by Chaim Bentorah | Jun 6, 2019 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – OVERWHELMED – BA’ATROPH בעטף Beth Ayin Teth Final Pei Psalm 61:2: “From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.” I read in the Sefer HaMaamarim (Book of the Discourses) ...
by Chaim Bentorah | Jun 5, 2019 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – UNSALTED FISH – TIPHELAH תפלה Taw Pei Lamed Hei Jeremiah 23:13: “And I have seen the unseemliness in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.” I grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church which taught...
by Chaim Bentorah | Jun 4, 2019 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – CURSE – ‘ARUR ארור Aleph Resh Vav Resh Jeremiah 17:5: “Thus saith the Lord, ‘Curse be the man that trust in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart turns away from God.” Jeremiah lived at the same time as Nahum. However, where Nahum dealt...
by Chaim Bentorah | Jun 3, 2019 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – THE LAME HORSE – YAGUN יגון Yod Gimmel Vav Final Nun Psalms 31:10, “For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.” David is saying that his life is filled with...
by Chaim Bentorah | Jun 1, 2019 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – HEWN STONE – GAZIT גזית Gimmel Zayin Yod Taw Isaiah 9:10: “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down but we will change them into cedars.” After 9-11 the House Minority Leader Tom Daschle,...
by Chaim Bentorah | May 31, 2019 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – I WILL TREASURE – TESPANETHI צפנתי Sade Pei Nun Taw Yod Psalms 119:11: “Your word have I have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” “Trifles light as air, are to the jealous confirmation proofs as truth of holy writ.” Iago...
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