SBTS Audio & Video Media, 1978-2016 . Alchemy's Mysteries - by Moses, Tycho Brahe, Newton, and Jung: By OVE VON SPAETH. Why did Moses order the Israelites to drink gold dust - from the mysterious Golden. A Woman Called Moses is a television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the. Archeological and historical evidence of Biblical accuracy. A growing number of anti-abortion activists, despite social-science research, claim that women are traumatized by their abortions — and are trying to use. The personage who spoke to Moses was the premortal Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament. SUPERMAN The 1978 movie, Superman, is really the story of Jesus Christ. Original inventors, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made their Superman resonate. Moses. MOSES RABBENU (OUR TEACHER) - The Man From Sinai and The. Servant of God'He is on the track of Canaan all his life; it is incredible that he. This dying. vision of it can only be intended to illustrate how incomplete a moment. Moses fails to enter Canaan not. Franz. Kafka) 1'Moses torments me like a ghost not laid to rest' (Sigmund Freud) 2. Moses is honoured among Jews today as the 'lawgiver of Israel', and he delivers several sets of laws in the course of the four books. The first is the Covenant Code. Moses Dillard was a discovered by Otis Redding who liked his guitar playing style, and consequentally he played guitar on Fame recordings (such as Sweet Soul Music by. If I am Moses, then you . In this chapter we ask three. Moses’ self identity: First, Moses claims not to. Second Moses smashes the tablets made. God - How does he have the chutzpah to do that? Third. why does Moses - our teacher and savior - the spiritual founder of the. Jewish people who led people out of Egypt in the Exodus and led them to. Mt. Sinai, through the desert to the promised land not accompany them. Moses is our Rabbenu, our teacher, as compared to Abraham Avinu, our. Father. Abraham the biological father 4 and the . Moses. is our spiritual founder, 'The Servant of God' 5 and the 'Man of God'. He is also God's lawmaker. God declares that he is the. My household is entrusted' (Num. Both Abraham. and Moses are God- intoxicated men. One is willing to sacrifice his son. God. The. other several times tells God he would rather die than become a new. Moses is the mediator between Jewish people and God. The people understand that. God is chasing death. Only a man like Moses can speak to. God. He can speak 'face to face' with God. Jacob also sees God `face to. Gen. 3. 2: 3. 1) and struggled, but his struggle is personal, Moses. Jewish people. Moses saw God from. God. By speaking 'face to face' he. God's anger and saves the people from God. How mighty the hand and the great fear that Moses. Israel' (Deut. Moses not only. God but 'knew' God. Knowing in Hebrew has a. God even 'face to. The Kabbalah calls him the 'Father of Wisdom'. Wisdom is used. in the Kabbalah for secret knowledge of God. Moses is the . Moses reputation both in biblical time and. This has become known as the kiss of. God. God alone buried him and knows where he is buried. Until two. thousand and one hundred years after Moses' death no text tells us of a. Jew named Moses. Moses is a warrior, a statesman, a prophet and a. The 'Servant of God' is what we have defined as Adam Two earlier. His. mission is to serve the earth and the people created by God. Moses as. we will see has, the power to be the Majestic Man, but chooses. There are several events in his life when he acts as an Adam. One, but in the end he chooses 8 not to go to the promised land as the. BIRTH AND GROWTH IN EGYPTThe first we hear of Moses is that a man of the tribe of Levi marries a. This may the only time that the Torah mention. In this to emphasis that. Moses growing up as an Egyptian he is a Hebrew? From this it would appear that Moses is a firstborn, but he has. Aaron and an older sister Miriam. Thus Moses appears. The Midrash has a different. In Egypt a prophecy was made by Bilaam, the evil prophet. Book of Numbers that a Hebrew boy would be born who would. Thus the edict to drown all male children, a. Talmud. notes). The Pentateuch then tells us that man from the house of. Levi married a woman, the daughter of Levi (Ex. We. later discover that the man is Amram, the son of Kohath, the son of. Levi. She, Yocheved is the daughter of Levi, thus Moses father married. Aunt, an illegal marriage per Leviticus. Prior to this Amram, the. Hebrews, decided that since all boys were to be drowned. He accepted her statement and. Yocheved. Thus despite it appearing that they (Amram. Yocheved) were just married and she gave birth to Moses, in fact. Moses had an older sister and bother (Aaron) from his. Thus Moses was saved from. Pharaonic decree and then by the decree of. Egypt at the time had a Pharaoh who has ordered the death of all male. Hebrews. 9 Knowing of this his mother, Yocheved puts him into a. The Hebrew term 'tavat' is only used one other time in. Pentateuch - the ark that Noah built. Noah built a 'tavat' that was. Yocheved built this 'tavah' and the child. Jewish people's salvation. Pharaoh's daughter, the Princess found the ark with the boy. She knew. it was a Hebrew boy, probably due to the child's Semitic physiognomy. Another. alternative was that knowing of her father's decree she assumed the. Hebrew. She decided to reject her father's genocidal. She was a very courageous woman. She. recognized an injustice and refused to allow it to pass. Miriam, Moses'. older sister was waiting on the side and asked the Princess whether she. She agreed probably because she. Egyptian wet nurse not to harm the child. She may. not have wanted to bring the child she intended to adopt to her father. She, thus, hired Moses' mother, Yocheved and paid her to. Thus the Pharaoh who wanted to destroy Hebrew male. The Princess used one word. Miriam and overthrows her father's six verse complaint against. Hebrews (1: 8- 1. Moses spend his first years (probably three) in. After Moses was weaned he went to Pharaoh's daughter's house to grow. The Princess name unknown in the Torah was named Bat. Ya (or Bit. Ya). by Jewish Midrashim. Bat. Ya in Hebrew means daughter of God. Bat. Ya names. him Moses. The Pentateuch says this means 'I drew him out of the water'. Ex. The water was the Nile, the life of Egypt. Thus the Torah. says she gave him life. She did, since all Jewish males were to die. If she expected him to become a legitimate Egyptian Prince. Hebrew name. Moses in Egyptian. Ramoses - the god Ra, Thatmoses - the god That, Ptahmose - . Ptah; all are Egyptian gods and Pharaohs. Bat. Ya gives him an. Thus Moses is a nameless child of two cultures. Moses. biological mother Yocheved had a name for Moses, but it was not Moses. Thus the most important Jewish. Hebrew name that is unknown to us and we call. Egyptian name. 1. Since Moses knew both his biological. The next incident we are told about is when he is a young adult. The. Torah tells us nothing about his upbringing in the Princess' Palace. We. surmise that as a nursing child he learnt of the Jews and their. As an older child in the Palace of the Pharaoh of Egypt he. Egyptian life and of its gods, its reverence for death and. One day Moses sees an Egyptian master beating a Hebrew (his first. Moses kills the Egyptian. Moses knows. of his people. The aggressor, according to. Jewish Midrashim is named Dothan, says to Moses 'who appointed you. Prince over us and Judge' (Ex. This is Moses’ first. Dothan is asking who made a member of our. Dothan's rejection of Moses as Prince of the Hebrews was his. As we shall later, the same Dothan rebelled against Moses in the. It was he who told the Egyptians about the death of the. Egyptian master. Moses is in danger in Egypt and leaves. Why is a Prince of Egypt in danger for slaying an Egyptian? Because. when Moses killed the Egyptian he was identifying himself as a Hebrew. Moses slaying of the Egyptian was not just an act. Hebrew was in effect an act of. Mosaic idea to free his brethren. And perhaps. he gave up his potential heir ship of the Pharaoh. Moses went to Midian, there he saw seven young women being attacked at. Thus for the third time he. Yitro. Moses had a sense. Perhaps he remembered that his. Hebrews. despite it being promulgated by her own father. But he also has a sense. Egyptian Prince. He is not afraid to be an aggressor. He is rewarded by Yitro with. Yitro's daughter Zipporah. Thus Moses, in the early part of his life, saves three different. Hebrew from a gentile. Hebrew from another Hebrew and the third time he. In all three cases Moses. BURNING BUSH Moses and the Burning Bush by A. Friberg. Moses goes to Mt. Horeb which is another name for Mt. Sinai and. sees a bush burning but not being consumed. God speaks from within the. Moses. He is told that he has a twofold mission. One to go to. Pharaoh and secondly to 'bring my people, the Israelites out of. Egypt' (Ex. Moses’ asks who am I to undertake such a mission, I. Egyptian and most of my life as a. Midianite? God responds I shall be with you; you are My chosen one. Moses says when I tell the Israelites, the God of their fathers sent me. What is His name' (Ex. Although quoting the. Moses, in humility, is asking God his own question! Moses. understands that he must convince the people of Israel that he has the. Jewish leader and equally important to address and. Pharaoh. The Hebrews have been an enslaved people for many decades. How would. they react to this stranger coming from a foreign country where he had. God to take them. God? God has already told him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac. God of Jacob (Ex. Moses is saying to God that is not. Egyptians. The Hebrews themselves may have. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God then says to Moses my name is `Eheh asher Eheh' and tell the. Israel `Eheh' sent me . Thus `Eheh asher Eheh' could mean. I am what I am', `I will be what I will be', and/or `I can be what I. I am the timeless God who existed before time and will exist. God then tells Moses his name. I shall free you from the slavery of the Egyptians; I. I shall redeem you .. I shall take. you as my people and I shall be your God. And you shall know that I am. YHVH your God, who has freed you from the slavery of the Egyptians'. Ex. Telling the people that `Eheh' sent me means `the timeless. One' has send me. Moses is to tel. I the people that I, God will be with. God tells Moses that this knowledge given to him . To. the Patriarchs God was their father, the father of the Jewish. God will. prove his prowess by the miracles He will perform against the Egyptians. The name YHVH does appear before its appearance with Moses. God is. telling Moses that my name was not known to them but you will know me. When Adam knew. his wife Eve for the first time she conceived. Thus Moses. will know God in a way that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did not know him. The Patriarchs had heard. God's promise but did not see them fulfilled. To know God in this way is new upon. Moses asks but suppose they do not believe me? God shows. Moses three miracles to use to convince the people - his staff turning. Then God. says if that is not enough take water out of river and it shall turn to.
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