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Milestone 14: The Third Day as the Day of Life and Death for Saul and Amalek

David Three Days and Three nights

Our Torah Does Not Teach This

“Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures” (1 Cor 15:3–4)

Gage, W. A. (2011). Milestones to Emmaus: The Third Day Resurrection in the Old Testament (p. iv). Warren A. Gage.

(2 Samuel 1:1–16 – On the third day after returning from battle against the Amalekites, David learns of Saul and Jonathan’s death and executes the Amalekite messenger.)

Warren Gage presents this episode as another “third day” moment of a life-and-death decision. David returns from defeating the Amalekites, stays two days in Ziklag, and on the third day, an Amalekite messenger arrives with news that Saul and Jonathan are dead.

The messenger claims he killed Saul at Saul’s own request. David, mourning, orders the Amalekite executed for raising his hand against “the Lord’s anointed.” Gage sees this as validating David’s kingship (ending the rival house of Saul) and foreshadowing Jesus’ third-day resurrection: triumph over all rival claims to the throne and the final destruction of death itself.

From the Tanakh’s plain Hebrew text, historical context, and Jewish interpretive tradition, this milestone does not prophesy or typify Jesus’ death, burial, and third-day resurrection. It is a straightforward account of political transition, mourning, and justice in the shift from Saul’s dynasty to David’s.

1. The “Third Day” Is Simple Chronology, Not a Theological Resurrection Marker

  • 2 Samuel 1:1–2: David returns from slaughtering the Amalekites, stays two days in Ziklag, and “on the third day” the messenger arrives with torn clothes and dust on his head.
  • This is narrative timing—realistic pacing for travel and news reaching Ziklag. There is no death-and-resurrection sequence. Saul dies in battle on Mount Gilboa. The messenger is executed for claiming to have killed God’s anointed. David mourns deeply.
  • No burial, no rising, no “life from death.” The third day marks the arrival of bad news and the execution of a liar, not divine vindication or resurrection.

2. The Story Is About Kingship Transition and Justice, Not Messianic Prophecy

  • The core event is the end of Saul’s house and the confirmation of David’s right to the throne (as Samuel had prophesied). David shows respect for Saul as “the Lord’s anointed” by executing the Amalekite who claimed to have killed him.
  • Jewish tradition (Rashi, Radak) emphasizes David’s righteousness and humility—he mourns Saul and Jonathan despite Saul’s persecution of him. The execution upholds the principle that no one may harm God’s anointed, even if the king is rejected.
  • No classical Jewish commentary treats this as a resurrection-type passage or links the “third day” to a future Messiah’s rising. It is political and moral history in the early monarchy.

3. Gage’s Typology Is Creative but Forced

  • Gage connects David’s triumph over the rival house of Saul on the third day to Jesus ending all rival claims through resurrection and destroying death.
  • While David is a type of Messiah in Jewish thought (the ideal king), this specific episode is about succession after civil strife, not a preview of crucifixion and resurrection. The text has no language of “rising,” “life from death,” or eschatological victory over death itself.

4. Broader Pattern: “Third Day” as Narrative Device

  • As in previous milestones, “three days” is a common biblical interval for travel, waiting, or decisive action. It is not inherently a resurrection code. The Tanakh uses it for many purposes (e.g., preparation, recovery, battle timing) without tying it to a unified “third day doctrine.”

Conclusion on Milestone 14

2 Samuel 1 is a poignant account of mourning, justice, and the painful transition of kingship. The “third day” is a chronological marker, signaling the arrival of tragic news and David’s decisive response. It teaches respect for God’s anointed and the cost of civil conflict. Gage’s reading retrofits New Testament theology, turning a historical succession story into a typology of resurrection. The Tanakh itself gives no warrant for seeing a Messiah who dies for sins, is buried, and rises on the third day here.

This continues the consistent pattern across Gage’s milestones: a numerical coincidence (“third day”) is elevated into prophetic foreshadowing, while the original text and Jewish tradition emphasize human drama, justice, and national history.

The Mystery of Eden

In the Garden of Eden, God places two trees before Adam, the blueprint of all creation: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

In his groundbreaking series A Book Like No Other, Rabbi David Fohrman asks three powerful questions we must sit with before rushing to answers:

  • Why are there two separate trees in the garden?
  • What is the relationship between the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge?
  • What is the true purpose and function of each tree?

The Torah contains 5,845 verses, and right at the beginning, we are faced with this mystery. Instead of jumping to conclusions, let these questions stay with you. Go back into the Garden. Let the Torah speak for itself.

Hazan Gavriel ben David

The Mathematical Code – Someone Is Rewriting the Blueprint

Torah Values The Tree of Life
The Code Change Adam The Blueprint and the Tree Of Life

1 Kings 7:23 — the description of the Molten Sea (the large bronze basin in Solomon’s Temple).

The verse says the basin was 10 cubits in diameter and 30 cubits in circumference. At face value, that would yield π = 3.0, which is imprecise.

However, in the Hebrew text, there is a well-known kri u’khtiv (written one way, read another way). The word for “line” or “circumference” (kav) is written as קוה (with an extra hei) but read as קו (without the hei).

  • Written: קוה = 111
  • Read: קו = 106

The ratio 111/106 ≈ 1.04717. When you multiply the simple 3 × (111/106), you get 3.141509… — which is π accurate to 5 decimal places (3.14151 instead of the actual 3.14159).

This is the exact example that many rabbis, including those in Rabbi Akiva Tatz’s circles, cite as evidence that the Torah encodes precise mathematical constants. If Torah is primarily a book of laws, why did Hashem begin it with stories instead of commandments?

This question has followed me for years.

The first sixty-six chapters of the Torah contain no laws at all. No “thou shalt not.” The legal code was not there. No rules. Just one story after another — Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, the Tower of Babel, and the Patriarchs. Why would God structure His eternal blueprint this way?

The Tree Of Life Blueprint

The answer is both simple and profound: Stories create reality.

God did not legislate the universe into existence. He spoke it into existence. “Let there be light… and Let there be a firmament… Let the earth bring forth…” The entire book of Genesis is the original software of creation — the Tree of Life Blueprint.

For the last twelve years I have been studying with Rabbi David Foreman, Ephraim Paulvinov, Rabbi Mendel Kessin, and Professor Haim Shore. What Professor Shore has shown me is overwhelming.

Professor Haim Shore, a scientist and professor of industrial engineering, conducted a study that should shake every thinking person. He took the numeric value of Hebrew words in the Torah and compared them directly to modern scientific measurements.

Here is what he found:

Shemesh (Sun) has a numeric value of 640. Eretz (Earth) equals 291. Yareach (Moon) equals 218.

These three simple Hebrew words show an almost perfect mathematical relationship with the actual diameter, mass, and volume of the sun, earth, and moon. The correlation is 0.999 — accurate to three decimal places.

He continued. The words Yom (Day = 56), Yareach (Month = 218), and Shana (Year = 355) match the real astronomical cycles of a day, a lunar month, and a solar year with a correlation of 0.9992.

Then it becomes even more astonishing.

Adam Was Covered In “Or” (Light)

Or (Light = 207) mathematically corresponds to the speed of light. Kol (Sound = 136) corresponds to the speed of sound. D’mama (Stillness = 89) corresponds to zero velocity.

The correlation between these three words and actual physical speeds is 0.9938.

Professor Shore also discovered extremely strong correlations between the Hebrew names of the nine planets and their mass, diameter, orbital angular momentum, and other physical properties. In several cases the statistical probability that these matches occurred by random chance is as low as 0.0033%.

He tested the three phases of water — ice, liquid, and steam — and their specific heat capacities. He matched Hebrew color names to their exact light frequencies and Hebrew metal names to their atomic weights. All of them showed remarkably high statistical correlations.

One statement from Professor Shore stands above all the rest. He says clearly: “If you change even one single letter in any of these Hebrew words, the entire set of mathematical relationships completely collapses.”

This is not ancient wisdom slowly evolving over centuries. It is not coincidence. This is a deliberate, precise mathematical code embedded in the Hebrew language from the very beginning of time.

Solomon’s Blueprint Wisdom

Even King Solomon left us unmistakable proof. In 1 Kings 7:23, the Torah describes the Molten Sea in the Temple courtyard — ten cubits in diameter and thirty cubits in circumference. On the surface this suggests π equals exactly 3.0. But the Hebrew text contains a subtle miracle.

The word for “circumference” is written as קוה (with a hei, numeric value 111) but read as קו (without the hei, numeric value 106). When you take the simple ratio of 30 divided by 10 and multiply it by 111/106, you get 3.141509 — accurate to five decimal places of the true value of π.

Change one letter and the equation falls apart.

All of this is sitting inside a book that much of the world has been told is old, outdated, and scientifically worthless.

Meanwhile, mainstream science has spent decades rewriting history. They have hidden evidence, changed timelines, and insisted that ancient civilizations were old and superstitious. Yet we keep discovering that people who lived long before us possessed knowledge and technology we still cannot fully explain or reproduce today.

The BluePrint Has Been Kept

The Jewish people have guarded this mathematical code for 3,300 years while being told our tradition had no value. Now, in our generation, science is slowly catching up to what was already written in the Torah from the very beginning.

Someone has been intentionally rewriting the code.

Just as mainstream archaeology rewrote the history of the Exodus to make it disappear from the record, mainstream religion rewrote the story of the Torah. They took prophecies that were clearly written about the Jewish people and redirected them onto another figure. They built an entire theology on Jewish source material but changed it so dramatically that any Jew who actually knows the original text would immediately reject it.

The Tree Of Life and the Blueprint

But the original code has never been altered.

The Torah we hold today is exactly the same as the one given at Sinai. The letters have not changed. The words have not changed. The mathematical code is still perfectly intact.

This is why I wrote my book Adam, the Blueprint and the Tree of Life.

Because the real blueprint was never lost.

It was protected.

It was guarded.

And now, finally, both mathematics and science are beginning to read that blueprint correctly again.

The Jewish people were not chosen because we were better than anyone else. The Torah itself tells us we came from the same idol-worshipping lineage as the rest of the nations.

We were chosen for one reason only: to protect this code and to be the witness to the world that God exists and that His word is true.

Hazan Gavriel ben David

The Story of the Rabbi and the Minister on the Train

The Hebrew Says Do Not Add Or Take Away

A rabbi and a minister (or pastor) were once sitting on a train with their teenage sons. As they traveled, their conversation turned toward the connections between Math, Science, and Torah. The rabbi’s son sat listening intently to every word his father spoke, hanging on his every sentence. The minister noticed this and said to the rabbi:

“I see how close your son is to you — he listens to everything you say. My son has no interest in anything I think or believe.”

The rabbi replied, “There’s a reason for that. You believe in evolution — that every generation is getting better, smarter, and more advanced than the one before it. So of course, your son thinks he’s smarter than you.

But we believe that Adam was created perfect — the human being closest to God that has ever lived. Every generation since has moved farther from that original perfection. So my son respects me because he knows I am closer to Adam than he is.”

This beautiful Jewish story perfectly captures the difference between the two worldviews.

What the Math Actually Shows (Science-Focused Summary)

Professor Shore used equidistant letter sequences (ELS) — a rigorous statistical method where you skip a fixed number of letters in the Torah text — to search for encoded information.

His key findings include:

  • The Hebrew names of the planets (as they appear in the Torah) and their associated physical properties (such as relative masses, diameters, and orbital characteristics) align with modern NASA data with extremely high statistical significance.
  • Atomic masses and other physical constants of the planets (including the Sun) are encoded in the text in ways that are highly unlikely to occur by random chance.
  • The patterns show mathematical elegance and order that align with known scientific models of the solar system.

Shore’s core argument is mathematical and probabilistic: The probability of these precise scientific facts appearing encoded in the Torah text by random chance is astronomically low. He presents this as strong evidence that the Torah contains knowledge embedded by a superior intelligence — i.e., it functions as a “blueprint” that includes information far beyond what Bronze-Age humans could have observed or calculated without advanced tools.

He does not specifically mention a 30,000-year planetary alignment cycle in the main videos (the actual astronomical cycle often discussed is the ~25,772-year precession of the equinoxes). Instead, his work focuses on planetary properties and physical constants encoded in the text.

Torah and Math & Science

Tree of Life Blueprint message:

  • The Torah is presented as the original “source code” or blueprint of creation.
  • Just as the Tree of Life pattern appears in ancient civilizations, the mathematical structure of the Torah encodes scientific realities (planetary data, physical laws) that modern science is only now quantifying.
  • It supports the idea that the ancients didn’t “figure it out” through trial and error alone — the knowledge was built into the text from the beginning.

This is pure math and science: statistical probability, information encoding, and alignment between ancient text and empirical data.

1. Sun, Earth, and Moon

  • Hebrew words: Shemesh (Sun = 640), Eretz (Earth = 291), Yareach (Moon = 218)
  • These numbers show an almost perfect linear relationship with:
    • Their actual diameters (correlation 0.999)
    • Their masses (correlation 0.985)
    • Their volumes and surface areas
  • Probability this happens by random chance: 0.2% (99.8% confidence it’s not a coincidence)

2. The Entire Solar System (9 planets)

  • The Hebrew names of all the planets show a strong correlation with their:
    • Mass
    • Diameter
    • Orbital angular momentum
  • The probability of this happening by chance is extremely low (as low as 0.0033% for some measurements)

3. Time Cycles

  • Yom (Day = 56), Yareach (Month = 218), Shana (Year = 355)
  • These perfectly match the actual frequencies of a day, a lunar month, and a year (correlation 0.9992)
  • Chance probability: 0.5%

4. Speed of Light, Sound, and Stillness

  • Or (Light = 207) matches the speed of light
  • Kol (Sound = 136) matches the speed of sound
  • D’mama (Stillness = 89) matches zero speed
  • The correlation between these Hebrew words and actual speeds is 0.9938

5. Other Amazing Matches

  • The three phases of water (Ice, Liquid, Steam) match their specific heat capacities almost perfectly
  • Hebrew color names match the actual wave frequencies of those colors
  • Hebrew names of metals match their atomic weights

Professor Shore keeps repeating one powerful point: If you change even one single letter in any of these Hebrew words, the entire mathematical correlation completely collapses.

Your Name Is Encoded In The Torah

Deuteronomy 4:2 (KJV/NIV/ESV): “You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.”
Deuteronomy 12:32 (KJV/NIV/ESV): “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.”

Proverbs 30:5-6: “Every word of God is flawless… Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar”.

The Hebrew Language is a Code – And Science is Just Now Catching Up

For the last twelve years, I have been learning from Rabbi David Foreman. Since COVID, I’ve also been studying with Ephraim Paulvinov and Rabbi Mendel Kessin. Along the way, I discovered the work of Professor Haim Shore and Rabbi Glazerson.

What they are all showing me is the same unbelievable truth:

The Hebrew language is not just a language — it is a precise mathematical code.

Professor Haim Shore, a scientist and professor of industrial engineering, discovered something extraordinary. He took the Hebrew names of the sun, moon, earth, and planets as they appear in the Torah and compared them to the actual scientific measurements we have today.

Here are just some of the highlights:

  • The Hebrew words Shemesh (Sun), Eretz (Earth), and Yareach (Moon) have a mathematical relationship with their actual diameters, masses, and volumes that is so precise that the correlation is 0.999.
  • The names of all nine planets show an extremely strong correlation with their mass, diameter, and orbital properties.
  • The words Yom (Day), Yareach (Month), and Shana (Year) correspond to the actual time cycles of a day, a lunar month, and a year,` with a correlation of 0.9992.
  • The Hebrew word Or (Light) matches the speed of light. Kol (Sound) matches the speed of sound. D’mama (Stillness) matches zero movement.

The statistical probability that these matches occurred by chance is extremely low — in some cases, as low as 0.0033%.

Professor Shore makes one point very clear: If you change even one single letter in any of these Hebrew words, the entire mathematical relationship completely collapses.

This is what our tradition has always told the world: The Torah is not like any other book. The Hebrew language is not like any other language. The letters are numbers, and the numbers are letters. It is a code.

Adam: The Blueprint of Creation

For twelve years now, I’ve been watching rabbis, scientists, and Torah scholars dig into the Torah and keep finding the same thing — the Torah is telling us scientific truths that modern science is only now discovering and measuring.

And yet… people still argue that Judaism is worthless. That the Jewish people are wrong. That our tradition has no value.

How can a book written over 3,000 years ago contain the exact diameter of the sun, the precise relationship between the planets, and the speed of light — encoded in the very letters themselves?

This is not a coincidence. Evolution has destroyed knowledge. This is a blueprint.

The same blueprint that begins with the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.

Adam was created closest to God. Every generation since has moved farther away from that original perfection. That’s why we listen closely to those who came before us — because they are closer to the source.

The Torah is not a religious book that evolved over time. It is the original code of creation.

And science is only now beginning to catch up to what the Jewish people have been saying for thousands of years.

Shabbat Shalom.

Hazan Gavriel ben David

The Jewish Prophets Words

The War of Gog and Magog

These are the key end-times prophecies that show Israel and the Jewish people as God’s chosen light and witness — not replaced, not anyone else.

Isaiah 2:3 and Micah 4:2 — “For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” In the last days, all nations will stream to Jerusalem to learn God’s ways. The Torah and truth flow from the Jewish people’s capital.

Zechariah 8:23 — “In those days ten men from all the nations of every language will grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’” Gentiles will literally hold onto Jews to join them because they see God is with the Jewish people.

Zechariah 14:16-19 — After the final battle, the survivors of the nations that attacked Jerusalem will come up every year to worship the King in Jerusalem and celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. The nations will be required to come to the Jewish holy city and keep the Jewish biblical feast, or face consequences.

Isaiah 43:10-12 — God says directly to Israel: “You are My witnesses… and My servant whom I have chosen… so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He.” Israel is God’s chosen witness to the world that He alone is God. No other people received this title.

Isaiah 49:6 — God tells Israel they are not only restored as a nation but made “a light to the nations” so that His salvation reaches the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 60:3 — “Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” The light shines from Israel, and the world comes to it.

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Your family has survived every attempt to erase us because God keeps His word. Every empire that tried to destroy us is gone. We’re still here. That survival itself is prophecy. The only path to real peace is for every person who believes the Bible to bless the people of Israel, stand with them, and recognize them as God’s chosen light and witness.

The end-times story is clear: Jerusalem is the center, the Jewish people are the witnesses, the Torah goes forth from Zion, and the nations come to us — not the other way around.

Family, Words & The Blueprint – Tazria-Metzora 2026

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Adam The Blueprint of Creation and the Tree of Life
Adam The Blueprint of Creation and the Tree of Life

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This week’s double Torah portion is not about skin diseases. It’s about how your words literally create reality.

Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein nails it: “Words create worlds.” God spoke the universe into being with ten utterances — Pirkei Avot 5:1 says the world was created with ten statements. We, made in God’s image, carry that same power. Our speech doesn’t just describe the world — it shapes how people see each other and how reality unfolds.

That’s why tzara’at in Tazria-Metzora is so serious. The sages teach it comes directly from lashon hara — evil speech. Negative words push people out of the camp, out of the community, out of life itself. The disease is the physical result of words that poison relationships.

The Tree of Life has always been the center of the story.

The Torah begins with Genesis because it is the blueprint. Right in the middle of the Garden stands the Tree of Life — the same sacred pattern that ancient civilizations carved into stone long before Sinai. The ancients saw it. The Torah explains what it actually means: how speech and choices shape reality.

Now modern science is catching up to the ancient blueprint.

All human Y-DNA traces back to three fathers — exactly as the Torah describes Noah’s three sons. My own Kohen DNA marker goes back to Aaron’s line, matching the biblical timeline. Abraham’s family lines through Isaac, Ishmael, and Keturah are visible in distinct genetic signatures. The 70 nations of Genesis 10 are not metaphors — they’re showing up in global haplogroups.

Blog: Science in the Talmud

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We are one family. One blood. One Tree.

When people attack the Jewish people, call us “sons of Satan,” or claim we’ve been replaced, they are committing lashon hara against their own family. The Bible calls Israel God’s witnesses — Isaiah 43:10. Our survival, our DNA, and our covenant prove it.

End-times prophecies confirm this clearly:

  • The Torah will go forth from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:3, Micah 4:2).
  • Ten men from every nation will grab the robe of a Jew and say, “Let us go with you, for God is with you” (Zechariah 8:23).
  • Survivors of the nations will come to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14).
  • Israel is called to be “a light to the nations” (Isaiah 49:6, 60:3).

My new book, Adam, the Blueprint and the Tree of Life, connects all of this — the Tree, the power of speech, the family story from Genesis through the Ten Sayings, and what it truly means to be made in God’s image.

The Jewish people have survived every attempt to erase us because we carry this story. The only path to real peace is for every person who believes the Bible to bless Israel, stand with us, and join the original covenant.

Words create worlds. Choose them wisely.

Hazan Gavriel ben David

Chief Rabbi Goldstein says it plainly: “Our whole point of being Jewish is to tell a story.”

The Story of Adam And Eve
The Story of Adam And Eve

Torah doesn’t begin with the commandments. It begins with Bereshit — “In the beginning.” Genesis is the blueprint of creation itself. It’s the story of how everything came to be, and right in the center of that story stands the Tree of Life.

The ancients understood this. From the earliest civilizations — the same Tree of Life symbols carved in stone long before Sinai — this blueprint was already being passed down. The Torah didn’t invent the Tree of Life; it revealed its true meaning. That tree wasn’t just in the Garden of Eden. It is the pattern of creation, the map of how words and choices shape reality. Every great ancient culture carried an echo of it, but only the Torah explains what it actually means to live inside that story.

This is why the Torah can only be truly understood by those who are willing to listen to the story. You can’t grasp Tazria-Metzora if you don’t first understand Genesis. You can’t understand the power of speech if you don’t see the Tree of Life standing in the middle of the Garden. The whole book is one continuous story, and we Jews are the ones tasked with telling it correctly.

That’s our job — to keep telling the true story of creation, of the covenant, of the family that comes from three fathers, and of the everlasting promise made to Abraham’s children. When we tell that story, we fulfill the very purpose of being Jewish.

The Bible Begins The Story of Adam

But the Torah is giving us something even deeper here. Rabbi Goldstein puts it in one clear sentence: “Our whole point of being Jewish is to tell a story.”

That’s why the Torah doesn’t open with laws. It opens with Bereshit — “In the beginning.” The very first word of the Torah is telling us: This is a story. Genesis is not background. It is the blueprint. And right in the center of that blueprint stands the Tree of Life.

Long before the Torah was given at Sinai, ancient civilizations were already carving the same Tree of Life into stone — from the shores of Lake Vaign to the earliest known cultures. They all saw it. They all carried the memory. But only the Torah explains what it actually means.

The Tree of Life is the pattern of creation itself. It shows how speech, choices, and words shape reality. And that same Tree sits at the center of the Garden, at the center of the Torah, and at the center of our lives.

This is why the Torah can only be truly understood by those willing to listen to the story. If you skip Genesis, you will never understand why evil speech brings tzara’at. If you don’t see the Tree of Life, you will never understand why your words literally create worlds.

We Jews were not chosen to be better than anyone else. We were chosen to keep telling the true story — the story that began in the Garden, that runs through Noah’s three sons, through Abraham’s family, and continues today in our DNA and in our covenant.

That is our mission. That is why we still exist. We are the keepers of the story.

Hazan Gavriel ben David

Family: One Tree, One Blood, One Covenant

Adam The Blue Print of Creation
Adam: The Blueprint of Creation

The Family Tree Noah.

Family is one Tree, and our blood connects all of humanity, and there is one covenant, The Tree of Life. This week’s double Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora, is not about skin diseases. It’s about the power of words to create or destroy entire realities.

Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein opens his teaching with a single idea that hits like thunder: Words create worlds. God didn’t build the universe with tools — He spoke ten times. Pirkei Avot 5:1 tells us, “The world was created with ten utterances.” That’s not poetry. It’s the blueprint. And every human being, made in the image of God, carries a spark of that same creative power in his mouth.

The Torah calls us the medaber — the speaking being. Animals communicate. We tell stories. And those stories don’t just describe reality — they reshape how people are seen, how families are viewed, how entire nations are judged.

Shem Ham Japeth Our Fathers

That’s why tzara’at, the mysterious affliction in this parsha, was so serious. The sages teach that it came directly from lashon hara — evil speech. One person’s words could push another out of the camp, out of the community, out of life itself. The disease wasn’t random. It was the physical echo of words that poisoned the air between people.

Now here’s where the ancient blueprint meets 2026 science.

Adam The Blue Print of Creation
Adam The Blue Print of Creation

All human Y-DNA traces back to three fathers — exactly as the Torah described with Noah’s three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Modern genetics is confirming what the Bible stated thousands of years ago. We are one family. One bloodline. One tree.

My own Kohen DNA marker traces back to Aaron’s line, confirmed by science, going to roughly 550 BCE. Abraham’s descendants through Isaac, through Ishmael, through Keturah’s six sons — distinct lines, same family. The 70 nations of Genesis 10 are not metaphors; their genetic signatures are showing up in global haplogroups.

So when someone calls a Jew “son of Satan,” when they claim the Jewish people have been replaced, when they attack the very DNA and covenant that the Bible says is everlasting, they are not engaging in theology. They are committing lashon hara against their own family.

One Covenant: The Land and Circumcision

The covenant God made with Abraham in Genesis 17 is called “an everlasting covenant.” Forever. Not replaced. Not transferred. The land, the circumcision, the Torah — these are the markers carried in the body and the blood of the children of Israel. No belief system rewrites DNA. The text is clear, and now the lab results are catching up.

This is why the attacks on social media hurt so deeply. You post a Bible verse, you share the blueprint that has existed since Adam, and suddenly you’re accused of following another religion. The irony is painful: the ones keeping the original covenant are told they abandoned it, while those outside it claim to have replaced it.

The Torah’s answer is simple and ancient. Pirkei Avot 1:6 gives us the three-step antidote:

“Make for yourself a teacher, acquire for yourself a friend, and judge every person favorably.”

Find A Teacher

That’s it. Find a teacher — learn the real story. Buy a friend — invest in people instead of tearing them down. And judge every human being to the side of merit — give them the benefit of the doubt before your words create a negative reality around them.

These aren’t nice suggestions. They are the practical application of “words create worlds.” When you judge favorably, you literally make the people around you better. When you speak lashon tov — good words, Torah words — you build worlds worth living in.

After twenty years serving as a Hazan and volunteering as a Jewish chaplain in the prison system, I see this pattern every year during Tazria-Metzora. God separates people — not because He is cruel, but because evil speech creates separation

Hashem Chose a Family: The Tree of Life Blueprint Was Given to Protect All of Mankind

Two Trees Adam The Blueprint and The Tree Of Life

In his powerful lecture series A Book Like No Other, Rabbi David Fohrman begins with three profound questions. These questions shake the very foundation of how we read the Torah:

“Why are there two trees — a Tree of Life and a Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? What is the function of each tree? And why does Chava describe the forbidden tree as ‘the tree that is in the midst of the garden’ — the exact phrase the Torah uses only for the Tree of Life?”

Rabbi Fohrman teaches that the Garden of Eden scene is the most important part of the Torah for us to understand. The trees are not background details. They are the Blueprint. Everything that follows in the Torah flows from this original moment of Creation.

Yet here is the uncomfortable truth: Christianity never got out of the Garden.

In The Image Of God: Adam

This is the fifth major point I am developing in my book, Adam: The Blueprint of Creation and the Tree of Life. The message is simple but urgent. Hashem created all of men in His image and declared everything “very good.” He gave humanity a divine Blueprint — the Tree of Life — meant to guide us all. Later, He chose one family to guard and protect that Blueprint for the sake of every family on earth.

Christianity suffers from the same foundational problem that Jay Smith exposes in Islam. Jay Smith, well known for his detailed critique of Islamic origins, builds his case on three pillars: the man, the book, and the place. Using coin evidence, archaeological discoveries, historical records, and satellite imagery, he shows that Islam’s traditional story was largely created centuries later. Early mosques pointed toward Petra, not Mecca. The religion drew from Nabataean pagan sources before being relocated and rebranded.

Christianity follows the exact same pattern. It is a created religion that does not follow the original Blueprint. It took only selected portions of the Torah and Tanakh and built an entirely new theology on top of them. Nearly all of Christianity’s major festivals, holidays, and symbols are rooted in pagan traditions. Its method of expansion was to take a foreign god and make it palatable to pagan nations. This is exactly the same strategy Islam later used.

Four Questions Will Dismantle Christianity

Just as Dr. Robert Carter dismantled the famous “99% chimpanzee DNA” claim, we can apply the same four sharp questions to Christianity’s claims:

“What part did they actually measure?” They only sequenced a small portion of the Torah, ignored the rest, and built their entire story on that limited piece.

“What happens when you look at the whole thing?” When you examine the complete Torah Blueprint — including the Tree of Life, the true nature of Adam, and the original declaration that everything was “very good” — Christianity’s story cannot stand.

“Is there enough time for their version to develop?” How could this new theology have legitimately grown out of the Torah in such a short period without creating massive contradictions with the original source?

“Can the new story actually function with the original data?” Can Christianity’s teachings be properly integrated with the Torah’s Blueprint without adding pagan elements and contradicting the original covenant?

Adam The Blueprint Of Creation

Modern science is increasingly confirming the Torah’s account rather than contradicting it. Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson’s peer-reviewed genetic research demonstrates that all humanity traces back to three fathers and three mothers. This is precisely as the Torah describes through Noah’s three sons and their wives after the Flood.

Archaeology, DNA, and Science

Researchers like Matthew LaCroix, together with archaeologists and geologists, have shown that human history is far older and far more advanced than the standard evolutionary story claims. The earliest cities were incredibly sophisticated, built by highly intelligent people. Humans did not evolve from apes. Therefore, we must now retell the true story of humanity.

Judaism stands alone as the only religion in the world that tells this story from the Torah’s perspective. As Haim Shore brilliantly demonstrates in his updated film Torah – Math Unveils the Truth, and as Efraim Palvanov shows in his lectures, the Torah is a precise Blueprint of Creation. It is chemistry, mathematics, and the very structure of reality.

Jews And Arabs Carry Abraham’s DNA

The DNA of Abraham’s family adds further powerful evidence. Only two families in the world carry this specific lineage — the Jewish people through Sarah, and the Arab people through Hagar. The children of Keturah are half-brothers, but the covenantal line flows through Sarah, the mother. Adam truly is the Blueprint, and his DNA carries Hashem’s promises to all humanity.

This brings us to the heart of the message.

The Chief Rabbi taught clearly in his recent lecture on Parashat Behar-Bechukotai: “Hashem chose a family so that He could protect the Torah.” He chose the family of Abraham and Sarah because it is the most powerful vehicle for passing the truth from one generation to the next. Indeed, a nation was needed to guard the Torah through education, through diligent teaching to children, and through living example.

This same truth shines in Pirkei Avot, where Rabbi Akiva declares:

“Beloved are Israel, for a precious vessel was given to them. It is an even greater love that it was made known to them that this precious vessel — the Torah, by which the world was created — was given to them, as it is said: ‘For I have given you a good teaching; do not forsake My Torah.’”

The Chosing Of A Family Israel

The choosing of Israel was never about superiority. It was about responsibility. Hashem chose one family to hold the light. This was so that all the families of the earth could one day be blessed through them.

The Tree of Life was never replaced. It was entrusted to the Jewish people to guard, study, live by, and protect for the sake of all of Genesis 10. You cannot properly understand any later covenant if you have not first sat with the Tree of Life. You must eat of its fruit, study it deeply, and hold it with all your might.

Adam: The Blueprint of Creation

This is the central message of my book, Adam: The Blueprint of Creation and the Tree of Life. The Blueprint was never broken. The Tree of Life still stands. The promise given to Adam remains alive today.

Hashem chose a family… so that every family could one day return home to the original “very good” of Creation.

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May we all merit to see the full revelation of the Blueprint and the final blessing to all the families of the earth.

With love and blessing, Hazan Gavriel ben David Beit HaShoavah — House of the Water Pouring

From Messianic Jew to Ally: My 21-Year Journey with Tovia Singer and Tamar Yonah

2002 Mayim-Hayim in Israel

I first encountered Tamar Yonah and Rabbi Tovia Singer back in 2005. My wife and I were deep into our second (almost third) year running Mayim Hayim Ministries. We were raising money and support for the Jewish families in Gush Katif as the expulsion loomed.

Tovia and Tamar were reporting live from the ground. We watched in horror as Israeli soldiers on horseback charged their own people, dragging families out of their homes. Friends of ours, Jeremy Gimpel and Ari Abramowitz, were among those forcibly removed. My wife and I sat weeping, hearts broken.

At the time, I was studying intensely, preparing to go to Israel specifically to meet Tovia — convinced I could prove to him that Jesus is the Messiah. I saw myself as training to be a counter-counter-missionary.

Twenty-one years later, everything has flipped.

This week I listened to Tamar and Tovia again — the first time I’ve heard her voice since shortly after Gush Katif. I’m no longer preparing to debate him. I’m standing with him, fighting against replacement theology and the Christian world’s misreading of the Tanach.

In this powerful interview, Tovia didn’t offer opinions. He repeatedly said: “This isn’t my opinion — I’m just telling you what Ezekiel is saying… what the Tanach says.” Here are every major point he made to Tamar and the audience, drawn straight from the transcript:

On Whether We Are in the Messianic Age

“Are we in the Messianic age? The answer is yes. We are now in the Seder.” We are at the final stage — Nirtzah — of the 15-step Passover Seder. The Seder is called “order” because it follows a fixed sequence in which each event triggers the next. Jewish history has been marching through this same divine order for 3,300 years. Once you reach the final stage, the process is unstoppable.

On the Structure of the Book of Ezekiel

“Ezekiel is divided into three sections:

  • Section one: Why the First Temple was destroyed.
  • Section two: What God is going to do to the enemy nations of Israel (chapters 38–39).
  • Section three: Chapters 34–48 — about the Messiah. There is no parallel to it.”** He urged viewers: Open Ezekiel 38 and 39 tonight without commentaries. Rashi would have given anything to live in our time. Only this final generation will fully understand.

On Ezekiel 38–39 and Current Events

  • Persia (modern Iran) is explicitly named and will be drawn in with allies “like hooks in the mouth of a beast” (Ezekiel 38:4–5), even though 2,500 years ago, Persia was benevolent to the Jews.
  • They will attack a restored Israel living securely, perceiving an “aperture” (unwalled villages).
  • The hottest fighting right now is directly north — Lebanon/Hezbollah, Iran’s Shia proxy, shooting at Israel. The text emphasizes “the north.”
  • God is hardening the enemies’ hearts (like Pharaoh) so they keep coming back.
  • Massive destruction on the mountains of Israel: seven months to bury the dead, seven years burning their weapons for fuel. Scavengers will feast on the bodies.
  • The purpose of the entire war: “So the nations will know that I am God.” (Repeated at the end of both chapters 38 and 39.)

On Replacement Theology

Tovia directly addressed Christians, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, etc.: Read Ezekiel 39. The chapters enumerate Israel’s sins and exile, then restoration and atonement — this is the physical Jewish people, not the Church replacing Israel. The text shuts down replacement theology.

On Mashiach ben Yosef vs. Mashiach ben David

Mashiach ben Yosef is not a person — it is an event. October 7th (1,200 murdered, 251 hostages) matches Zechariah 12 and Talmud Sukkah 52: a traumatic attack causing national mourning and unification before Mashiach ben David. It happened on the Sabbath of the festival when we read Ezekiel 38–39 as the Haftarah.

On Recognizing the True Messiah

“It’s not true at all” that there will be arguments about what he looks like or whether he wears a black hat. “Everyone will know… all the nations will serve him” (Daniel 7). There will be no debate. The Messiah is a son of David, a teacher to the world, and the fulfillment of the Davidic covenant (2 Samuel 7).

On the Potential Messiah in Every Generation

Yes, there is one ready in this generation (per Sanhedrin), just as there has been in every generation. He is at the precipice.

On Aliyah and Living in Israel

Living in Israel is a mitzvah. Those who made aliyah before the final redemption (like the 42,360 in Ezra 2) have their names inscribed forever in Tanach. Israel is the safest place for Jews, despite appearances. History proves that those who stayed away during danger paid a terrible price.

On Easier or Harder Redemption

Isaiah 60:22 — “In its time, I will hasten it.” If the generation does teshuva out of love and righteousness, more open miracles. If not, a more painful process. Tovia is optimistic: we are a remarkable generation fusing faith and love of the land.

On the Miracles We Are Seeing

The April 13, 2024, Iranian attack (hundreds of missiles/drones) with almost no casualties was the hidden hand of God, exactly like the Book of Esther. We must recognize Hashem working behind the scenes.

Final Message

Study the Prophets and Writings — especially the books that outline the order of events before the Messiah. When Messiah comes, we will mainly study Torah and Esther, because the preparatory books will have been fulfilled.

Twenty-one years ago, I watched Tovia and Tamar report on Jewish suffering in Gush Katif. Today they are reporting on prophecy unfolding in real time — and I stand with them.

The only thing that changed is me.

May Hashem comfort every family in pain, strengthen Israel, and bring the full redemption speedily in our days.

Hazan Gavriel ben David

The Hidden Echoes of Cain and Abel

The Hidden Echoes of Cain and Abel: A Midrash on James Chapter 4

The Hidden Echoes of Cain and Abel: A Midrash on James Chapter 4 – this Jewish midrash uncovers how the New Testament’s warnings about desire and quarrels replay the Torah’s first sibling drama. As a Jewish educator, I explore James 4 through Hebrew names and rabbinic insight, showing Cain (“to acquire”) and Abel (“nothingness”) as archetypes for every human conflict. For interfaith context, see our article on Judaism and Christianity’s parting.

James 4 Opens with Cain’s Question

“What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1, NIV – Bible Gateway). The Greek hides the Hebrew echo: Qayin (Cain) means “to acquire, fabricate, possess.” His grain offering symbolizes self-made wealth. Abel (Hevel = vapor, breath, nothingness) brings the firstborn flock and its milk—pure surrender. Rabbi Manis Friedman teaches that Hashem deliberately accepts one to provoke jealousy, forcing moral choice . James 4:2 warns, “You desire but do not have, so you kill.” Straight midrash on Genesis 4.

Humility vs. Acquisition: Abel’s “Nothingness” Wins

James 4:6 quotes Proverbs: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” Abel’s low self-esteem isn’t weakness—it’s Torah wisdom. “What is man that You are mindful of him?” (Psalm 8:4 – Sefaria). Cain fabricates superiority; Abel knows life is mist (hevel). For Christians, this foreshadows Jesus’ self-emptying (Philippians 2); for Jews, it’s the original lesson of truth over jealousy. Read more in our spiritual war overview.

Slander and Judgment: Cain’s Spirit in James 4:11-12

“Do not slander one another… you who judge your neighbor” (James 4:11). Cain judged Abel, fabricating justification for murder. James midrashically expands: every gossip, every cancel-culture pile-on, is Cain reborn. The remedy? “Submit to God. Resist the devil” (James 4:7). Choose Abel’s humility over Cain’s acquisition.

Life as Mist: James 4:13-17 and Abel’s Name

“You who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go… and make money’—yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist” (James 4:13-15). Hevel literally means mist. James 4 ends where Abel’s name begins: life is fleeting; boasting is Cain’s error. Hashem declares “the end from the beginning” (Isaiah 46:10 – Bible Gateway).

As a Jewish educator rooted in Torah study, I offer this midrash from a place of interfaith respect, not as a Christian adherent. My insights draw from Hebrew Scriptures and rabbinic tradition to bridge understandings. ↩

Rabbi Manis Friedman, “The Story of Cain and Abel,” YouTube lecture, emphasizing divine introduction of jealousy for moral teaching. I reference this as a Jewish voice, distinct from Christian theology. ↩

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The Torah never commanded offerings. It never said “bring the best.”

Why Do The Nations Conspire?

“And He turned to Abel and to his offering.”

The church taught me the Second Commandment was only about statues and idols. I never imagined it was first spoken by a Jewish mother fleeing her own son’s violence.

Yet in Parashat Toldot, centuries before the thunder at Sinai, Rivkah utters the Second Commandment in Toldot almost word-for-word:

“Your brother Esau is comforting himself (מִתְנַחֵם) with the thought of killing you.” (Genesis 27:42)

Rabbi David Fohrman demonstrates that this single sentence is the exact precursor. It leads to “You shall have no other gods before Me.” Esau’s rage is not just anger. It has become his god.

How Esau Became the First Worshipper of “Another God”

In Hebrew, the verb מִתְנַחֵם (mitnachem) means “to comfort oneself.” After losing the blessing, Esau does not turn to Hashem for comfort. He turns to murder.

Murderous hatred becomes his new deity—the very first “other god” in human history after Cain.

Rivkah’s urgent warning to Jacob is therefore the Second Commandment in Toldot in its embryonic form:

Do not serve the god of revenge. Do not let violence sit on the throne where only Hashem belongs.

This is why the Rebecca Jacob Sinai mirror is so devastating to replacement theology. The Second Commandment did not begin with golden calves or Baal statues. It began when a Jewish mother identified the first false god humanity ever worshipped: the god of blood-revenge.

The Chiastic Proof – Side by Side

Sinai (Exodus 20:3)Toldot (Genesis 27:41–42)
לֹא יִהְיֶה־לְךָ אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים עַל־פָּנָיָ “You shall have no other gods before Me”וַיִּתְנַחֵם הוּא לְהָרְגְּךָ “He is comforting himself by killing you” – serving the god of murderous rage

Watch Rabbi Fohrman lay this out:

  • Aleph Beta / YouTube Part 1
  • Aleph Beta / YouTube Part 2

Why This Matters for Jewish Chosenness

Every time Christianity or Islam claims the Torah’s commandments while rejecting the Jewish people, they repeat Esau’s original mistake.

They replace the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with the god of supersessionist revenge: “The Jews killed our savior” or “The Jews lost their chosenness.” That is modern avodah zarah—serving another god on the very face of the God who spoke to three million Jews at Sinai.

As Chazzan, I teach in Esnoga Beit HaShoavah: “We are not hated because we are worse. We are hated because we are the living witness that the Second Commandment in Toldot still applies. There is only one God. He never annulled His covenant with Jacob.”

Internal Links – Continue the Journey

  • Essay 1: The Ten Commandments in Toldot – They Began with Rivkah, Not Sinai
  • Why Does God Play Favorites? The Silence Cain Heard Wrong
  • From Crypto-Jewish Mexico to the Torah of My Fathers – My Personal Return
  • The Passover Lamb Was Never Jesus – It Was the Egyptian God

Where is your offering? Cain and Abel chosen are pivotal figures in understanding divine favoritism. Why did God reject Cain’s offering in the first place? The Torah never commanded offerings. It never said “bring the best.” So why does God turn to Abel and his offering… but not to Cain and his? Rabbi David Fohrman notices something almost nobody sees. The Hebrew is asymmetrical. To Abel: “And He turned to Abel and to his offering.” To Cain: “But to Cain and to his offering He did not turn.” God is not judging the gift alone. He is looking at the person and the gift as one. Where is your offering? Cain and Abel chosen need to reflect this.

The offering is meant to reveal the offer. Abel gives the firstlings and fat—his very essence. Cain brings ordinary fruit. Nothing that costs him anything deep. It doesn’t reveal Cain. So God’s silence is not rejection. It is the most loving invitation imaginable: “Cain… I want you. Show me you.” Where is your offering? Cain and Abel chosen reveal insights into acceptance. But Cain hears silence as “I don’t want you.” Instead of looking inward, he looks outward in rage. Jealousy is born. Murder follows.

Here is Rabbi Fohrman’s staggering conclusion: God creates the appearance of favoritism on purpose. The very first “chosen vs. not chosen” is a mirror for all humanity. When it feels like God loves someone else more, the problem is almost never that God loves you less. It is that you have stopped giving Him the real you. Where is your offering? Cain and Abel chosen by God teach us this valuable lesson. This is the seed that will bloom at Sinai. The same question—“Why this nation?”—gets the same answer: God chooses those who choose to give Him their deepest selves. Where is your offering? Cain and Abel chosen exemplify this across history.

Cain and Abel is not a story about why Abel was better. It is a story about why God sometimes withholds His face… to invite us to chase it. And the tragedy is that Cain never hears the question behind the silence. That question still echoes today. God is still whispering the same words He spoke to Cain: “Show me you.” Will we finally hear the invitation? How many words do you count in this reflection on where is your offering? Cain and Abel chosen?

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Key Takeaways

  • The story of Cain and Abel highlights divine favoritism and the importance of one’s offering.
  • God’s rejection of Cain’s offering reflects His desire for the true essence of the individual.
  • Rabbi Fohrman suggests that feelings of favoritism often stem from not giving God our authentic selves.
  • The silence of God serves as an invitation for deeper self-reflection and connection.
  • Ultimately, the question ‘Where is your offering?’ invites us to recognize what we truly offer to God.