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Jesus Codes - Uses and Abuses - Part 1

Jesus Codes - Uses and Abuses - Part 1

By: Rabbi Daniel Mechanic1 (In consultation with Doron Witztum2 and Harold Gans3) DANIEL MECHANIC is a senior international Codes lecturer and researcher for the Aish Hatorah/Discovery Seminar. He would like to thank Dr. Jeffrey Satinover - a world-renowned author on Codes- for his helpful comments. This article has been split into 4 parts - read Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 as well. DORON WITZTUM is the pre-eminent Codes researcher and author in the world. He has dedicated his professional effo
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
The Council of My Nation - Scripture - Messiah

The Council of My Nation - Scripture - Messiah

Christians view the Jewish rejection of the Christian Messiah as the most significant issue dividing the Christian and the Jew. The fact is though that the difference runs much deeper. Our respective understandings of the very concept of Messiah stand poles apart from each other. Aside from the technical issues, such as the difference of opinion about the virgin birth (Christians believe that the Messiah must be born from a virgin while the Jews believe that the Messiah must have a human father
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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
YOU TURN - The Jewish Response To A Christian Challenge

YOU TURN - The Jewish Response To A Christian Challenge

by Rabbi Michael Skobac If you are Jewish, you're a target. Millions of evangelical Christians in North America are passionately committed to converting us to their faith. They fund over 1,000 different missionary organizations to spearhead this effort. These include groups like Jews for Jesus and Chosen People Ministries, as well as hundreds of Messianic congregations reaching out to Jews of all stripes. Many of these organizations encourage and train ordinary Christians to share their faith
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
The Council of My Nation - Idolatry - Divine Names

The Council of My Nation - Idolatry - Divine Names

A. Divine Names Let us begin the discussion with those passages that attribute divine names to the Messiah. Perhaps the most prominent of these is found in Jeremiah 23:6 where the Messiah is called “the Lord is our righteousness”. What can be more clear? There is no question that this passage is talking of the Messianic figure that is the redeemer of Israel, and God calls him by His own holy name! Amazing! But let us take pause. Is the passage indicating that we ought to worship this man? Is t
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
The Council of My Nation - Idolatry - Introduction

The Council of My Nation - Idolatry - Introduction

So how does scripture expect us to identify an idol? Christians will be quick to bring up verses which seem to indicate plurality within God, or passages which seem to indicate that God seems to take on a specific form. We will get to these passages soon, but we will not begin with these passages. For not one of these passages was written with the explicit purpose of defining the law of idolatry. None of these passages begin by telling us that they are about to describe who it is that we are to
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz