[“TSTL” is our acronym for “Thus saith the Lord.” Here are 2 translations focusing on scripture about the Sabbath.—Admin1.] Translation 1: Artscroll’s The Stone Edition, TANACH Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and […]
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[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[This post slightly changed its title, it used to be “Oy Searchers, need help?” The reason for the change is — search terms are few and far between. That could signify one of two trends — visitors find their way to this website without entering a search term, and that’s good . . . or perhaps […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2013; we are revisiting as a result of many searchers interested in The Jewish Mystique by Ernest Van Den Haag. Sharing Chapter 5 of this MUST READ book. For visuals connected to this topic, check this link: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/155833/postcards-anti-semitic—-Admin1] ————————– WHY ANTI-SEMITISM? Jews “cause” both anti-Semitism and pro-Semitism; […]
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 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 was first posted in 2012 and time for a repost as part of our “looking back” series during this season of introspection in preparation for the biblical feast of Shavuot, the giving of the Torah on Sinai. What does it mean for humankind to be made in God’s “image” or “likeness” —- when He has no […]
Read more[First posted in 2014, usually timed for Good Friday which you might think should be Bad Friday since it commemorates the Christian Savior’s death . . . but surprise, surprise, it turns out to be Good after all because it was a triumph over Evil, among other ‘good’ victorious accomplishments included in the God-Man’s final […]
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 […]
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