Having Your Cake

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…

The Way of the Rabbi (1)

  I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,  Ephesians 4:1 Walk – Paul was a Rabbi.  He thought like a Rabbi.  He taught like a Rabbi.  He wrote like a Rabbi.  He lived his life like a Rabbi. …