Genealogies Christian Argument: 1. Genesis 49:10; Isaiah 11:1; Jeremiah 23:5; 33:17 and Eze. 34:23,24 do not state any reason why the Messiah cannot be descended from David on his mother’s side. Please provide the scripture that omits this possibility. Response:…
Semantics Christian Argument: Allow me to preface each rebuttal by stating that The Lord Jesus Christ never mentioned the word “Christian” or “Christianity” or even religion. To that, the word religion is not found in the Tanakh. Response: Playing semantics…
Let’s look at Isaiah 53 in context and I will show you that this chapter is talking about Israel and NOT Jesus. Remember that the entire context involves Isaiah chapters 52, 53, and 54. There are four servant songs in…
Christian Assertion: The three persons (Father, Spirit, Word) of the trinity is mentioned in Genesis 1:1-3. In the beginning of God’s creation of the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was astonishingly empty, and darkness was on the face…
*Long post….I am writing an update to my original post iBelieve: Thoughts of Jewish Topics II 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…
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…
Image: WOW Torah Reading [Wikipedia] I am sorry that it has been so long since I have posted here or put anything up on YouTube. I have been going through my own spiritual journey …. I’m trying to figure out where…
Parshat Re’eh In-Depth “See, I give you today a blessing and a curse (Deuteronomy 11:26) Freedom of choice has been granted to every man: if he desires to turn toward a good path and be righteous, the ability to do…
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 Vaetchanan In-Depth “I beseeched G‑d at that time (Deuteronomy 3:23) Prayer is called by ten names: cry, howl, groan, song, encounter, stricture, prostration, judgment and beseeching. [These synonyms for prayer are derived from: Exodus 2:23–24, Jeremiah 7:16, Psalms 18:6,…
