Gary

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Gary Artis Zimmerman Teaching the Bible to the
Jewish people of America Russian Speaking
Immigrants
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HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS
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38 Colleges Seminaries
37 Mission Works
107 Churches
Japan - UkraineNepal - ArgentinaMoldova -
LithuaniaFiji Islands - BrazilKenya -
ThailandPhilippines - Canada - China
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The Roots of our faith are very deep.
They start in the Old Testament.
Abraham
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Romans 31
What advantage then hath the Jew?
or what profit is there of circumcision?
Much every way chiefly, because that
unto them were committed the oracles of God.
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Copied for 3,500 years
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Deuteronomy 3124 And it came to pass, when Moses
had made an end of writing the words of this law
in a book, until they were finished,
That Moses commanded the Levites, saying, Take
this book of the law, and put it in the side of
the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God,
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Just before the death of Paul, he said
2 Timothy 49 Do thy diligence to come shortly
unto me The cloak that I left at Troas with
Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and
the books, but especially the parchments.
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These Parchments are written from right to left
in the Hebrew script.
A b - c
b
g
d
h
w
z
h
t
y
c
l
m
n
s
p
ts
q
r
s
t
A,E,I,O,U
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Our first Torah in 1999 was very expensive
Written in the late 1500s in Germany
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Since then other scroll shave been purchased.
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A Geniza is a storage place for sacred material.
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Parts of letters missing
Theses old scroll are coming from Genizas
Blemishes on the words
They are no longer kosher
Holes in the leather
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We are lifting these old scrolls up to
Life, Honor, Respect
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We are giving them to our colleges and seminaries
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Gene Fisher Bob Jones University
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Hebrew class
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Lithuanian scroll
Baptist Bible College and SeminaryClarks Summit,
Pennsylvania
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Central Baptist Theological Seminary
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Baptist Bible College and SeminaryClarks Summit,
Pennsylvania This open Torah is 135 feet long
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Baptist Seminary in Argentina
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Tokyo, Nagano, Kobe, Yokosuka, Gamagori
Bible Colleges in Japan
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We met with the Chief Justice and presented him
the sheet containing the Ten Commandments.
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10 CommandmentsTo Congressman Mike Sodrel
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10 CommandmentsTo Congressman Kenny Marchant
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But the midwives feared God, and did not as the
king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men
children alive.
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Recently, a Jewish lady came to Grace Baptist
Church when we presented that church with a
framed Torah sheet.
She said,
In all my life I never thought I would hear the
words we love and pray for the Jewish people,
spoken in a Christian church.
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Brooklyn, New York
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Lamb skin patches repairing the holes in the
leather
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This scroll from the 1400s was repaired over 185
times with lamb skin patches.
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Through the centuries, to keep the leather clean
and oil free, a small device called a Yad
(hand) is used while reading the scroll.
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Scrolls can only be made from sheep, cow or deer
skin.
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Torah sheets are sewn together with sinew.
(It costs 1.00 per foot)
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The main three ingredients for Torah ink are Oak
Gall Nut, Gum Arabic, Soot.
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Gall Nuts
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QUILL
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Because of the value of the Torah, they are
repaired and re-lettered whenever needed.
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Machon Ot in Jerusalem. We purchased many scrolls
from them.
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Taggin
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Notice the ink consistency as you move from right
to left.
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How could something containing 304,805 letters be
copied thousands of times over 3,500 years and
still be close to saying the same thing?
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Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled. Matthew 518
The most used and lest used letters in the Law
(Torah)
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The control key is in Leviticus 1142
Middle letter of the Torah
304,805 152,403 ½ 152,403
u
Genesis 11
Deut 3412
Leviticus 1142
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Whatsoever goeth upon the belly..
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Other Hebrew Scrolls We have recently acquired.
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Ruth
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The Scroll of Esther
Written in Poland in the 1800s
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Ecclesiastes
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Song of Songs
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The Scroll of Isaiah
Written in Poland in the 1850s
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Lamentations
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All the Minor prophets are on one scroll
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Hosea
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Joel
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Amos
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Obadiah
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Jonah
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Micah
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Nahum
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Habakkuk
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Zephaniah
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Haggai
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Zechariah
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Malachi
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Extra slides
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Lamb skin patches repairing the holes in the
leather
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Torah sheets are sewn together with sinew.
(It costs 1.00 per foot)
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Because of the value of the Torah, they are
repaired and re-lettered whenever needed.
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Machon Ot in Jerusalem. We purchased many scrolls
from them.
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Letters that have been re-inked
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Taggin
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Large Letters
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Oddities
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this scan of a 700 year old scroll, hanging in
the office of the UKs 1 scribe
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Notice the ink consistency as you move from right
to left.
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How could something containing 304,805 letters be
copied thousands of times over 3,500 years and
still be close to saying the same thing?
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THERE HAD TO BE A KEY, A CONTROL, TO MAKE SURE
THERE WERE NO MISTAKES. When Jesus said one Jot
or one tittle would not pass from the Law (Torah)
he was making reference to the YOD (JOT) the
most common letter used 31,530 times in the
Torah And the TET (TITTLE) the least common
letter used 1,820 times in the Torah PERHAPS
THIS WAS THE KEY
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Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled. Matthew 518
The most used and lest used letters in the Law
(Torah)
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The control key is in Leviticus 1142
Middle letter of the Torah
304,805 152,403 ½ 152,403
u
Genesis 11
Deut 3412
Leviticus 1142
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Whatsoever goeth upon the belly..
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This is what the Ten Commandments that God gave
Moses looks like in Hebrew.