In our traditional Jewish thought, the Akedah is used as a paradigm for Jewish martyrdom; the Jewish people are ready at all times to give up life itself for the sake of the sanctification of the divine name Kiddush Ha-Shem.
I have come to feel as well that the binding of Isaac was also...
Adam was the first human being and the progenitor of the human race. The first chapter of Genesis states that G-d made man in the sixth day of the Creation, fashioning him in His own image and giving him dominion over the rest of creation.
I dont consider Jesus to be a prophet, the messiah, or...
No , I don't think it will be in next 10 years , I think there is 2 System of cloning
therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning.
Reproductive cloning is unproven, risky and represents a “tragic misunderstanding” of human identity , it aises ethical, theological and moral concerns...
Mmmm...Maimonides ignores the talmudic references to demons or gives these a rationalistic explanation;
for example, when he understands the mishnaic reference to an 'evil spirit' against which a light can be put out even on the Sabbath, to mean a spirit of melancholy.
I Know that belief in...
The Bible is clear, and it is consistent. One person cannot die for the sins of another. This means that the guilt from the sins committed by one person cannot be wiped out by the punishment given to another person. First, in Exodus 32:30-35 .
Moses asks Gd to punish him for the sin committed...
According to the Torah, when Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, he went West to what is now called Israel (Gen. 12 ff.). He became a dweller in tents in that land. It was in Israel that God made a covenant with him for the land in which he was living at that time. It was in Israel that he fathered...
Yet at the same time, in many quarters there has also been a strong resistance to the movement’s innovations.
One of those which hasn’t widely caught on is substituting the breath sound “Yah” in prayers, replacing “Adonai” or “Lord.” Another is...
Here is all info about Jewish renewal :
It was a Shabbat celebration of the 75th birthday of Schachter-Shalomi, the rebbe of the Jewish Renewal movement, who is nearly universally known as Reb Zalman. For four decades, he has been considered by many to be a marginal figure but has, in fact...
Ge:21:22-32: And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain
of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: Now
therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son,
nor with my son's son...
Human life is on its way from a great distance; it has gone through ages of experience, of growing, suffering, insight, action. We are what we are by what we come from. There is a vast continuum preceding individual existence, and it is a legitimate surmise to assume that there is a continuum...
I will reply you , there are many examples in the TANACH where other things besides blood atone for sins :
-IF poor and unable to afford a blood sacrifice, God allows you to use flour which has no blood and is not an animal
-IF not able to offer a sacrifice of flour, forgiveness would only be...
you mentioned NT,Can you read quotation from Leviticus 17 with me :
Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood-- I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people. For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to...
The whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about this idea, that no one can die for someone else's sin , All we have to do for God's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and God will forgive us .