HEBREW WORD STUDY  – A WEARY SOUL - NEPHESH AVEPH נפש  עיף Nun Pei Shin   Ayin Yod Pei Jeremiah 31:25: “For I have satiated the weary soul.” “Sometimes exhausted with toil and endeavor, I wish I could sleep forever and ever. But then this reflection my longings allay,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HEAR – SHAMA’  שמע  Shin Mem Ayin Psalms 27:7 “Hear. O’Lord, when I cry with my voice; have mercy also upon me, and answer me.” “My words fly up, but my thoughts remain below.” Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act 3, Scene 3 In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet,...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – DIVINE LOVE – RAV CHESSED  רב חסד   Resh Beth  Cheth Samek Daleth John 13:35:  “By this shall all [men] know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another.” In the Aramaic, the word used in this verse for love is chava’  which means to...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – A FIXED HEART –  LAVI NAKAVAN   לבי נכון   Nun Kap Vav Nun    Lamed Beth Yod Psalms 108:1: “O God, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise even with my glory.”  Ever have one of those times when you carry a burden that just so overwhelms you...

HEBREW WORD STUDY – HOPE – BATACH - בטח  Beth Teth Cheth Ecclesiastes 9:4: “For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.” “…how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off...