[Source : Center of Jewish Studies – http://www.cjss.org.cn/200706207.htm, reformatting and highlights added. Please go to the site for the complete article as well as the sources of information cited in these selected excerpts following a timeline of Jewish presence in the Philippines.] Manila Jews’ Communal Origins and Commercial Activity The Marrano brothers Jorge and Domingo Rodriguez […]

Discourse: S6K/Messianic — Sacrificial System in TNK

October 10, 2012 Leave a Comment

[This is part of a series under ‘Discourse’ —- the discussants are Sinaites ‘S6K’ who used to be members of Messianic Judaism, groups that were established in the Asia-Pacific countries by “RW”, their bible ‘Christian’ teacher and leader for almost two decades. The specific topic is on Temple ‘offerings’ in the TNK which was called […]

Source: Exodus/Shemoth 24 – "the sight of the Glory of YHVH (was) like a consuming fire" -- We gentiles living in this 21st century are able to experience that climactic moment [God appearing on Sinai] by reading and studying this portion of the TORAH. Indeed, we see YHWH not quite as dramatically as the mixed multitude did, but perhaps even better through these accounts recorded in Exodus. There is a saying that hindsight is 20/20 vision, i.e., we begin to see and understand the question marks in our past only later in our lives, as we mature and hopefully become wiser and more introspective about the meaning or seeming meaninglessness of happenings in history, whether personal, national, or universal. Søren Kierkegaard adds a twist to this: “Only 20:20 vision is hindsight. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” As we endeavor to understand each portion in the TORAH of YHWH, much of it will seem irrelevant to our current situation but if we see beyond the time-bound cultural and religious situations and begin to understand what truly has not change—human nature and the Great Revelator who designed the perfect blueprint for living in peace, happily and contentedly with family, community, country and the nations, the unquestionable conclusion is: TORAH is relevant to ALL humankind, not just to Israel, to this very day.

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Discourse: S6K/Messianic — Sacrificial System in TNK