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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Shabbat (sabbath) is the only ritual observance instituted in the Ten Commandments. Primarily a day of rest and spiritual enrichment, the word ‘Shabbat’ comes from the root Shin-Bet-Tav, meaning ‘to cease, to end, or to rest’. The injunction to “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy” is the fourth of the Ten ...
We mark the passage of time between Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot (Pentecost) by the “counting of the omer.” A period of seven weeks is observed in which each day is counted off for 49 days ending on the fiftieth day known as Shavuot /Pentecost (Pentecost-means 50). It is the number of days from the barley harvest to the wheat harvest. ...
Do you know the differences between keduash (santity) and yeshuah (salvation)? HaShem gives us yeshuah. We believe that through having emuna (faith) in HaShem that He send us our holy Messiah that we are brought near and obtain the yeshuah of HaShem as a gift (insofar we maintain active faith in HaShem in the merit of our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua). Kedu ...
Yom Kippur Summary Date: Tenth of Tishri. | Duration: One day. | Names: Together with Rosh Hashanah, it is known as Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe); Shabbat Shabbaton (Sabbath of Sabbaths). Source: "On the tenth day of this seventh month is a day of atonement. It shall be for you a [day of] holy assembly and you shall ...
Birkat Hachama (ברכת החמה, "Blessing of the Sun") refers to a Jewish blessing that is recited on the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. When the sun returns to the same position, at the same time of the week, t ...
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