Word Study – Rod And Chastise

Proverbs 13:24: “He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.” Proverbs 23:13:  “Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with a rod, he shall not die.”  Recently I was attending a class run by a private...

Word Study – Another God

Exodus 20:3 “Thou shalt have no other (another) gods before me.” A man came to a rabbi and asked if the rabbi could teach him the deep mysteries of God.  The rabbi asked the man a question.  Two burglars entered a house through a chimney.  Upon emerging from the...

WORD STUDY – CLOUD OF JEHOVAH

Exodus 14:20 “And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and it was a cloud and darkness to them but it gave light by night to those. So that the one came not near the other all the night.”   Many of us as children have watched these...

WORD STUDY – GOD MEANT IT FOR GOO

Genesis 50:20  “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.” In Ta’anit 21a of the Talmud there is the story of a sage named Nachum.  I could not tell from translating if his...

Word Study – Rest (Nucha)

Exodus 33:14:  And He said: “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.”   Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.  Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart;...