Today we begin Genesis Chapter 3.   For the Complete Jewish Bible click here.   If you’re a King James diehard, click here.  Now the serpent was more crafty than any wild animal which Adonai, God, had made. -Genesis 3:1  The ancient rabbis have pointed out something interesting. When most people read this verse, we tend to […]

But for Adam no suitable helper was found.  So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.  Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The […]

 “So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.  But for Adam no suitable help-meet was found.  So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.  Then the Lord God […]

“Adonai, God, planted a garden toward the east, in ‘Eden, and there he put the person whom he had formed.” -Genesis 2:8  Here is something you probably haven’t heard your pastor ever talk about.   However, it is a  pattern that is repeated throughout the Scriptures.   The direction East has great spiritual significance and is […]

“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and BREATHED into his nostrils the BREATH OF LIFE; and man became a LIVING SOUL.”-Genesis 2:7 Let’s take a look at the words I underlined in red. breathed=naphach Breath of Life=Neshemash chayyim Living soul(being)=Chaya nephesh Remember that the Hebrew language is based on root words.   From one […]