Oh, Yada, Yada....

Yada.Who would have thought three little Hebrew letters, Yod, Daleth, and Ain would have caused so much trouble? Put 'em all together and they spell Yada--not the "Yada, yada," of Seinfeld fame, but the Hebrew word, "to know."In those three letters, we sure place a lot of assumption.The online Hebrew Lexicon I often use has about 20+ meanings for the word yada. ONE of them is "to know carnally.

Breaking up the big freeze

(Photo from the author of Staying Awake)Job 28:25-30:Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt, 26to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on the desert, which is empty of human life, 27to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass? 28“Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew? 29From whose womb did the ice