The Rabbis teach that “lashon hara”, evil tongue, is punishable with “tsara’at”, “leprosy”. They also teach that a Jew cannot speak evil tongue against another Jew, and rightfully so. They derive this teaching from the story in Numbers 12 where Miriam and Aharon spoke against their brother Mosheh. Miriam and Aharon spoke against Mosheh because of the Kushite woman whom he had married. Later in the story she was punished with...
Read More »“You are not under the Law but under grace” statement in Romans 6 is probably the most quoted by many theologians’ phrase (along with others) to “prove” that the new Gentile believers are not to observe the commands in the Torah of YHVH. Tons of papers have been written to justify the rejection of the Torah and replacing it with the laws of men and traditions rooted in paganism incorporated into the faith. Faith did not change Rome; Rome...
Read More »The transcendent son of YHVH exists beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding. The Bible and the Rabbinical literature undoubtedly speak of a being in heaven, who was in the Creator’s plan at the origin of the universe, through whom and for whom all things visible and invisible were created: The transcendent son of YHVH. The Messiah of YHVH has a human nature with all human traits including the ability to sin. And indeed, what virtue...
Read More »According to the mainstream doctrine of the Christianity, the Jerusalem Council exempted the Christians from observing the Law and recommended only four prohibitions for them to observe. Part of this doctrine is that the apostles abolished circumcision of the Christians because they are not “under the Law”. However, if that were the intent of the apostles, why did they continue to be Law-observant for decades after the resurrection of the Messiah if “the...
Read More »Throughout the centuries the name of Yeshua has been secretly and jealously guarded by the Rabbis of blessed memory that he is the long-anticipated Messiah. In their literature, they called him, Sar HaPanim, “Ruler of the Face” [of the Eternal]. The ruler of Israel about whom Mosheh prophesied at Mount Nebo. And the Eternal said to me, ‘What they have spoken is good. I shall raise up for them prophet like you out of the midst of their brothers. And I shall put...
Read More »The Roman exile The Covenant of YHVH was offered to Israel on four occasions: (1) at Mount Sinai where all Israel, native and non-native stood at the mountain and entered into covenantal relationship with the Elohim of the fathers (see Exo 19-20); it would not take them so long to fail to stay in the Covenant (see Num 13). (2) Upon entering the Land when the new generation born in the desert stood at Mount Nebo to renew the Covenant (see Deu 29-30); that generation under...
Read More »The Sages understood that the coming of the Messiah was due two thousand years ago when He was expected to initiate the Messianic era. Tanna debe Eliyahu reads: The world is to exist six thousand years. In the first two thousand there was desolation; two thousand years the Torah flourished; and the next two thousand years is the Messianic era, but through our many iniquities all these years have been lost [He should have come at the beginning of the last two thousand years;...
Read More »The booty of war has always been a controversial issue in the history of mankind, which continues even today. Kingdoms had invaded other kingdoms, world empires had come and gone, and national treasures had changes possessions. In this article, we will study what the Torah teaches about the laws of warfare and booty of war and how Israel is to wage war against its enemies. Laws for future wars The laws of warfare in Deuteronomy 20 have reference to the wars which Israel...
Read More »Human sacrifices are clearly an abomination to the Creator of life. There is nothing more repulsive, repugnant, abhorrent, and abominable to Him than human sacrifices and the most vicious of them: the murder of unborn human beings. Abortion, the politically correct term for this hideous act of taking a human life, is nothing less than another form of human sacrifices to the evil. For more truth about abortions, read the article “The real face of abortion America must...
Read More »Why is it customary in the rabbinical tradition for the Jewish children to begin learning the Torah of YHVH with Leviticus rather than Genesis? Because Leviticus is the most important book in the Bible? Because the Temple sacrifices are very important? Is it just customary, or Leviticus (Vayikra) has something that we do not know? This article is a continuation of the article “Which is the Most Important Book in the Bible?” in which we learned the Omniscient has...
Read More »Albert Einstein said that if you cannot explain something simply, you do not understand it very well. In the Scripture, there are two righteous men about whom it was said that they walked with Elohim: Chanoch (Enoch) in Gen 5:24 and Noach in Gen 6:9. However, when it was said that they walked with Elohim, how does it translate to us? What is to walk with Elohim? This will be the subject of our study. King James’ version of the Bible reads the Letter to the Hebrews,...
Read More »The Bible prophecy alludes to two scenarios for the war of Gog of Magog, the final war in this world. Two main Biblical prophets – Zechariah and Ezekiel – foretold messages about the war of Gog of Magog. It is believed that the war of Gog of Magog will be the final war that will end all wars before the return of Yeshua the Messiah of YHVH. In chapter “Two Scenarios for the War of Gog of Magog” from the book The Reckoning of Time, the present author suggested that both...
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