Category: Rollyn’s Reads

Did you know that one cubic millimeter of brain tissue contains one petabyte of data?  What’s a petabyte?  It’s 1000 times larger than a terabyte, which is one quadrillion bytes. The average brain is 1,195,000 cubic millimeters in its size. This means the average human brain can hold 298,750 petabytes of data.  And you thought your recently purchased computer…

Have you ever had someone get upset with you because you asked a question about a Biblical text?  Maybe the verse or chapter you questioned wasn’t black and white or a “thus sayeth the Lord” moment, but the person responds anyway with something like, “that’s what the text says and if you don’t believe it,…

Last week, a good friend was sharing with me on Hebrew Nation Radio, how certain Torah concepts seem hard to understand for casual readers.  This of course got us thinking.  What if Torah passages were met with a question such as, “Where is Messiah in the particular passage?”  We both agreed that this approach allows…

We are told that Biblical commands give us life and are not too hard to follow (Deuteronomy 30:11) But when it comes to faith or belief, there is no mention of these being comfortable.  Faith requires a heart and soul commitment, which does not come easy from our sin-filled flesh.  So how do the stories…

I don’t know very many people who enjoy being evaluated. It seems we all enjoy a bit of privacy.  The first time I met my vocal coach, he asked me all kinds of questions during his assessment to find out if he wanted me as a student.  I was confident he would accept me on…

Over the years, there have been many discussions on how to honor these “Set Apart Days.”  How to celebrate, when to celebrate, and whether we should celebrate at all, are topics that have been around for thousands of years.  Moshe Gold wrote an article for Jewishawareness.org in 2013 that addressed the history surrounding the early…

What is a cult? Typically, when someone says, “you belong to a cult” they are referring to a group that is controlled by a powerful personality and who submit to teachings or rules that seek to brainwash.  But in actuality, a cult by its simplest definition implies a sect or group of people that trend…

VaYiqra or “And He Called” can be a difficult lesson to understand.  It’s all about sacrifices; a topic that seems to be more suited for pagan gods and rituals, not for a God who claims to be a loving God.  But here it is in Leviticus 1-6.  YHWH calls to Moses and defines a sacrificial…

The study of VaYak’hel follows the story of Israel turning their backs on YHWH and worshipping another god—the “golden calf” of Egypt called apis.  This false god in many ways claimed the attributes of YHWH much in the same way as the antichrist who seeks to lead Yah’s people away from life. From the viewpoint…

What do we elevate in our lives? The meaning of elevate can take on the action of uplifting, promoting, or to raise.  With this mind, do we give people, ideas, or traditions a priority over spiritual insight?  In this week’s Torah study of Ki Tisa, we can easily see the account of Israel uplifting a…