For those of you in the community who have been praying for Kathleen and who offered to help her, I thought you would like to see this: Boker Tov/Shabbat Shalom: I can’t tell you how much the many emails from the God’s Table community have meant to me. I never expected my email to you…
I thought about posting this as a comment, but then not everyone would see it. Part of the purpose of going to a smaller and dedicated community is to take care of each other. That’s how the world knows that we are His followers. So, I am posting an e mail that I got today…
Recently our studies in Today’s Word have focused on the rabbinic techniques of halachah and haggadah. Paul uses these techniques in his letters. We should not be surprised. After all, Paul was trained as a Pharissaic rabbi. What surprises most people is that halachah was always considered binding on the audience (since it was the…
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Eliyahu Kitov relates the teaching of the famous sage, rabbi Akiva. Akiva’s insight bears directly on this duality resident in human beings and, in particular, with the ‘ezer kenegdo. “Some of our sages probe not only the words of the Torah, but each individual letter as well. The foremost exponent of this method was Rabbi…
In linguistic analysis, a particle is a minor part of speech, usually a short few letters added to a word. These few letters are normally not declinable. That means that they cannot be modified in order to show relationships within the language structure. Most words in language can be modified to show how they relate…
“I deserve better!” “They owe it to me!” “It’s my right!” The world of the Twenty-first Century is filled with demands of entitlement. From religious expression to bedroom privacy, the plurality of our world voices its insistence on personal and social rights. Not a day seems to go by without a news story about some…
One of the wonders of Europe is the centuries-old peek into Man’s attempt to create a feeling of the majesty of God. Just wander through some of the cathedrals and look up. Here are some examples from my trip to Spain. If we can make this kind of beauty, imagine what the ceiling looks like…
John 15:15 The New Testament uses a very strange word to describe our relationship to God. It is the word doulos. In most English translations, this Greek word is rendered “servant” or “bond-servant”. Occasionally, it is translated more correctly as “slave”. That is what it really means in Greek – slave. But not just any…
Course correction on the way to the Future Everyone wants to have a crystal ball about the future. In spite of the difficulty of prediction, we still try our best to peer over the time horizon. If we are really sophisticated, we develop statistical models, forecasts, and algorithms. If we are the ordinary types; we…
