The Controversial False Messiah
THE STORMY LIFE OF SHABBETAI TZVI: The Controversial False Messiah – with Rabbi Michael Skobac In this video, Rabbi Michael Skobac explores one of the most intriguing and controversial episodes in Jewish history. In the middle of the 17th century, Shabbetai Tzvi came to see himself as the Messiah. The initial reaction by most people in his native Turkey didn't take him seriously. But after meeting up with a brilliant sidekick and promoter, his fortune changed and word quickly spread about him
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THE JEWISH RESPONSE TO MISSIONARIES FOR DEAF JEWS (Response to Messianic Jews for Jesus)
THE JEWISH RESPONSE TO MISSIONARIES FOR DEAF JEWS is presented by Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz, the founder and Executive Director, of JEWS FOR JUDAISM (Los Angeles). This lecture was interpreted in ASL by Richard Fendrich.
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Why Civilizations Die - And Judaism Survived
Why Civilizations Die by Rabbi Jonatan Sacks, zt'l In The Watchman’s Rattle, subtitled Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction, Rebecca Costa delivers a fascinating account of how civilisations die. When their problems become too complex, societies reach what she calls a cognitive threshold. They simply can’t chart a path from the present to the future. The example she gives is the Mayans. For a period of three and a half thousand years, between 2,600 BCE and 900 CE, they developed an extraordinar
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A Challenging but Timely Lecture
“I Seek My Brethren” – Dealing with Pro-Palestinian Jews Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner of Congregation Eitz Chayim of Dogwood Park, West Hempstead, New York presented this timely lecture, on Sunday, May 19, 2024 at Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto ("the BAYT"), which was cosponsored by Beit Midrash Zichron Dov. For Lecture Notes Please Click This https://jewsforjudaism.ca/i-se...
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Did God Reject The Jewish People?
The Rejection of Rejection by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt'l There is one aspect of Christianity that Jews, if we are to be honest, must reject, and that Christians, most notably Pope John XXIII, have also begun to reject. It is the concept of rejection itself, the idea that Christianity represents God’s rejection of the Jewish People, the “old Israel”. This is known technically as Supersession or Replacement Theology, and it is enshrined in such phrases as the Christian name for the Hebrew Bible
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