How Could Man be Created in God's Image?

How Could Man be Created in God's Image?

This week we completed the annual cycle of reading the Torah and started again with the Torah portion of Bereishis (Genesis 1:1–6:8). The word Torah means more than “the law” or “bible.” The root of the word Torah is “horah” which means “instruction.” As it says, “instruct (horos) the children of Israel” (Leviticus 10:11). The Torah is a source of transformative instructions which affect our body and soul. In this week’s Torah portion, there is a valuable spiritual lesson derived from two wor
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Zalman Kravitz
A Remarkable Discovery: Two Paths to One God

A Remarkable Discovery: Two Paths to One God

This week’s Torah portion of Noah (Genesis 6:9–11:32) highlights the well-known story of the righteousness of Noah and the decline of the world, which led to the flood. Although this story may seem mythical, it contains one of the most essential and spiritual principals for humankind. Despite the corruption that filled the world, the merciful God gave humankind a second chance and established an “everlasting covenant between God and every living creature” (Genesis 9:16). Since God established
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Zalman Kravitz
Getting A Second Chance

Getting A Second Chance

Do we ever get a second chance in life? A year after leaving Egypt, the people of Israel were to bring the Passover offering on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nissan. They were to roast it and eat it with matzah and bitter herbs that evening just as they had done a year earlier prior to their exodus. However, some of the Israelites had become ritually impure (by having contact with a dead body) and consequently could not participate in offering the Paschal lamb. They came to Moses and wanted
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Zalman Kravitz
The Problem With Christians Interpreting Daniel 9

The Problem With Christians Interpreting Daniel 9

Chapter 45 THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL 9:24 -27 Part 1 LIARS FOR JESUS There a problem with Christian interpretative credibility.  I am referring to those Christians  ̶ ̶  theologians, laymen, missionaries or would-be missionaries who know what the original language texts actually say but who distort their meaning through deliberate mistranslations and the like because they feel it’s more important that people believe in Jesus as their Messiah and Savior than know that such beliefs are based
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Zalman Kravitz
Why Exploring The Seventy Weeks of Daniel Verse By Verse Is Crucial

Why Exploring The Seventy Weeks of Daniel Verse By Verse Is Crucial

Continued from Part 1 ... Part 2 THE PASSAGE:  VERSE BY VERSE The decree Verse 24: Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city, to terminate the transgression, and to make an end of sin, and to forgive iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. Verse 24 contains six phrases directed solely for “your people and upon your holy city” (that is, the Jewish nation and Jerusalem) whose respective co
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Zalman Kravitz
Properly Understanding The Prophet's Meaning of The Holy of Holies

Properly Understanding The Prophet's Meaning of The Holy of Holies

Continued from Part 2 Anointing the Holy of Holies The expression “and to anoint the Holy of Holies” refers to the reestablished Second Temple (Ezekiel 46:12) and the office of high priest (1 Chronicles 23:13).3  With all the tremendous positive strides made during the Second Temple period a national and spiritual disunity prevailed. Temple expansion by the cruel Herod the Great, an avarice priestly hierarchy starting with the Hasmoneans debased the priesthood and its function impeding the t
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Zalman Kravitz
Are These True Expectations of The Messiah?

Are These True Expectations of The Messiah?

Continued from Part 3 Let us review the six expectations of verse 24 and see if they have any fulfillment in the life and death of Jesus. * to terminate the transgression:  What transgression was terminated by Jesus?  Some of the most heinous transgressions of the basic requirements God desires of mankind have been perpetrated by those who in one form or another give their spiritual allegiance to Jesus.  In fact, many of those nefarious deeds were done to “glorify” Jesus.  So, how did he term
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz