Years ago, I did the same with the Scriptures that pointed to Jesus (Yeshua). After much study, I was convinced that the Jewish Bible and the New Testament were correct and that Jewish tradition was wrong. Jesus (Yeshua) was/is the Messiah and is Deity and is fully God incarnate....
I would argue that it is this inflexibility that cuts people off by making our religion inaccessible in the modern world. As a Liberal rabbi, I want as many Jewish households as possible to experience a Seder. I am less concerned over the exact moment of its occurrence, or that every ...
Berlin made his references to Herder, to be sure, not only quite explicit, and drew a clear line connecting Jewish nationalism with the father of volksgeist: I think that it is true to say that there are certain basic needs, for example—for food, shelter, security and, if we accept ...
Historian Flavius Josephus wrote one of the earliest non-biblical accounts of Jesus. The first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who according to Ehrman “is far and away our best source of information about first-century Palestine,” twice mentions Jesus inJewish Antiquities, his massive ...
But it remained in use liturgically in Jewish communities (who only ever read the Scriptures in their original languages) until it was intentionally revived by European Jews in the late 19thto early 20thcenturies. Aramaic: The Language of Jesus ...
Observing the Sabbath is rooted in the balance between rest and worship, in line with Jesus’s teaching that highlights the Sabbath’s purpose of serving human well-being and spiritual freedom. When God “rested on the seventh day from all his work which He had done (Genesis 2:2), He wa...
by the resurrection narrative in the Gospels, shifted their primary day of communal worship and rest from the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) to the first day of the week, Sunday. This choice symbolizes the Christian belief in the significance of Christ's resurrection, as recorded in the New ...
Growing up in a Fundamentalist church, I came to know by heart moral tales in the Bible like the Old Testament story of how the ravenously hungry Esau gave his birthright away to his trickster brother, Jacob, for a bowl of soup—called “a mess of pottage.” My third collage box is di...
Finally, we know that Josephus also catalogs this event. Most people do assert the authority of Josephus as a historian. The Jewish people had a strong heritage that stemmed from the events of the coat of many colors. This story would have been woven into the very fabric of their ...
1. Darkness points to the simple fact of human ignorance. Those who are "in the dark" are those who lack knowledge. To the Jewish mind, this metaphor had particular application to the Gentile world - a world that had not received the grace of God through the revelation of the Torah...