I was shocked at how fast it happened. Never expected it.

@@catherinelake4621 Much darkness only takes a little light to disperse it, as long as you have your eyes open.

B"H

Having faith in God never ment Christianity to Imyself I found Christians Absurd nothing they said e v er made any sense

Thank you ❤

Since I see that you asked this 5 months ago and no one has answered yet, I'll share that the one I bought is the ArtScroll (that's the publisher) Tanakh, and it is very nice. I can't review it in terms of comparison vs. any other version, but it's beautiful and easy to read. I hope that helps!

That's exactly correct. Satan has his job that God gave him and he continues to do God's will. For he none of his own. The church has totally been deceiving people from the start. There was never a war in heaven. If there was such a thing do you think God forgot to mention it. That's Hellenistic though. The Greek writing isn't God's word it's concocted by men.God explains what he is and what he isn't. He's not a man that he would lie. Repent and worship Hashem. Idolatry is a abomination to Hashem.. I quit the church after I studied my way out of it.We are growing in number. Thanks to the internet you can learn at your pace.The light of the truth will pop on for you.

@@haroldbell213 awesome reply! Thank you❣️

Yay us! We get it 😃

I always thought it meant sons of god were men of god who populated with unholy men daughters, which could have also been giant unholy men daughters as giants were here but were not all evil like it has been said... But I am only 3 mins into this discussion so will see what has been said. Never been religious and only coming to Tanakh now... the jesus narrative is very damning and scary...

Where is this in Rashi? I don't see it anywhere in his commentary of Bereshis 6.

The only scripture Paul could have been referring to is the TaNaKh.

You’re not the Messiah.

Moses never became a false prophet. BI don't know where you got that from. Unfortunately, the curses did come true, culminating in the Holocaust. Jews are human. Most kept the Torah. The problem arose from the Mistake of including the Erev Rav in the exodus. It was they who instigated all the problems. Moses was just trying to rectify their souls, which is needed for the real Messiah to come. Unfortunately, they weren't ready and we suffered the consequences. We also see the blessings coming true before our eyes.

Thee are always Jews keeping the Torah and Jews breaking it. And maybe if the ones that keep it do a good enough job then the curses are avoided and the blessing reaped. Also, the rabbis say that the curses won't happen all at the same time.

I think they mean Deuteronomy 3:11.

If you go to the time 56:11 on the screen, Issac from the Dominican Republic is asking a question about giants and fallen angels.

Yes. Rabbi Singer wasn’t available so a prior episode was replayed.

Thank you. Yes, this was from 2015. I believe the Title has that in it also. I looked so much younger. Can't believe how much Grey hair I have now 😮

@@tenaktalk 😆 I don’t think anyone can tell. Thanks for replying this… I’m Looking forward to listening because I’ve had a LOT of questions concerning this topic.

@@tenaktalk I don't know...we were busy being bombed by Pales the last week. 😭 and no one talks about it. Fair weather friends.

People go to sleep when they die, the breath of life never sleeps: Ge:2:7: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Ec:3:20: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Ec:12:7: Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Ec:9:10: Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 1Th:4:14: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

@@waynegabler6570 I was right there with you til u mentioned Jesus. Never mind...

@@janishart5128 but God did not give a soul. He gave His breath. Our breath goes back to God who gave it. Adam BECAME a living soul, or person. I don't believe we have a soul that goes on living in heaven after we die. I mean no disrespect, but I get confused when I hear things like this, or that there will. E 11 months purification...where does this come from?! I can't find it in the Torah or tanach anywhere. Wouldn't God have said to the people that were "going to sleep with their fathers", that their soul would be with Him in heaven? I'm not even sure if there will be a ressurrection anymore. I can't find that in Torah either. Perhaps it was an idea, though beautiful as it is, adopted from the other religions of the times? I just want black and white clear answers and seem to get none

@@cynthiajones4803 Breath is life is soul. Word is creation. Life is breath/soul. Soul is breath of life. So, you have to understand, despite what some suggest, the Rabbinic traditions are in fact different than Pharisaic practice, which was different from Essene, which was different from Sadducee etc... And you have to understand, this is an Orthodox Rabbi critiquing Christianity USING Rabbinic Judaism and its interpretation as a metric. Because the NT is based on the Tanach. If the NT was not attached to Tanach, if Tanach wasn't "canon" in the Christian tradition, then this wouldn't matter. But once Tanach was accepted as canon, it became dependent upon it. So that is what Rabbi does. But Rabbi is also Orthodox. Which means he simply can not critique Judaism with the same standard of objectivity he can critique Christianity. So what he's saying about Christianity in comparison to Tanach, is generally spot on. he's a master of the text and the Rabbinic interpretation, the literalist interpretation so to speak. But objectively critiquing Judaism and Torah and Tanach, he simply can not do. Cognitive dissonance theory. It effects ALL orthodox, regardless of religion, the same. Really it effects all literalists the same. Anyone who believes that any text is divinely authored, will HAVE to use cognitive dissonance to protect those beliefs at some point or another. Because in reality no text is perfect, infallible, or timeless. So in order to believe that a particular text IS infallible and perfect, one must subconsciously ignore certain contradictions and hypocrisies. And in most cases, it is subconscious. It's not something they do intentionally. The Sadducees, and MOST Jews prior to say the 3rd century, before the Greeks arrived, did not really believe in resurrection, or any of those supernatural things. As I would say 70% of Jews today believe.... or don't believe as it were. And the Sadducees didn't use oral torah, meaning mishna, talmud and later Rabbinic writings, which obviously did not exist in written form at that time, and were really only created later. And no resurrection is not in Torah. But Rabbinic Judaism interprets some of the more vague and cryptic elements in order to justify that belief. These ideas don't really even show up in Tanach until around Daniel. And with Daniel, the older texts are reinterpreted. Which is why Tanach doesn't spend a lot of time on this topic. Because in the 3rd century BCE, these were relatively new ideas to Judaism, brought by the Greeks. And the Rabbinic tradition, influenced from the Essenes and Pharisees, who in turn were influenced by the Greeks and Persians. Rabbinic Judaism is a very specific branch and tradition of Judaism. There were other texts that have informed Rabbinic Judaism ALMOST as much as elements of Tanach, like Book of Jubilees, Enoch. And the early Rabbinical writings, Mishna and Talmud, use a lot of these other sources for say inspiration and influence. There are over 8 different ideas about what happens after death in Talmud I believe. So Rabbinic tradition is basically, the opinion of any Rabbi who mattered. It is all OPINION. The Sadducees didn't even believe in a conscious afterlife. We don't see ANY reward or retribution after death until the book of Daniel. As these concepts, hypothetically, arrived in Judea with either the Persians or Greeks. And there are a lot of archaeological and historical reasons to think that also which I won't get into. But most scholars today believe Daniel wasn't even written until the 2nd century BCE. After Alexander arrived. Which is where the story that Alexander was handed Daniel comes from. Theoretically. I mean, we are fairly certain that Daniel was a late production. But we can't know absolutely. All evidence points in that direction. So really, this entire idea of afterlife only shows up around late persian-early Hellenistic and kind of takes off from there. This is when we see Pharisees and Sadducees split off, and groups like Essenes come up. The Sadducees beliefs actually overlap MORE with most modern Jews than do Pharisaic views. As only 10% of modern Jews are Orthodox, and maybe another 20% "Conservative". Meaning about 70% who are either Reform, Humanist, Reconstruction, secular theist or secular atheist, do not adhere to the Rabbinic tradition or the 13 principles of Rambam. And they don't generally believe in things like resurrection, a conscious afterlife, magic and supernatural things, reward and retribution after death.... Sadducees were also legal Torah authoritarians though, so modern Jews are not like them in that sense. And modern Jews mostly all at least refer to Oral torah and don't deny it like Sadducees did. Except for the Karaits who pretty much inherited the Sadducee philosophy. All modern Judaism is influenced by the Rabbinic tradition, but not all Judaism adheres to the Rabbinic beliefs. Judaism is what Jews do and believe. Jew, from the Latin Iudaeus, from the Hebrew Yehudim, meaning the people of the Kingdom of Judah, not the tribe or the very diverse faith practices of the Kingdom. And they were diverse. Rabbinic Judaism, one could argue, actually takes more in tradition from the Essenes than the Pharisees. All though Orthodox would contest this likely. But objectively, I would say its true. So all of these groups had very different ideas about the things that most of us would suggest are impossible to know. Things like what is our soul, is death the end, is there an afterlife, how are we connected to the eternal one....... you know, all the things that man's religions and texts claim to know, but which are in reality, impossible to know. Which is basically what Humansit Judaism is, and Reform to an extent. The understanding that this is the mythology of our ancestors. How they understood God, the universe and humanity, and our traditions. Reform overlaps a bit more with Rabbinical tradition than Humanist. But either way. So what I am saying I guess is that all these ideas about the after life and soul, developed within Rabbinic Judaism specifically. And in large part in contrast to Christianity. As Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism developed alongside one another, in conversation with each other and often in contrast to one another. So Rabbinic Judaism in many ways is influenced by European, North African and Arab concepts all the same as Christianity and Islamic concepts are influenced by the Jewish. Breath/life and soul are the same in Rabbinic thinking. As far as I know. Or part of the same process. The soul IS life, it is what animates. And the breath is God inserting the soul into the clay, the physical. That's how I would say Rabbinic Judaism understands it. Remember, every Rabbi, every person, has an opinion. And that's all things like Mishna, Talmud, Zohar, or Tenak Talk are, the specific interpretation and opinion of the speaker /writer. Not to say there aren't universal things in Torah and Tanach, universal realizations, insights. Like you cant get something from nothing so "God", or eternity, must exist. One of the great insights of the text. But the fine details ,the history, the legal code.... I mean... these are everchanging. Oral Torah HAD to arise because living a life based solely on Tanach without expansive interpretation would be almost impossible. Check out Humanist Judaism channels, IISHJvid and Societyforhj, and then a few other channels on YT dealing with scholarly biblical and textual analysis/archaeology, Mythvision, Gnostic Informant, Digital Hammurabi, Dr. KippDavis. And remember, you don't have to call yourself an atheist if you don't believe in the text. Some of us KNOW that the text was written by men. But that doesn't negate God. God is eternity. Tanach keenly deduced that the creator of the universe, some eternity, some entity that was always and will be always MUST exist for everything else to exist. In essense this is God. And this is the only thing we can deduce about God. The rest are our ancestors best efforts. And they made some amazing realizations. But the texts are still from the minds of men. But GOD, not any specific god, just THE only one, must exist for anything else to exist. Doesn't mean he talks to us, doesn't mean we have a soul. But some entity must be infinite, eternal, and the source of all other things. That much we can deduce. Logically. The rest is myth. IMO. And probably the opinion of MOST modern Jews. At least those who aren't atheist. But many say my position IS atheist because im not talking about a personified deity. But no, I would say GOD of Judaism is in essence, just, the infinite and eternal thing. And we just gave it form, using words.... or creation. We gave form to that entity like it gave form to us....according to the book at least.

@@cynthiajones4803 And that opening of Genesis is brilliant too. What are words? The book says words are creation. And "God" spoke words that separated the firmaments and light from dark etc... And that we in his creation.... have the power of creation, the word. And this is how a huge book of words opens basically. Coincidence? Maybe. Or the author is trying to tell us something about all the WORDS that come after. Without words what is our reality? We build our reality with words. Constructs. A tree exists in real life, physically. When we name it, tree, we give it identity set apart from everything else. So an identity is not just what something is, but also what something is not. And we couldn't know what is without what it isn't. But this is naming something that exists with or without us. This is "Gods creation". But what of religion, government, cars, artificial intelligence, ideology, science...... these are constructs made real, created by man. Literature included. We make these things real, and we do this using words. And then a lot of hard work of course. Thus, God names "light" and it becomes separated from "dark". He names land and it becomes separate from sea. And we name "God" and we set that thing apart from all else. This is what the name YhVH represents, the was, is and will be. And the taboo against saying it in whole has to do with Rabbinical belief in word magic. As in if you say it, you step out of yourself, and disconnect from god. You are now viewing eternity from a "distance" so to speak. And thus you have no choice but to realize your insignificance. And this can be very dangerous for the psyche, or the Rabbis would say, the spirit. It can lead to nihilism, giving up on life, depression, these kind of things. Which is why they say it is taboo to say. To even think about to some extent. At least until you are of certain age and certain level of learning so you are "ready" to jump into the abyss so to speak. Anyway. Words define things and it defines their opposite. Dark is not light. Sea is not land. And this is how we create our world. We do. Like we create the reality in the text. What is a government? Its an idea right? It's an idea that was brought into reality using 2 things, our ability to think abstractly and our ability to use words. We think it, then we describe it, and it becomes "real". Sometimes that means the physical process too. Like an architect would think of a building, draw the blueprint, and then it would need to be built, thus becoming real. Religion for instance, what is it? Well, it is this specific belief system made reality. Whether the elements are real in the sense of physical reality or not, they are real in the minds of those who believe in it. As real as say, a government. What is government without respect for its authority? Is it the constitution? The elected officials? The government buildings and workers? Is it the people? The flag? Well, its all these things, its a construct that became real because we thought it, said it and made it. Just like God made the universe in the text. I would suggest this is allegorical of course. That the author here is leaving us a key. That this is a work of man that we make real. That we gave form to God by naming him, and in Judaism there are so many names, including a 42 letter name in kabbalah. These are all the things, these names are all the things , Jews think "God" is. "God" is a construct. And it can mean many things. But what Judaism really means using the term "God", is yes, all the ridiculous things in Torah and Tanach of course, but also the creator of the universe, the origin, the source of existence. This is monotheism in essence. But this is the ONLY necessary element of monotheism right? This is all one needs to "believe" to be a monotheist. And I would go as far as to say not just believe ,but "know" through this deduction that it must exist because things exist. But it doesn't have to speak to us, we dont need a soul, or all the rest. Those are things we create, and bring into reality. We have that power of the creator of the universe. I would suggest, read the Torah now, with that in mind. When I realized this, it completely changed my interpretation. It also is when I realized, around my bar mitzvah, that literalist interpretation has had its day. And those who worship text, are practicing an antiquated belief. Text isn't "God", only the creator of the universe is God. Text is a nice guide. The wisdom of our ancestors. Just as much a part of God as all other things. Meaning, nothing can be more significant than the source of that thing. And that includes any text man thinks up.