So, what is a “ger”? What is Zar? Let’s start off with what ger means. Strong’s translates the Hebrew word ‘ger’ as stranger, sojourner, alien. It is defined as: a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights b) of foreigners in Israel, through conceded rights. A “ger” is one who dwells among Israel as one who is not against them, but alongside them. The ger has no inheritance rights and therefore has no way to support themselves and their family because they own no land. The ger is listed as one of the disadvantaged people in the Torah – “the widow, the orphan and the foreigner…” They, therefore, are given special place as servants in the families of Israel. It’s easy for non-Hebrew speakers and readers to feel a sense of confusion when one non-Hebrew is allowed to do something and another isn’t and then there’s the [...]
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Parasha Noach (Genesis 6:9-11:32): 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fertile and increase, and fill the earth. 2 The fear and the dread of you shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the birds of the sky — everything with which the earth is astir — and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given ...
The Torah is for Everyone – The Problem with the Noahide Movement You stand this day, all of you, before HaShem your God — your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, 10 your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer — 11 to enter into the covenant of Ha ...
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