Well, after a couple of hours discussion with a friend who knows the Torah and Talmudic writings far better than I, and reexamining the Scriptures and the original Talmudic source regarding the impurity of Akhnai’s Oven, I have come to some clear understandings of things that were unclear previously regarding rabbinic teachings. I plan on …
Exodus 25:1 – 27:19 Here are some general thoughts on the parashat Terumah… In this Torah Portion we find the call for the building of the Mishkan (משׁכן, Tabernacle). In the opening line we hear Hashem speaking to Moshe: “Speak to the Children of Israel and let them take for Me a portion (terumah, תרומה), …
For the longest time I’ve been extremely frustrated. I’ve had several sources of the Syriac Peshitta, but no way to view it properly, since I never could get any of the Aramaic fonts to work correctly. I finally ran across a site that had a really nice unicode font source. It’s called Beth Mardutho: The …
I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a …
Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri, the leading kabbalist rabbi of Israel recently passed from this life at the age of 108. Close friends of his stated that before his passing, Rabbi Kaduri claimed to have met the Messiah nearly three years ago, and since that time has been urging Jews to return to the Land and be …
