YHWH is sharing with Moshe, on Mt Sinai, how He wants humans to celebrate Shabbat with Him, and why. He has also prepared a place for Him to live among humans – the Ark of the Tabernacle, or of the Tent — and He has described the ceremonial robes and breastplate […]
1560 Geneva Bible: Exodus 29 – “Is The Role of The Priest Altered Later?”
In Exodus 29, YHWH explains to Moshe how He wishes Aaron the priest, and his sons, to serve as priests in the ‘Mishkan’ or Holy Presence. In the Hebrew and the Geneva Bible, the priest must always engage in ‘consecration’ or ‘sanctification’ of himself, his body and clothing, because he […]
Do We “Resemble” God?
And Did Thousands of Human Beings See God When He Gave Moses the Law? Yesterday evening the Jewish holiday of Shavuot began. This is one of the many Jewish holidays to which I, as a secularized Jew, have, for most of my life, paid almost no attention. The festival commemorates […]