Reflections and contact:
When you read French, it is rare that you need to decipher consonants and vowels, with the exception of new words or foreign names. When we say that a child can read, it decrypts it more. A driving force, it recognizes words such as sailboats, their rigging, according to the comparison of Alain in his remarks on education. You learn to speak by the age of one year, then write to the age of five, once well into the oral and auditory learning your mother tongue. This is the explanation first level of the lack of Hebrew vowels: it must respect the natural stages. Why would you know to read - read pronounce Hebrew without vowels - before we understand and know about?
But it is the lack of vowels in Hebrew another deeper reason : If God tells His word in a text consisting only of consonants, it is to emphasize the need not read it with his people Israel .
V or sp or v and zc the en and rs I ls l ' i m the g and : l and sc o ns o nn e s.
Oh pardon. I repeat:
You can only capture the image: the consonants.
But if you want sound, you need the Jew who will give you the vowels.
These "vowel" which are not part of the Hebrew text have symbolic value. They point out the need not read the text in its context. That is the problem of Christianity.
After Rome had destroyed the Judean kingdom 19 centuries ago, the Hebrew message of Jesus, as his friends called him Rabbi Yéchou'â, was no longer interpreted in the context of the Greco-Roman thought. It was then mixed with elements borrowed from Greek philosophy (as opposed idea / matter, Logos) and the cult of Mithra (compare to biblical holidays Christian holidays).
Times change, and many Christian readers of the Hebrew Bible today want replace the text in its original context, and live as brothers with whom the Father of all human beings as this Pharaoh its eldest son, Israel (Chemother / Exodus 4: 22). The older brother can p HARING bread at the family table .
It is true that what God asked Abraham is demanding: Pars for you (and / or: to you), your country, your birthplace and your father's house, unto a land that I will show you. (Béréchith / Genesis 12).
Commitment son and daughter of Abraham is not only ideological (yes the true God / no idols), but also cultural : and that's where the rub, because anti-Semitism is alive. It is permissible to Frenchify, Americanize, least of Judaizing.
dualism idea / matter, the philosophy of the Greeks entered Judaism in Philo of Alexandria before moving to King in Western Christianity. The commitment to the true God alone has been described as spiritual, while all the cultural and linguistic text, the context that the door and says, have been accused of carnal and nationalist. We separated the soul from the body: the definition of murder.
Yet BEFORE confess Your Gd is my Gd (at present in the original), Ruth agrees FIRST physically: Your people are my people . And much more: his filial love for Na'ômi, she warns that she will accompany him everywhere.
Avraham charge of the message of the one true God, Ruth an ancestor of King David, are not disembodied beings. The Word of God became flesh, and flesh precisely Hebrew and Jewish .
Similarly, you can not get into the book without also into the people, the mentality of its language. It would never occur to the mind of any English student magnet Shakespeare never read in English. Working together that you love this Bible is not Shakespeare in English .
The Word of God is written from the beginning on a roll. Let's open it together: what perfectly able to read inside the roll. Soon you will say: How could I leave it to lick the bark, when he had the juice to taste?
This article is from our little books that you can get by sending a message to elisrael@arava.co.il
