quarrel, and social tension, the prevention of enmity and war. It is still, to be sure, depicted as a blessing, a manifestation of divine grace, but in a great many sayings it appears in a normative context: The pursuit of peace is the obligation of the individual...
Though these sayings—with the notable exception of Jesus' words on the Cross, which are given as transliterated Aramaic—are recorded in Greek, it is now generally believed that Jesus spoke Aramaic, and that there were very few speakers of Hebrew living in the Land of Israel during his life...
many were written by solomon, some aren't religious, wise sayings, teach by comparison, meant to teach the right way to live in a difficult world ecclesiastes book of philosophy, "does life have a point?", search for meaning in life, vanity sirach church book, used in early church to ...
Judaism is largely a religion of interpretations, not of literalism. We have many sayings about the space between the words being important – in fact, all our midrashim are, in some sense, about the space between the words. That’s where interpretation happens. Mozart said that “the music ...
The nounezeris used twenty-one times in the Hebrew Old Testament. Twice it is used in the context of the woman in Eden. Three times it is used of people helping (or failing to help) in life-threatening situations.[3] Sixteen times it is used in reference to God as a helper.[4] (...
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