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The Spirituality of Giving: Kicking Giving Up a Notch

The Spirituality of Giving: Kicking Giving Up a Notch

Over the past ten years, our community’s focus on continuity has led to a growing interest in Jewish spirituality. This has not been limited to a desire for more intensity and passion in synagogue services, but a quest for the transcendent in all areas of life. Could there be more to giving and community involvement than the emergence of our “inner mentsch”? In a famous biblical story, the Almighty’s presence came to comfort and visit with Abraham after his circumcision. Spying some desert trav


Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz

False Claims In The Gospels About True Deity

False Claims In The Gospels About True Deity

Continued from Part 9 “I am” John’s Jesus states: “‘Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.’  The Jews therefore said to him:  ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?’  Jesus said to them:  ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham came into being, I am’” (John 8:56-58).   Is the author of this Gospel claiming that Jesus is part of a triune deity when he has Jesus say, “before Abraham came into being, I am” (verse 8:58)? Trinitarian comme


Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz

What You Need To Know About The Holy Spirit Mentioned In The Gospels

What You Need To Know About The Holy Spirit Mentioned In The Gospels

Continued from Part 25 PART 3:  THE PROBLEM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT The impersonal nature of holy spirit The spirit of God is not a being with its own identity and separate consciences.  It is divisible and able to be distributed as God sees fit.  For example, God took of the spirit that was upon Moses and put it upon the seventy elders of Israel (Numbers 11:17-25). David prayed that God’s “holy spirit” not be removed from him (Psalms 51:13).  It was also measured out differently to different peopl


Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz

The Ultimate Question If Jesus Was Truly God

The Ultimate Question If Jesus Was Truly God

Continued from Part 34 Is the Trinity Doctrine a New Testament teaching? Paul, speaking of Jesus says, “for in him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form” (Colossians 2:9).  Whether Paul is teaching a form of dualism or that this supposed supernatural power that has indwelled Jesus has become God’s unique representative to mankind is a dispute for Christian commentators to ponder. Suffice it for us to ask, if God was in the incarnate Jesus and was one with Jesus ontologically why is


Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz