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Chapter 22s - Deceit

Chapter 22s - Deceit

Continued from Chapter 22r 53:9: “neither was there any deceit in his mouth” A Parable on Deceit Once upon a time, in a far off city a man entered the city’s largest church and announced: “Destroy this church and in three days I will raise it up.” Some shrugged their shoulders and said to each other “he’s a madman” others just scoffed and said “why is he disrupting the service?” But others said, “You know, we could use a new building and he seems like an honorable fellow.” Before you could
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Jews and Christmas: A Bad Match

Jews and Christmas: A Bad Match

I know it’s dicey to write a critical reflection on Jews embracing Christmas. Hearing the inevitable chorus of “intolerant Scrooge” certainly gives me pause. But seeing a piece in The CJN this winter holiday season by Michael Taube (Jews and Christmas: enjoy the holiday) urging fellow Jews to celebrate the wrong holiday was too painful to ignore. My concern here is not, as Taube argues, an “obtuse hang-up” about Christmas. In a world where ideas, beliefs and religious expression have real mean
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
An Unavoidable Issue

An Unavoidable Issue

Jews for Jesus has a slogan, "We exist to make the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people world-wide." If this is the reason for their existence than they might as well close shop. Christendom's centuries old policy of degradation and contempt of Jews and Judaism, based on New Testament models, beat them to it. The repressive papal encyclicals, the tirades of Luther, the economic disabilities, the forced conversions, the expulsions, the enforced isolation of the ghettos,
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 22t - Salvation

Chapter 22t - Salvation

Continued from Chapter 22s Salvation was reserved for the select few Jesus claimed that he revealed the meaning of his esoteric declarations (the parables) only to his disciples (Matthew 13:10-11; Mark 4:10-12, 34; Luke 8:9-10). Yet even that was untrue. Jesus knew very well that the disciples did not understand everything he told them (Mark 9:32; Luke 9:45, 18:34) and Jesus said and did things secretively so that the multitudes should not understand him. Why the secrecy? Why not a public pr
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Was there a Resurrection of the Dead when Jesus Died?

Was there a Resurrection of the Dead when Jesus Died?

When Jesus died, was there a resurrection of the dead? Let's find out. Answer: Matthew--and only Matthew--tells us that a profound event occurred after Jesus gave up the ghost and rose to heaven. "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama zabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz