Dear friend, there’s a story goin’ round says you’re gonna be married soon But you’ve been sayin’ that for years, and there can be no wedding without a groom You said he’s gone away to make a place for you and Him Oh you know He’s gonna come back, but you just don’t know when …
Do C.S. Lewis and the Talmud have anything in common? Recently, my wife and I have been reading The Chronicles of Narnia to our children. We are on the third book in the series, The Horse and His Boy. Over the course of a few days I read the first half of the book (of …
Ok- For a long time now, I’ve had my blog set up where people had to be registered and logged in, in order to comment because of horendous spam problem (most of which were pornographic in nature). I’ve turned this option off, since my spam filter seems to be doing a pretty good job now. …
“Rabbi Meir said: From where do we know that even a non-Jew who engages in the study of Torah is like a High Priest? For the verse states (Leviticus 18:5): ‘And you shall keep my statutes, and my judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them.’ The verse does not speak of …
“The verse referring to the commandments in general (Leviticus 18:5): “And you shall keep my statutes and my judgments,” should be understood in similar fashion: And you shall keep the statutes which I have already ordained for the descendants of Noah. Thus it should follow that non-Jews are bound by all of the Torah’s commandments, …
