Parsha Bo
This week’s parsha is Bo: Exodus 10:1-13:16 D’var Torah: In the Middle of the Night Torah Pearls: Parsha Bo This week’s Haftarah is: Jeremiah 46:13-28
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Parsha Va’era
This week’s parsha is Va’era: Exodus 6:2-9:35 D’var Torah: Plagued by the Plagues Torah Pearls: Parsha Va’era This week’s Haftarah is: Ezekiel 28:25-29:21
Did Josephus believe Jesus was the Messiah
Proof: Josephus mentions Jesus.1 Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth…
Why Jews do not accept the “gospels”
I recently received an e-mail from a person asking if the “gospels” are considered canonical and included in the Tanakh. I have answered the person privately but I believe it is important for me to also write a quick, short…
Judaism 101: What is Karaite Judaism
According to the followers of Karaite Judaism, it is the original form of Judaism as shown throughout the Tanakh from the time of the Revelation beginning at Har Sinai. Karaites are a sect of Judaism that believes only in the…
Abraham’s Journeys: Lot Departs (Part II)
Archibald Sayce translated an Akkadian poem the “describes a rain of fire similar in character and effect to that which destroyed the cities of the plain.” He goes on to say that since Chedorlaomer and his allies were the ones…
Parsha Bereishit
This week’s parsha is Bereishit: Genesis 1:1-6:8 D’var Torah: Words Not Spoken . . . Words Not Heard Torah Pearls: Parsha Bereishit This week’s Hatarah is: Isaiah 42:5-43:10
Abraham’s Journeys: Lot Departs (Part I)
Bereishit יג (Genesis 13) 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the…
Abraham’s Journeys: Egypt
Bereishit יב (Genesis 12) 10 And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. According to tradition there was a famine in the land…
Parshat Ki Tetse
This week’s parsha is Ki Tetse (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) Torah Pearls: Ki Tetse Parsha Ki Tetse (Union for Reform Judaism) Parsha Ki Tetse (United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism) Parsha Ki Tetse (Orthodox Union) Parsha Ki Tetse (Jewish Reconstructionist Communities) Parshat Ki…