Father's Day 2023*
There are billboards along the roads with the word, " Dad ication" on them. Their message is that fathers are essential to the American family. We have seen that everything around us is tryin g to destroy the concept of the nuclear family. This goes back to the idea that God, Who is our Father, is an absent, or distant, uninvolved Being. However, God has always wanted a daily fellowship and a relationship with us as He had with Adam in the Garden. There is a oneness to God, and a oneness that God desires in His relationship with us. This oneness as expressed in Hebrew is echad . It signifies a unity, but that unity includes plural parts. This is mentioned in Gen. 2:23-24, when Adam said of Eve, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his ( aleph-tav ) father and mother, and they shall be one ( echad ) flesh." The LORD describes Himself with that same echad o...