[Resurrecting an article from 2013, by Sinaite VAN (In Memoriam), on the occasion of the universal celebration of Shavuot/Pentecost which is not for Jews only, but for Gentiles as well. As we keep reiterating, LAW or the Torah is not obsolete nor passe; in fact, contrary to some teaching that we are no longer under […]
Read more[First posted in 2013; contributed by BAN@S6K. Translation is EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses. For two other excellent articles, please go to this links: Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Why the giving of the document that would permanently change the world could only be done in desolation ARTICLE: Israel’s Wedding – Thoughts on Shavuot from Chief Rabbi […]
Read more[First posted in 2014, this article is the most frequently clicked of our over 1000+ reading list. It is the last in the series from the book authored by Robert Schoen. Earlier posts include: Must Read: Robert Schoen – 5 – Jews, Jesus, and Christianity/Judaism Must Read: Robert Schoen – 4 – Going to Church: […]
Read more[First posted in 2014, part of our series of commentaries on Torah, specifically the book of Exodus. When we were Christians, we were taught that Christians are under “grace, not “law” because of what the Christian Savior — God Himself as Son-Man, Jesus the Christ — had accomplished on earth. What accomplishment is that? Obeying […]
Read more[First posted in 2014; —Admin1] ————- Sinaites were invited to a gathering of Jewish men (and their partners) who have formed a local Jewish club in our city of residence. The occasion for the gathering was to meet a young Jewish rabbi . . . he looked like the stereotype you see in […]
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 2015. The “new”covenant claimed by Christianity as God’s covenant with the Church is found nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures, even as Jeremiah 31:30-33 is cited as the ‘Old Testament’ prooftext. When you read those verses carefully and closely, you will discover that the same parties that cut a covenant at Sinai are named as […]
Read more[First posted in 2012; written by Sinaite “ELZ” who has since passed on to Spiritual Sinai to finally meet the God she had loved and sought all her life: God is near, do not fear . . . Friend, Sinaite, goodnight. The Power of Choice – by ELZ@S6K For the short time she was a […]
Read more[First posted in 2012, shortly after we started this website. When a visitor clicks old posts, it gives us the opportunity to review it and decide if it is still relevant to our ever-developing current understanding and convictions. This week, Israel is again in the news, battling it out with an old old enemy that […]
Read more[First posted in 2012; written by Sinaite “ELZ” who has since passed on to Spiritual Sinai to finally meet the God she had loved and sought all her life: God is near, do not fear . . . Friend, Sinaite, goodnight. The Power of Choice – by ELZ@S6K For the short time she was a […]
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