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A Religious Look at Looksmaxxing - Why It's NOT Fine

A Religious Look at Looksmaxxing - Why It's NOT Fine In recent time a new dangerous and wrongful trend has emerged from social media and it is called looksmaxxing . It revolves around "maximizing" one's own physical attractiveness via different and often dangerous methods. One such method is braking the bones of one's face with a hammer or another tool with the intention to eventually modify one's facial features. In this article we will focus on this practice specifically, as it already involves braking of several religious Laws and the several related topics. Harming oneself Here we can see an obvious form of self-harm in the form of braking one's own bones. The great Jewish religious scholars eqate harming oneself to harming another person. Therefore when someone harms themselves they brake the Commandment to not harm others given to us in Leviticus 19:18. No one expressed it as directly as the Rambam: It is forbidden for person to injure...

Can your Gen Alpha kid read and write?

Can your Gen Alpha kid read and write? In the last two a large number of people have voiced their concerns regarding Gen Alpha's declining reading and writing abilities. But, what can actually be done in order to fix that? We have the asnwer! Just go and read with your children! What to read? Read the Holy Scriptures! You don't need to read the entire Bible with your kid in a single setting, of course. You can simply read a small portion of the Bible with them each night. In fact, we have a series of articles providing you with such Bible portions, each coverring a separate event described in the Holy Scriptures. In order to find them you can scroll across our website or use any of the special study materials we have prepared for you to help you ( like this one ). We hope this publication has been helpful to you and we wish you a good and blessed day.

The World Before the Flood (Study Materials)

The World Before the Fall of Man (Study Materials) Here we have prepared for you a chronologically ordered set of publications with which you can study the Holy Scriptures in an organized and systematic way. The list, of course, starts with the Creation of the World and finishes with the Fall of Man and the expelling of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. We have also added subentries for specific shorter parts of the Sifrei Kodesh which are of big importance. Such is, for example, the 1.1. subentry about Shabbat, the verses of which also appear in the publication about the Creation (1.) but are so important to study, they need to be given attention separately. List: 1.  The Creation of the World (Genesis 1:1-2:4) 1.1. The Seventh Day (Shabbat) (Genesis 2:1-3) 2. The Creation of Adam and of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:5-15) 2.1. The Four Rivers flowing from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:10-14) 3. What God Spoke to Adam (Genesis 2:15-17) 4. Adam Names all Animals ...

The creation of Eve (Genesis 2:21-25)

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The creation of Eve (Genesis 2:21-25) Here we will present you with the story of the creation of Eve as is in the Book of Genesis (Bereshit). The event, it should be mentioned, takes place after the events of the Lilith's creation by God, our Lord, and her rebellion which we coverred in our article on the portion of the Alphabet of Ben Sira . Genesis/Bereshit 2 21. So the Eternal God cast a sleep upon the Human (Adam); and while he slept, [God] took one of his sides* and closed up the flesh at that side. 22. And the Eternal God fashioned the side that had been taken from the Human into a woman, bringing her to the Human. 23. Then the Human said, "This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called the Woman, for from the Man** was she taken." 24. Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh. 25. The two of them were naked, the Human and his wife,*** yet they felt no shame. *A...

The True Origins of Astrology (1 Enoch 8:5-9)

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The True Origins of Astrology (1 Enoch 8:5-8) Here we will show you where the pseudoscientific field of astrology actually originates from. This has been well known for centuries but has somehow went into obscurity in recent times. We deem it necessary to bring it back forth in front of people's eyes. The origin story of astrology is given to us in the First Book of Enoch in its eighth chapter. 1 Enoch 8 5. Bakrayal taught the observers of the stars; 6. Akibeel taught signs; 7. Tamiel taught astrology; 8. And Asaradel taught the motion of the Moon. The above-mentioned Bakrayal, Akibeel, Tamiel, and Asaradel are four of the fallen angels who rebelled against God, our Lord, and who took human wives and fathered some of the Nephilim. The portion of the First Book of Enoch present here consists of just a small part of the long list of things the fallen angels taught humans and which led to the corruption of humanity and the Flood. Medieval depiction of an astrologer.

The Creation story and Science are compatible

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The Creation story and Science are compatible Many people think that the religious story of how God, our Lord, created the World is completely incompatible with modern science. In fact, this is a misconception based on extreme Christian interpretations of the Book of Genesis (Bereshit). Here we will bring forth two very important points which are rarely considered when talking on this topic. The Seven Days We need to consider that the first seven days were not the same as the usual seven days of the week we all know. As we know from the text of Genesis/Bereshit, the Sun and Moon did not exist until the fourth day (Genesis 1:14-19). Aside from that, the boundary between the ending of one day and the beginning of the next day were not clearly defined up until the times of the rabbis of the Talmud (see Babylonian Talmud, tractate Sabbath). Therefore, we can say that the "day" (or Yom/יום, as is the original Hebrew term) in that earliest stage of the Universe's histor...

Lilith - her creation and rebellion (Alphabet of Ben Sira 23a-b)

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Lilith - her creation and rebellion (Alphabet of Ben Sira 23a-b) The figure of Lilith has been obscure, her story told and retold and sometimes made anew, with all being subject to numerous interpretations. Here we will present the story of Lilith as told in the Alphabet of Ben Sira. Alphabet of Ben Sira 23a-b When the first man, Adam, saw that he was alone, God made for him a woman like himself, from the earth. God called her name Lilith (לילית), and brought her to Adam. They immediately began to quarrel. Adam said: "You lie beneath me." And Lilith said: "You li beneath me! We are both equal, for both of us are from the earth." And they would not listen to one another. As soon as Lilith saw this, she uttered the Divine name and flew up into the air and fled. Adam began to pray before his Creator, saying: "Master of the universe, the woman that you gave me has fled." God sent three angels and said to them: "Go bring back Lilith. If she wants t...