Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Jeremiah 51:13: “O’ you who dwell by many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, and the measure of your covetousness.” Clearly the pashat is a judgment against Babylon.  So why should a prophecy of judgment against a city that...

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Psalm 143:7: “Hear me speedily, O’Lord: my spirit failed: hide not they face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.” Is it just me or do you ever notice that the Lord sometimes waits until that 12th hour. The movers...

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Psalms 143:8: “Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the mornin.” Here is your remez, how does one hear lovingkindness?  True this is poetry and David is most likely speaking metaphorically, but still the question remains, what does he...

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar: Psalm 34:8:  “O taste and see that God is good.” Yesterday in class we took a break and watched “Fiddler on the Roof.”   The whole movie focused on the following old Hebraic expression: “Our God and God of our fathers?”  This is...

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar: Song of Solomon 2:11 “For behold the winter has passed, the rain has passed, it goes to itself.” The picture being painted here is a simple one.  The long hard winter has passed, rains have come and now it is the care free time of...

Good morning Yamon Ki Yesepar: “Psalms 112:9-10: “He hath given freely to the poor; His mercies endures forever; His horn will  be exalted in honor.  The wicked will see it and be vexed; he will gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.”...

Psalm 29:11: “The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.” For thousands of years every Jewish child at the age of three started to study Hebrew so that they would be able to read the Holy Scriptures in it’s original...

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar; Psalm 57:1: “Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusted in thee; yea, in the shadow of the wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.” Hebrew is an emotional language. You need to translate...

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar: Genesis 49:22: “Joseph is a fruitful son, a fruitful son by a spring. His branches run over a wall.” This is presented as a poetic expression. It is the final blessing given by Jacob just before he died.  However, this is more than just...

Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar: Job 42:4: “Listen now and I will speak, I will ask you and you will teach me.” Gilda Radner in her book “It’s Always Something” told this story.  No it is not a Talmud story but she was Jewish.  Anyways, she told of a family that lived...