Israel II: Beyond the Basics (Israel Basics Book 2)

We should live in such a way as to be obviously set apart from the world, not blend in.

or dogs, or my food crops or livelihood?”

The function of Torah is to hit the mark (the target of a person’s heart). The opposite of hitting the mark, is missing the mark. That has a Hebrew word too, hata. Hata is often translated into English as the word sin. So sin is “missing the mark.”

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God gave us His Word to reveal Who He is, His heart toward us, and how He wants to relate to us.

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Because Cain killed Able,

those water pitcher are holy.

Words in Hebrew are about identifying something by what it does, its action, not by its appearance. In a sense, even nouns in Hebrew are verbs. For example, “the Hebrew word for father is אב (av) and literally means ‘the one who gives strength to the family’ and mother אם (em) means ‘the one that binds the family together’.”7