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May you receive a barucha and may Hashem use you. The Kitvei Hakodesh are clear about Klal Yisrael. They will not change their G-d: they will still believe in the G-d of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya'akov. They will not change their religion.
They will still hold dear to Judaism as their faith. Nevertheless, the Kitvei Hakodesh are clear: they will be changed by teshuva and hitkhadeshut, all the Jewish people people in the world. And they will be redeemed. One day they will look up into heaven and they will see the Kodesh HaKodashim in heaven open, and they will see not a changing of religions but a changing of Kohanim Gedolim. And in this changing of the guard of the Kohanim Gedolim in the Kodesh HaKodeshim in heaven, they will see a new Kohen Gadol (after the order of Malki-Tzedek) replacing the old Kohen Gadol. But this spiritual revelation will not cause them to discard their Siddurim or their copies of the Shas. They will not cancel Bar Mitzvahs or High Holiday Services. They will not do away with Torah Services on Shabbos. They will still be loyal to the Sinai Covenant and its mitzvot. They will change very little, almost nothing as far as their Orthodox Jewish manner of life is concerned. But they will be changed. They will see him in heaven, wearing the garments that Caiapha once wore when Caiapha unwittingly ordered the Akedah and had him bound and led away, carrying the Scapegoat's burden of the evil Olam Hazeh. They will see him--Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua, standing in the Kodesh HaKodashim in Shomayim. They will see him and they will weep. And the shul and the yeshiva will never be the same after that. And they will have far better people to produce materials such as the following, because there will be thousands and thousands of rabbis and yeshiva scholars weeping as I have wept for the Jewish people and looking up into heaven and seeing the changing of the guard of the Kohanim Gedolim in the Kodesh HaKodashim. But, until then, this meager offering is presented with a prayer and with faith in the Kitvei Hakodesh and in the Geulah Redemption of Klal Yisrael. THE COMPLETE BOOK FOR ARTISTS FOR ISRAEL COPYRIGHT (c) 1996 Artists For Israel International All rights reserved. ONE: HEBREW BERESHIS (GENESIS) 1:1-3:19 (1,039 WORDS FOR STUDY) 1 beh-ray-SHEET 2 bah-rah 3 Eh-loh-HEEM 4 et (es) 5 hash-shah-MY-yeem 6 vuh-et 7 ha-AH-rets 8 v'ha-AH-rets 9 ha-yeh-TAH 10 TOH-hoo 11 vah-VOH-hoo 12 vuh-KHOH-shekh 13 ahl 14 p'NAY 15 teh-HOHM 16 vuh-ROO-ahkh 17 Eh-loh-HEEM 18 m'rah-KHEH-feht 19 ahl 20 p'NAY 21 hahm-MY-yeem 22 vahy-YOH-mer 23 Eh-loh-HEEM 24 yeh-HEE 25 ohr 26 vah-yeh-HEE 27 ohr 28 vahy-YAHR 29 Eh-loh-HEEM 30 et (es) 31 ha-ohr 32 kee 33 tohv 34 vahy-yahv-DAYL 35 Eh-loh-HEEM 36 bayn 37 ha-ohr 38 oo-VAYN 39 ha-KHOH-shehkh 40 vahy-yeek-RAH 41 Eh-loh-HEEM 42 lah-OHR 43 yom 44 v'lah-KHOH-shehkh 45 KAH-rah 46 LAI-lah 47 vah-yeh-HEE 48 EH-rev 49 vah-yeh-HEE 50 VOH-ker 51 yohm 52 eh-KHAD 53 vahy-YOH-mer 54 Eh-loh-HEEM 55 yeh-HEE 56 rah-KEE-ah 57 buh-TOKH 58 hah-MY-yeem 59 vee-HEE 60 mahv-DEEL 61 bayn 62 MY-yeem 63 lah-MY-yeem 64 vah-YAH-ahs 65 Eh-loh-HEEM 66 et (es) 67 ha-rah-KEE-ah 68 vahy-yahv-DAYL 69 bayn 70 hahm-MY-yeem 71 ah-sher 72 mee-TAH-khaht 73 lah-rah-KEE-ah 74 oo-VAYN 75 hahm-MY-yeem 76 ah-sher 77 may-AHL 78 lah-rah-KEE-ah 79 vah-yeh-HEE 80 khehn 81 vahy-yeek-RAH 82 vah-yeh-HEE 83 lah-rah-KEE-ah 84 shah-MY-yeem 85 vah-yeh-HEE 86 EH-rev 87 vah-yeh-HEE 88 VOH-ker 89 yom 90 shay-NEE 91 vahy-YOH-mer 92 Eh-loh-HEEM 93 yee-kah-VOO 94 hahm-MY-yeem 95 mee-TAH-khaht 96 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 97 el 98 mah-KOHM 99 eh-KHAD 100 vuh-teh-rah-EH 101 ha-yah-bah-SHAH 102 vah-yeh-HEE 103 khehn 104 vaahy-yeek-RAH 105 Eh-loh-HEEM 106 lah-yah-bah-SHAH 107 EH-rets 108 oo-l'meek-VAY 109 hahm-MY-yeem 110 kah-RAH 111 yahm-MEEM 112 vahy-YAHR 113 Eh-loh-HEEM 114 kee 115 tov 116 vahy-YOH-mer 117 Eh-loh-HEEM 118 tahd-SHAY 119 ha-AH-rets 120 DEH-sheh 121 EH-sev 122 mah-zeh-REE-ah 123 ZEH-rah 124 aitz 125 p'REE 126 OH-seh 127 p'REE 128 leh-mee-NOH 129 ah-sher 130 zah-oh 131 voh 132 ahl 133 ha-AH-rets 134 vah-yeh-HEE 135 khehn 136 vah-toh-TSEH 137 ha-AH-rets 138 DEH-sheh 139 EH-sev 140 mahz-REE-ah 141 ZEH-rah 142 luh-meen-NAY-hoo 143 v'aitz 144 OH-seh 145 p'REE 146 ah-sher 147 zah-roh 148 voh 149 leh-meen-NAY-hoo 150 vahy-YAHR 151 Eh-loh-HEEM 152 kee 153 tov 154 vah-yeh-HEE 155 EH-rev 156 vah-yeh-HEE 157 VOH-ker 158 yom 159 sheh-lee-SHEE 160 vay-YOH-mer 161 Eh-loh-HEEM 162 yeh-HEE 163 meh-oh-ROHT 164 bee-r'KEE-ah 165 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 166 leh-hahv-DEEL 167 bayn 168 ha-YOM 169 oo-VAYN 170 ha-LAI-lah 171 veh-ha-YOO 172 leh-oh-TOHT 173 oo-l'moh-ah-DEEM 174 oo-leh-yah-MEEM 175 veh-shah-NEEM 176 veh-ha-YOO 177 lee-moh-ROHT 178 bee-r'KEE-ah 179 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 180 leh-ha-EER 181 ahl 182 ha-AH-rets 183 vah-yeh-HEE 184 khehn 185 vah-YAH-ahs 186 Eh-loh-HEEM 187 et (es) 188 shuh-NAY 189 ham-meh-oh-ROHT 190 ha-guh-doh-LEEM 191 et (es) 192 ham-mah-OHR 193 ha-gah-DOHL 194 leh-mehm-SHEHL-et 195 ha-YOM 196 vuh-et 197 ham-mah-OHR 198 ha-kah-TOHN 199 leh-mehm-SHEHL-et 200 ha-LAHY-lah 201 vuh-et 202 ha-koh-khah-VEEM 203 vahy-yee-TEHN 204 oh-TAHM 205 Eh-loh-HEEM 206 bee-r'KEE'ah 207 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 208 leh-ha-EER 209 ahl 210 ha-AH-rets 211 vuh-leem-SHOHL 212 bah-YOM 213 oo-vah-LAI-lah 214 oo-lah-hahv-DEEL 215 bayn 216 ha-OHR 217 oo-VAYN 218 ha-KHOH-shehksh 219 vahy-YAHR 220 Eh-loh-HEEM 221 kee 222 tov 223 vah-yeh-HEE 224 EH-rev 225 vah-yeh-HEE 226 VOH-kehr 227 yom 228 reh-vee-EE 229 vahy-YOH-mehr 230 Eh-loh-HEEM 231 yeesh-ruh-TSOO 232 hahm-MY-yeem 233 SHEH-retz 234 NEH-fehsh 235 chai-YAH 236 vuh-OHF 237 yuh-oh-FAYF 238 ahl 239 ha-AH-rets 240 ahl 241 p'NAY 242 r'KEE-ah 243 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 244 vahy-yeev-RAH 245 Eh-loh-HEEM 246 et (es) 247 ha-tahn-nee-NEEM 248 ha'geh-doh-LEEM 249 v'et 250 kohl 251 NEF-fesh 252 ha-chai-YAH 253 ha-roh-MEH-set 254 ah-sher 255 shah-ruh-TSOO 256 hahm-MY-yeem 257 luh-mee-nay-HEHM 258 v'et 259 kol 260 ohf 261 kah-NAHF 262 luh-meen-NAY-hoo 263 vahy-YAHR 264 Eh-loh-HEEM 265 kee 266 tov 267 vah-yeh-vah-REHKH 268 oh-tahm 269 Eh-loh-HEEM 270 lay-MOHR 271 peh-ROO 272 oor-VOO 273 oo-meel-OO 274 et 275 hahm-MY-eem 276 ba-yahm-meem 277 v'ha-OHF 278 YEE-rev 279 ba-AH-rets 280 vah-yeh-HEE 281 EH-rev 282 vah-yeh-HEE 283 VOH-kehr 284 yom 285 chah-mee-SHEE 286 vay-YOH-mer 287 Eh-loh-HEEM 288 toh-TSAY 289 ha-AH-rets 290 NEH-fesh 291 chai-YAH 292 luh-mee-NAH 293 beh-hay-MAH 294 vah-REH-mehs 295 veh-chay-TOH 296 EH-rets 297 leh-mee-NAH 298 vah-yeh-HEE 299 khehn 300 vay-yah-ahs 301 Eh-loh-HEEM 302 et 303 chay-yaht 304 ha-AH-rets 305 leh-mee-NAH 306 v'et 307 ha-beh-he-MAH 308 leh-mee-NAH 309 v'et 310 kol 311 REH-mes 312 ha-ah-dah-MAH 313 leh-mee-NAY-hoo 314 vay-yahr 315 Eh-loh-HEEM 316 kee 317 tov 318 vay-YOH-mehr 319 Eh-loh-HEEM 320 nah-ah-SEH 321 ah-DAHM 322 bay-tsahl-MAY-noo 323 kee-duh-moo-TAY-noo 324 vuh-yeer-DOO 325 veed-GAHT 326 ha-YOM 327 oo-vuh-OHF 328 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 329 oo-va-beh-hey-MAH 330 oo-veh-CHOL 331 ha-AH-retz 332 oo-veh-KHOL 333 ha-REH-mes 334 ha-roh-MESH 335 ahl 336 ha-AH-rets 337 vay-yeev-RAH 338 Eh-loh-HEEM 339 et 340 ha-ah-DAHM 341 beh-tsahl-MOH 342 beh-TSEH-lehm 343 Eh-loh-HEEM 344 bah-RAH 345 oh-TOH 346 zah-KHAR 347 oon-keh-VAH 348 bah-RAH 349 oh-TAHM 350 vah-y'vah-rech 351 oh-TAHM 352 Eh-loh-HEEM 353 vay-YOH-mehr 354 lah-HEHM 355 Eh-loh-HEEM 356 p'ROO 357 oor-VOO 358 oo-meel-OO 359 et 360 ha-AH-rets 361 veh-kheee-vuh-SHOO-hah 362 oor-DOO 363 beed-gaht 364 hay-YAHM 365 oo-vuh-OHF 366 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 367 oo-veh-khohl 368 chai-YAH 369 ha-roh-MEH-set 370 ahl 371 ha-AH-rets 372 vahy-YOH-mehr 373 Eh-loh-HEEM 374 hee-NAY 375 nah-TAH-tee 376 lah-khehm 377 et 378 kol 379 EH-sev 380 zoh-RAY-ah 381 ZEH-rah 382 ah-sher 383 ahl 384 p'NAY 385 khohl 386 ha-AH-rets 387 v'et 388 kol 389 ha-aitz 390 ah-sher 391 boh 392 p'REE 393 aitz 394 zoh-RAY-ah 395 ZAH-rah 396 lah-KHEHM 397 yee-heh-yeh 398 leh-ohkh-LAH 399 oo-leh-khohl 400 chai-YAHT 401 ha-AH-rets 402 oo-leh-KHOHL 403 ohf 404 hash-shah-MY-yeem 405 oo-leh-KHOHL 406 roh-MES 407 ahl 408 ha-AH-rets 409 ah-sher 410 boh 411 NEH-fesh 412 chai-YAH 413 et 414 kohl 415 YEH-rek 416 EH-sev 417 leh-ohkh-LAH 418 vay-yeh-HEE 419 khehn 420 vay-yahr 421 Eh-loh-HEEM 422 et 423 kohl 424 ah-sher 425 ah-SAH 426 v'hee-NAY 427 tov 428 meh-OHD 429 vah-yeh-HEE 430 EH-rev 431 vah-yeh-HEE 432 VOH-kehr 433 yom 434 ha-shee-SHEE 435 vah-yuh-khoo-LOO 436 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 437 veh-ha-AH-rets 438 vuh-KHOHL 439 tseh-vah-AHM 440 vah-yuh-KHOHL 441 Eh-loh-HEEM 442 bahy-YOM 443 hah-shuh-vee-EE 444 meh-lahkh-TOH 445 ah-sher 446 ah-sah 447 vahy-yeesh-BOHT 448 bah-YOM 449 hash-shuh-vee-ee 450 mee-KOHL 451 meh-lahkh-TOH 452 ah-sher 453 ah-sah 454 vah-y'vah-REHKH 455 Eh-loh-HEEM 456 et 457 yom 458 hash-shuh-vee-ee 459 vah-yuh-kah-DAYSH 460 oh-TOH 461 kee 462 voh 463 shah-VAHT 464 mee-KOHL 465 muh-lahkh-TOH 466 ah-sher 467 bah-RAH 468 Eh-loh-HEEM 469 lah-ah-SOHT 470 EH-leh 471 tohl-DOHT 472 hahsh-sha-MY-yeem 473 veh-ha-AH-rets 474 buh-hee-bahr-AHM 475 buh-YOHM 476 ah-SOT 477 Adonoy 478 Eh-loh-HEEM 479 EH-rets 480 v'shah-MY-yeem 481 vuh-KHOHL 482 SEE-ahkh 483 hahs-sah-DEH 484 TEH-rehm 485 yee-heh-YEH 486 vah-AH-rets 487 vuh-KHOHL 488 EH-sev 489 hahs-sah-DEH 490 The-rehm 491 yeets-MAHKH 492 kee 493 lo 494 heem-TEER 495 Adonoy 496 Eh-loh-HEEM 497 ahl 498 ha-AH-rets 499 vuh-ah-DAHM 500 AH-yeen 501 lah-ah-VOHD 502 et 503 ha-ah-dah-MAH 504 veh-EHD 505 yah-ah-LEH 506 meen 507 ha-AH-rets 508 veh-heesh-KAH 509 et 510 kohl 511 p'NAY 512 ha-ah-dah-MAH 513 vahy-yee-TSEHR 514 Adonoy 515 Eh-loh-HEEM 516 et 517 ha-ah-DAHM 518 ah-FAHR 519 meen 520 ha-ah-dah-MAH 521 vahy-yee-PAHKH 522 beh-ah-PAHV 523 neesh-MAHT 524 chai-YEEM 525 vay-yeh-HEE 526 ha-ah-DAHM 527 luh-NEH-fesh 528 chai-YAH 529 vahy-yeet-TAH 530 Adonoy 531 Eh-loh-HEEM 532 gahn 533 beh-EH-dehn 534 mee-KEH-dehm 535 vah-YAH-sehm 536 shahm 537 et 538 ha-ah-DAHM 539 ah-sher 540 yah-TSAR 541 vahy-yahts-MAHKH 542 Adonoy 543 Eh-loh-HEEM 544 meen 545 ha-ah-dah-MAH 546 kohl 547 aitz 548 nehkh-MAHD 549 leh-mahr-AY 550 vuh-tov 551 leh-mah-ah-KHOHL 552 vuh-aitz 553 ha-chai-YEEM 554 beh-TOHKH 555 ha-gahn 556 vuh-aitz 557 ha-DAH-aht 558 tov 559 vah-RAH 560 veh-nah-HAHR 561 yoh-TSEH 562 meh-EH-dehn 563 leh-hahsh-KOHT 564 et 565 ha-gahn 566 oo-mee-SHAHM 567 yee-pah-REHD 568 veh-hai-YAH 569 leh-AHR-bah-ah 570 rah-SHEEM 571 shehm 572 ha-eh-KHAD 573 pee-SHOHN 574 hoo 575 ha-soh-VEHV 576 et 577 kol 578 EH-rets 579 ha-khah-vee-LAH 580 ah-sher 581 shahm 582 haz-zah-HAHV 583 oo-zah-hahv 584 ha-AH-rets 585 ha-HEE 586 tov 587 shahm 588 hahb-DOH-lahkh 589 veh-EH-vehn 590 ha-SHOH-hahm 591 vuh-SHEHM 592 hahn-nah-HAHR 593 ha-shay-NEE 594 ghee-KHOHN 595 hoo 596 ha-soh-VEHV 597 et 598 kohl 599 EH-rets 600 Koosh 601 veh-shem 602 hahn-nah-HAHR 603 ha-sheh-lee-SHEE 604 chee-DEH-kehl 605 hoo 606 ha-hoh-LEHKH 607 keed-MAHT 608 ah-SHOOR 609 vuh-hahn-nah-HAHR 610 ha-ruh-vee-EE 611 hoo 612 fuh-RAHT 613 vahy-yek-KAHKH 614 Adonoy 615 Eh-loh-HEEM 616 et 617 ha-ah-DAHM 618 vahy-yah-nee-KHAY-hoo 619 vuh-gahn 620 EH-den 621 leh-ahv-DAH 622 oo-leh-shahm-RAH 623 vah-yuh-TSAHV 624 Adonoy 625 Eh-loh-HEEM 626 ahl 627 ha-ah-DAHM 628 leh-MOHR 629 mee-KOHL 630 aitz 631 ha-gahn 632 ah-KHOHL 633 toh-KHEHL 634 oo-meh-AITZ 635 ha-DAH-aht 636 tov 637 vah-rah 638 lo 639 toh-KHOHL 640 mee-MEHN-noo 641 kee 642 buh-YOM 643 ah-KHOHL-khah 644 mee-MEHN-noo 645 MOHT 646 tah-MOOT 647 vahy-YOH-mehr 648 Adonoy 649 Eh-loh-HEEM 650 lo 651 tov 652 heh-YOHT 653 ha-ah-DAHM 654 leh-vah-DOH 655 EH-eh-seh 656 lo 657 AY-zehr 658 keh-nehg-DOH 659 vahy-yee-TSEHR 660 Adonoy 661 Eh-loh-HEEM 662 meen 663 ha-ah-dah-MAH 664 kohl 665 chai-YAHT 666 hahs-sah-DEH 667 vuh-et 668 kohl 669 ohf 670 hahsh-sha-MY-yeem 671 vahy-yah-VAY 672 el 673 ha-ah-DAHM 674 leer-OHT 675 mah 676 yee-krah 677 lo 678 vuh-KHOHL 679 ah-sher 680 yeek-RAH 681 lo 682 ha-ah-DAHM 683 NEH-fesh 684 chai-YAH 685 hoo 686 sh'MOH 687 vahy-yeek-RAH 688 ha-ah-DAHM 689 sheh-MOHT 690 leh-CHOHL 691 ha-beh-he-MAH 692 oo-leh-OHF 693 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 694 oo-leh-KHOHL 695 chai-YAHT 696 has-sah-DEH 697 oo-l'ah-DAHM 698 lo 699 mah-TSAH 700 EH-zehr 701 kuh-nehg-DOH 702 vahy-yah-PAYL 703 Adonoy 704 Eh-loh-HEEM 705 tahr-day-MAH 706 ahl 707 ha-ah-DAHM 708 vahy-yee-SHAHN 709 vahy-yee-KAHKH 710 ah-KHAHT 711 meets-tsahl-oh-TAHV 712 vahy-yees-GOHR 713 bah-SAHR 714 tahkh-TEHN-nah 715 vahy-yee-VEHN 716 Adonoy 717 Eh-loh-HEEM 718 et 719 hats-tseh-LAH 720 ah-sher 721 la-KAHKH 722 meen 723 ha-ah-DAHM 724 leh-eesh-SHAH 725 vah-y'vee-EH-hah 726 el 727 ha-ah-DAHM 728 vahy-YOH-mehr 729 ha-ah-DAHM 730 zoht 731 ha-PAH-ahm 732 EH-tsehm 733 meh-ah-tsah-MAHY 734 oo-vah-SAHR 735 mee-beh-sah-REE 736 luh-ZOHT 737 yee-kah-REH 738 ee-SHAH 739 kee 740 meh-EESH 741 loo-kah-CHAH 742 zoht 743 ahl 744 ken 745 yah-ah-zahv 746 eesh 747 et 748 ah-VEEV 749 vuh-et 750 eem-MOH 751 vuh-dah-VAHK 752 beh-eesh-TOH 753 vuh-ha-YOO 754 luh-vah-SAHR 755 eh-KHAHD 756 vahy-yee-huh-YOO 757 sheh-nay-HEM 758 ah-roo-MEEM 759 ha-ah-DAHM 760 veh-eesh-TOH 761 veh-lo 762 yeet-bo-SHAH-shoo 763 veh-hahn-nah-KHAHSH 764 ha-yah 765 ah-ROOM 766 mee-KOHL 767 chay-YAHY 768 has-sah-DEH 769 ah-sher 770 ah-SAH 771 Adonoy 772 Eh-loh-HEEM 773 vahy-YOH-mehr 774 el 775 ha-eesh-SHAH 776 ahf 777 kee 778 ah-MAHR 779 Eh-loh-HEEM 780 lo 781 tohkh-LOO 782 mee-KOHL 783 aitz 784 ha-gahn 785 vah-toh-MEHR 786 ha-ee-SHAH 787 el 788 hahn-nah-KHAHSH 789 mee-p'REE 790 aitz 791 ha-gahn 792 noh-KHEHL 793 oo-mee-p'REE 794 ha-AITZ 795 ah-sher 796 beh-TOHKH 797 ha-gahn 798 ah-mahr 799 Eh-loh-HEEM 800 lo 801 tohkh-LOO 802 mee-MEH-noo 803 v'lo 804 teeg-guh-OO 805 bo 806 pehn 807 the-moo-TOON 808 vah-YOH-mehr 809 hahn-nah-KHAHSH 810 el 811 ha-ee-SHAH 812 lo 813 moht 814 the-moo-TOON 815 kee 816 yoh-DAY-ah 817 Eh-loh-HEEM 818 kee 819 beh-YOHM 820 ah-khohl-KHEHM 821 mee-MEH-noo 822 veh-neef-kuh-KHOO 823 ay-nay-KHEHM 824 vee-h'yee-TEHM 825 kay-loh-heem 826 yod-AY 827 tov 828 vah-rah 829 vah-TEH-reh 830 ha-ee-SHAH 831 kee 832 tov 833 ha-aitz 834 leh-mah-ah-KHOHL 835 vuh-KHEE 836 tah-ah-vah 837 hoo 838 lah-ay-NAHY-eem 839 vuh-nehkh-MAHD 840 ha-aitz 841 leh-hahsh-KEEL 842 vah-tee-KAHKH 843 mee-peer-YOH 844 vah-toh-KHOHL 845 vah-tee-TEHN 846 gahm 847 luh-ee-SHAH 848 ee-MAH 849 vahy-yoh-KHAHL 850 vah-tee-pah-KAHK-noo 851 ay-NAY 852 sheh-nay-HEHM 853 vahy-yay-duh-OO 854 kee 855 ay-roo-MEEM 856 hem 857 vahy-yeet-peh-ROO 858 ah-leh 859 tuh-ay-NAH 860 vah-yah-ah-SOO 861 la-HEM 862 khah-go-ROT 863 vah-yeesh-meh-OO 864 et 865 kol 866 Adonoy 867 Eh-loh-HEEM 868 meet-hah-LEHKH 869 bah-gahn 870 luh-ROO-ahkh 871 ha-YOHM 872 vah-yeet-chah-BEH 873 ha-ah-DAHM 874 vuh-eesh-TOH 875 mee-p'NAY 876 Adonoy 877 Eh-loh-HEEM 878 buh-TOHKH 879 aitz 880 ha-gahn 881 vah-yeek-RAH 882 Adonoy 883 Eh-loh-HEEM 884 el 885 ha-ah-DAHM 886 vahy-YOH-mehr 887 lo 888 ah-YEH-kah 889 vay-YOH-mehr 890 et 891 kol-KHAH 892 shah-MAH'tee 893 bah-gahn 894 vah-ee-RAH 895 kee 896 ay-ROHM 897 ah-NOH-khee 898 vah-eh-chah-VEH 899 vay-YOH-mehr 900 mee 901 hee-geed 902 leh-CHAH 903 kee 904 ay-ROHM 905 AH-tah 906 ha-meen 907 ha-aitz 908 ah-sher 909 tsee-vee-TEE-chah 910 leh-veel-TEE 911 ah-KOHL 912 mee-MEH-noo 913 ah-KHAHL-tah 914 vahy-YOH-mehr 915 ha-ah-DAHM 916 ha-ee-SHAH 917 ah-sher 918 na-TAH-tah 919 ee-mah-DEE 920 hee 921 nah-t'NAH 922 lee 923 meen 924 ha-aitz 925 vah-OH-khehl 926 vah-YOH-mehr 927 Adonoy 928 Eh-loh-HEEM 929 lah-ee-SHAH 930 mah 931 zot 932 ah-SEET 933 vah-toh-MEHR 934 ha-ee-SHAH 935 ha-nah-KHAHSH 936 hee-shee-AH-nee 937 vah-oh-KHEL 938 vah-YOH-mehr 939 Adonoy 940 Eh-loh-HEEM 941 el 942 ha-nah-KHAHSH 943 kee 944 ah-see-TAH 945 zot 946 ah-ROOR 947 ah-TAH 948 mee-KOHL 949 ha-beh-heh-MAH 950 oo-mee-KHOHL 951 chay-YAHT 952 has-sah-DEH 953 ahl 954 geh-khoh-NEH-chah 955 teh-LEHKH 956 vuh-ah-FAHR 957 toh-KHOHL 958 kol 959 yeh-MAY 960 chay-YEH-chah 961 v'ay-VAH 962 ah-SHEET 963 bey-neh-CHAH 964 oo-VAYN 965 ha-ee-SHAH 966 oo-vayn 967 zah-ah-CHAH 968 oo-vayn 969 zahr-AH 970 hoo 971 yeh-shoof-CHAH 972 rosh 973 v'ah-tah 974 the-shoo-FEH-noo 975 ah-KEV 976 el 977 ha-ee-SHAH 978 ah-mar 979 hahr-bah 980 ahr-BEH 981 eets-voh-NEHCH 982 veh-he-roh-NEHKH 983 beh-EH-tsehv 984 teh-luh-DEE 985 vah-NEEM 986 veh-el 987 ee-SHEHKH 988 teh-shoo-kah-TEHKH 989 veh-hoo 990 yeem-SHOHL 991 bakh 992 oo-leh-ah-DAHM 993 ah-mahr 994 kee 995 shah-mah-TAH 996 leh-KOHL 997 eesh-teh-KHAH 998 vah-toh-KHOHL 999 meen 1000 ha-etz 1001 ah-sher 1002 tsee-vee-tee-CHAH 1003 leh-MOHR 1004 lo 1005 toh-CHOHL 1006 mee-MEH-noo 1007 ah-roo-RAH 1008 ha-ah-dah-MAH 1009 bah-ah-voo-REH-chah 1010 beh-eets-tsah-vohn 1011 toh-chah-LEH-noo 1012 kol 1013 yeh-MAY 1014 chai-YEH-chah 1015 veh-KOHTS 1016 veh-dahr-DAHR 1017 tahts-MEE-ahkh 1018 lach 1019 vah-ah-khahl-TAH 1020 et 1021 EH-sehv 1022 hahs-sah-DEH 1023 beh-zeh-AHT 1024 ah-PEH-chah 1025 toh-KHOHL 1026 LEH-chem 1027 ahd 1028 shuv-CHAH 1029 el 1030 ha-ah-dah-MAH 1031 kee 1032 mee-MEH-nah 1033 loo-KAHKH-tah 1034 kee 1035 ah-far 1036 AH-tah 1037 veh-el 1038 ah-fahr 1039 tah-shuv GENESIS 1:1 1 beh-ray-SHEET 2 bah-rah 3 Eh-loh-HEEM 4 et (es) 5 hash-shah-MY-yeem 6 vuh-et 7 ha-AH-rets The above seven Hebrew words, read right to left, are the first words in the Bible, Bereshis 1:1. In this Hebrew course, we are going to read these seven words plus the first three chapters of Genesis (up to the end of Gen. 3:19), and examine each of the 1039 words found there. In this way we will be able to not only master the alphabet and the essentials of pronunciation and grammar, but we will also be able to study in depth three of the most important chapters in the Bible. This experience should help us as we pursue a lifetime of study of the rest of the Hebrew Bible. Let's look at these words one by one. [But first get a CHUMASH and make an enlarged xerox of the first three chapters of Bereshis (Genesis) and then take a red pen and number the first 1,039 words up to the end of Gen. 3:19. 1. beh-ray-SHEET "in-the-beginning" is the first word. Find this word in your Hebrew Bible. We are going to look at it's letters one by one, right to left. This will just take a few minutes. Then, as soon as we finish this one word, we are going to learn the entire Hebrew ALEF BET, memorizing a different letter for each prophecy about the Moshiach!!!!! The first syllable of beh-ray-SHEET is made up of a consonant BET (it is pronounced "b" as in "beginning") and a SH'VA, two vertical dots below the letter, which, when it is vocal, has an "eh" sound as a half-vowel as in "math-EH-ma-tics." The first syllable is pronounced "beh." The second syllable is made up of a consonant RESH (it is pronounced "r" as in "ray"), a vowel TZAYREH made up of two horizontal dots below the letter pronounced "ay" as in "pray," and a silent ALEF. The second syllable is pronounced "ray." The third syllable is made up of, first, a consonant SHIN. The letter SHIN is pronounced "SHEEN" and the sound is pronounced "sh" as in "sheet" and is not to be confused with SIN, a letter pronounced "SEEN" and the sound of the letter pronounced "s" as in "see"). Notice the SHIN has a dot above the right side and the SIN has a dot over the left side. Then we have a vowel called CHEEREEK GADOL (a dot followed by a YUD and pronounced "ee" as in "TREE"), and a consonant called a TAV (pronounced "t" as in "tent"). (Note that TET also has a "t" sound; compare word number #33 "tov"). The third syllable is pronounced "sheet." If you take your Chumash and look at the CHEEREEK dot under the SHIN, you will see a tipcha accent mark, a kind of slanted mark to the left of the CHEEREEK. This is a musical note helping the Baal Koreh or Reader sing or chant the reading in shul. It tells us the proper pronunciation, that the accent is on the last syllable, "beh-ray-SHEET." The accent is on the third syllable. We know this thanks to the tipcha. We you buy a Biblical Hebraica at your local Bible Society headquarters, a list of these accents is provided in a handy book mark card. The "beh" is the prefixed preposition meaning "in." Related words to the root RESH ALEF SHIN are "rosh" ("head") and "ree-SHOHN" meaning "first"). Now, if you want to jump in and learn the entire ALEF BET then turn to Tehillim (Psalm) 119 where you get an acrostic with eight repetitions of each letter of the ALEF BET with a new letter introduced as the first letter for each new eight verses of the Psalm: 8 ALEF's, 8 BET's, 8 GIMMEL, DALET, HAY, VAV, ZAYIN, CHET, TET, YUD, KAF, LAMMED, MEM, NOON, SAMECH, AYIN, PAY, TZADE, KOOF, RESH, SIN/SHIN, TAV. Make a copy of each letter and write it out eight times with its name as you study Psalm 119 and you will be ready to continue your lesson. Or here's a better way to learn the Hebrew ALEF BET. Let's memorize a different letter for each prophecy about the Moshiach, and especially a key word in each prophecy that begins with that letter. For example, TZEMACH (TZADE-MEM-CHET) starts with a TZADE in Zecharyah (Zechariah) 6:12, where it says that YEHOSHUA (Joshua/Yeshua) will have the name TZEMACH (MOSHIACH THE "BRANCH" [OF DOVID]). So look it up in your Tanakh and memorize TZADE--ZECHARYAH 6:11-12 YEHOSHUA SHMO TZEMACH MOSHIACH. Then, learn some Hebrew calligraphy and start designing a tract or a poster with the letters of the Hebrew ALEF BET and the names and titles and prophecies of Moshiach in the Tanakh. Hebrew sounds fun now, right? It is more than fun. It is the most serious thing you can learn, and means the difference between Shomayim and Gehinnom for 14 million Jewish people and 6 billion Gentiles now living on the face of planet earth. ALEF, Moshiach is the "EH-ven" ALEF-VET-FINAL NOON, the "Stone" that the builders rejected, TEHILLIM (PSALM) 118:22 BET, Moshiach is "beh-KHOHR" BET-CHAF-CHOLOM-RESH, TEHILLIM (PSALM) 89:28(27), the "Firstborn" heir, the most exalted king of the earth GIMMEL Moshiach is the "GOH-ehl" "Redeemer" GIMMEL-CHOLOM-ALEF-LAMMED, RUTH 2:20; IYOV (JOB) 19:25-26 DALET Moshiach is the "DEH-rekh ha-chay-YEEM" "the way of Life" DALET-RESH-FINAL CHAF, YIRMEYAH (JEREMIAH) 21:8 HAY Moshiach is the one born of "ha-al-MAH" "the virgin" YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 7:14 HAY AYIN LAMMED MEM HAY with a miraculous "he-ra-yohn" "conception" (RUTH 4:13) VAV Moshiach is the one who will be violently killed "V'AYN LO" "and not for himself" (DANIEL 9:26) VAV ALEF YUD FINAL NOON ZAYIN Moshiach is the "ZEH-rah ha-ee-SHAH" "Seed of the Woman" BERESHIS (GENESIS) 3:15 ZAYIN-RESH-AYIN and the "z'ROH-ah HASHEM" "THE ARM OF THE L-RD" YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:1 ZAYIN-RESH-CHOLOM-AYIN CHET Moshiach is the "chem-daht kol ha-Goyim" "the desired of all nations" CHAGAI (HAGGAI) 2:7 CHET-MEM-DALET-TAV meaning the desired object TET Moshiach is the one led like a lamb to the "The-vakh" "slaughter" YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:7, a word that refers to the slaughter of animals, since Moshiach died on Pesach as a korban pesach at the same time as the lambs were being slaughtered by the kohenim TET-VET-CHET YUD Moshiach is the one who will "yatz-DEEK" YUD-PATACH-TZADE-SH'VA-DALET-CHEEREEK-YUD-KOOF "justify" many, make them have a right standing before Hashem YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:11 KAF Moshiach is the one sold for thirty pieces of "KEH-sehf" "silver" KAF-SAMECH-FINAL FAY ZECHARYAH (ZECHARIAH) 11:13 LAMMED Moshiach is the one born in "beth LECHEM" LAMMED-SEGOL-CHET-SEGOL-FINAL MEM "house of BREAD" MICHOH (MICAH) 5:1 (2) MEM Moshiach is the "Moh-SHEE-akh" MEM-SHIN-YUD-CHET who will be violently killed and cut off from his people, but not for himself DANIEL 9:26; YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:8 NOON Moshiach is the one whose "NEF-esh" NOON-FAY-SHIN has to undergo suffering YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:10-11 and become an "ah-shahm" guilt offering for the "transgressions of Israel" YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:8 SAMECH Moshiach is our "SEH-vel" bearer SAMECH-VET-LAMMED, our "burden" bearer, who carries away our sins YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:11-12 AYIN Moshiach is the RIGHTEOUS "ahv-DEE" "My Servant" YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:11 AYIN-VET-DALET-YUD PAY Moshiach is the one put to death and cut off from the land of the living for the "PEH-shah ahm-mee" PAY-SHIN-AYIN ("transgression of my people Israel") YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:8; 49:5; He is also our Pesach PAY-SAMECH-CHET korban lamb TZADE Moshiach is the "tzad-DEEK ahv-DEE" "My Righteous Servant" YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:11 TZADE DALET YUD KOOF KOOF Moshiach is the BEN YOSEF HAADON "SON OF JOSEPH THE L-RD" who commands us to come "qah-ROHV" "near" KOOF-RESH-CHOLOM-VET BERESHIS (GENESIS) 45:9-10; MALACHI 3:1; YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 1:24; ZECHARYAH (ZECHARIAH) 4:14; 14:4; 6:5 RESH Moshiach is the "ro-EH" who is stricken RESH-CHOLOM-AYIN-HAY ZECHARYAH (ZECHARIAH) 13:7; see also YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:8 SIN/SHIN Moshiach is the SEH HAELOHIM (LAMB OF G-D) BERESHIS (GENESIS) 22:8; SHEMOT (EXODUS) 12:5-13; YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 53:7 SIN SEGOL HAY TAV Moshiach is the one who brings the TORAH of the Besuras haGeulah to the Nations TAV-CHOLOM-RESH-KAMATZ-HAY (TORAH) YESHAYAH (ISAIAH) 42:4 Now that we know our letters of the ALEF BET, let's return to word #1, beh-ray-SHEET. This very important word tells us that the creation had a definite beginning in historical time. There was a time when the creation did not exist, indeed before time itself. In the timeless eternity of G-d Himself, there was only Eh-loh-HEEM and the Ruach Haelohim (the Spirit of G-d--Gen.1:3) and the Dvar Hashem, the Word of G-d--Psa.33:6). Genesis 1:1-2:1 tells us that G-d used His Spirit and His Word to create everything that exists. So behind the finite universe stands not G-dless Evolution but the Creator G-d. The "steady-state" theory of the universe is a scientific speculation that asserts that the universe had no beginning and will have no end. This theory is refuted by this word beh-ray-SHEET which asserts that the universe does have a beginning and also carries the inference that the universe will have an end. Therefore, Genesis is not merely a book of origins; it is an eschatological (or end-times) teaching which is the way Revelation, Ezekiel, Isaiah and other parts of the Bible interpret it. The "big-bang" cosmological theory is more favored by scientists today than the "steady-state" theory. The "big-bang" theory asserts that the universe began with a primordial explosion and has a finite size and age, meaning it had a definite beginning and will one day have a definite end. It is not our purpose to speculate about these theories, as to which is scientifically more defensible, only to comment that the "steady-state" theory is Biblically refuted. This does not mean that we are endorsing the "big-bang" theory. But this idea of a definite beginning and a definite end is what the Bible teaches, and this is also what the science of cosmology (a branch of astronomy concerned with the origin of the universe) has tended to confirm. However, scientists go through great theoretical contortions trying to get around all the enigmas involved in the fragmentary and frequently changing character of their purported empirical scientific evidence (of which much defies theory). They postulate the "big-bang theory" and assert that the universe exploded into existence perhaps some 20 billion years ago, more or less, and project that the earth is between 4.5 and 4.7 billion years old and that humans evolved from some sort of apelike primate ancestor 2.5 million years ago. Then, just when they are certain of their results and have convinced themselves that their cosmological scientific theories fit all the complexities of new astronomical discoveries, the fossil record, radio-carbondating, paleontological discoveries, etc, conflicting new data emerges and they are left to flounder around with a lot of empty and passing ideas and unsettled "conclusions" that are more a matter of blind faith than scientific fact. "For the heavens are as high above earth as G-d's thoughts are above our thoughts," Isaiah 55:9 says, and things without number are beyond our comprehension. So we cannot endorse any scientific theory. But we can find out what the Bible teaches. Biblical faith is sure of this: if we reject the words of Genesis and look elsewhere for an inerrant cosmology, we will never find one, because mere man, unaided by the inspiration of the Ruach Hakodesh of G-d, can never write an inerrant cosmology, and to this, at least, the ever collapsing theories and endless disputes of scientists eloquently concur. 2. bah-rah "(He) created" is the second word. You have had all of these consonants. What are they? Review #1. The new vowel point KAMATZ looks like a small T under the consonants BET and RESH and is pronounced with an "ah" sound as in "card." This same small T is sometimes a KAMATZ HATOOF pronounced "o" as in "soft" in words like #450, meaning "from all" and pronounced "mee-kohl" (#450), not "mee-kahl." The G-d of Israel is always the subject of this verb in the Hebrew Bible, never man or pagan deities. No one can "bah-rah" except the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. "Mother Nature" cannot "bah-rah," G-dless "Evolution" cannot "bah-rah." Also, as every spiritually reborn believer knows experientially, not psychotherapy, not human science, nor human endeavor of any kind, but only G-d can "bah-rah" the new creation we have in Moshiach Yehoshua. This verb bah-rah is in the perfect tense, meaning the action is complete. G-d accomplished the creation of everything and this is a finished work. Since only G-d was in the beginning and everything else came to exist as part of His creation, creation is creatio ex nihilo, out of nothing. Without the use of pre-existing materials G-d "called into existence the things that do not exist" (Romans 4:17). 3. Eh-loh-HEEM "G-d" is the next word ALEF and CHEEREEK GADOL we have already had. Review #1. ALEF is a silent consonant. A syllable in Hebrew never begins with a vowel. It always consists of a consonant plus a vowel or a consonant plus a vowel plus a consonant. CHATAF SEGOL under the first letter looks like five dots and has an "eh" sound. LAMMED has an "l" sound. CHOLOM is a dot above the consonant and has an "oh" sound. It can be written with or without a VAV and in either case has an "oh" sound. The second syllable is "loh." HAY is a consonant with an "h" sound. And the "m" consonant is called a MEM but looks like SAMECH but is more rectangular when it comes at the end of a word as FINAL MEM as here (SAMECH has an "s" sound as in "six"). This syllable is pronounced "heem." In your Biblia Hebraica the accent mark under the HAY and to the left of the CHEEREEK marks this word as the middle of the verse. This accent is called an atnah (meaning "rest"). The word Eh-loh-HEEM is plural in form (CHEEREEK YUD FINAL MEM is a plural ending) but singular in meaning, here construed with a singular verb, "He created," not "They created." (However, see Gen.35:7 Elohim "They were revealed" to him. Also, see Ps.58:12.) This plural is called "plural of majesty." So in the word for G-d we have the idea of plurality in unity, the One G-d who is eh-KHAHD "one" in the sense of complex unity, not yah-KHEED "one" in the sense of absolute, uncompounded singleness. See these last two Hebrew words in Deut.6:4 and compare Gen.2:24 and Jdg.11:34. 4. "et" untranslated sign of the direct object is the next word, which tells you that "the heavens and the earth" are the direct objects of the verb and therefore are the objects of the verb's action. Note the ALEF and the TZAYREH and the TAHV. Review #1 if you've forgotten these. 5. hahsh-shah-MAH-yeem "heavens, sky" is the next word. Note the short horizontal dash under the HAY. This is called a PATACH and is pronounced "ah" as in "card." The dot inside the SHIN doubles the letter. We have already had all the other letters. What are they? HAY is the definite article "the," used here because "the heavens" and "the earth" (see #7) are nouns with unique referents. Remember that a noun is the name of a person, place, or thing. Notice here the plural ending CHEEREEK YUD FINAL MEM as in Eh-loh-HEEM. 6. vuh-et "and (sign of direct object)" is the next word. Notice the prefixed conjunction "and" VAV pronounced with a "v" sound as in "vote." (Do not confuse this letter with ZAYIN which has a "z" sound as in "zoo".) The name of G-d we will see later contains the consonants YUD HAY VAV HAY. 7. ha-AH-rehts "the earth" is the next word. Notice the accent under the ALEF indicating that this is the accented syllable. Do you see the SEGOL? the KAMATZ? The last letter is a FINAL TZADE which is the way the TZADE looks when it comes as the last letter of a word. It is pronounced "ts" as in "fits" or tsuris (Yiddish = "trouble"). Notice the definite article HAY at the beginning of this word, "the earth." When compounded with "the earth," "heaven" designates the whole cosmos; so this expression, "the heavens and the earth" really means "everything." So Genesis 1:1 teaches an absolute beginning of everything that exists as a direct act of G-d. This is why He alone is worthy of praise and worship. Everything has its existence of Him and through Him and from the good pleasure of His will. GENESIS 1:2A 8 v'ha-AH-rets 9 ha-yeh-TAH 10 TOH-hoo 11 vah-VOH-hoo 12 vuh-KHOH-shekh 13 ahl 14 p'NAY 15 teh-HOHM 8. v'ha-AH-rets "and-the-earth" --Review #6 and 17. 9. ha-yeh-TAH "(she) was" --Notice the accent mark under the last syllable. Look at the first syllable HAY KAMATZ. Look at your three vowels (the SH'VA here is a half-vowel). Syllables that end in a vowel-sound are called open syllables (meaning syllables without a consonant ending), so we know to break the syllable here and pronounce the word "ha-yeh-TAH," not "hi-TAH." This is the way we write "she was" since "earth" is feminine in Hebrew. 10. TOH-hoo "nothingness. formless" --For the CHOLOM review #3. Notice the SHURUK long vowel at the end, which looks like a dot in the middle of a VAV. This has an "oo" sound as in "loot" and is pronounced the same as KUBUTZ which is three slanted dots under the consonant. 11. vah-VOH-hoo "and-empty, void" --On the prefixed conjunction "and" see #6 and #8, here written with a KAMATZ instead of a SH'VA. We had BET in #1. Without the dot it is VET and pronounced "v" instead of "b" (vet, not bet). Notice the SHURUK. 12. vuh-KHOH-sheh~ "and-darkness" --See prefixed conjunction "and." SH'VA is a half-vowel. It is pronounced quickly and softly with the VAHV as "vuh." Do not confuse CHET (pronounced "kh" as in "Sikh" or "ch" as in CHanukah) and HAY (see #3) and DALET which has a "d" sound as in "doll" and FINAL CHAF. Notice the two dots which must be written but have no sound. This vowel has the same sound as the second letter CHET. The dot in the KAF ("k" as in "kick") distinquishes it from the CHAF. The KOOF also has a "k" sound. For the CHOLOM review #3. Note the accent under the second syllable. For the SHIN see #1. Note the SEGOL "eh" vowel under the SHIN. 13. ahl "upon" AYIN is a silent consonant like ALEF. Note the PATACH and review #5. Note the LAMMED and review #3. This is a preposition, since it is used before the noun in #14 and forms a prepositional phrase with it modifying word #12. 14. p'NAY "faces-of, surface of" --PAY has a "p" sound as in "put" and when the dot is absent is FAY with an "f" sound as in "fit." FINAL FAY (see #403) is not to be confused with FINAL CHAF. NOON is an "n" sound as in "not" but when it comes as the last letter of a word looks like FINAL NOON in word #38 and is not to be confused with VAV. Do not confuse GIMMEL which has a "g" sound as in "get" with NOON which has an "n" sound as in "not." TZAYREH is a vowel with an "ay" sound as in "pray" and is two horizontal dots under the consonant. TSEREH can also be followed by YUD as in #14 but is pronounced the same. (Do not confuse TZAYREH with CHEEREEK which has only one dot under the consonant and is pronounced "ee" as in "siesta" and may or may not have a YUD following it.) 15. tuh-HOHM "the (oceanic) deep". "p'NAY" is said to be in construct" with "tuh-HOHM" because p'NAY is closely connected with the following word "tuh-HOHM" and also "p'NAY" has a construct ending TZAYREH YUD. The accent under the second syllable of "tuh-HOHM" marks this word as the middle of the verse. Now let's review the alphabet, first the consonants, then the vowels. Make sure you have a mental image of each one and a sound in your ear for the sound of each as we go along. You may have to go back over the last 15 paragraphs and look at each word in the Tanakh and make flash cards for yourself. ALEF BET VET GIMMEL DALET HAY VAV ZAYIN CHET TET YUD KAF FINAL KAF CHAF FINAL CHAF LAMMED MEM FINAL MEM NOON FINAL NOON SAMECH AYIN PAY FAY FINAL FAY TZADE FINAL TZADE KOOF RESH SHIN SIN TAV. Make not of all of them as we go along until you have mastered the ALEF BET. Now let's take the vowels. KAMATZ (the vowel under the BET and the RESH in word #2), PATACH (the vowel under the CHET in word #16), TZAYREH (the vowel under the RESH in word #1), SEGOL (the vowel under the RESH in word #7), SH'VA (the vowel under the BET in word #1), CHOLOM (the vowel dot above the HAY and to the left of the LAMMED in word #3; also the third letter in word #15), CHEEREEK (the vowel under the HAY in word #17), KUBUTZ (the vowel under the CHAF in word #435, first word in Gen.2:1, vah-yuh-khoo-LOO), SHURUK (the last letter in word #93, yee-kah-VOO), CHATAF KAMATZ (I could not find one in the first 1039 words. You will see one only rarely. It is a KAMATZ with a SH'VA to the right of it. Go to Ezekiel 39:14 and look at the next to the last word, the first letter CHET and you will see a CHATAF KAMATZ under it), CHATAF PATACH (the vowel under the ALEF in word #424), CHATAF SEGOL (the vowel under the ALEF in word #3). Make flash cards for yourself for all vowels and the entire ALEF BET using the relevant words I am giving you form Gen.1:1-3:19. These will be learned by memorization and repetition, but it will be fun because we are going to master this material and see the doctrines of our faith in the words in the process. Just as you did not learn English by listening to a lecture, so neither will you learn Hebrew by merely staring at these pages. You must become like a child with a crayon and write out your alphabet and, as it were, once again make your own copy of "See Dick run. See Jane run. See Spot run." Otherwise you will be like the kid who says he can't ride bicycles and has never even got on one. Practice writing in your own handwriting the first several verses of Genesis. Purchase a large print Hebrew Bible (preferably the Biblica Hebraica Stuttgartensia which I will show you how to use and which will come in very handy when we get to the messianic prophecies.) As you write each letter down, look it up above. GEN.1:2B 16 vuh-ROO-ahkh 17 Eh-loh-HEEM 18 m'rah-KHEH-feht 19 ahl 20 p'NAY 21 hahm-MY-yeem 16. vuh-ROO-ahkh "and-Spirit-of" --Notice the PATACH is pronounced before the CHET and not after it, as in mo-SHI-ach (see Daniel 9:26) (Anointed One, Messiah). This is called furtive PATACH and we will discuss it later. 17. Review word #3. The same Spirit of G-d in Exod.31:3 that filled the artist Bezalel and equipped him to build the tabernacle is at work here in creating the earth. 18. m'rah-KHEH-feht "brooding" from the root RESH CHET FINAL FAY meaning "to hover tremulously, shake, tremble" as in Deut. 32:11 where it describes an eagle hovering over the young in its nest. Like a giant eagle egg was the earth under the hovering Ruach Hakodesh. See how your knowledge of Hebrew helps you read the Bible on a whole new level of comprehension. You should now have the motivation to want to read the next three chapters of Genesis with us. The MEM at the beginning indicates it is a participle or verbal adjective, here modifying "Spirit of G-d." 19. review #13. 20. review #14. 21. hahm-MY-yeem "the-waters" --The short vertical accent under the first MEM indicates the end of the verse, and the large colon-like marks after FINAL MEM always follow this accent and function as the period of the sentence. Notice the dot in the first MEM. A dot in a letter preceded by a full vowel indicates doubling of the letter and the dot is called dagesh-fort. (Remember, SH'VA is only a half-vowel, not a full vowel.) So the "m" is doubled "hahm-MY-yeem." The usual form of the definite article "the" prefixed at the beginning of a noun is HAY PATACH with the dagesh-forte' in the following letter (doubling the letter); see #5. However, notice the exception in #7, because there is no dagesh-forte in the ALEF in #7 since HAY CHET AYIN RESH ALEF do not have the dagesh dot in them. The doubling dagesh or dot should not be confused with the pronunciation dagesh that makes a BET out of a VET, a KAF out of a CHAF, and a PAY out of a FAY, and can also appear in a GIMMEL, a DALET, and a TAV, though not all these letters are pronounced differently in modern Hebrew. This is called the b-g-d-k-f-t dagesh. So when you see a dagesh dot in a letter, ask yourself if it is a doubling dagesh or a b-g-d-k-f-t pronounciation dagesh. GEN.1:3 22 vahy-YOH-mer 23 Eh-loh-HEEM 24 yeh-HEE 25 ohr 26 vah-yeh-HEE 27 ohr 22. vahy-YOH-mehr "and-(He)-said" --Note the dagesh-forte in the YUD, which indicates there are two YUDS "vahy-YOH-mehr." There are two main tenses in Biblical Hebrew: the perfect tense, which are actions that are completed as in "He said;" and the imperfect tense, which are actions that are not completed as in "He will say, He usually says, He might say.." The word ALEF MEM RESH, is 3rd person masculine singular perfect of "he said." Here it is a divine fiat that not only commands but commands effectively, actually declaring the future and then causing what it declares to come into being; see #24 and #26. In #22 the YUD indicates the imperfect "he will say" but the VAV PATACH DAGESH conjunction "and" not only connects this sentence with the preceding, it also makes the imperfect "he will say" equivalent to the perfect "he said," so we call it a VAV CONVERSIVE. The VAV PATACH DAGESH VAV CONVERSIVE is often attached to verbs in a sequence and reverses their tense. When a verb is in the imperfect tense, the addition of the VAV PATACH DAGESH VAV CONVERSIVE changes its meaning to that of the perfect tense. If the verb is in the perfect tense, the addition of the reversing VAV changes its meaning to that of the imperfect tense. If you looked up #22 in your Hebrew lexicon (language dictionary) you would have to look up the word under the root form ALEF MEM RESH. Remember that roots have three letters and all other letters are prefixes and suffixes added to the root. You have to subtract all of these to find the root and therefore be able to know how to look up the word in the dictionary. This is a very high frequency word and must be memorized. Put it on your vocabulary flash cards. Remember the conjunction "and" VAV SH'VA connects but the reversing VAV PATACH DAGESH connects and changes the tense of the verb. 23. review #3. 24. yuh-HEE "shall be" or "let be" from HAY KAMATZ YUD KAMATZ HAY "he was"--see #9. The SH'VA is always vocal SH'VA if it is in the first syllable like this. Compare the silent SH'VA in #28. The initial YUD indicates the imperfect tense as in #22. However, this tense is called the jussive, although in this case it is written exactly like the imperfect. The jussive tense expresses volition "let it be." G-d wanted light and that's what he called forth and got. There are three kinds of imperatives in Hebrew that you need to know about: cohortative ("let me/us do some action [first person]), imperative ("you do some action [second person]); jussive ("let it/him/her/them do some action [third person]). Do not feel overwhelmed with all this; you will be seeing all this new material over and over again as you go along in Gen.chps. 1-3 and it will eventually sink in. Don't get discouraged. Allow your mind to get the repetitions it needs to begin to clarify everything conceptually through repetition. This is how we learn. 25. ohr "light" 26. vah-yuh-HEE "and-(there)-was" --This word is written like an imperfect verb with an initial YUD but has the CONVERSIVE VAV VAV PATACH DAGESH in front of it, which switches it to a perfect "and there was." Compare the two words "#26 and #24 to see how the CONVERSIVE VAV VAV PATACH DAGESH throws the switch from imperfect to perfect, incomplete action to completed action. The CONVERSIVE VAV VAV PATACH DAGESH is not merely a conjunction connecting the previous part of the sentence. The CONVERSIVE VAV VAV PATACH DAGESH converts the imperfect ("shall be") into a perfect tense ("there was"). 27. see #25. The hyphen at #26 indicates that this word is to be accented with #26 and pronounced with it. GEN.1:4 28 vahy-YAHR 29 Eh-loh-HEEM 30 et (es) 31 ha-ohr 32 kee 33 tohv 34 vahy-yahv-DAYL 35 Eh-loh-HEEM 36 bayn 37 ha-ohr 38 oo-VAYN 39 ha-KHOH-shehkh 28. vahy-YAHR "and-(He)-saw" --Notice the letter YUD indicates imperfect tense "he will see" but the CONVERSIVE VAV VAV PATACH DAGESH makes it perfect. Is the SH'VA silent or vocal? Review #24. The root for "he saw" is RESH ALEF HAY in the Hebrew dictionary. 29. review #3 if you need to. 30. review #4 if you need to. 31. review #25. What is HAY KAMATZ? Review #21. Why is there no dot in the ALEF? Review #21. Look at the horizontal stroke or hyphen-like mark (it's called a makkef "binder" and shows that these two words are bound together and there is only one major accent and it is on the last word of those bound) between #31 and #30? Review #27. "The light" is the object of the verb of perception "and-He-saw." Note the sign of the direct object #30. 32. kee "that" --This word can mean various things, depending on the context: "that, but, except, because, for, when, if, as, like." See p.155, William L. Holladay, A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, Eerdmans, 1971. 33. tohv "good, beautiful, fit for its purpose" --Note the TET. Notice the creation reflects the goodness of its Creator. This little word refutes the gnostic false teacher Cerinthus (I Yochanan 2:22, OJBC) who taught that the creation and the body are evil and that therefore the divine good Moshiach could not actually be the same as the dying man Moshiach Yehoshua in a real (presumeably evil, according to Cerinthus) body. 34. vahy-yahv-DAYL "and-(He)-caused-a-division/separation" --from the root VET DALET LAMMED ("to divide") with the HAY preformative (indicating "cause to divide"). (We will explain what happened to the HAY later; it has disappeared and the dot in the YUD is the only trace of it.) If you look this word up in The Englishman's Hebrew Concordance (p.181, Baker Book House Publishers) you see that G-d is in the business of separating and causing division. In Ezra 9:1 the Jews had not kept themselves separate from the neighboring people and their detestable practices. In Num. 16:21 G-d said to Moses and Aaron, "Separate yourselves from this wicked (Korah's) assembly so I can put an end to them at once. But even before this, G-d caused a division between Cain and Abel and between the children of Ishmael and Isaac. In Luke 12:51-52 Moshiach Yehoshua is the light causing a division in a household. Notice the imperfect YUD and the CONVERSIVE VAV, VAV PATACH DAGESH. 35. review #3. 36. bayn "between" --Notice the FINAL NOON. 37. review #25 and #31 if you need to. 38. oo-VAYN "and-between." The conjunction VAV SH'VA ("and") is generally found written like a SHURUK before MEM FAY and VET and vowelless consonants. Compare #36 and #38. 39. review #12. Do you see the definite article. Do you remember why there is no dagesh dot in the CHET? Review #21. GEN.l:5 40 vahy-yeek-RAH 41 Eh-loh-HEEM 42 lah-OHR 43 yom 44 v'lah-KHOH-shehkh 45 KAH-rah 46 LAI-lah 47 vah-yeh-HEE 48 EH-rev 49 vah-yeh-HEE 50 VOH-ker 51 yohm 52 eh-KHAD 40. vahy-yeek-RAH "and-He-called" --Notice the KOOF and review #12. From KOOF RESH ALEF a root meaning "to call, to proclaim, to read." This last definition is important in terms of certain Masoretic marginal notes in your BHS (Biblica Hebraica Stuttgartensia). The Masaretes were a new type of Hebrew Biblical scholar and they came on the scene after 500 C.E. They developed a system of notations to help preserve their critical and explanatory notes of their authoritative exegetical guide to the grammar and pronunciation etc of the Hebrew Bible. They would not altar the consonantal text, but if they felt there was a scribal error in the consonantal text, or if they knew of a textual variant, they would put the word "to be read" KOOF RESH YUD "kerey" in the margin with the abbreviation KOOF with a dot above it and they would put this word's vowel points under the word in the consonantal text. For example, in BHS Gen.8:17 the form that is KAF TAV YUD VET (written) in the consonantal text is that Noah VAV YUD TZADE ALEF "came out" but the word in the margin is in the imperative HAY YUD TZADE ALEF "Go out". Taking this reading as perferred, the New Revised Standard Version translates, "Then G-d said to Noah, 'Go out of the ark.." whereas the NIV translates the consonantal text, "And Noah came out..." The BHS text is the so-called Masorah (collection of notes) of these scribes plus a reproduction of Codex Leningradensis (1008 C.E.) plus the critical apparatus at the bottom of the pages indicating portions where other manuscripts or versions differ or where scholarly research brings the BHS text into question. All of these witnesses help us stay close to the original inerrant autographs of the infallible Biblical authors. KOOF RESH ALEF = he called YUD KOOF RESH ALEF = he will call + CONVERSIVE VAV, VAV PATACH DAGESH = "he called." 41. review #3. 42. lah-OHR "to-the-light" --The preposition "to, for" is LAMMED. 43. yohm "day" 44. v'lah-KHOH-shehkh "and-to-the-darkness" VAV = "and" LAMMED = "to, for" HAY PATACH DAGESH = def.art."the"--Notice the HAY of the article elided (ignored) and its vowel PATACH is given to LAMMED. We have had this word. Learn it. Review #12. 45. KAH-rah "he called" --Review #40. This is the simple stem or root of the verb. Most Hebrew roots consist of three letters called radicals. The root is generally given in its simplest verbal form, 3rd person masculine singular perfect. 46. LAHY-lah "night" --Notice we have a chiasmus (reversal in the order of words" in verb/indirect object here: "cal1ed-light/darkness-called." This expresses unity between the two acts of naming as one action. 47. review #26. 48. EH-rehv "evening" as in erev Shabbat or Friday evening. 49. review #26. 50. VOH-kehr "morning" --Notice the accent under the VET. 51. review #43. 52. review #3. The cardinal "one" may be used for the ordinal "first" in Hebrew. See Gen. 2:1 ha-eh-khad "the first." There are those who assert that this "first day" must be a twenty-four hour solar day. However, evening and morning appear three days before the sun and moon, which the text says are to be for "days and years" (1:14). Psalm 90:4 gives us the impression that a cosmic day, from the divine point of view, might be a thousand years or more, indeed a whole age or epoch. Since this section has to do with life and eternal life and eternal righteousness (Gen. 2:9,17; 3:22-24), the larger point seems to be that if even G-d finds eternal rest at the end of his "week" of good works, will not there be Chayyei Olam eternal life and rest and righteousness and "glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good" (Rom. 2:l0)? Made in the image of G-d to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of G-d, Man cannot live his life's work-week for bread alone (Deut. 8:3; Yochanan 6:27), since there is no true rest or food for his soul except in G-d (Matt. 11:29). And those who doubt this fundamental teaching of Torah should remember that the creation has been so ordered from the beginning. Not only so, G-d will bring every deed into eternal judgment when evening comes at the end of life's brief "week" (Eccles. 12:14; Gen. 29:27-28; Dan. 9:24). The good G-d we see at work in Gen. 1:1-2:3 reflects Himself in His good creation in which everything is put together "decently and in order," the "luminaries" of Day 4 interdependently pointing back to the divine "light" in Day 1, the "birds and fish" of Day 5 symbiotically related to the separated rain clouds and oceans of Day 2, the animals and man of Day 6 beneficially dependent on the dry land and vegetation of Day 3, and, finally. all this divine time of creative work dependent on the Sabbath of eternity, where G-d returns when His good cosmos is finished, for this is where He started "in the beginning" (Gen. 1:1). GEN. 1:6 53 vahy-YOH-mer 54 Eh-loh-HEEM 55 yeh-HEE 56 rah-KEE-ah 57 buh-TOKH 58 hah-MY-yeem 59 vee-HEE 60 mahv-DEEL 61 bayn 62 MY-yeem 63 lah-MY-yeem 53. review #22. 54. review #3. 55. review #24. 56. rah-KEE-ah "dome"--This word is found in Ezek. 1:22-23 "spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked like a dome, sparkling like awesome crystal." It is the atmosphere seen as a vaulted ceiling or dome. The PATACH under the AYIN is called PATACH furtive. Review #16. 57. buh-TOHKH "in midst of" 58. review #21. 59. vee-HEE "and let (it) be" review #24. This is YUD SH'VA HAY CHEEREEK GADOL + "and" VAV so that the SH'VA contracts to HEEREEQ forming VAV CHEEREEK. 60. mahv-DEEL "causing-a-division" --review #34. This is a participle or a verbal adjective as indicated by the preformative MEM. Because this participle follows the verb "to be" it expresses continuing future action. 61. review #36. 62. MAH-yeem "waters" 63. lah-MAH-yeem "from-the-waters" = LAMMED = "from, to, for" --Notice the KAMATZ replaces the normal PATACH under the MEM in #62 and #63 because it's the last word in the sentence, the voice rests upon it, strengthens the vowel, and words with such vowel changes are said to be "in pause." Notice the final accent in the verse, which is called siIluq. Look under the MEM. Notice the aof passuq which looks like a colon (:) and marks the end of the verse. GEN.1:7 64 vah-YAH-ahs 65 Eh-loh-HEEM 66 et (es) 67 ha-rah-KEE-ah 68 vahy-yahv-DAYL 69 bayn 70 hahm-MY-yeem 71 ah-sher 72 mee-TAH-khaht 73 lah-rah-KEE-ah 74 oo-VAYN 75 hahm-MY-yeem 76 ah-sher 77 may-AHL 78 lah-rah-KEE-ah 79 vah-yeh-HEE 80 khehn 64. vah-YAH-ahs "and-(He)-made"--not SHIN but SIN. The root is AYIN SIN HAY "he made" with the imperfect form "he will make" YUD AYIN SIN HAY and VAV PATACH DAGESH conversive. 65. review #3. 66. review #4. 67. ha-rah-KEE-ah --review #56. 68. review #34. 69. review #36. 70. review #21. 71. ah-SHER "which" --This is a high frequency relative pronoun meaning "who, which, that." Memorize it. 72. mee-TAH-khaht "from under" TAV CHET TAV means "under" and MEM CHEEREEK FINAL NOON means "from" and the NOON is assimilated or absorbed when the two words become one. 73. Study #56 and #63 and you ought to be able to figure this one out by yourself. 74. review #38. 75. review #21. 76. review #71. 77. may-AHL "from upon" MEM CHEEREEK FINAL NOON = "from" + AYIN PATACH LAMMED "upon" with the FINAL NOON absorbed lengthening the HEEREEQ under MEM to TZAYREH 78. lah-rah-KEE-ah "to the dome" 79. review #26 "and-it-was" 80. khehn "so" --The note in the textual apparatus of BHS for #79 and #80 tells you that the Targum Ha-Shivim (Septuagint) transposes this phrase to the end of verse 6. You will notice that the symbol for the Greek translation of the Tanakh is an ornate looking G. Cp = chapter. The two a's separated by a dash next to 7 means that everything between those two a's is referred to. Cf means compare. Each footnote is separated by parallel double vertical lines. The apparatus footnote tells you that the Targum Ha-Shivim translates "And G-d saw that it was good" into Greek and inserts it at the end of verses 4,10,12,18,21,31, and 8. However, this is an inept attempt at standardization because the Masoretic Text has this formula seven times to show the complete perfection of G-d's works. If you want to know more about the ancient versions referred to in the apparatus at the bottom of each page (Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac [Peshitta], Latin Vulgate, Targum Onqelos, etc), get Ernst Wurthwein's The Test of the Old Testament, Eerdmans Publishers, 1979. GEN.1:8 81 vahy-yeek-RAH 82 vah-yeh-HEE 83 lah-rah-KEE-ah 84 shah-MY-yeem 85 vah-yeh-HEE 86 EH-rev 87 vah-yeh-HEE 88 VOH-ker 89 yom 90 shay-NEE 81. review #40. The little "s" like mark under the RESH in your BHS is an accent. 82. review #3. 83. review #78. 84. review #5. 85. review #26. 86. review #48. 87. review #26. 88. review #50. 89. review #43. 90. shay-NEE "second." Notice in the BHS that the FAY to the left of this word means paragraph, indicating a new paragraph begins after that letter. GEN. 1:9 91 vahy-YOH-mer 92 Eh-loh-HEEM 93 yee-kah-VOO 94 hahm-MY-yeem 95 mee-TAH-khaht 96 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 97 el 98 mah-KOHM 99 eh-KHAD 100 vuh-teh-rah-EH 101 ha-yah-bah-SHAH 102 vah-yeh-HEE 103 khehn 91. review #22. 92. review #3. 93. yee-kah-VOO "let be collected" --The root is KOOF VAV HAY "he collects." The passive stem is indicated by a NOON preformative. The word for the place for the tevilah immersion is mikvah meaning a "gathering/collection of waters" using a MEM prefix which is often used in noun-formations. Study this word carefully. The YUD indicates the imperfect or jussive (review #24) 3rd person singular. The dagesh forte in the KOOF indicates the absorbed NOON prefix of the passive stem of the root. See also #108. Many Jewish people believe they must take a mikvah to remove a state of ritual impurity. This is a ritually prepared bath for purification in accordance with various regulations. Strictly observant Jews often attempt to purify themselves in this way before Sabbaths and Festivals. Also, following the menstrual period, a woman is required to immerse herself. This is TET VET YUD LAMMED HAY "tevilah" or total immersion. This occurs following seven "clean" days after the woman's last menstrual period. Many Jewish women even take their dishes to the mikvah or "ritualarium" to be immersed before ever using them. A complete immersion is necessary. This ritual goes back to the kohanim in the Torah who had to cleanse themselves from ritual impurity derived from contact with unclean objects or circumstances. That there were such ritual bath facilities at the time of Moshiach Yehoshua is clear from excavations at the desert fortress Masada. It is therefore clear that Yochanan the Tevilah immersionist was a kohen (hereditary priest) navi (prophet) offering a tevilah haTeshuvah "immersion of repentance." It is an absurd lie to say that this is a Gentile ritual foisted on the Jewish people. See Deut.23: l0-11. 94. review #21. 95. review #72. 96. review #5. 97. el "to" 98. mah-KOHM "place, location." 99. review #52 100. review #28. vuh-teh-rah-EH "and-she-shall-be-seen" --The subject ("dry land") is feminine. TAV is a prefix for the imperfect 3rd pers. fem. sing. just as YUD is a prefix for the imperfect 3rd pers. masc.sing. Look at #21 to see why, although the NOON prefix of the passive N-stem assimilates into the previous letter, in this case, since it is a RESH there is no dagesh forte in the RESH. See Isaiah 53:10 YUD RESH ALEF HAY "he will see" which is predicated about Moshiach at the time of his Resurrection after Moshiach was "cut off out of the land of the living" (53:8). 101. ha-yah-bah-SHAH "dry land" = feminine noun. Notice the def.art. HAY PATACH DAGESH "the" 102. review #79 103. review #80. GEN.1:10 104 vaahy-yeek-RAH 105 Eh-loh-HEEM 106 lah-yah-bah-SHAH 107 EH-rets 108 oo-l'meek-VAY 109 hahm-MY-yeem 110 kah-RAH 111 yahm-MEEM 112 vahy-YAHR 113 Eh-loh-HEEM 114 kee 115 tov 104. Review #40. 105. Review #3. 106. Review #101. LAMMED prefix means "to, for." Review #97 and #78. 107. Review #7. EH-rets = "land." 108. Review #93 and #38 and #97. oo-luh-meek-VAY "and-to-collection-of" 109. Review #21. In Biblical Hebrew there is no word to express the English word "of' when it indicates either possession or description as in "the house of Ruth" or a "word of kindness." However, in Hebrew, when two nouns are linked together to create a single idea, the first noun carries with it the meaning "of." This noun is in what is called the construct state. 110. Review #40. kah-RAH "he-called" 111. yahm-MEEM "seas" YUD KAMATZ FINAL MEM = "sea." Notice the KAMATZ under the YUD becomes PATACH when the plural is formed by adding CHEEREEK YUD FINAL MEM at the end, making the form you see here "seas". 112. review #28. 113. review #3. 114. review #32. 115. review #33. GEN.1:11 116 vahy-YOH-mer 117 Eh-loh-HEEM 118 tahd-SHAY 119 ha-AH-rets 120 DEH-sheh 121 EH-sev 122 mah-zeh-REE-ah 123 ZEH-rah 124 aitz 125 p'REE 126 OH-seh 127 p'REE 128 leh-mee-NOH 129 ah-sher 130 zah-oh 131 voh 132 ahl 133 ha-AH-rets 134 vah-yeh-HEE 135 khehn 116. review #22. The simple stem is called the Qal stem. The n-stem or passive stem is called the nifal stem. The h-stem or causative stem is called the hifil stem. For example, "he ate" is the Qal or simple stem. The nifal stem is "it was eaten," and the hifil is "he caused to eat, he fed." 117. review #3 118. tahd-SHAY "she-shall-cause-to-spring-forth, sprout, be green --The TAV prefix indicates the imperfect tense "she shall." The PATACH under the TAV indicates that this is a HAY causative stem verb "she shall cause." On this see also #122 and the causative PATACH under the YUD in #34. The root is DALET SHIN ALEF and we see on page 75 of William Holladay's A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the the Old Testament (Eerdmans, 1971) that it is a jussive as in #24, "let her sprout." 119. review #7. 120. DEH-sheh "grass, vegetation" see #118 DALET SHIN ALEF "be green" 121. EH-sehv "herbs, plants" 122. mah-zeh-REE-ah "causing to seed" --Root ZAYIN RESH AYIN. Notice the furtive PATACH and review #56 and #16. The prefix MEM indicates the word is a verbal adjective or participle. We must ask what noun it modifies and the answer is #121, "plants yielding seed." 123. ZEH-rah "seed." The noun form of the previous word, the verb ZAYIN RESH AYIN "it seeds, he sows." This is a very important word. Yehoshua says that Abraham looked forward to seeing his day (Yochanan 8:56). Yehoshua means that Abraham's seed in Gen. 12:7 refers to the Moshiach (see Gal. 3:16). David's seed (II Sam. 7:12) also is a Messianic term. Isa. 53:10 says the Moshiach shall see his seed (believers). The Seed of the Woman, also a Messianic term, in Gen. 3:15 is ZAYIN RESH AYIN HAY "her Seed." 124. aitz "trees, tree." --Look at 2:9, 17; 3:5,22. The "aitz haDa'as tov varah" ("tree of the knowledge of good and evil" is the tree of moral autonomy where men add to G-d's commandments (Deut. 4:2) their own will and their own traditions (Mark 7:9) and reject G-d's word in order to honor their own ideas about what is good and evil. There is a way that seems right to a man but whoever turns aside from the law and goes that way (Josh. 1:7) will find that its end is death (Prov. 16:25). On the other hand, there is also the "aitz haChayyim" (the tree of life) which if a man eat of it, he will live forever. This tree points to Moshiach Yehoshua (Yochanan 5:46; 6:51; Rev. 22:l-2). 125. p'REE "fruit" 126. OH-seh "making" --This is a participle of ALEF SIN HAY "he made" The CHOLOM indicates a participle or verbal adjective and here it modifies "fruit trees." 127. review #125. "Baruch atah Adonoy Eloheinu Melech haOlam bore p'ri hagafen. "Blessed art thou 0 L-rd our G-d, King of the universe, who creates the fruit of the vine." Moshiach Yehoshua gave this blessing over the Kiddush cup at his Last Pesach. 128. leh-mee-NOH "to-his-kind" --The pronoun suffix "his" (CHOLOM) is at the end. The inseparable preposition LAMMED SH'VA is at the beginning. The noun is MEM CHEEREEK YUD FINAL NOON "kind." The Bible says that G-d created the first member of each kind and put the seeds of reproduction in each so that it could perpetuate its kind. Evolution teaches that species simply evolve from one to the other, and that if you have apes and you wait long enough some of them will evolve into higher forms, that is, human beings through ape like/man like inter-species "transitional forms." This speculation is by no means proven to be true. 129. review #71. 130. zah-oh "his seed" 131. voh "in him." Notice the inseparable preposition BET SH'VA "in." For the suffix review #123. 132. review #13. 133. review #7. 134. review #26. 135. review #80. Gen. 1:12 GEN.1:12 136 vah-toh-TSEH 137 ha-AH-rets 138 DEH-sheh 139 EH-sev 140 mahz-REE-ah 141 ZEH-rah 142 luh-meen-NAY-hoo 143 v'aitz 144 OH-seh 145 p'REE 146 ah-sher 147 zah-roh 148 voh 149 leh-meen-NAY-hoo 150 vahy-YAHR 151 Eh-loh-HEEM 152 kee 153 tov 136. vah-toh-TSEH "and-she-caused-to-bring-out"--the PATACH under the VAV is causative --(review #118). The root YUD TZADE ALEF means "go out" in the Qal stem and in the hifal stem stem it means "caused to go out" or "bring out" (review #116). The TAV is imperfect 3fs "she will cause to go out" but the VAV PATACH DAGESH CONVERSIVE converts it to the perfect "she caused to go out." 137. review #7. 138. review #120. The New Revised Standard Version punctuates this by putting a colon after #138. 139. review #121. 14O. review #122. 141. review #123. 142. luh-meen-NAY-hoo "to-his (its) kind" --Review #128. The HAY SHURUK ending is the full form of the pronominal suffix meaning "his" or "him." The TZAYREH under the NOON is a connecting vowel. 143. review #124. 144. review #126. 145. review #125. 146. review #71. 147. review #130. 148. review #131. 149. review #142. 150. review #28. 151. review #3. 152. review #32. 153. review #33. GEN. 1:13 154 vah-yeh-HEE 155 EH-rev 156 vah-yeh-HEE 157 VOH-ker 158 yom 159 sheh-lee-SHEE 154. Review #26. 155. Review 148. 156. Review #26. 157. Review #50. 158. Review #43 159. shuh'lee-SHEE "third." What does the FAY mean after #159 in BHS? It means new paragragh. The SAMECH before the first word in Genesis mean Sedarim. There are 167 Sedarim or lessons in the Torah. This mark divides the Hebrew Bible into 452 lessons. On page 85 in the BHS you have the counts for Genesis. It says "Sum of the verses of book, thousand and five hundreds and thirty and four 1000 500 30 4 and mid-point is "VAV AYIN LAMMED (makkef) CHET RESH BET FINAL CHAF (this is the middle verse--see p. 43 in BHS) and paragraphs 45. As the Masoretes counted also every letter, they could avoid scribal errors where words were inadvertently added or subtracted from the text as the scribe's eye skipped on the text as he was writing. On page 353 in BHS we are told that there are 79,856 words in the Torah. In this course we will read 1039 of them. According to page 353 in the BHS, there are also 400,945 letters in the Torah, but we will not count them; we will take the Masoretes' word for it. Amen? GENESIS 1:14 160 vay-YOH-mer 161 Eh-loh-HEEM 162 yeh-HEE 163 meh-oh-ROHT 164 bee-r'KEE-ah 165 hahsh-shah-MY-yeem 166 leh-hahv-DEEL 167 bayn 168 ha-YOM 169 oo-VAYN 170 ha-LAI-lah 171 veh-ha-YOO 172 leh-oh-TOHT 173 oo-l'moh-ah-DEEM 174 oo-leh-yah-MEEM 175 veh-shah-NEEM #160. Review #22. 161. Review #3. 162. Review #24. #163. meh-oh-ROHT "luminaries" --The MEM in front, if taken away reveals, the word ALEF CHOLOM RESH or "light." #164. bee-r'KEE-ah "in-dome-of" --This word is in construct with #165 (review #109). Review #1 and #56. #165. review #5. 166. leh-hahv-DEEL "to-cause-a-separation." Notice the HAY. This word is the causative hifal stem. On LAMMED SH'VA "review #97. #167. Review #36. 168. Review #43. Do you see the definite article? Review #21. #169. Review #38. #170. Review #46. Do you see the definite article? Review #21. The luminaries (carefully not mentioned by name since many worship them as g-ds--see Deut. 17:3) divide the day from the night, the moon lighting the night, the sun lighting the day. SHEMESH is the name for "sun" and yah-RAY-ach is the name for "moon." #171. veh-ha-YOO "and they shall be" --This is the verb "to be." #172. leh-oh-TOHT "for signs (that is, of fixed times)" --ALEF CHOLO
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