Israel is a name used 2,431 times in the Bible. The primary thread throughout the Bible is the redemption of humanity, and Israel is at the center of that story. Israel is the Hebrew name Yisra'el, meaning God contends, or one who struggles with God. Tho
1. Is it the land that is special, or the state?2. What happens to our connection to the land if we reject the belief in God? In the historicity of the Bible?3. Is our relationship to Israel any different from, say, a Hungarian's relationship to the land of Hungary?4. Is our ...
Let’s first look at what the Bible has to say about Israel. God’s plan was that Israel would become a “multitude” of peoples, meaning that a multitude of ethnic groups would seek to join themselves to the community of Israelites. Now YHVH had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy...
The Israel Bible is the world's first Hebrew Bible centered around the Land of Israel, the People of Israel, and the dynamic relationship between them.
The book of Hebrews in the New Testament section of the Bible, is perhaps the best treatise on the full meaning of the New Covenant, and all of its implications in Jesus Christ. Because this book is not a letter written to a specific group of people in a specific location like t...
in the land of Egypt.Footnotes Hosea 5:7 Or Now their New Moon feasts / will devour them and Hosea 5:8 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God). Hosea 5:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. Hosea 6:5 The ...
It was modeled after the Passover Seder, where different foods are eaten in a certain order, blessings said, and everything has a symbolic, deeply spiritual meaning. We have our own lovely Seder. Here’s what I do: The table is set with a lovely bunch of fresh flowers I just picked ...
The Bible Society in Israel prints and distributes bibles in the Land of the Bible. Our goal is to see the Word of God transform hearts and minds in the Israeli society.
When we read the Bible, we tend to focus on the story and we overlook where it all took place. However, the places themselves; their names, their climates, their distinct features, add an extra layer of meaning to the stories we thought we knew. Dr Jonathan Lipnick, the creator of thi...
(2014) identified an “explorers” versus “exemplars” paradigm in their extensive evaluation of Jewish day school teachers, finding some educators seek to explain why Israel is personally meaningful to them as opposed to facilitating students to explore the meaning of Israel for themselves. Kop...