Biblical Hebrew Forum

[davidfentonism AT aim.com]

  Dear Harold,
   
 You are right, the Tserach is the Branch (Yaho-oshu-wah). Pardes can refer 
to ocean (Torah is a lifegiving ocean) like you said but it is also the 
acronym for the hermeneutic methods --p'shat, remez, drash, sod (PaRDeS)-- 
used by Israelites for thousands of years and today to interpret the 
Scriptures. Without PaRDeS, the depths of meaning can not be apprehended no 
matter how towering the intellect which attempts it. Looking at this will 
make almost everything said by the skeptics, critics, scholars to be seen in 
their true diminutive light.
 
 I appreciate the questions, Harold.
 
 Best regards,
 David Fenton
      ----------------------------
 Gal. 27-29: For as many as have had a tevilah into Moshiach have clothed 
yourselves with Moshiach. There is not Yehudi nor Yevani (Greek), there is 
not eved (servant) nor ben chorin (freedman), there is not zachar (male) nor 
nekevah (female), for you are all echad in Moshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua. And, if 
you belong to Moshiach (YESHAYAH 53:10), then you are of the ZERAH of Avraham 
Avinu, you are yoreshim (heirs) according to the havtachah (promise).   
 -----Original Message-----
 From: hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net
 To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
 Sent: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:25 AM
 Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] how scholars debate controversial issues
 
  Dear Dave,
>   Allow me this afterthought, Kevin. I do not ever try to convince 
> believers 
much less non-believers of the inerrancy of Scripture. I do not believe I can 
offer any defense for the truth of Torah better than Torah itself. I proclaim 
it 
but never defend it. Of course, I refute and debate fallacious arguments 
against 
the Book all the time because without the right starting point, no meanigful 
discussion can be had.
>  
>  To another point, the B'rit Hadashah (New Testament) makes clear that the 
Spirit of G-d is required to comprehend the things of G-d. This is a point 
where 
non-believers will have to remian frustrated because there is nothing 
believers 
can do to change it. However, believers are able to compare their difference 
in 
understanding before and after belief which non-believers are not ever able 
to 
do as it is literally impossible. The way you refer to the text at the p'shat 
(surface) level is clear evidence of this. What the text says can be 
interpreted 
through PaRDeS and all else is not even close.

HH: What do you mean by PaRDeS? I suppose you mean garden. Are you using 
the word as a metaphor for the visible earth, external reality, or 
something?

> I just want to help you see it through my eyes despite the gulf between us 
(and the Tserach is the only bridge from your side to mine).
>   

HH: What does Tserach represent? It may be a software program that 
searches, but that is probably not what you mean. I think of the Hebrew 
letters tsade, resh, and het, but I don't see a noun for those letters. 
I think of Tsemach, "branch" (Jer 23:5).

Yours,
Harold Holmyard
>  

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