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You Are My Witnesses - A Traditional Response to Missionaries
Foreword by Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Blumethal's You Are My Witnesses is a lucid summation of the cogent arguments and authentic translations of the Scriptures that were started by Torah Scholars throughout history to refute the claims of missionaries who sought to seduce Jews to renounce their Judaism. Given the strenuous efforts being made by missionaries to attract Jews, who are essentially ignorant of Torah. Rabbi Blumenthal's dissertation is extremely importa
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The Testimony of Scripture - an in-depth look by Rabbi Blumenthal
The Testimony of Scripture by Rabbi Yisroel C. Blumenthal INTRODUCTION Sola scriptura - Solely scripture. Scripture alone and nothing else. This is the rallying cry of Protestant Christianity. Protestant Christianity accepts no divine message other than the one that they believe to be recorded in the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Consequently, Protestant Christianity rejects any component of the national Jewish tradition that is not recorded in the books of scripture. Earlier in this wor
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Chapter 11d - THE ATONEMENT PROCESS
Continued from Chapter 11d That which is acceptable to God The sacrificial atonement system of the Torah was given exclusively to the Jewish people: “I have given it [the blood] to you ... to make atonement for your souls.” (Leviticus 17:11). A blood sacrifice, in itself, was never enough; it always had to be accompanied by sincere confessionary repentant prayer: “And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing: and he s
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Chapter 16 - ’EL, ’ELOHIM AND Y-H-V-H
Continued from Chapter 15 (Joshua 22:22, Psalms 50:1) Trinitarian Christians make use of ’El, ’Elohim and Y-H-V-H, employed in Joshua 22:22: “’El, ’Elohim, Y-H-V-H, ’El, ’Elohim, Y-H-V-H” [“God, God, the Lord, God, God, the Lord”] and Psalms 50:1: “’El, ’Elohim, Y-H-V-H”, as proof of their doctrine. In actuality, these three distinct appellations are juxtaposed for the express purpose of heightening the effect, and they do not at all imply that God is a triune personality. Using the names in
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How has the Talmud had an influence on Jewish history?
* How has the Talmud had an influence on the next 1,000 years of Jewish history and why? The Talmud has been the core source of Jewish knowledge for two thousand years. When the Rabbis have a question of how to apply the Bible to modern times, they must base their conclusion on precedent that had its sources in the Talmud. Today Jewish Law had been codified in a book that is called the Shulchan Aruch. * Ok, but the way I see the Talmud is a tradition book handed down. The Mezuzah, a mild det
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The Council of My Nation - Law and Chosenness - Where is the scriptural evidence?
7. Where is the scriptural evidence? We now move on to the final missionary objection to the living traditions of Israel. The missionaries ask – where is the scriptural evidence? Why does scripture not explicitly say – “there is an oral law”? For someone who has an understanding of the living legacy of our nation, this question is meaningless. It would be like pointing to a map and asking “where does it say here that there is a real country”? Or like pointing to a teacher’s roll book and askin
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The Council of My Nation - Scripture - Atonement
Here too, Christians differ in their approach. All Christians agree that no atonement can be achieved without devotion to their savior. The divergence relates to the role of repentance in the atonement process. Some are of the opinion that no action on man’s part can play a role in the atonement process, thus repentance is believed to be a result of atonement and not a cause for atonement. Others accept that repentance is a necessary prerequisite for atonement, but that devotion to the Christia
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