The article presents several views from rabbis regarding envy in Judaism teaching. Gershon Winkler notes the negative and positive attributes of envy and states that emotions are creations of God and will have their own time. Fred Scherlinder Dobb mentions that envy is healthy when it motivates ...
Furthermore Pinchas: It is only by Christian grace and forgiveness that the greater portion of Jews survive, as Judaism does nothing but try to destroy Christianity and all non-Jews regardless of faith. A tip of my hat to Adonis Tate, above, as well. I have also come to the firm conclu...
Why hell is destruction, not eternal torment. Absolute Biblical proof of conditional immortality. What was taught in the Old Testament? What did Judaism teach? In-depth discussion on Conditional Immortality, Annihilationism, Traditionalism, and more! He
In Judaism, beliefs vary about a last day of judgment for all mankind. Some rabbis hold that there will be such a day following the resurrection of the dead. Others hold that this accounting and judgment happens when one dies. Still others hold that the last judgment only applies to the g...
the word of God, which is the source of their new birth. Notice how Peter describes the Word of God as functioning to purify, protect, and provide new birth. This is consistent with rabbinic Judaism understanding the scriptures as the word of God, which Purifies: The scriptures teach th...
Judaism, conversely, is about what you do: a good life is defined by carrying out the mitzvot (usually translated as “commandments”). The Old Testament is generally concerned with practice rather than belief. This continues to the (accurate!) modern aphorism that being a good Jew does not...
Uriah humbled himself before the Ark, and sons of Japheth would later accept the Virgin Mary as their mother, more so than the Jews. What does Talmudic Judaism teach of the fulfillment of the Ark, the Virgin Mary? The Talmud teaches that Mary “played the harlot with carpenters.” ...
Jonathan Levi: That's amazing and I think it's really interesting, you know, I recently learned about kind of the origins of modern Judaism, even though growing up with it and in a homo deuce, I believe you all know Harare's book and he talks about this, you know, when the second...
I’ve spoken about Judaism’s narrow definition of personhood, and the exceptions our tradition makes to the commandment to “be fruitful and multiply.” I’m not going to do that tonight, for a couple of reasons. First of all, I’m tired. I’ve been learning and teaching about this ...
Zarathushtra does not speculate on the origin of the two mentalities - were they both created by God, or did they already exist simultaneously when they "first got together?" When did they first get together - in a mythical time before human beings, or in the first moral awakening of ...