Tanach The Tanach is the basis of understanding the laws, philosophy, and history of Judaism. As such, studying the Tanach is the first step to understanding the whole of Judaism. The Tanach is divided into three sections: Torah, Nevi’im, and…
Accusation: Throughout the centuries, Jewish scribes rewrote the prophecies concerning the coming Messiah for their Hebrew Bibles to remove any implications of the Messiah being Jesus and Christian. That is why the dead sea scrolls [sic] find was so important…
Accusation: Interestingly enough, Isaiah 53 is called “The Forbidden Chapter” in the Jewish community. Response: Isaiah 53 is not called a forbidden chapter and it is studied by many, many Jews. There is a section from the prophets that is…
Accusation: Hosea 4:6 comes to mind – “my people are destroy from lack of knowledge”. The Jews that knew and understood the prophecies for the Messiah are the ones that brought the message of the Messiah to the Gentiles. Response:…
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…
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…
“…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…
“And God said: ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night…” (Genesis 1:14). Rashi explains that there is an allusion to the creation of these lights on the first day of…
And God said: ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters’ (Genesis 1:6). Rashi explains that “Let there be a firmament” means to let the firmament become strengthened.…
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) The Name of God used in this very first passage of the Torah does not use the personal Name of God (the tetragamatron – ה-ו-ה-י).1 Rashi explains that…
