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Psalm 15: Repose in the Presence of the Lord Reserved for the Pure in Heart
1 :יהוה מִי-יָג֣וּר בְּאָהֳֳלֶךָ מִי-יִשְׁכֹן בְּהַ֣ר קָדְשֶֽׁךָ Yahwah, who sojourns/dwells in Your tent? Who sojourns/dwells on Your holy mountain? 2 :הוֹלֵ֣ךְ תָּ֭מִים וּפֹעֵ֣ל צֶ֑דֶק וְדֹבֵ֥ר אֱ֝מֶ֗ת בִּלְבָבֽוֹ The one who walks blamelessly and does what is right and the one who speaks truth in his heart. [Comment: David spells out in Psalm 19 that only…
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The Rock: The Ekklesia’s Immovable yet Advancing Foundation
My post, Flint aka Rocky and the Rock: Peter and Yeshua, dealt with Yeshua’s interaction with Peter, only recorded in the Gospel according to Matthew16:18 , in which Yeshua addressed Simon bar Jonah as Kayfa~כֵּיפָא (Aramaic<Hebrew) > Kifas~Κηφας (transliterated into New Testament Greek with the obligatory ‘s‘ suffix indicating the masculine gender, which the Apostle…
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What Many Westerners Don’t Get About The Gaza War
The Blogs Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem Academic Center. This is a re-posting of a post written for the The Blogs of the internet news site, The Times of Israel, by…
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Psalm 14: “The Fool Has Said In His Heart, ‘There Is No God’.”
1למנצח לדוד For the director of music for David > Disclaimer: I rarely consult commentaries. Only when my translation doesn’t make sense or I just can’t begin to understand the meaning of a verse despite its being correctly translated do I refer to one, that of Delitzsch, whose commentaries are based on his analysis of…
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עד-אנה ‘הוה How Long, O Lord: David’s Burning Question in Psalms 6 & 13
I had not realized the similarities between Psalms 6/13 until I came across a hymn written by Isaac Watts entitled Ps.13. Psalm 6, in which he combines the two psalms with the linchpin phrase, “How long, O Lord?” Sojourn Music wrote a “blues rendition” of Psalm 13, in which liberties were taken with the text,…
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Israel-Hamas War: Egyptian Author/Investigative Journalist Calls for Annihilation of Hamas, mid-December 2023
The following is an article written on December 18, 2023, by Inna Levitskaya, a journalist and editor at Channel 9 Israel, a Russian-language TV channel located in Israel. Levitskaya’s article was the product of portions of an interview conducted with Dalia Ziada by the Telegram channel Humans for Israel and excerpts from Ziada’s Wikipedia page.…
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Ukrainian, Russian Newspapers Differ in Accounts of November Ramstein Contact Group Session on Aid to Ukraine; Bulgarian Newspaper Reports Türkiye’s Disregard for Russia Sanctions, November 2023
In her November 22, 2023, article for the weekly Ukrainian Russian-language socio-political journal and daily news internet resource, Fokus, Darya Denisova stressed U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s provocative challenge to the West to continue its “unwavering” financial aid to Ukraine to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist schemes never come to fruition. At…
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Israel-Hamas Conflict: Germany Warned to Expect Consequences of Supporting Israel; Undercurrent of Radical Islam Simmers, early December 2023
Senior reporter for the German-language newspaper, Welt am Sonntag (The World on Sunday), Per Hinrichs, on December 1, 2023, wrote an opinion piece, “Risk of Attack: Islamism has finally come to our everyday lives.” Hinrich’s article was spurred by news that local police had foiled an attack planned by two ‘Islamists’ targeting a Christmas market;…
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Organization of Turkic States Looks To Strengthen Mutual Security; Azerbaijan Discusses Military Cooperation with Pakistan, early/mid-November 2023
The internet site of the Azerbaijan newspaper, Yeni (New) Azərbaycan, in its November 3, 2023, Azerbaijani language edition, reported that at the 10th Organization of Turkic States (TDT) summit of heads-of-state recently held in Astana, Kazakhstan, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasım-Jomart Tokayev, called for member states [Translator note: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan] to…
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Accuses U.S. of Withholding Intelligence Yet Supplying Arms to Israel Prior to Hamas Attack, mid-October 2023
The Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, reported on its Turkish language internet site on October 14, 2023, the answers of Russian MFA spokesperson, Mariya Zakharova, to the questions of Turkish journalist, Esra Karahindiba. The Q&A, which centered around the unfolding Israel-Hamas conflict, its impact on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the effect of attempts to mediate peace negotiations…
The Dragon is Slain 