The verses of the Torah were first publicly numbered (as we find them today) by Robert Estienne (Robert Stephanus) in 1571, but the move was not without criticism at the time from traditionalists. The original manuscripts did not contain the chapter and verse divisions in a numbered form. Hebrew … [Read more...]
What the apple really was… (spoiler alert – it wasn’t sex).
Introduction. The bible is stuffed with apparently unexplained metaphors, which is one of the reasons why people have speculated over it for thousands of years; in the seeming absence of any type of clarification people have delighted in putting forward their own. In the case of the fruit … [Read more...]
Secrecy and Sources
כבד אלהים הסתר דבר וכבד מלכים חקר דבר “It is the glory of Elohim to conceal a word, and the glory of Kings to research a word.” – Proverbs 25:2. A friend asked me today: "what are some good places to look into the historical sources for the specifics of ktav ivri gematria?" (i.e. … [Read more...]