One of the longest ‘search terms’ landed on our website on 1/12/14.  Automatically, it was added to the daily updated post intended as aid for searchers:  Yo Searchers! Can we help you? – January 2014.  Since it was in the form of a question which had ‘loaded’ implications coming from a mindset that was obviously […]

To:   whatjewsbelieve@hotmail.com  Fr:  BAN@S6K Subject: I Samuel 28::8-20   Q:   SHALOM RABBI FEDEROW—– THE ACCOUNT OF SAUL ASKING THE WITCH OF ENDOR, TO CALL SAMUEL FROM THE DEAD, PUZZLES OUR SHABBAT TORAH STUDY GROUP A LOT.  WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY THE LORD GAVE THE WITCH THE POWER TO CALL SAMUEL FROM THE DEAD.  WE […]

1 Samuel 28:3-25 is a strange text to bring up after the series of articles on the non-existence of the devil, demonic spirits, and ghosts. This episode appears  to promote the belief that the spirit of the dead can be conjured up through the agency of a medium like those simulated in seances today. This […]

[This is part of our series on No Devil/No Hell/No Demonic Spirits/Occult.  We left the question hanging when we encountered this strange episode since we were not sure if our interpretation of the verse is in accordance with Jewish thinking, so as we are wont to do when we’re uncertain or can’t agree, we “ask […]

Question:  Why did G-d take an animal’s life to provide clothing of skin for Adam and Eve? What’s wrong with covering nakedness with leaves?   This gives Christians/Messianics a springboard to justify blood atonement that only Jesus could fulfill, “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.”   Answer: Rabbi M. Younger/Aish.com   […]

Question:   If there is no such thing as “original sin”, then please explain this verse: Psalm 51:7 “Behold in iniquity was I fashioned and in sin did my mother conceive me.”   Answer:  Rabbi M. Younger/Aish.com   Shalom –   If one uses “original sin” to mean that all individuals are decreed to damnation unless they […]

Ask the Rabbi     S6K:  Why is Seth the one “in the likeness of Adam” instead of Adam’s firstborn, Cain?     Clarification:  Rabbi Eliahu Levenson:  Please give me the Verse you are looking at please.   S6K:  Sorry, Rabbi, for not giving the exact verse about Seth. Genesis 5 opens with the book […]