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To put this another way: When discussing the question of Torah from Heaven and mitzvah observance, we need to decide, which is the cart, and which is the horse? Is it that we happen to believe that God literally dictated the Torah to Moses and taught him the mitzvot and for this ...
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The Birkat Kohanim is an ancient prayer from the Torah that speaks to our highest hopes for blessing. Learn more about this priestly blessing with Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell from the Institute for Jewish Spirituality in New York.
What he was really saying was that the Earth is where man came from. When he dies he is put back into Earth, so what the snake was really saying is that he could bite the prince and that would take him back from where he came from. (Just like in the Torah the snake started out...
What is the Blessing for Hanging a Mezuzah? One should hold the mezuzah against the doorpost in its correct place and recite the blessingbeforepermanently attaching it. The blessing in Hebrew is as follows: Baruch ata Adonai, Elohanu, melech ha'olam, asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzivanu,...
If they had only taken the time to study the Torah with open hearts, ask questions and seek to understand, they would have known the truth instead of making assumptions based on ignorance. When it comes to the Word of God, the more we know, the better. ...
The Jewish holiday of Shavuot celebrates the Israelites receiving God's commandments at Mount Sinai. The holiday of Shavuot is celebrated in the summertime by Jews who spend the first night of the holiday staying up all night to study the Torah with each other at the synagogue. The holiday ...
And yet, here was Jesus, speaking things that did not make sense, things that did not fit with the idea of God that they held. Here he was, this son of Joseph, the lowly carpenter, the one who they had known as a child, the one that they had seen playing with the other kids in...