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The Real Messiah Part #2: Can 2 Billion Christians Be Wrong?

The Real Messiah Part #2: Can 2 Billion Christians Be Wrong?

The following are the Counter-Missionary Survival Seminar notes for The Real Messiah Part two. The Real Messiah Part #2: Can 2 Billion Christians Be Wrong? EXODUS 7:8-13;19-21 8 The L-rd said to Moses and Aaron, 9 "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a wonder,' then you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.'" 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the L-rd had commanded; Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Perfection

Perfection

“I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah…” Maimonides 13 Principles of Faith Belief in the eventual coming of the Messiah and perfection of the world under his reign is a basic and fundamental part of traditional Judaism. The concept is not mentioned explicitly in the Torah (Five Books of Moses), but many hints are given through exegetical teaching of several passages. The Hebrew term “Moshiach” literally means the “Anointed one” and specifically refers to the ancient practice
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Zalman Kravitz
Seeing God

Seeing God

Rabbi David Aaron*, in his most provocative book, Seeing God, relates the following dialogue with his son:"My three-year-old son was watching me pray one day, trying to imitate my movements, pretending he was also praying. Then out of the blue, he blurted out, "Daddy! I just saw God's feet." I didn't know what my immediate response should be to this, but quickly I decided that truth was my best option. "Yehuda," I said, "You couldn't have seen God's feet. God doesn't have feet." He seemed star
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Zalman Kravitz
Blood Atonement

Blood Atonement

Christians insist that blood sacrifice is a necessary prerequisite for the atonement of sin. These Christians believe that this is an open teaching of the Jewish Scriptures. Although there is no verse which explicitly says: “without blood there is no atonement” Christians still believe that the overall testimony of the Jewish Scriptures would lead one to this conclusion. Some Christians read Leviticus 17:11 as if it were to say that there is no atonement without blood. However; a closer reading
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Zalman Kravitz
Take the Elevator to the Top

Take the Elevator to the Top

The Tenth of Tishrei, the date of Yom Kippur, marks the anniversary of when Moshe (Moses) descended from Mount Sinai for the second time, following the people's sin with the Golden Calf. B'nai Yisroel (Children of Israel) and Moshe prayed that God should hear their plea for atonement and forgiveness from such an unfathomable sin. God, in His Kindness, "heard our prayers - and forgave us." Thus, began the eternal yearning to repair our souls, to ask forgiveness and purify ourselves. The concept
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Zalman Kravitz
What Are You Smoking?

What Are You Smoking?

Question of the Week: I read an article by a professor in Israel who suggests that the revelation at Mt Sinai was actually a drug-induced hallucination. I thought it was a ridiculous proposition, but it did get me thinking. How do we know that it was indeed G-d who spoke to Moses and not some mind-altering mushroom? Answer: I read that article too. I am not sure what that professor was smoking when he wrote it. There are ways to test whether a revelation is truly divine or just the product o
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Zalman Kravitz
13 Principles of Faith

13 Principles of Faith

Ani Maamin - I Believe Based on the Thirteen Principles of Faith formulated by the Rambam in his Commentary on the Mishnah (tractate Sanhedrin 10:1). 1. I believe with complete faith that the Creator, blessed be His name, is the Creator and Guide of all the created beings, and that He alone has made, does make, and will make all things. 2. I believe with complete faith that the Creator, blessed be His name, is One and Alone; that there is no oneness in any way like Him; and that He alone is o
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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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