By Israel Today Staff.. We have already reported several times on Benjamin Netanyahu’s revival of the Prime Minister’s Bible Study group in Israel. Now the Knesset is getting in on the trend with the establishment of its own weekly sessions of scriptural enlightenment. The initiative came from one of the new Knesset parties, the centrist Yesh Atid, which fields both secular and religious lawmakers. (more…)
Rabbi Chaim Eisen is a Torah believing Rabbi who tries to build relationships between Jews and Christians. In this first part of a series of interviews he speaks about Judaism, and the meaning of the Torah. He explains that the Torah is the binding way of life given to Israel by God at the revelation of Sinai. (more…)
By Rabbi dr. Tzvi Marx… In his very last speech to his people Moses enjoins them: “set your heart to all the words (ha’devarim) wherefore I testify against you this day… to observe to do all the words of this Torah” (Deut. 32:46). In this same way as he began, he concludes his long discourses that constitute the book Deuteronomy, which in Hebrew is therefore called Devarim, or “words” (Deut. 1:1). (more…)
In the Gospels Jesus is frequently in discussions with representatives of various denominations existing at His time in Israel, especially the Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees. It often involves the interpretation and application of the Torah. But the Torah is known in two forms in Judaism: the Written and Oral Law. What does that mean and how does Jesus relate do this? (more…)
The highest ambition of Jesus is to fulfil the Torah. Jesus stands completely within the tradition of Israel. God still requires the fulfilment of the Torah. (more…)
By Hubert Luns
The most important rule in Judaism, and this includes Hasidism, is that of ‘lernen’ (learning by experience), in Hebrew da’at, a term also applied to the tree of life. In Judaism, learning in its proper sense is contained in the Hebrew word ‘hagah’. Hagah means repeating something over and over again, periodically and cyclically. (more…)
