From: Aaron Eby
Aaron Eby is a staff writer for First Fruits of Zion and Vine of David. He is the chief translator of the Delitzsch Hebrew/English Gospels and the author of Biblically Kosher and Getting Started in Hebrew, as well as several other articles and resources.
Bible Design Blog reviews the DHE
It has been almost a year since we first shipped the Delitzsch Hebrew/English Gospels. This project was such a labor of love. Our small team of translators, editors, reviewers, designers, and managers pored over minute details for what seemed like an eternity. Our primary goal was to bring honor to the Messiah Yeshua. We felt so humbled and awed by the task of presenting his words to the world....
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Hosting Your First Passover Seder
Passover is coming! The Torah instructs us about many things on this holiday, including: We are to treat this season a holy and festive time (Leviticus 23:4-6). There are special foods that we are to eat (Exodus 12:8) and not eat (Exodus 12:15-19). We are to tell our children on that day about how God took us out from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 13:8). Since ancient times, all of...
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Eating biblically? Let's chew the fat.
Many people get the feeling that rabbinic kosher laws are complicated and overly stringent, but the biblical kosher laws are as simple as "these are the animals you can eat, and these are the ones you can't." But the Bible's food laws actually go far beyond this. The Scriptures go so far as to limit what parts of the animal may be eaten. For example, certain fat portions called chelev...
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Is Rosh HaShanah the New Year?
The Torah commands that we observe a certain holiday on the first day of the seventh month. Scripturally, it is given two similar names: yom teru'ah (Day of Blasting/Shouting) in Numbers 29:1 and zichron teru'ah (Remembrance of Blasting/Shouting) in Leviticus 23:24. Jewish tradition refers to this day as Rosh HaShanah, which means "Beginning (lit., 'head') of the Year." But how can the beginning of the year occur in the...
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Intro to the Shema (Part III)
Tags: bible, christianity, god, Jesus, jewish roots, Judaism, messianic judaism, religion, shema, torah, yeshua
The Shema begins with an acknowledgment of God's oneness, followed by a commandment to love Him. I have showed how those two concepts are related and that acknowledgment of God's oneness leads us to love Him. Our text continues by instructing that we must teach God's words repeatedly to our children, and speak of them when we are sitting in our homes, when we are walking on the road, when...
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Intro to the Shema (Part II)
This is the second in a series of posts about the Shema. See this post to read the first part. This series is actually a part of a larger study of the traditional Jewish prayers. When describing the other main sections in the prayer service, I described how they can be compared to sections of the Temple, as if the person who offers the prayers is making a pilgrimage to...
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Intro to the Shema (Part I)
One of the most well-known elements of Jewish prayer is the Shema. The Shema is a core part of the prayer services every day, in the morning and in the evening. The Shema means much more to Judaism than simply a Scripture reading or a daily prayer. It is a summary of faith, mission, and identity all in one. It is often the first verse of the Bible that a...
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More posts by Aaron Eby
- 7 Biblical Goals of the Seder
- 10 Tips for a Smooth Sailing Seder
- The Vine of David Haggadah
- The Double-Standard of Abolishing Torah
- Birkat HaChammah: The Blessing of the Sun
- Gentiles and Torah
- Torah Portions Facebook App
- Letter Codes Reveal Messiah?
- You can trust your Abba
- Prophet of the Second Exile (Part 2)
- Prophet of the Second Exile (Part 1)
- Archaeological Find Names Zedekiah's Official
- Messianic Jews in Prison Are Denied Kosher Meals
- Mussaf: The Other Lost Mo'ed
- How Good
- America Believes in God
- Followup: Bible Contest Results
- Eat Parsley In Remembrance of Me (Part 2 of 2)
- Eat Parsley In Remembrance of Me (Part 1 of 2)
- Textual Criticism of an E-mail
- The Back of the Bus, part 2
- Siddur: Unity and Continuity
- Content of the Grace After Meals
- 4th Century Christians Prayed Amidah
- Yeshua and the Grace After Meals
- First Century Grace After Meals Rediscovered
- "Ashrei" revisited
- Verses of Pruning
- The Preliminary Service
- Shacharit: Entering Through The Veil
- A Prayer Upon Arising
- Navigating the Siddur
- Our Father as a Jewish Prayer
- Benefits of the Synagogue Liturgy
- Answering Objections to Liturgical Prayer
- The Power of Unity in Prayer
- Worship on His Terms
- אשרי is the man who can read Hebrew
- Our Relationships With God
- The Amazing Simplicity of Prayer
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