[Continued from previous posts on READ: What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about JUDAISM by Robert Shoen. This chapter is interesting; it answers the question what makes a person ‘Jewish’. —Admin1.] Even if I have never been a “practicing” or observant Jew, I’m still Jewish. Whether I attend religious services or speak or […]
Read more[If you haven’t done so, please read the introductory post to this series: MUST READ: What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about JUDAISM by Robert Shoen. I’ve said this before: the Jews do not read the “Old Testament”. The reason is, their sacred scriptures are not “old” nor considered a “testament”. What they […]
Read more“Kermit the Frog has said that it’s not easy being green. Well, it’s not easy being anything. Being Jewish presents its own problems, and through the years I have often wished I could explain to my non-Jewish friends, in a simple, nonthreatening manner, what my religion is all about. “ This is the opening […]
Read moreKINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS In the beginning, the SOURCE of LIGHT, whose blinding brilliance dazzled a darkened world when there was not a soul–animal or human— to witness and wonder at the awesome spectacle— the Creator YHWH spoke all matter into existence, one after another according to their function and purpose, designed to […]
Read more[ As of this year 2014, after much study and discussion of the seven “My feasts” commanded in Leviticus 23, Sinaites arrived at an understanding of which of the feasts apply to non-Israelites, that is, gentiles like ourselves. While all of the seven are in Israel’s national experience and historical roots, three of them are in […]
Read more6/7 “descendants of shem ham and japheth map” – Genesis/Bereshith 10: “. . . these are the begetting of the sons of Noah. . . Sons were born to them after the Deluge.” 6/7 “which biblical figure asks, “am i my brother’s keeper?” – Am I my brother’s keeper? An Inconvenient Truth for Cain – 2 […]
Read more5/31 “qodeshiym” – Qodesh/ko’desh – apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness, applied to holiness of God, of places, of things. 5/31 “torah study pdf” – this is too general; we have posts on every chapter and topic of Torah books, as well as commentaries on Torah; please check the sitemap or updated site contents. 5/29 “litery content nehemiah 6″ – A […]
Read more[In the previous post on this chapter, we featured commentary from Pentateuch & Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H.Hertz as well as Sinaite’s discussion; here, the commentary is from EF/Everett Fox, RA/Robert Alter, whose translations are similarly titled The Five Books of Moses; additional commentary is from REF/Richard Elliott Friedman. When there are more than one commentators featured, there is a […]
Read more[If you haven’t checked out this MUST READ resource in our library, here are two posts from the book we’re revisiting here: Gerald L. Schroeder [A Physicist Proves We’ve Been Wrong About God All Along] MUST READ: God According to God, Gerald L. Schroeder God According to God The Creator – 2 “The Science of God” – […]
Read moreExcerpts from MOTIVATIONS FOR FORGERY IF, AS I SHOW LATER, forgery was widely condemned why did people do it? And how did they justify what they were doing in their own eyes? . . . The question of “why” they did it is a bit complicated, and here I need to differentiate between two ideas […]
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