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The Right Place At The Right Time: Saving a 14-Year-Old's Life in Israel

The Right Place At The Right Time: Saving a 14-Year-Old's Life in Israel

It was Sunday afternoon, July 6, 2003, and I was approaching the end of a successful three week mission to Israel dedicated to responding to a new wave of missionary activity. In addition to lectures, news interviews and meetings with government officials, my colleagues and I distributed thousands of copies of a new Hebrew version of Jews for Judaism’s Counter-Missionary Handbook “The Jewish Response To Missionaries.” That day I was traveling by car, with my wife Dvora and our son, from the nor
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
What is the translation of Ka'ari? Like a lion?

What is the translation of Ka'ari? Like a lion?

Jewish and Christian renderings of Psalms 22:17 have different translations for the word Ka'ari. Why is it so? Let's find out. Why do the respective Jewish and Christian renderings of Psalms 22:17 (16 in some versions) differ in the translation of the Hebrew word ka-'ari? Answer: Christians see in this verse an opportunity to make the claim that the psalmist foretold the piercing of Jesus' hands and feet as part of the crucifixion process. They maintain that the Hebrew word ka-'ari in verse 17
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Cult or Cult-like?

Cult or Cult-like?

Cult or Cult-like? On a number of occasions we have referred to the Hebrew-Christian or "Messianic Jewish" movement as a cult or cult like. Some have protested that we are stretching it a bit when we classify these groups in the same category as some of the real cults. Are these cults cult or cult-like? Let's find out. One can well understand the widespread reluctance to refer to the Hebrew-Christians as a cult. After all, these groups are bankrolled by well-known Christian denominations and
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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
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 10a - THE ANGEL OF THE LORD

Chapter 10a - THE ANGEL OF THE LORD

Continued from Chapter 9 (Exodus 3:2-8, 10-16, 18) The Angel of the Lord Some trinitarians claim that whenever the Scriptures mention malach ’Adon-ai (Y-H-V-H), “an angel of the Lord,” the angel is Jesus. They translate all passages mentioning such an angel as “the Angel of the Lord,” although the Hebrew may just as well mean “an angel of the Lord” (literally “a messenger of the Lord”; cf. Judges 2:1, 6:11-22). True, in the construct state, when the second noun has the definite article, the f
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 18d - THE VIRGIN MISCONCEPTION MYTH

Chapter 18d - THE VIRGIN MISCONCEPTION MYTH

Continued from Chapter 18c How did the respective authors of Matthew and Luke substantiate their claim? They claim that Jesus’ mother was a virgin, and God, not Joseph was his father, so that he was really God’s son from his very conception. Based, in part, on the Septuagint’s rendering of Isaiah 7:14 (or some related recession) Matthew’s text reads: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel” (Matthew 1:23). It should be noted that th
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz