10 September 2024, 7 Elul 5789.
JN-1264. Jerusalem News.
https://hebrewnations.com/features/jn5/jn1264.html
1. Israel Ganz at GOP conference: 'Judea and Samaria are the front line of the West'!
2. Torah Portion for this Week. Re'eh.
3. Which Countries Support Israel Around the World?
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"Brit-Am Now" no. 3572.
Contents:
1. Answer to Quora Query.
Why did Bathsheba cheat so willingly on her husband while he was at war fighting for King David?
2. New Article.
Avraham Feld: Islamic Danger -2
The Arab Objective Is Genocide Against Israel.
3. New Web-Site in Preparation.
"Archaeology in the Bible."
4. Rabbis Predicted-2.
Basic Facts and Main Text Supplied by Amnon Goldberg.
Some Background and supplementary information by Yair Davidiy.
5. Psalm (TCT Tanakh) 56.
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1. Answer to Quora Query.
Why did Bathsheba cheat so willingly on her husband while he was at war fighting for King David?
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Bathsheba-cheat-so-willingly-on-her-husband-while-he-was-at-war-fighting-for-King-David/answer/Yair-Davidiy
Ritual Purification Pool at Masada, Judea.
Here are some points indicated by the sources. Some of them may be hard to digest but the situation was different at that time.
David was walking on the roof of his palace. Bath Sheba and her family and her husband were members of the extended household. On the roof of the palace were ritual baths (mikvaoth) like we find on the palace roof at Masada. David was not expected to be there. Nor was anyone else. Bath Sheba wished to purify herself possibly after her first menopause. She preferred it not be known to other women of the place. She went up to use the pool on the roof. By chance David was walking there at the time. That is how he saw her. David inquired as to who she was and had her brought to him. She could not refuse. Technically it was considered rape.
Bath Sheba was then about 8 years old and technically an orphan. She was an exception of nature and precociously mature. Nevertheless such cases were not necessarily uncommon in that Era.
Uriah the Hittite was a Gentile-of-the-Gate of intermediate status serving in the army of David. Bath Sheba was under his protection. He was considered her husband. Bath-Sheba was probably still a virgin.
David had sex with her and she became pregnant. Bath Sheba was not a full-fledged wife and she had the right at puberty to renounce the marriage. In such a case the marriage would have been retroactively annulled and as if it had never been. Uriah however did not give her the opportunity.
Meanwhile both Joab (Head of the Army) and Uriah were virtually in open rebellion, They planned not necessarily to take over from David but rather to reduce his effective power.
Uriah had the reputation of being a loose cannon and dangerously impulsive in fighting. David ordered Joab to place Uriah in the forefront of the fighting and then cause him to be deserted in the fray and killed by the enemy. Before the plan could be carried out Uriah saw an opportunity. He led a charge of his own into the city hoping to capture it and end the war. He was killed along with many others.
Joab then used the written order of David to besmirch him.
David was punished by the Almighty not so much for what he actually did but for what he looked like doing. He had desecrated his status.
Bath Sheba bore a son that died in infancy. David later had another son from her. This was Shlomoh (Solomon) who became King after him.
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2. New Article.
Avraham Feld: Islamic Danger -2.
The Arab Objective Is Genocide Against Israel.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/guest/feld/islam2.html
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3. New Web-Site in Preparation.
"Archaeology in the Bible."
Brit-Am supporter and friend of ours, Ana Rina Kreisman, and her husband are setting up a new Web-site on Archaeology in the Bible.
It looks interesting and of value.
See:
https://israelarchaeologicalproof.com/
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4. Rabbis Predicted-2.
Basic Facts and Main Text Supplied by Amnon Goldberg.
Some Background and supplementary information by Yair Davidiy.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/guest/goldberg1/predicted2.html
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5. Psalm (TCT Tanakh) 56.
Psalm (TCT Tanakh) 56.
1 FOR THE CONDUCTOR, ON YONATH ELEM REHOKIM, OF DAVID A MICHTAM, WHEN THE PHILISTINES SEIZED HIM IN GATH.
The Classical Commentators (such as TARGUM YEHONATAN and METSUDAT DAVID) explain the expression YONATH ELEM REHOKIM, OF DAVID A MICHTAM along the following lines. David compares himself to a 'Yonah' i.e. a dove who is mute due to having been outside of the Land of Israel when he went to serve with the Philistines. He was then among the "distanced" (REHOKIM) who are not close to God. This Psalm was as precious to David as precious gold (MICHTAM).
For short biographical sketches of Rabbis quoted in our works go to:
Rabbis Quoted.
Thumbnail Biographies of Rabbis Mentioned in Brit-Am Writings.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/sources/rabbisquoted.html
This Biographical section is still under construction but most authorities mentioned have already been listed.
Re Psalm 56:1 see how other Translators have rendered it. Most of them are worth considering. We used the Bible Hub for this:
https://biblehub.com/psalms/56-1.htm
NIV. For the director of music. To the tune of 'A Dove on Distant Oaks.'
NKJV. To the Chief Musician. Set to 'The Silent Dove in Distant Lands.'
ISV. Have mercy on me, God, because men have harassed me.
2 BE GRACIOUS TO ME, O GOD, BECAUSE MEN YEARN TO SWALLOW ME; ALL DAY LONG THE WARRIOR OPPRESSES ME.
3 THOSE WHO EYE ME HAVE YEARNED TO SWALLOW ME ALL DAY LONG, FOR MANY FIGHT AGAINST ME, O MOST HIGH.
4 THE DAY I FEAR, I WILL HOPE TO YOU.
5 WITH GOD, I WILL PRAISE HIS WORD; IN GOD I TRUSTED, I WILL NOT FEAR. WHAT CAN FLESH DO TO ME?
6 ALL DAY LONG, MY WORDS GRIEVE [ME]; ALL THEIR THOUGHTS ABOUT ME ARE FOR EVIL.
7 THEY LODGE, THEY HIDE, THEY WATCH MY STEPS, WHEN THEY HOPE FOR MY LIFE.
8 FOR INIQUITY, THEY EXPECT RESCUE. BRING DOWN NATIONS WITH ANGER, O GOD.
9 YOU COUNTED MY WANDERINGS; PLACE MY TEARS IN YOUR FLASK. IS IT NOT IN YOUR ACCOUNTING?
10 THEN MY ENEMIES WILL RETREAT ON THE DAY THAT I CALL. THEREBY I WILL KNOW THAT I HAVE A GOD.
11 WITH GOD['S JUSTICE] I WILL PRAISE A WORD; WITH THE LORD['S KINDNESS] I WILL PRAISE A WORD.
The word translated here as "word" in Hebrew is "davar" which can also mean "a thing" or "something."
12 IN GOD I TRUSTED, I WILL NOT FEAR. WHAT CAN MAN DO TO ME?
13 UPON ME, O GOD, ARE YOUR VOWS; I WILL PAY THANKSGIVING OFFERINGS TO YOU.
14 FOR YOU SAVED MY SOUL FROM DEATH, EVEN MY FEET FROM STUMBLING, TO WALK BEFORE GOD IN THE LIGHT OF LIFE.
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JN-1264. Jerusalem News.
https://hebrewnations.com/features/jn5/jn1264.html
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Jacob (aka Israel) Kept the Law of Tithing: Jacob linked his tithing to a Return to the House of his Father. We can do the same.
Genesis (NIV) 28:
18 EARLY THE NEXT MORNING JACOB TOOK THE STONE HE HAD PLACED UNDER HIS HEAD AND SET IT UP AS A PILLAR AND POURED OIL ON TOP OF IT.
19 HE CALLED THAT PLACE BETHEL, THOUGH THE CITY USED TO BE CALLED LUZ.
20 THEN JACOB MADE A VOW, SAYING, IF GOD WILL BE WITH ME AND WILL WATCH OVER ME ON THIS JOURNEY I AM TAKING AND WILL GIVE ME FOOD TO EAT AND CLOTHES TO WEAR
21 SO THAT I RETURN SAFELY TO MY FATHERS HOUSEHOLD, THEN THE LORD WILL BE MY GOD
22 AND THIS STONE THAT I HAVE SET UP AS A PILLAR WILL BE GODS HOUSE, AND OF ALL THAT YOU GIVE ME I WILL GIVE YOU A TENTH.
MALACHI 3:
10 BRING ALL THE TITHES INTO THE STOREHOUSE,
THAT THERE MAY BE FOOD IN MY HOUSE,
AND TRY ME NOW IN THIS,
SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS,
'IF I WILL NOT OPEN FOR YOU THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN
AND POUR OUT FOR YOU SUCH BLESSING
THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ROOM ENOUGH TO RECEIVE IT.
Proverbs 3:
9 HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR WEALTH
AND WITH THE FIRST OF ALL YOUR PRODUCE,
10 SO YOUR BARNS WILL BE FILLED WITH ABUNDANCE,
AND YOUR VATS WILL BURST OPEN WITH NEW WINE.
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