What is God's wife's name? God had a wife,Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshipped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. In 1967, Raphael Patai was the first historian to mention that the ancient Israelites worshipped both Yahweh and As...
Yishuv (Hebrew: ישוב,literally "settlement"), Ha-Yishuv (Hebrew: הישוב, the Yishuv), or Ha-Yishuv Ha-Ivri (Hebrew: הישוב העברי, the Hebrew Yishuv) is the body of Jewish residents in the Land of Israel (corresponding to the...
Part of the popularity of Israel is political, other merchants say; people want to support Israel so if they are going to spend a bit more on a good kosher wine, they naturally choose Israeli. Are all kosher winemakers Jewish? No. There are winemakers like Philip and Sheryl Jones of ...
Rabbi Larry Hoffman tells us that, while Chad Gadya probably originated as a French or German drinking song (which is certainly what it feels like), it came to be “an allegory on Israel’s fate, each of the victors in the song representing another (and later) kingdom to which the Jews...
Over Dor Skuler’s shoulder on the Zoom call from his home in Ramat Gan, Israel, a little lamp-like robot is winking on and off while we talk about it. “You can see ElliQ behind me here,” he says. Skuler’s company, Intuition Robotics, develops these devices for older people, an...
The Holy Qur'an (ch.61:6 ) declares that Jesus announced unto the people of Israel the coming of Ahmad: "And when Jesus, the son of Mary said: 'Children of Israel, I am sent to you by Allah to confirm the Torah that is before me, and to give news of a Messenger who will come...
although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind toput confidence in the flesh,I have far more: circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to ...
Paul reminds us of Israel on his journey in the Exodus that these are the people of God explicitly. These are the people of God and yet many of them die in rebellion in the wilderness. Being a member of the people of God doesn’t guarantee that you will persevere to the end. That ...
So Satan comes to the garden, described as having put it into the heart of a serpent, to tempt Adam and Eve. That he should be identified with a serpent is a lie from the start. We know from the story of the brazen serpent when Moses and the children of Israel are...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran