The Soloveitchik Who Loved Jesus: A Yale president’s forebear was an enigmatic and pro-Christian member of the famed rabbinic dynasty. Peter Salovey’s recent appointment to the presidency of Yale University, founded by Congregationalist ministers, was cause for celebration for those who admire the Soloveitchik dynasty, an illustrious family of rabbis from Lithuania that includes Rabbi […]
Jesus’ surprising journey through hostile and heretical territory has a meaning beyond any surface explanation. In a very real sense, God’s unfathomable plan and mission from the time His royal son was eternally conceived in the mind of God, was to bind in redemptive unity all of his beloved creation. Jesus was sent to make peace between God and people as well as between people and people. The accomplishing of this grand purpose began with an uncomfortable encounter between Jesus and those who practically lived next door – the Samaritans.
When people asked Jesus about the greatest of all commandments, he answered without hesitation. Jesus just like Rabbi Hillel before him affirmed that both of the commandments had to do with love – One was to be directed to the One True God and another to God’s imperfect people. As you know, there are all […]
Video Insight of the Week: What does Rainbow mean in Hebrew? The Hebrew word for Rainbow is קֶשֶׁת — Qeshet Interestingly enough Keshet, other than Rainbow, also means a war bow. We can easily see the connection between Rainbow and a bow in English, but since it is one and the same word in Hebrew […]
There are all kinds of somewhat strange (and really strange) things about this video and about Ariel Cohen Alloro. But it is surely intriguing to watch it and no doubt would be interesting to discuss it too within our study group. (You will have to get over the two participants’ interrupting each other a lot […]
The authorship, addressees, and setting of the New Testament Epistle of James remain disputed. In church tradition, the dominant position is held by the attribution of the Letter to James, Jesus’ brother (or cousin)—the person mentioned in Matt 13:55–57 and Mark 6:3–4 (absent from the Lukan parallel in 4:16–30). It deserves notice that in both […]
In the world of the Old Testament text, the priest is one of four principal mediators between God and God’s people. The four mediators, each defined by their function in society, are: priest, king, sage and prophet. Each one has a particular role in mediating God’s presence in the life of a people called to […]
When New Testament scholars address the topic of “Paul and Judaism,” the conjunction generally signals an adversative: Paul or Judaism; Paul against Judaism; Paul outside of Judaism; or Paul, not Judaism. Traditionally, the emphasis is on the distance between Paul’s new religion based upon Jesus Christ and Judaism, his former religion. The level of continuity […]
Shortly after declaring Israel’s Independence, Defense Minister and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion issued an order that founded the IDF – Israel Defense Forces – צבא ההגנה לישראל, commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym TZAHAL (צ.ה.ל) But what does TZAHAL mean in Hebrew? TZAHAL (צ.ה.ל) stands for – צבא הגנה לישראל (we pronounce it Tseva Hagana […]
TL;DR: The Council of Jamnia was a gathering of Jewish scholars around 90 AD in the town of Jamnia (Yavneh) that is widely believed to have shaped the boundaries of the Jewish biblical canon, especially after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 AD. Jamnia or Yavneh (יַבְנֶה) in the 1st century AD was […]
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