Reading the Shema

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.” Mathew 11:29 NASB Yoke – Yeshua quotes Jeremiah 6:16 in this famous passage.  The context of the Jeremiah citation should help us understand the key words here.  Those words are…

A Burden Accepted

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

December 25 Submit your neck to her yoke, that your mind may accept her teaching. For she is close to those who seek her, and the one who is in earnest finds her. Sirach 51:26 Yoke – On this day when the ancient world celebrated the renewal and return of the fertility gods, a day…