Shavuotwe revisit the miracle of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, but you might be surprised to know that Rabbinical Judaism believes thattwoTorahs were given to Moses at that time -- thewrittenTorah and theoralTorah (in Kabbalistic traditions there is even athirdor "hidden" Torah as...
How are the Vedas and The Bhagavad Gita different? What do Hindus believe about Brahman? What is the Guru Granth Sahib written in? Do the Vedas mention Krishna? How are the Vedas and the Upanishads similar? When were the Vedas written?
The Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. For thousands of years its been passed down through translators. And sometimes the words that we read today in our Bibles don’t fit with the context the authors were originally using. Tim and Jon have a quick discussion on...
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, the prophets, and the written revelation of God. Even to...
date for when Moses delivered or divined the 613 commandments that make up the Mosaic law. Some scholars believe the date of inception to be between the 16th and 13th centuries BCE. However, Rabbinic teachings suggest Moses was given the Oral Torah in 1312 BCE, meaning the 14th century BC....
And yet, these sources were written in very different historical circumstances. The Torah’s laws are never systematic, and whereas rabbinic law is much more so, the ancient and medieval rabbis never lived in a country run by Jews and did not try to systematize the laws of war. Thus, on...
I always try to point out some of major milestones, and the parts that are written in a visually interesting way. I always tell the person standing closest to Numbers 6:24-26—easily spotted because it looks like an outstretched hand—that landing on this spot in the Torah is a good ...
The Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. For thousands of years its been passed down through translators. And sometimes the words that we read today in our Bibles don’t fit with the context the authors were originally using. Tim and Jon have a quick discussion on a ...
The 72 Elders reached a common understanding and translated the Torah as a single person. The root for doing so was that, as it is written, “God put it in the heart of each.” How could it be possible that 72 different people wrote the exact same text without the slightest error? ...
“The way I became The Ambassador Of Hope was, I was in need of an ambassador of hope myself.” “The key things [the rabbi] taught me was about how to be human.” “The lessons may be religious, but they're still applicable to your life.” “[Getting out of prison] wasn't a...