[This is from Rabbi Schmuley Boteach’s Kosher Jesus. Please check out previous posts from this MUST READ/MUST OWN resource; we’re sharing excerpts. In this chapter, Rabbi explains the roots of antisemitism and guess how big an influence is the Christian Scriptures’ depiction of the Jews who have been labeled ‘Christ-killers.’ . Reformatting and highlights added.—Admin1.] Chapter […]
Read more[Mother’s Day follows Labor Day —- wonder if the holiday planners made an unconscious connection between the two? We are resurrecting this post which analyzes how women in scripture fared in their roles as individuals with free choice, as wives, as mothers, and other roles they were limited to in their culture. Not surprisingly even […]
Read more[Here’s a tip from World of Judaica/support@worldofjudaica.com: “It isn’t an April Fool’s Joke! Today’s date of April 1st also coincides with the Biblical New Years Day, 1 Nisan. Even though the more commonly known Jewish New Year is on Rosh Hashana (the first of Tishrei), the first month is actually Nisan!” This post is intended to […]
Read more[Commentary by EF/Everett Fox, THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. Reformatted for this post.–Admin1.] PART I THE DELIVERANCE NARRATIVE (1-15:21) The first part of the book of Exodus is presented as a continuation of the Genesis narratives, by abbreviating the genealogy of the immigrant Yaakov from Gen. 46:8-25. We find here the same centrality of God, the […]
Read more[Translation w/commentary is by EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses; additional commentary from RA/Robert Alter, and REF/Richard Elliott Friedman. A reminder about the commentary from P&H/Pentateuch and Haftorah, ed. Dr. J.H.Hertz; this resource book is as invaluable as the others; however, the commentators often go beyond what is stated in the text, making presumptions and logical conclusions. It is […]
Read more[Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses; in practice, we usually present the chapter text with as little interruption as possible except for S6k side comments, for the first reading; then follow this up with the same chapter complete with the regular commentaries we have constantly featured, to further aid readers’ in understanding cultural, historical, […]
Read more[Another resurrected post from a year ago— at about this same time yearly, Sinaite VAN celebrates his birthday timed when the Jewish Passover and the Christian Easter are celebrated. Last year, our Messianic teacher-friend made a last-ditch effort to make VAN rethink the direction he had taken,basically from NT Jesus to OT YHWH; after all, […]
Read more[The Creator commanded the first human to ‘tend the garden’, in effect—take care of this earth that He has created to sustain all life. Humanity has not heeded and today, the generations currently inhabiting planet earth are threatened by mother nature’s backlash, consequences in the various forms of destructive natural calamities. We are reprinting this […]
Read more[We are resurrecting posts that are relevant to the season of resurrection; this was first posted in August 2012. While it started to be about the film version of a book by Kazantzakis, it gradually focused more on Kazantzakis himself, a most gifted writer and deep thinker who struggled with his God. His life is […]
Read more[We are into the Resurrection Season so here’s a resurrected post first published in 2012. —Admin1.] ——————————– JCS – “Jesus Christ Superstar” Andrew Lloyd Webber is such a musical genius whose contribution to musical theater includes Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and two biblically-based musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat […]
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