Hello everyone. My name is Aleksandr Sigalov. I'm the creator of the The Desert Tabernacle blog and the Normalized Interlinear Pentateuch web site.
I'm originally from former Soviet Union (Russia), but I've been living in the United States for over 12 years and I consider myself a proud citizen of this country. I speak English and Russian, I know Biblical Hebrew and I'm familiar with several other languages.
I now live with my family in Van Nuys, California. I'm 30 years old. I'm single, because just like Abraham's son Isaac I hope one day to find my Rebbeca who will be as much in love with the Torah as I am.
I'm not religious in any way, shape or form. Instead - I'm observant. This means that I understand all rituals that I perform instead of taking it blindly on faith.
As a Hebrew, I observe only the Pentateuch and live only by the Pentateuch, as I consider it the only Real Torah there is. Therefore I reject most of the Jewish traditions, customs and beliefs, even though I'm intimately familiar with most of them, as they in many instances directly contradict what is written in the Pentateuch. However, things that do not contradict I observe, such as the Sabbath.
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4 comments:
I very much appreciated the images of the interior of the Mishkan. The staves "through the rings in the four feet of the ark" are not shown as positioned near the base of the ark where the Torah places them. That was disappointing. Can the image be revised and made more accurate? Cf. "Ark of the Covenant"-Wikipedia.
Unfortunately I can't do this yet as I simply do not know what the text really says. You are probably not reading the original text, but the translation, most of which are not exactly accurate.
In the Hebrew text, i.e in Exodus 25:14 or Exodus 37:5 the text says צלעת (tsal'ot)[sides] not רגליו (raglav) [his feet], so as you can see there is no direct evidence to place the staves on the bottom of the Ark. I'm not saying that this is not a totally unreasonable design, but at this moment I do not see any way to justify it with the text.
Hope this helps.
At the risk of being thought utterly condescending & pretentious;
I am more than impressed.
Monday
Thank you for the compliments ;)
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