{"id":12389,"date":"2020-11-05T13:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2020-anotherway-copy\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:38:31","slug":"2020-adam","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2020-adam\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden message of Adam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Julia Blum<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12391 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many people know that in Hebrew, when you say Adam you almost hear the word adamah (earth, or ground) in this name. Why? The first man was called Adam because \u2018the LORD God formed man from the dust of the earth\u201d (\u2018Adamah\u2019). What is the deeper message, hidden in these three Hebrew letters \u05d0\u05d3\u05dd (Adam)?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12392 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-2-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reach the full potential<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Firstly, more should be said about this connection, Adam-Adamah. Weren\u2019t all the animals created from the ground; why was Adam the only one named after adamah (\u05d0\u05d3\u05de\u05d4)? Our sages explain: while the animals were created \u2018almost completed\u2019,\u00a0<strong>both man and the ground were created in a basic, pure state; they both need to be developed;\u00a0<\/strong>they both require hard work in order to reach their full potential and to bear fruit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12393 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-3-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The hidden aspect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, two different words \u201cjump\u201d at you from the original Hebrew \u2018adam\u2019 \u2013 not just adamah, but also dam (\u05d3\u05dd), blood.\u00a0<strong>Why would the word dam be within adam?\u00a0<\/strong>It clearly shows that this creature \u2013 adam \u2013 is \u2018flesh and blood\u2019 from the very beginning. We know that the Torah is based on the significance of the blood, dam, of living creatures, but it all seems to start here, in the name \u2018Adam\u2019.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12394 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/adam-4-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biblical Hebrew reveals the Eternal Mysteries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t suppose that God gave a random and meaningless name to his first creation, do you? Undoubtedly, these &#8220;bloody&#8221; and \u201cearthly\u201d aspects form the original components not only of Adam&#8217;s identity, but of\u00a0<strong>God\u2019s message to humanity:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>this \u201cflesh and blood\u201d man needs to be developed after he comes into this world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":12391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-12389","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/12389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/12389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12390,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/12389\/revisions\/12390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12389"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=12389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}