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#1

“Zoe did what civilized people do when they freak out: she drank tea. She had walked from her little bungalow to Coffee & Tea. It was always filled with the well-educated, the complicated, the people who read books with captivating titles. A perfect place to ignore and be ignored. She found the anonymity delicious.”
― Michael Benzehabe

tags: anonymity, ben-zehabe, benzehabe, cyber, reading, solitude, spy, tea, unassimilated

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#2

“Zoe leaned closer to Ruth, nearly nose to nose. “If they were made from better stuff, they would have pretended the fault was theirs. They would have made a moment of it--a pretty moment.”
― Michael Benzehabe

tags: benzehabe, consideration, good-manners, immigrant, immigration, kindness, social-graces, unassimilated

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#3

“Being articulate is no guarantee of intelligence,” Zoe said. “I’m not doubting the value of education. I’m doubting its reach. Highly educated politicians still do stupid things. Anthony Weiner was educated; Mugabi was educated; Assad was educated; Mussolini was educated. For all their education, look at them.”
― Michael Benzehabe

tags: anthony-weiter, assad, benzehabe, education, immigration, iran, israel, mispronounce, mossad, mugabi, mussolini, politician, unassimilated

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#4

“People, like buildings, have facades. Tom created his. His walk was a feat. It had taken him twenty years of killing bad guys and a pair of Tony Lama boots to perfect the illusion. He made sure that everyone felt it by the third clunk of his boot heel. When he entered a crime scene there was a hush, and no one ever quite knew why they were holding their breath. But he did. A crime scene was theater and the stage was his.”
― Michael Benzehabe

tags: benzehabe, china, cyber-war, fib, iran, new-adult, russia, unassimilated

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#5

“Dora Flores was one of the few people Tom confided in. She reported to him as Cyber Division’s Inner-Office Field Support. She still had a slight Mexican flavor in her pronunciations, and he liked it.”
― Michael Benzehabe

tags: benzehabe, china, cyber-security, fbi, hacking, iran, mossad, russia, unassimilated

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#6

“Our matriarchs had an interesting advantage over today's western women. Matriarchs didn't begin their marriage with love. Instead, they were taught how to love. They entered marriage with an earnest determination to grow a love that would sustain their marriage for a life time.
pg iv”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: advice-to-daughter, ancient-marriage, arranged-marriage, brother-in-law-marriage, head-covering, hebrew-family, leverite-marriage, matriarch, muslim, rachel, rebecca, sarah, sharia, shulamite, shunemite, western-women

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#7

“Not only does every Hebrew word have its own definition, but every Hebrew letter, within the word, has its own meaning. God placed before you a great banquet of universal truths. All this in 22 Hebrew letters. Every letter contains a progressive curriculum designed to teach you about this marvelous world that God gave us. These letters will flavor each word’s definition claiming its place in God’s well organized universe.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: apologetics, hebrew, hebrew-alphabet, holy-alphabet, holy-language, homeschool, numerics, sacred-alphabet

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#8

“At Ge 1:1 God used a matrix of sevens: (1) Seven words. (2) 28 letters (28 ÷ 4 = 7). (3) First three words contain 14 letters (14 ÷ 2 = 7). (4) Last four words contain 14 letters (14 ÷ 2 = 7). (5) Fourth and fifth words have seven letters. (6) Sixth and seventh words have seven letters. (7) Key words (God, heaven, earth) contain 14 letters (14 ÷ 2 = 7). (8) Remaining words contain 14 letters (14 ÷ 2 = 7). (9) Numeric value of first, middle and last letters equal, 133 (133 ÷ 19 = 7). (10) Numeric value of the first and last letters of all seven words equal 1,393 (1,393 ÷ 199 = 7). (11) The book of Genesis has 78,064 letters (78,064 ÷ 11,152 = 7).
So, what is the big deal about seven? Jesus is our Shiva (7), our Shabbat (7th day). (Lu 6:5) You couldn’t see this messianic reference, however, unless you are reading in Hebrew. This book is the beginning of an amazing pilgrimage.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: hebrew, hebrew-commentary, homeschool, jonah, mathematical-pattern, numerics, sacred-language

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#9

“We should expect nothing less from the language that was originally given by God, to His human family. Hebrew was the method that God chose for mankind to speak to Him, and Him to them. Adam spoke Hebrew—and your Bible confirms this. Everyone who got off the ark spoke one language—Hebrew.
Even Abraham spoke Hebrew. Where did Abraham learn to speak Hebrew? Abraham was descended from Noah’s son, Shem. (Ge 11:10-26) Shem’s household was not affected by the later confusion of languages, at Babel. (Ge 11:5-9) To the contrary, Shem was blessed while the rest of Babel was cursed. (Ge 9:26) That is how Abraham retained Hebrew, despite residing in Babylon.
So, Shem’s language can be traced back to Adam. (Ge 11:1) And, Shem (Noah’s son) was still alive when Jacob and Esau was 30 years of age. Obviously, Hebrew (the original language) was clearly spoken by Jacob’s sons. (Ge 14:13)”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: apologetics, bible, commentary, hebrew, homeschool, jonah, mathematical-pattern, numerics, teaching-hebrew

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#10

“The special knowledge you are about to learn will reveal a “letter theory” that was set into motion from the very first verse in your Bible. It is as though the divine author is telling the reader to expect Hebrew letters and numbers to weave messages, in the sub-text, through the rest of the Bible—starting with verse one.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: bible, bible-math, hebrew, hebrew-commentary, hebrew-language, holy-language, homeschool, jonah, kabbalah, numerics, teaching-hebrew

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#11

“Jesus probably studied this same information, in his youth. The apostle Paul probably studied this same information. How can I make such a bold assertion? Because, without this knowledge, much of the New Testament would make no sense.
Many of the idioms used in the New Testament are the result of lessons learned from this ancient Hebrew education system. Unfortunately, what was common in their day, has become forgotten in ours. For a Hebrew, math doesn’t get in the way. It blazes the way. Other languages are disconnected from this mathematical relationship . . . and it shows.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: hebrew-alphabet, hidden-wisdom, homeschool, jonah, kabbalah, numerics, sacred-alphabet, teaching-hebrew

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#12

“It has always been difficult for Jews to take Christians serious, mostly because Christians lack the fundamentals that religious Jews learn in their youth. It remains an embarrassing fact, that modern Jews can comprehend the New Testament better than modern Christians. There is no excuse for this. Christians have dropped the ball and should be anxious to remedy that neglect. Not only would they benefit themselves, but their community too.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: apologetics, bible-study, christian, homeschool, jonah, kabbalah, numerics, sacred-alphabet, sacred-wisdom, teaching-hebrew

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#13

“If this letter system works, it should be reproducible and consistent. If this letter system works, it should be demonstrated in biblical narrative—with consistency. It has. It does. It will. For instance: Daniel interpreted the handwriting on the Babylonian wall. (Da 5:1-31) The question has always been, “What method would produce the same interpretation?”
If you will pull out your Strong’s Concordance and translate those same four words, you won’t get the same results that Daniel got. Was Daniel using a different method than modern Christians? Yes, obviously.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: bible, daniel-s-vision, homeschool, jonah, sacred-alphabet, sacred-language, teaching-hebrew, writing-on-the-wall

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#14

“Adam was told to name the animals. Adam studied each kind and gave them a name based on his observations. Every animal “kind” has some behavior or characteristic that is unique to that animal type. When you know the Hebrew name for an animal, you get a peek at how a perfect man, speaking a perfect language, understood that perfect animal.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: ancient-wisdom, apologetics, bible-code, homeschool, mathematical-patterns, numerics, sacred-language, teaching-hebrew, zohar

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#15

“Let’s take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely. Zero is not a number.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: bible, bible-code, hidden-wisdom, homeschool, jonah, numerics, sacred-language, sacred-math, teaching-hebrew

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#16

“The nature of a letter can also be revealed within its numeric value. All letters and numbers behave in a certain but recognizable way, from which we can deduce its nature. The number two is the only even prime. There is an inherent mathematical dilemma with, “one.” No matter how many times you multiply it, by itself, you still can’t get past “one” (1 x 1 x 1 x 1 = 1). So, how does “one” move beyond itself? How does the same, produce the different?
Mathematically, “one” is forced to divide itself and work from that duality. Therein, hides the divine puzzle of bet (b). To become “two,” the second must revolt from wholeness—a separation. Yet, the second could not have existed without the benefit of the original wholeness. Also, the first wanted the second to exist, but the first doesn’t know what the second will become. Again, two contains potential badness, to a Hebrew. (Ge 25:24)”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: homeschool, jonah, kabbalah, mathematical-patterns, numerical-meaning, numerics, sacred-alphabet, teaching-hebrew, zohar

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#17

“The problem is obvious, once the Father began creating, He risked that, although perfect, His new and autonomous family could choose badness. How else did we get demon angels? Two is a risky number. The solution is unifying, or amening, with the original “one.”
Only recently has science been able to monitor a quasar. The elements that compose the stars is too base for the creation of higher forms of life. When these stars die, however, they go through two steps: First, the star implodes. Second, the star explodes. Only after the second step does the quasar create higher elements, from which we are formed. Stardust: We are made of stardust. The universe we come from is lyrical.
From polarity, matter, energy and light eventuate. Even a black hole emits a super-charged jet. For the birth of any new thing, there must be polarity. For any children to exist, there must be a man and his opposite, woman. It is no mystery why the ancient Sumerian words for, “one” and “two” are the same words for, “man” and “woman.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians

tags: apologetics, hebrew, holy-language, homeschool, jonah, kabbalah, numerical-patterns, numerics, sacred-alphabet, sacred-numbers, universal-patterns

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#18

“Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.
pg 9”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: anointed, bride-class, choosing, choosing-wisely, family, kingdom, kingdom-first, kingdom-interests, marriage, shulamite, shunemite, solomon, solomon-s-bride, song-of-solomon, song-of-songs

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#19

“Beware young brides: The cruelest behaviors on earth are done in the name of, what some call, 'love.' Therefore, the Shulamite does a much better job at defining love than pop-culture.
pg 4”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: cruelest-behaviors, defining-love, engagement, in-the-name-of-love, marriage, shulamite, shunemite, song-of-solomon, song-of-songs, young-brides

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#20

“No ancient Jew was ever promised, or expected, a heavenly life. That was a wild and outrageous teaching of Jesus. Holy text never offers a heavenly hope--before Jesus. Think about it: No matter how faithful Adam would have been, he could never graduate to heaven. Going to heaven was a 'Jesus teaching.' It simply does not exist in Torah.
pg xxvii”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: adam-go-to-heaven, christian-hope, heaven, how-to-go-to-heaven, jesus-the-unusual-teacher, jewish-hope, jews-go-to-heaven, millennium, outrageous-teachings, paradise, rapture, thousand-year

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#21

“The Shulamite lives by a different set of values. One of the most horrible frauds perpetrated on western couples is 'trust your feelings' or 'follow your heart.' Solomon's family must never be left to whims. A wise Shulamite does not make life decisions based on feelings, alone. She takes God's point-of-view: 'He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.' --Pr 28:26
For young couples, a hard lesson to learn is: Their hearts will lie to them.
pg 3”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: feelings, follow-your-heart, fraud, god-s-point-of-view, hearts-lie, shulamite, shunemite, song-of-solomon, song-of-songs, trust-your-feelings, values, whims, young-couples

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#22

“In Song of Songs we are introduced to a new problem for Abishag: Solomon was choosing wives for political advantages, while she was wasting away in Zion--without children.
pg xxiv”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: abishag, arranged-marriage, brother-in-law-marriage, hebrew-law, political-marriage, shulamite, shunemite, song-of-solomon, song-of-songs, zion

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#23

“There is so much information in one Hebrew word that translators are hard pressed to decide how much information should be cut. Since the first official translation (the Septuagint), Jewish translators advocated translating Hebrew (for outsiders) at the 'story' level.
pg viii”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: goyim, greek-is-inferior, hebrew-translation, hidden-meanings, septuagint, song-of-solomon, song-of-songs, story-level, surface-level

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#24

“From Genesis to Revelation, holy text is all about relationships and the limitless flavors of those relationships. It is the duty of mankind to tap into our women's unique talents--their genius for 'relationships.'
pg vii”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: family, making-peace-with-women, relationship-with-god, relationships, women-s-genius, women-s-insights, women-s-role-in-church, women-s-role-with-men

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#25

“Some day you will look back on these days as the happiest of your life. You will forget your financial struggles. You will forget the unfair division of duties. You will forget feeling trapped and smothered, imagining that you are in a loveless marriage. You will only remember the joy of a young family, working together making your way through an unfamiliar world. Appreciate what you have now.
pg vi”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: advice-to-daughter, appreciate-your-marriage, daughter, looking-back, loveless-marriage, marital-advice, marital-dissatisfaction, some-day, young-family

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#26

“Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.
pg vi”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: daughter, divorce, family, family-loss, father, god-lost-his-family, happy-endings, holy-text, sad-cycle, theme-of-bible, theme-of-holy-text

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#27

“We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.
pg vi”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: advice-to-children, advice-to-daughter, bigotry, communal-duty, divorce, family-peace, family-problems, hate, hate-crimes, interfaith, making-peace, prejudice

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#28

“In marriage, those who persevere are rewarded with the most precious thing this earth has to offer: Marital love--a partnership that conquers the years. It takes time, but those who persevere are rewarded with, falling in love with their spouse.
pg v”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: couple-advice, falling-in-love-with-your-spouse, marital-advice, matriarch, persevere, saving-your-marriage, shulamite, shunemite, solomon, song-of-solomon, song-of-songs, wisdom-from-the-ages

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#29

“God forces us to quantify our religious tenants by measuring them against the family problems they solve. If your religious beliefs aren't solving family problems then something is broke--and it can be fixed.
pg iv”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: abishag, advice-to-daughter, bad-religion, baptism-advice, bible-study, broke-religion, cruel-religion, family-problems, religious-fraud, shulamite, shunemite, toasts, wedding-advice

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#30

“Like your marriage, everything in the universe is trying to find its orbit. In the midst of this constant readjustment, both partners should be able to go to bed knowing that neither one is going to abandon a wounded, or struggling marriage. There is a comforting reassurance being with someone who keeps their promise.
pg iv”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: advice-to-daughter, character, christian-hypocrisy, covenant-keeper, faithful-wife, keeping-a-promise, loyal-husband, marital-advice, oath, promise-keeper, song-of-solomon, unfaithfulness

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