father’s house, [and go] to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make you into ...
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16
OCT
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PARSHA NOACH
Beresheeth / Genesis 6:9 – 11:32
By Matthew Moshe Nolan
Beresheeth/Genesis 6:9: Eleh toldot Noach. Noach ish tzaddik tamim hayah bedorotav et-ha’Elokim hithalech Noach.
This is the history of Noach. Noach was a righteous man, flawless in his generation; Noach walked with YHWH.
10 Noach fathered three sons: Shem, Cham, and Yafet. 11 The earth was corrupt before YHWH, and the earth was filled with violent crime. 12 And beheld that it was corrupt, for all flesh had ...
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9
OCT
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PARSHA BERESHEETH – In a Beginning
BERESHEETH/Genesis 1:1: BERESHEETH BARA ELOKIM ET HASHAMAYIM VE’ET HA’ARETZ.
In the beginning ELOHIM created the heavens and the earth.
MOSHE RABAINU wrote down the TORAH and YHWH is the author, meaning the DEVAR/Word of YHWH is by definition truth itself: This is the Orthodox view of Scripture to which I hold. I am a Scriptural literalist though I also look behind the flat literal meaning for metaphors, allusions, wordplays, idioms, and other literary devices to expose the deep TORAH. I hope this ...
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OCT
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