Dear Christians… Please listen to what I say and don’t take this personally. I believe that most of you are sincere about your beliefs and really believe that you must spread the “good news” so others will not be eternally…
CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT: Jesus is God. According to the Apostle Paul, no one here on Earth sees clearly ( 1 Corinthians 13:12). In the Revelation of the Bible, Jesus sends His ‘angel’ to His Prophet John, ‘from heaven clearly’ (Revelation 22:16,…
Image: Khirbet Qumran [Wikipedia] Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Tanakh, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran near the ruins of the…
Parshat Eikev In-Depth “Because you hearken to these laws (Deuteronomy 7:12) The commentaries dwell on the Hebrew word eikev in this verse—an uncommon synonym for “because.” Many see a connection with the word akeiv (same spelling, different pronunciation), which means…
Parshat Vayikra In-Depth “Said Rav Assi: Why do young children begin [the study of Torah] with the book of Leviticus, and not with Genesis? Surely it is because young children are pure, and the korbanot are pure; so let the…
Aliya-by-Aliya Parashat Vayeitzei 5762 “There are different explanations concerning the wording of this pasuk. As to why the Torah mentions Yaakov’s departure, Rashi explains that a prominent person not only influences his surroundings, but his absence from a place is…
Aliya-by-Aliya Parashat B’reishit “One traditional view holds that the first day of Tishrei of year number 1 was Day Six of Creation, the day that mammals, including humans, were created. The day that Adam and Chava were placed in Gan…
If one is to truly understand where one stand in the world regarding religion it is important to have at least some working knowledge of the various other religions of the world. It is also important to understand the basic…
“…and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.’ And it was so” (Genesis 1:15). These lights shall also function to provide light to the earth. Rashi explains that the earth…
*Long post…. I am writing an update to my original post iBelieve: Thoughts of Jewish Topics after doing a lot of soul-searching and searching the Torah and Tanakh. Again, this is not meant to be a definitive statement on my…
