• NOTE: I respect my views, even though I disagree with them.
• Divine Provocations (“The Divine Provocateur”)
• • God ‘set up’ Adam.Eve, deliberately presenting an irresistible temptation. Telling someone “you can do anything but X, anything at all but x” is a guaranteed way to get them to do x. God designed Adam.Eve to be unable to resist it.
• • Cain/Abel: God deliberately provoked jealousy by accepting one sacrifice and not the other
• • God commands Abraham to listen to Sarah, to cast out Ishmael in favor of Isaac, setting up a lasting rivalry between them.
• • Jacob and Esav struggle yet in the womb, this is divine instigation for they are not yet even born; God tells the pregnant Rivka that the younger will inherit rather than the older, setting her up for the interception by Jacob of the blessing originally meant for Esav.
• • Abraham is led to leave his homeland and set up shop in an inhabited land, so he encounters many problems, and later his descendants the Jewish nation is sent to Egypt for a long time only to return to a land even more inhabited, and are told the promised land has to be conquered from these others, and indeed over the generations Esav and Yishmael fight him for supremacy (or contest his ownership of the land), as promised. And God creates to competing religions based on that of the Jews, both antagonistic to Jews, one (traditionally Rome, ie Europe) is from Esav and the other from Yishmael.
• • Genesis is about younger brothers supplanting the older, and the Jewish people are constantly struggling against those who came later, trying to supplant them: younger religions created by the descendants of the older brothers.
• • All this is apparently God’s stratagem to test and refine through struggle.

• How Five Great Biblical Heroes Transcended Themselves
  The Divine Challenge: Overcoming your Nature

• The Eden and Flood Accounts as Prophetic Visions rather than as Physical Events. A chapter from my book "A Garden of Edens" Adam and Noah as Prophets

• Just Because it didn’t Happen doesn’t Mean it’s Not True!
  The Flood as a Vision Published 1994: : [ M [Published 2002:]

• This hyperlink was inserted into my web page by God.
  The Creation and Eden Accounts: Context & Meaning

• 3,000 Years Ago: the equivalent of Lebanon/Gaza, Hezbollah/Hamas:
  Rescuing a Hostage: A Topical Story from the Bible 

• The Patriarchs did NOT prefer Polygamy:
  Who Wants More Than One Mother-in-Law!?

• Kissing Cousins:
  Jacob and Rachel (Yakov and Rochel)

• Karma in the Torah: the Actions and Words of Jacob, Joseph and Moses:

  • Simple & Sly: Which is Which: Jacob and Laban

  • Jacob's Dream and Conditional Vow
    [published article reference: The Divine-Human Interaction]

  • Joseph: Dreams, Karma, and Beyond Astrology

  • Moses' three signs: Cause & Effect
    [published article ref: Moses' Three Signs: Symbol and Augury]

  • Egyptian Karmic Retribution: Blood, Frogs and Lice? - Yecch!  Why Did God Send these particular Plagues?

  • The Ten Commandments as a result of the Karma of Human Society: the first events in the history of humanity and their reflection in the order and content of the ten commandments (historical/archetypical trangressions and the resulting 'group karma' rules)

• The Ten Commandments:
  Their Categories and a Modern Rephrasing

• Textual relations providing insights into the Biblical Holidays

• The Terach and Avram Sagas are Intertwined, not Sequential:
  Deliberately Misleading Chronology in the Torah (published version)

• In Defence of Cain!

• Commentary: Noah and the Flood

• Commentary: Sagas of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob

• Commentary: Exodus

• Commentary: Genesis

Humorous

• The Taliban and the Bible Codes or My Trip to Pakistan:
  Jacques Cousteau and Islamic Fundamentalism - Codes of Bnei Yishmael

• Earth is NOT Flat : Which Direction to Pray (Daven)? (Did anyone ever ask at the Western Wall : "which way is East"? )

• [My cartoon: someone at Kotel asking: which way is Mizrach? [luckily it is the Kotel Ma'aravi!])