Genesis 2:7, “Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being” An Article from https://www.earth.com/news/280....00-year-old-hybrid-c contains a story about a small skeleton that was found 27 years ago that scientists have dated to be 28,000 years old and is the hybrid between man and neanderthal. Most would read this and believe it, but a critical read revels the article is filled with nothing but guesswork and speculation.
Thought for Today: Shabbat May 24
In a society of unredeemed people, democracy is the only fair and equitable system. But no democracy can ever be better than the people who make it up. When people are selfishly motivated, the governments will be inequitable. When people are dishonest, the governments will be the same. When everyone wants their own way, someone is going to get hurt. But in YHVH’s Kingdom, our Moshiach is King. He is compassionate, fair, merciful, and just. When He is Sovereign in people’s hearts, anguish turns to peace, hatred is transformed into love, and misunderstanding into harmony. Is Yeshua Moshiach the King of your motives and your attitudes today?
READINGS FOR OMER COUNT – DAY 35
Behold, I am about to fulfill the affirmative precept of the counting of the Omer, as it is written in the Torah:
“And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbath, from the day that ye brought the Omer of the wave-offering, seven complete weeks they shall be; until the morrow of the seventh Shabbath shall ye number fifty days.”
Blessed art Thou YHWH, our Elohym, King of the universe, who hast set us apart by Thy commandments and hast given us command concerning the counting of the Omer.
This is the thirty-fifth day, making five weeks and zero days of the Omer.
May the All Merciful restore the service of the Temple to its place. May it be Thy will, YHWH our Elohym and Elohym of our fathers, that the Temple be speedily rebuilt in our days, and grant our portion in Thy Torah. And there we will serve Thee with awe, as in the days of old and as in ancient years.
May Elohym be favorable unto us and bless us. That Thy way may be known upon the earth, Thy salvation among all nations. Let the peoples give thanks unto Thee, Elohym; let all the peoples give thanks unto Thee. Let the nations rejoice and exult: for Thou wilt judge the peoples with equity and lead the nations upon the earth. Let the peoples give thanks unto Thee, Elohym; let all the peoples give thanks unto Thee. The earth hath yielded her increase: Elohym, even our Elohym, shall bless us. Elohym shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.
READINGS: TEHILLAH 94
O YHWH, Ěl of vengeance; O Ěl of vengeance, shine forth!
Raise Yourself up, O Judge of the earth; Render punishment to the proud.
YHWH, how long are the wrong, How long are the wrong going to exult?
They pour forth words, They speak arrogantly; All the workers of wickedness boast in themselves.
They crush Your people, O YHWH, And they afflict Your inheritance.
They kill the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless.
Yet they say, “Yah does not see, And the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ pays no heed.”
Take heed, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when would you become wise?
He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see?
He who disciplines the nations, Does He not reprove – The One teaching man knowledge?
YHWH knows the thoughts of man, That they are but a breath.
Blessed is the man You discipline, O Yah, And instruct out of Your Torah, To give him rest from the days of evil, Until the pit is dug for the wrong.
For YHWH does not leave His people, Nor does He forsake His inheritance.
For judgment returns man to righteousness, And all the upright in heart follow it.
Who would rise up for me against evil-doers? Who would stand up for me against workers of wickedness?
If YHWH had not been my help, My being would soon have settled in silence.
When I said, “My foot has slipped,” Your mercy, O YHWH, supported me.
When anxiety was great within me, Your comforts delighted my being.
Would a throne of destruction, Which devises trouble by law, Be joined with You?
They band together against the life of the righteous, And declare innocent blood wrong.
But YHWH is my defence, And my Elohim the rock of my refuge, And brings back on them their own wickedness, And cuts them off in their own wrongdoing; YHWH our Elohim does cut them off.
READINGS: TEHILLAH 95
Come, let us sing to YHWH! Let us raise a shout to the Rock of our deliverance.
Let us come before His face with thanksgiving; Let us raise a shout to Him in song.
For YHWH is a great Ěl, And a great King above all mighty ones.
In whose hand are the depths of the earth; The mountain peaks are His also.
His is the sea, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us bow down and bend low, Let us kneel before YHWH our Maker.
For He is our Elohim, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you would hear His voice:
“Do not harden your hearts as in Meriḇah, And as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, “When your fathers tried Me, Have proved Me, though they saw My work.
“For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘They are a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’
“As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they enter into My rest...’”
READINGS: TEHILLAH 96
Sing to YHWH a new song, Sing to YHWH, all the earth!
Sing to YHWH, bless His Name, Proclaim His deliverance from day to day.
Declare His esteem among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
For great is YHWH and greatly to be praised, He is to be feared above all mighty ones.
For all the mighty ones of the peoples are matters of naught, But YHWH made the heavens.
Excellency and splendor are before Him, Strength and comeliness are in His set-apart place.
Ascribe to YHWH, O clans of the peoples, Ascribe to YHWH esteem and strength.
Ascribe to YHWH the esteem of His Name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
Bow yourselves to YHWH, In the splendor of set-apartness! Tremble before Him, all the earth.
Say among nations, “YHWH shall reign. The world also is established, immovable. He judges the peoples in straightness.”
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Let all the trees of the forest then shout for joy, At the presence of YHWH. For He shall come, For He shall come to judge the earth. He judges the world in righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.
READINGS: TEHILLAH 97
YHWH shall reign. The earth rejoices. Many isles are glad!
Clouds and darkness all around Him, Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of His throne.
Fire goes before Him, And burns up His adversaries round about.
His lightnings shall light the world, The earth shall see and tremble.
The mountains shall melt like wax before the face of YHWH, Before the face of the Master of all the earth.
The heavens shall declare His righteousness, And all the peoples shall see His esteem.
All are put to shame who serve carved images, Those boasting of matters of naught. Bow yourselves to Him, all you mighty ones.
Tsiyon shall hear and be glad, And the daughters of Yehuḏah rejoice Because of Your judgments, O YHWH.
For You, YHWH, are the Most High over all the earth, You shall be greatly exalted, over all mighty ones.
You who love YHWH, hate evil! He guards the lives of His merciful ones, He delivers them out of the hand of the wrong.
Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.
Rejoice in YHWH, you righteous, And give thanks at the remembrance of His Set-apartness.
READINGS: MISHLE 22:1-14
An excellent name is preferable to great riches. Favor is better than silver and gold.
The rich and the poor meet together – YHWH is the Maker of them all.
A clever one foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple go on and are punished.
The reward of humility is the fear of YHWH, Riches, and esteem and life.
Thorns, snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards his life keeps far away from them.
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he turns not away from it.
The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.
He who sows unrighteousness reaps trouble, And the rod of his wrath perishes.
He who has an excellent eye is blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor.
Cast out the scoffer and strife goes out, And contention and shame cease.
He who loves cleanness of heart, Whose speech is pleasant, A king is his friend.
The eyes of YHWH shall watch over knowledge, But He overthrows the words of the treacherous.
The lazy one says: “There is a lion outside!” “I am going to be murdered in the streets!”
The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; The one denounced by YHWH falls in there.
READINGS: AVOTH 4:21-22
Rabbi Ya’aqov said, this world is like an ante-chamber to the world to come; prepare thyself in the ante-chamber, that thou mayest enter into the hall.
He used to say, better is one hour of repentance and excellent deeds in this world than the whole life of the world to come; yet better is one hour of blissfulness of spirit in the world to come than the whole life of this world.
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This coming week, 25-31 May 2025 (27 Iyar-4 Sivan 5785), the Bible reading plan covers Bamidbar (In the Wilderness).
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Rhy Bezuidenhout
As you say, it is all guess work. They use the rock layers in the soil to date the plant matter and the plant matter to date the rock layer. A circular reference with set assumptions about each input so that they have a stake in the ground to work with.
I'm not against an older dating of earth than 6,000 years as not even the LXX agrees with that and already adds 1,400 years to the age of the earth. The assumptions in how things are dates is where I have some concerns in.
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