by Chaim Bentorah | Nov 8, 2018 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – LIKE A DREAM Psalms 126:1: “A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.” Last night I had trouble sleeping. I must have woke up four times during the night. Each time I awoke I saw Psalms...
by Chaim Bentorah | Nov 7, 2018 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – BROKEN BONES – SHEVAR ‘ATSEM שׁבר. עצמ Lamentations 3:4 “My flesh and my skin hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.” “Why not? They are the only ones who can take it.” C.S. Lewis when asked why the righteous suffer. Tradition ascribes...
by Chaim Bentorah | Nov 6, 2018 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – WATERMELON – BATACH בטח Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understandings. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.” I ran across something in ancient rabbinical teaching and...
by Chaim Bentorah | Nov 5, 2018 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – GOD INHABITS YASHAV ‘EL ישׁב. אל Psalms 22:3 “But thou art holy, O thou that inhabits the praises of Israel.” KJV Psalms 22:3 “You are enthroned as the Holy one, you are the praise of Israel.” NIV Psalms 22:3: “But thou dwellest in the...
by Chaim Bentorah | Nov 4, 2018 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – PROMPT – NADAV נדב Nun Daleth Beth Exodus 25:1-2: “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Speak to the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart prompts him, you shall take My offering.’” Why did God want...
by Chaim Bentorah | Nov 3, 2018 | Devotionals
HEBREW WORD STUDY – NARROW – TSAROTH צרות Psalms 25:17: “The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses” “When sorrows come they come not single spies but in battalions” Claudius in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet Act IV Scene V...
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