Today I want to share a YouTube video I came across about the prostitution incident involving Tamar and Judah. This clip was done by a Hasidic Jew and he was answering the question “How could the righteous Judah solicit the services of a person he thought was a prostitute?”  Now I find this video quite […]

“So she took off her widow’s clothes, completely covered her face with her veil, and sat at the entrance to ‘Einayim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up, but she still was not being given to him as his wife.”-Genesis 38:14 What’s Judah to do? He now has […]

 Judah said to Onan, “Go and sleep with your brother’s wife — perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and preserve your brother’s line of descent.”-Genesis 38:8 For those who are relatively new to the ancient world of the Old Testament, I need to go over a custom known as “Levirate Marriage”. This […]

“Judah took a wife for ‘Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.  But ‘Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil from Adonai’s perspective, so Adonai killed him.“-Genesis 38:6 If there is any one chapter that reveals how important God feels about preserving the Hebrew race, Genesis Chapter 38 has got to be it. In this narrative, we are told that […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 38. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James Version, click here. In Genesis Chapter 38, we are suddenly transported back to the Land of Canaan. Now I think this is another one of those parts of the Bible where the details just fly over most people’s […]