Suppose you’re traveling to work and you see a stop sign. What do you do? That depends on how you apply exegesis to the sign. 1.A postmodernist deconstructs the sign (i.e., he knocks it over with his car), thus ending forever the tyranny of the north-south traffic over the east-west traffic. 2.Similarly, a Marxist sees a stop sign as an instrument of class conflict. He concludes that the bourgeoisie use the north-south road and obstruct the progress of the workers on the east-west road. 3.A serious and educated Catholic believes that he cannot understand the stop sign apart from its interpretive community and their tradition. Observing that the interpretive community doesn’t take it too seriously, he doesn’t feel obligated to take it too seriously either. 4.An average Catholic (or Orthodox or Coptic or Anglican or Methodist or Presbyterian or whatever) doesn’t bother to read the sign but he’ll [...]
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The earliest followers and disciples of Rabbi Yeshua of Nazareth believed that Yeshua was the promised Mashiach (Messiah) of Israel and the Redeemer of all nations. However, they did not believe that Yeshua came to start a new religion or to abolish the Torah (Teaching, Instruction) of Moshe; instead, they continued to worship the God of Abraham, I ...
The crafting of Shofars is an ancient art that hasn’t changed much for thousands of years. Every Shofar starts out as a raw horn of an animal. There are several types of animals whose horns can me made into a Shofar. The most common Shofar is made from the horn of a ram, that is a male sheep that is at least a year old. The ...
Messianic Judaism – The Need for Halacha (Jewish Law) This is the next in a series of articles about the growth of Messianic Judaism within the broader Jewish movement. This time I will focus on the need for Messianic Halacha. Wikipedia defines Halacha as follows: Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה ) — also transli ...
B’nei Anusim, mix marriages, and non-jews are welcome to join us for services. No prior experience needed, warm welcoming. Visiting a Synagogue Non-Jews are always welcome to attend services in a synagogue, so long as they behave as proper guests. Proselytizing and "witnessing" to the congregation are not proper guest behavior. Woul ...
Weekly Sidra: Phinehas (Pinchas) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 25:10-30:1 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 18:46-19:21 Frightened, he fled at once for his life. He came to Beer-Sheba, which is in Judah, and left his servant there; 4 he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush and sat down un ...
If Messianic Judaism claims to be a Judaism within the wider Jewish Community, than it behooves us to consider the place of halachah (The way we understand Torah and do what it says) in our midst. Messianic Judaism is more than just a form of “Biblical Judaism.” To make such a claim denies the history of the Jewish people over the last ...
I strongly remember the story of the apostle Shimeon (Simon also called Peter), who said to the elders or Pharisees “We ought to obey God rather than men”. When I reflect on this story I’m blown away at Shimeon’s boldness not only does he stand in front of these people who just a day before had him thrown in jail, but he als ...
Judaism has several different “new years.” This is not as strange a concept as it sounds at first blush; in the western world, we have the calendar year (January-December), the school year (September-June), and many businesses have fiscal years. It’s basically the same idea with the various Jewish new years. On this day, it is cus ...
The Torah says: “HaShem spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be unclean seven days; she shall be unclean as at the time of her menstrual infirmity. — 3 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.” [Lev 12:1-3] This week we have a doub ...
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