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The Real Jewish Messiah

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The Real Jewish Messiah Why is this topic so popular? Why does it draw so much attention? One of the most famous themes of the Jewish Bible is the hope…

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The Real Jewish Messiah – Debate

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The Real Jewish Messiah: Rabbi Blumenthal Debates Dr. Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iADIDolucRY https://youtu.be/d5xGZLbheCc ? Over the last year, Dr. Michael Brown and Rabbi Yisroel Blumenthal have engaged in a series of back…

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Freedom

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Freedom “There is no free man but one who busies himself with the study of Torah” (Avot 6:2) Freedom means not being tied down by the boundaries and limitations that…

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Do Not Do Unto Others

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Do Not Do Unto Others The Talmud recounts that a Gentile once approached Hillel with the request that Hillel convert him to Judaism. This Gentile did not want to go…

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The Real Jewish Messiah – Debate

The Real Jewish Messiah: Rabbi Blumenthal Debates Dr. Brown   Over the last year, Dr. Michael Brown and Rabbi Yisroel Blumenthal have engaged in a series of back and forth video presentations on YouTube. These discussions have led to Dr. … Continue reading

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Two Sides of the Same Coin – Proverbs 30:6

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Two Sides of the Same Coin – Proverbs 30:6   “Do not add on to His words, lest He prove it in you and you will turn out to be…

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The Pharisees in the Gospels – an Excerpt from Covenant Nation

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Boyarin presents us with an analysis of the hand-washing incident described in the seventh chapter of the book of Mark (TJG; pgs. 106-127). Boyarin concludes that, contrary to popular Christian…

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Being a Jew – What Does it Mean?

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Being a Jew – What Does it Mean?   The Bible tells us that G-d took the Jewish people to Him for a nation and that He is their G-d…

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Forming a Nation

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Forming a Nation Exodus 13:8, Psalm 78:5 The exodus from Egypt was a foundational event in the history of our nation and the retelling of the story is an important…

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Tower of Truth

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Tower of Truth Man’s need for self-validation is very deep. Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. The deeper the need – the more powerful the desire to…

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