Rosh HaShanah 5769 – dancing Happy New Year ...

1st day: Genesis 21; Numbers 29:1-6; 1 Samuel 1:1-2:10 - Sarah and Hannah 2nd day: Genesis 22; Numbers 29:1-6; Jeremia 31:1-19 - Abraham and Isaac, Gen.: “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you” – Jer.: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love … again...

Shabbat Reading and Commentary for week 40, 2008, ...

Deuteronomy 29:10 (9) – 30:20; Haftarah, Isaiah 61:10-63:9 By Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem Commentary: It is common to read the weekly Torah portions ‘Nitzavim’ and ‘VaYelech’ together on one Shabbat – except for a leapyear like this year 5768. We approaching Moses’ farewell speech before the leaders of the tribes. In our reading we find a confirmation of validity and eternity...

Shabbat Reading and Commentary for week 39, 2008, ...

Deuteronomy 26:1 till 29:8; Isaiah 60:1 till 22 By Michael Schneider, israel today, Jerusalem Commentary: The backdrop of this week’s Shabbat reading is the giving of the “first fruit” of the ground “when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance…” (Deuteronomy 26:1-2). As we can see, it is a commandment that relies on being physically located in the Land of Israel. Every...

Shabbat Reading for week 38, 2008, (Sept. 13th) Sa...

Deuteronomy 21:10 till 25:19; Haftarah: Isaiah 54:1 till 10 Complete haftarah: Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD. “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your...

On the first day of the week…...

Can it be that this absolute core statement of the Christian faith (further first verse from John 20: „The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre,…“) leave any doubt, when the last, also is the seventh day of the week?

Spirit of the Church against the Spirit of God –...

Studying the Spiegel-Online Interview with Rabbi Prof. Walter Homolka „The Catholic Church does not have its anti-Semitic tendencies under control“ again, one can not avoid, to expand that raised blame to all Churches. So to say to distribute it proportionally. For no matter in which Church the Pope would have grown up – in the Evangelic Church, the New Apostolic Church, an Evangelic Free Church, the Free Evangelic...

Shabbat Reading for week 37, 2008, (Sept 6st) Sabb...

„Schoftim“: Deuteronomy 16:18 till 21:9; Isaiah 51:12 till 52:12 Shoftim, Shof’tim, or Shofetim (hebrew for “judges,” the first word in the parshah) is the 48th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9. Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in August or September. (see Wikipedia)