Why do people pray to idols? What does idol worship mean today? What is an idol? Is there new idols today? Idol worship begins in the mind—it starts with an incorrect perception of who HaShem is. It says you can turn an abstract, invisible God into a concrete, metal, wood or plastic god, which of course, is impossible. It is written by the Rambam’s 13 principles of the Jewish faith: “I believe with perfect faith that God does not have a body. Physical concepts do not apply to Him. There is nothing whatsoever that resembles Him at all.” Idol worship doesn’t just mean singing and dancing and bowing in front statues, it does means believing in any force, object or item outside of the infinite, or the all-powerful God Himself; an angel, a man of God, a constellation, a force of nature, a living creature—or simply a funny-looking [...]
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What does the Hebrew title Maran means? Maran means exalted Rabbi, in modern Hebrew means that this person is a Rabbi of Rabbis. This is the way Maran Yeshua is spoken in the Aramaic Peshita (The Aramaic Good News of Redemption), this term is also used frequently in the Talmud. Till today, the most prominent rabbis in Israel are called Maran, like ...
Weekly Sidra: Tazria (she conceived) Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus 14:1-15:33 Haftorah: Melachim Bet / Kings II 7:3-20 There were four men, lepers, outside the gate. They said to one another, "Why should we sit here waiting for death? 4 If we decide to go into the town, what with the famine in the town, we shall die there; ...
“This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, bade the Israelites farewell before he died.” [Devarim 33:1] This is the last parsha that we read as part of Simchat Torah (Joy of the Torah). We actually read the last portion of Devarim and then read the first chapter of Bereshit (Genesis). The final Parasha in Devari ...
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