by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Feb 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Hebrew work for the week: Emet אֱמֶת = truth. The Lord is dayyan ha emet= the righteous judge. He is abundant in loving kindness and truth. (Hebrew is spelled from right to left.) As a Latter-Day Saint I observe the Word of Wisdom, found in the Doctrine and Covenants,...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Jan 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
What is the Tanakh? תַּנַ”ך Tanakh (also known as the Hebrew Bible) was originally written in Hebrew with a few passages in Aramaic. The Tanakh is divided into three sections – Torah (Five Books of Moses), Nevi’im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). There are 24...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Jan 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
We read in the book of Moses (Moshe מֹשֶׁה in Hebrew) that this great Jewish leader was “caught up into an exceedingly high mountain” (a type of temple) and that he was spoken to by Yeshua ישׁוּע, Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of the Father and that Moses was...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Jan 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Handout #1 – Ancient Near East, Times of Moses, Yocheved, YHVH, Josephus, Hayah, Israel Jan 2014, 2018 The earliest civilizations in history were established in the region now known as the Middle East around 3500 b.c. by the Sumerians, in Mesopotamia (Iraq). The...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Feb 17, 2016 | Jewish History, Jews and Christians, LDS and Jewish beliefs
The Pharisees and members of the Sanhedrin constituted the wealthy class. Other residents of Jerusalem lived in relative squalor. Jesus found himself with almost no middle class to preach to, but there was for a time equanimity between the Roman political and social...