Category: Appointed Times
Fire on the Mountain
Tags: fire, matan torah, Pentecost, shavuot, tongues, Torah
Before tongues of fire ever fell upon the believers in Jerusalem, there was fire on Mount Sinai.
The ancient Jewish Sages considered the biblical feast of Shavuot--also known as Pentecost--to be the anniversary of the day God spoke the Law at Mount Sinai.1
"Three times a year you shall celebrate," the Bible says. (Exodus 23:14-17) For as long as the Temple stood in Jerusalem, all the men of Israel were commanded to make pilgrimage there and worship God on the feasts of Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Weeks) and Sukkot (Tabernacles).
Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose:2 at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. (Deuteronomy 16:16)
This explains why there were so many Jews from all over the world in Jerusalem as recorded in Acts chapter two. They had come to celebrate the feast of Shav...
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Category: Walking Torah
Torah and the Environment
Tags: creation, destroy, earth, earth day, environment, man, nature, polution, tikkun olam, world
Lately we hear a lot of buzz about the environment. There is endless discussion in the news about the environmental damage humans are causing to wildlife habitats and bodies of water. Every major city seems to have a cloud of...
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Category: The Life of Messiah
Encountering Yeshua in the Gospels
Tags: commentary, Franz Delitzsch, Gospels, life of Yeshua, parables, sayings, translation, Yechiel Lichtenstein
It's not like he's looking straight into my face. But I feel I'm standing up close, hearing him speak and watching him touch people in all kinds of ways. Since May 2008, I have been privileged to work on a...
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Category: Appointed Times
Let My People Go
Tags: anomia, Exodus, Passover, remembrance, seder, slaves
Have you ever been to a Passover Seder meal? Did you know that the Last Supper was originally as Passover Seder meal? Christians call it the "Eucharist" or "Communion," but in the days of Jesus and the disciples, it was...
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Category: Discipleship
Divine Invitation
Gentiles should not be ashamed of the fact that they are not Jewish. When Gentiles turn to the God of Israel and his laws, it is amazing and brings him glory. They also, however, should not minimize the uniqueness that belongs to the Jewish people by virtue of their special calling.
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