[This was first posted in 2014. Sukkot this year 5777/2016 falls on October 17.—Admin1.] ———– The first time I attended a Sukkot festival was when (then-messianics-now-Sinaites) VAN and BAN invited me to their congregation’s celebration. If I didn’t know they were into Christ-centered Messianic Judaism (that sounds like a triple oxymoron), I would have […]
[This was first posted in 2014. Sukkot this year 5777/2016 falls on October 17.—Admin1.] ———– The first time I attended a Sukkot festival was when (then-messianics-now-Sinaites) VAN and BAN invited me to their congregation’s celebration. If I didn’t know they were into Christ-centered Messianic Judaism (that sounds like a triple oxymoron), I would have […]
Read more[First posted on September 26,2012. Who better than the Rabbis best explain the feasts of Israel, and particularly Yom Kippur which is observed sundown Oct. 12 to sundown Oct. 13 this year of 5777/2016. We checked all the Jewish websites on our links and decided the best teaching article to feature here is that of Chief Rabbi […]
Read more[First posted inv2013. The instructions for the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) are found in this chapter. For an informative discussion of this most important holiday of the Jewish year, please go to http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm except remember that Jews today observe this commanded feast without a Temple and therefore without the animal sacrificial offerings. The original […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. This is from Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. What is strange to us gentiles who stand to gain from an informative book like this, is the fact that the book was actually intended for Jews who are— […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. This is from Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. What is strange to us gentiles who stand to gain from an informative book like this, is the fact that the book was actually intended for Jews who are— […]
Read moreWe have a whole series debunking the belief in the devil, fallen angels, demonic spirits—yes, despite the teaching of Paul of Tarsus and their existence, prominence and predominance in the life of the Christian Savior Jesus in-the-flesh in the gospels and the resurrected triumphant Jesus in battle with Satan in the last book of Revelation. Now […]
Read more[First posted November 3, 2014. Please refer to the previous post: REVISIT: How now do we observe biblical feasts? -1 Looking back to where Sinaites were September 2012, this and part I demonstrate we had started shedding our Jew-wannabe initial tendency; we have managed to wean ourselves from what we started recognizing as more ‘Jewish’ […]
Read more[This was originally posted two years ago, September 26, 2013, reposted September 6, 2015. This is a timely revisit since we are into the spring festivals commanded to Israel in Leviticus 23, specifically Pesach (Passover) Chag HaMatzot, (Unleavened Bread), Shavuot (Pentecost). Originally this post was timed for the autumn feasts of Trumpets (Yom Teruah), Day […]
Read more[First posted November 28, 2012; about time to review! Dr. Jordan Rubin in his book The Maker’s Diet was the first to catch our attention regarding what’s in ‘unclean meat’ when he wrote that the death enzymes “cadaverine” and “putrescine” are byproducts from the meat of unclean animals; he says they are useful in nature because […]
Read more[First posted on August 19,2013. This is from: Pentateuch & Haftarahs, reformatting and highlights added.–Admin1.] THE SACRIFICIAL CULT I. SACRIFICE: HEBREW AND HEATHEN According to the Bible and Talmud, the institution of sacrifice is as old as the human race. The study of primitive man, likewise, traces its origins back to the very beginnings of […]
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