Optional parental preparation:

1. What does it mean to mislead? Equivocate? How is that different from lying?

2. How does mᵊlâkh•âhꞋ differ from a•vōd•âhꞋ (work)?

3. לַשָּׁוְא – misleading, equivocating, prevaricating, spinning, spouting PC, propagandizing, "fake news" (all = "nothingness, worthlessness"). The meaning is clarified by comparing and contrasting with its two primary synonyms:

   1. כִּזֵּב

   2. שִׁקֵּר 

4. תִרְצָח: murder – not "kill", which would contradict Biblical commands to kill in certain circumstances; e.g., kill kâ•sheirꞋ animals for food, enemies in war, execute murderers, etc.). 

5. תִּנְאָף the meaning of the BH: includes, but is more general than, the pre-Christian definition of adultery. This early meaning is informed by the historic understanding of this same word in the Aramaic: "to be unchaste, voluptuous, esp. to have illicit intercourse; to commit adultery."

   The original definition of this verb, נָאַף, was authored by Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ within its historically polygynous context. Millennia after the fact, however, this term was redefined as it is widely understood today, among Jews as well as Christians and Muslims – i.e. according to Hellenist Romans living in the monogamous European Roman Empire as early as its translation as the Hellenist Roman anti-polygamous definition of μοιχεύσεις in the LXX.

   In 70 and 135 CE, Hellenist-Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ Roman-collaborator (Ash•kᵊnazꞋim and Sᵊphâ•râd•imꞋ) Jews fleeing the Hellenist Roman, miso-Judaic, ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim, took refuge in the – monogamous – Hellenist European Roman Empire, where their polygamy was detested by the surrounding goy•imꞋ as sordid and disreputable. Despite the Hellenist Roman monogamous redefinition, Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ remained polygynous until the 11^th century C.E. when European rabbis finally acculturated to the European (Hellenist) Christian tradition.

   Understanding of the term נָאַף must be analyzed within the context of the original, polygyny-tolerant, authors.

   By Biblical standards, polygyny is an acceptable family unit. Further, in Biblical times, having sex with an unmarried woman constituted one of three valid and acceptable forms of commencing a marriage, requiring subsequent payment of a dowry.

   A priori, the Biblical definition of adultery necessarily involved a married woman having sex with a man other than her husband. Ergo, the Biblical definition of adultery does not apply to a married man having sex with an unmarried woman other than his wife; which is the supersessive Christian-assimilated definition of adultery. The Christian-assimilated redefinition neither changes the original Biblical standard of polygynous adultery, nor does it exclude any of the aspects of the wider definition of נָאַף/​hedonism & dissoluteness generally, wherein polygynous-adultery is merely one aspect.

   Accordingly, the primary meaning of the verb נָאַף was "unchaste"; i.e. hedonistic, dissolute, licentious, lascivious, lecherous,salacious or promiscuous. Thus, נָאַף is significantly broader than merely illicit sexual relations with a woman married to another man (i.e. Biblical adultery), as customarily mistranslated based on Hellenist Roman-translations and redacted texts. In fact, the primary meaning – hedonistic – grounds the closely-related later Talmudic concept, rabbinically-evolved from this 7^th principle, of the pejorative "אֶפִּיקוֹרוֹס," to include heretics, skeptics, agnostics and seculars rather than a narrower definition of only adulterers per se – this despite rabbinic distortion of Khaj•imꞋ and Mō•ad•imꞋ to glorify אֶפִּיקוֹרוֹס (gluttonous) culinary "feasting." 

6. Lit. עֵד שָׁקֶר, lit. lying testimony (i.e. under oath), i.e. perjury. 

7. A day is measured by one complete rotation of the earth on its axis relative to the sun, which takes 24 hrs. Yet, the sun wasn't created until the 4^th "day" (bᵊ-Reish•itꞋ 1.14-19). Ergo, the 6 "days" of creation cannot be 6 days as we know them and are, rather, perceived as 6 eons – which we equate to 6 weekdays. The sense is that, just as י‑‑ה, upon completing creation, ceased mᵊlâkh•âhꞋ on our physical universe, so, too, we are required to follow His example by ceasing mᵊlâkh•âhꞋ on Sha•bâtꞋ. 

8. While butlers, housekeepers and parlormaids were owned in Biblical times, so were wives. Just as today's wives are partners rather than human property, today's equivalent butlers, housekeepers and parlormaids are employees rather than slaves/​servants. 

9. וְזָבַחְתָּ – Millennia before supermarkets, the killing of a (kâ•sheirꞋ only domestic livestock) animal for meat was up close and personal; not like modern shoppers have become accustomed: just another tray of nylon-wrapped food on a tray – no different from the other refrigerated baked goods, sauces and fresh vegetables, or a can of beans, a package of pasta or a box of cereal; all of which magically appear on the shelves of a supermarket with a price on them.

   The taking of an animal's life, while permissible to eat meat, merited solemn realization that man was taking the life of an animal that י‑‑ה created and gave life. Butchery in the Biblical era comprised the solemn kâ•sheirꞋ sacrifice of the animal, on an approved bâm•âhꞋ/​mi•zᵊbeiꞋakh, by a kō•heinꞋ trained in the Tōr•âhꞋ laws of kâ•shᵊr•ūtꞋ, offering the appropriate bᵊrâkh•ōtꞋ of thanks to י‑‑ה

   Centuries later, since the Beit ha-Mi•qᵊdâshꞋ was destroyed, sacrifices became no longer possible – leaving the kâ•sheirꞋ shō•kheitꞋ in place of the kō•heinꞋ and his shop in place of a bâm•âhꞋ /​ mi•zᵊbeiꞋakh. 

10. How did communal altars differ from a national altar? How did that relate to unifying a national kindred that prohibited local communal altars? How did loss of the national altar affect the kindred since communal altars remained prohibited?

Questions you might anticipate that your child might raise and be prepared to discuss:

1. What is a principle? (v principal)

2. What is an extraction? (military and survivalist term)

3. What is a labor camp? (Nazi & N. Korea)

4. What does it mean to monitor someone?

5. What does comprise mean?

6. What is a sculpture? A depiction?

7. What is anthropomorphism?

8. How is eschew different from hate? (Eschew is "not most preferred choice," not absolute rejection or hatred.)

9. What does it mean in court to raise one's right hand? What is an oath?Swearing?

10. What is a butler? Parlormaid? Housekeeper/​maid? Slave? Servant? How free is an employee?

11. What does it mean to be awestruck?

12. What does test-prove mean?

13. What does deter mean? Deterrence?

14. What is smog? What does the verb shroud mean?

15. What is a peer? (Distinguished from a pier)

16. What is a hewn stone?