A lack of punctuation is an alibi for correcting the rabbi.
“Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
“Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise.”
Depending on where the comma is placed, changes the entire meaning and given Christians a dilemma for years.
And worse is when people not only forget to cross their "t"s, they leave out the t entirely. Take that word "rabbit", for example...
Then what?! All hat, no rabbit.
Did you check out the etym, for virgola? From virga (“branch; rod”), which then became a wand...
Plus what's the dot supposed to represent?
Does anyone ever wander anymore? Because...
ייִד
"— think of a microchip, but instead of electricity running through its circuits, there are beams of light."*
Jewish peeps know this already! The returning/reflective light ("and there was light" = 238 = Rachel, like 2^3 = 8) is called the "ohr chozer", and the mysterious first light of yom echaD, yom shenI and yom shlishI is spelled out by the end letters of those first three days [דיי, DAY].
{פ}{פ}{פ}
*Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality
Here's a fun, simple explanation for the Resurrection of the Dead:
to bounce back.
Isn't Rachel the one who took on that project?
Why is it that God responds to Rachel and not to the Patriarchs or to Moshe? Certainly these were men of greatness and inordinate dedication to the Jewish people. Reb Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin proposes that the difference lies in the initiative Rachel takes, without first having to be commanded by God. From this perspective, we can say that the Patriarchs and Moshe perform their acts of self-sacrifice in response to God’s command. Rachel, on the other hand, takes it upon herself to mastermind a plan that will save her sister’s dignity, without any prior directive from God.
Far be it from me to correct the rabbi, because it sure looks like these are natural, mutual responses, rather than a need to be told:
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Come to think of it, that would explain Rachel's presence in the Spirit of God in Gen 1:2 for starters, רחל every other letter:
ורוּח אלהים
And then when Pharaoh got all lit up about her son Joseph (he didn't need to be told to get all excited, it just happened on its own), by the way he described it (Gen 41:38) he completed the circuit, with האור "the light" returning, reversed, left to right (רואה), intertwined with Rachel.
a man in whom the Spirit of Elohim is:
אישׁ אשׁר רוּח אלהים בּו׃
Yeah, I know... I notice these things and then I irritate people to no end. Decade upon decade, it's the story of my life. 🥲 (Note to self: Keep on the Sunnyside. 🔥)