in order to work hard, and to sweat, and to push forward and to grow, in order that we should be worthy and feel worthy in the next world to receive our reward. This is basic, basic Jewish philosophy. Sometimes people ask me, “Do Jews believe in the next world?” It’s the whol...
The Hebrew word for angel,mal’ach, means messenger, and the angels in early biblical sources deliver specific information or carry out some particular function. In the Torah, an angel prevents Abraham from slaughtering his son Isaac, appears to Moses in the burning bush and gives direction to ...
The Torah consists of five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, referred to as the Five Books of Moses. Traditionally, going back to the ancient Israelites, Jews believed that Moses himself wrote all five of “his” books. Over time, however, certain inconsistencies caused...
Belief in Torah from Heaven generally brings with it the feeling of mitzvah obligation.[10](The word mitzvah means “command” not “good deed.”) God commands the Jews to keep the Torah and thus we do it because we must. In fact, R. Chanina, a third generation amora from the land ...
3 Do the Jews then have any advantage over the Gentiles? Or is there any value in being circumcised? 2 Much, indeed, in every way! In the first place, God trusted his message to the Jews. 3 But what if some of them were not faithful? Does this mean that God will not be faith...
haters that we Jewsdorun the world. But also, we’ve been running things for a very long time, manipulating world events for our own needs. We can even tell them that many famous people throughout history were actually Jewish — part of the plot to perpetuate the myth and keep us in ...
Ten percent of Protestants, 21 percent of Roman Catholics, and 52 percent of Jews do NOT believe in God. That’s the surprising word from a new survey by Harris Interactive of 2,306 adults that shows belief in God varies quite widely among different segments of the American public. How of...
“The future of the Jews, I believe, will always be in Israel; it’s just a matter of time. Personally, I think that I’m going to end up here. I want to finish my degree first,” she said. Watching the events on US campuses since Oct. 7 “made me want to stand up for Isra...
Can you give me a reason why the Bible is the Word of God? Because every religion in the world will say that their book is the word of God. Why do you believe exclusively that this book, the Bible, is the Word of God? The apostle Peter wrote to us a very important ...
This material is followed by a set of instructions concerning the payment of the Temple tax required of all Jews in antiquity to ensure adequate support for the Temple so that it might serve as the holy center of the nation (Lev 27).[1] The Holiness Code Modern interpreters have long ...