Beautiful Tapestry of Scripture

Of late I have again been struck by the beauty and importance of the WHOLE of scripture. The manner in which all of it ties together and works in concert to paint an amazing picture of redemption evokes from me spontaneous praise. There is no contradiction, there is no confusion – it all has been [...]

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Book Review – 7/20/06

I have been searching for several years for books that dealt fairly and comprehensively with the issue of the separation of church and synagogue. These books qualify for that description.
The late Rabbi Phillip Sigal was ahead of his time in terms of the clarity with which he saw the true origins and essentially Jewish character [...]

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Why the Sabbath?

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been told, “Jesus is my Sabbath. To me every day is now the Sabbath.” And while not exactly correct, this does reflect part of the truth.
Messiah has rested from His work, and we can rest in our knowledge of having received “at-one-ment” with God.
However, there is [...]

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Rest Today, Rest Tomorrow

Rest is presented as representative on 3 levels in Scripture. 1) the Promise Land that God led the Israelites too, was their rest, 2) the specific Sabbath day was a day of rest, and 3) of that final, eternal Rest which is the eventual outcome of our salvation.
In Hebrews 4, the writer urges us not [...]

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Torah, Tradition & Mezzuzot

The following is written in response to the blog of Boaz Michael, which I highly recommend, by the way). There have been a series of blogs concerning the publishing of an upcoming book on mezuzahs and an effort to procure kosher-certified scrolls to go inside of mezuzahs for your door post. Additionally, Boaz [...]

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