| Elliot N. Dorff - 2003 - 394 páginas
...Bible, when he was still called Abram, we read: "The Lord said to Abram, 'Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you.' "•'8 In commenting on this verse, a midrash (a rabbinic interpretation and expansion of a verse)... | |
| Allen Buchanan, Margaret Moore - 2003 - 380 páginas
...the people begins with the story of Abraham, who is commanded by God, "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you" (Gen. 12: 1) . 3 And the Torah ends with Moses' vision of this land from the summit of Pisgah as he... | |
| Lawrence A. Hoffman - 2003 - 236 páginas
...The Bible virtually begins with God's promise to Abraham (Gen, i2:i), "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you," And the Torah virtually ends with the prescription of a harvest ritual for farmers to recollect the... | |
| Elliott Rabin - 2006 - 276 páginas
...condition is attached to a great blessing in Abraham's first covenant: Go forth from your land and from your birthplace and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. (Genesis 12:1-2) Again, the promise is conditioned upon the fulfillment... | |
| Benjamin Blech - 2004 - 468 páginas
...the first thing God, obviously a good Zionist, told Abraham when he became a believer was, "Go forth from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father's house to the land which I will show you." The first Jew needed Israel in order to fulfill his spiritual strivings. His... | |
| Howard Schwartz - 2004 - 704 páginas
...9:13-19; IFA 10009. 424. GOD CALLS UPON ABRAM The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you shall... | |
| Steven Ettinger - 2004 - 236 páginas
...was otherwise secure. Then one day God tells him: "Go yourself from your land, from your relatives, and from your father's house to the land that I will show you." In other words: leave your safety net and enter the zone of God's protection. Our actual move may not... | |
| William Barclay - 2004 - 292 páginas
...call which came to Abraham: 'Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you'" (Genesis 12:1). It was the call that came to Lot, before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: 'Up, get out of this... | |
| Walter Orenstein - 2005 - 298 páginas
...first encounter between God and Abraham. "The Lord said to Abram,10 'Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you.'" Intrinsically, revelation is an act of Divine concern for man. The message, which in the initial period... | |
| Daniel Chanan Matt - 2007 - 608 páginas
...Genesis 12:1 reads: YHVH said to Abram, "Go you forth from your land, from your birthplace [or: kinfolk], from your father's house to the land that I will show you. " 232. Rabbi Shim'on said . . . Now, the Jew quotes a sefirotic interpretation offered "Come and see:... | |
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