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M. Waldham, “The Breaking of the Tablets,” Judaism 27 (1978): 442-47. Exodus 32:20 tn Here “it” has been supplied. Exodus 32:20 tn Here “it” has been supplied.sn Pouring the ashes into the water running from the mountain in the brook (Deut 9:21) and making them drink ...
intellectual tradition that disparages the animal since Descartes. In his paradigm-shifting piece entitledThe Animal That Therefore I am, Derrida writes, “The animal looks at us, and we are naked before it. Thinking perhaps begins there” (Derrida, 2002:397). The scene he takes as a point ...
Judaism had the Eighteen Benedictions and apparently John the Baptist had a prayer for his disciples as well. Luke 11:2 sn When you pray. What follows, although traditionally known as the Lord’s prayer, is really the disciples’ prayer. It represents how they are to approach God, by ...
Judaism, Heiligman says, “meant family to me, it meant friends, it meant community, it meant ritual that I enjoyed, songs that I enjoyed, food that I—mostly—enjoyed. Rachel is growing up in the kind of happy religious atmosphere that I grew up in. That is a direct lift from my ch...
Ituræa offers a link between the Old Testament and the New. It. was named after Jetur (pronouncedYetur) a son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:15). Aristobulus conquered it about B.C. 55, and offered its inhabitants the choice of exile or Judaism. Some submitted, others found a refuge in...
Today, I feel more Jewish than ever, but as I once told some friends, I can’t unread Matthew. For me, the Beatitudes are the part of the Bible where the celestial grandeur most dazzlingly shines through. So these days I’m enchanted by both Judaism and Christianity. I assent to the ...
“A great miracle happened here. The people of Israel came home and are doing/does wonders here. We have much more to do and to improve, but we are not forgetting that we are here because of them,” Netanyahu said last night as he acknowledged the sacrifice of soldiers and the “un...
“Due to mis-translations of theBible, neither Christianity nor Judaism relates Human souls as aspects of God. Neither admits the Divinity contained within each Human.” “The single most important thing a Human can do is realize their true identity as an aspect of God, a Spirit Being.” ...
In Christianity (and its mother Judaism) ourGod is a God who has a voice, a God who speaks and calls. But God’s speaking is different than our human speaking in an important way. We make a distinction between human speech and action. ...