[This was first posted November 26, 2012. Revised and rewritten for this update.–Admin1.] Christians have been taught about the devil, named Satan, or Lucifer, supposedly a fallen angel who took 1/3 of the rebels among the angelic hosts (according to Revelation 12:9), who ‘lord’ it over humankind on earth, appear successful in their evil […]
Read moreThe CREATOR Kindles His Sabbath Lights! Blessed are You, YHWH, Eternal God, Who was and is and will be as You choose to be– God of Israel, God of All Humanity, Gentiles of the Nations, God of Sinaites. Blessed are You, YHWH, All-Existent-One Who has no beginning and no end, Whose Wisdom designed earthly time and heavenly space, which you […]
Read more[First posted in 2014. Here is the original Introduction: The translation used here is a composite of various translations, though the main text is from The Complete Tanach by Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg, courtesy of Chabad.org. For the Book of Iyov/Job specifically, we choose to use “sons of God” instead of ‘”angels” or the Hebrew ‘malakim’, […]
Read more[First posted in 2018. This is from MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest van den Haag. Related posts: MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest Van Den Haag MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest van den Haag – Prologue & Epilogue MUST READ: The Jewish Mystique by Ernest van den Haag: “Are Jews […]
Read more[First posted in 2014. There is much misunderstanding of the significance of “chosenness” particularly in terms of Divine selection/election of a particular people. We have a book that well explains that, please check out the following posts: Q&A: That recurring question about Israel’s ‘chosen-ness’… If Israel was ‘the chosen’ in the “Old” Testament, are […]
Read more[This is a revisit; first posted 2012; part of a series from No Religion is an Island by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH). Related posts are: Revisit: No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel Revisit: No Religion is an Island – 2 – “To equate religion and God is idolatry” – AJHeschel Our most recent acquisition […]
Read more[First posted in 2015 on the occasion of the visit of ‘Rockstar’ Pope Francis to the Philippines. Here is the original introduction: During the visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines, a ‘sea of humanity’ —as media practitioners term the nonstop-overwhelming-welcome and send-off—was phenomenal. Those of us on the sidelines (the non-Catholic flock) watched the […]
Read more[First posted 2012. “AJH”— Abraham Joshua Heschel—as you must have already noticed from the frequency we feature his writings—is a favorite resource person of ours, whose words we quoted in our Statement of Faith. That quote is the opening of his essay, the title of which is the title of this article. Being a […]
Read more[First posted in 2014. We know from reading the “Old Testament” of the Christian Bible, that Israel was clearly the chosen people/nation of the “OT God”. Christian teaching claims that not only did the New Testament supersede the Old Testament, but that believers in Jesus Christ have collectively taken the place of Israel! Hence, the virtual […]
Read more[First posted in 2013; another “looking back, moving forward” post; always good to remember the beginnings of our journey toward Sinai6000, if only to appreciate how far we have ‘travelled’ in Torah re-education/rediscovery in the last six years!—Admin1] For a whole year, no one seemed to notice the slight change we made […]
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