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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Shavuot and Pilgrimage to the Temple
The following is an excerpt from my 2008 book, Feast, available at lifeway.com: ……………………. A Pilgrim Feast In the really old days, before there was a temple, there was only a tent called the tabernacle. It moved from place to … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Derek's Writings, Holidays, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
Tagged Feast, Lifeway, Pentecost, Shavuot
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Shavuot: A Reading from 1954
Philip Goodman’s Shavuot Anthology, like all of his holiday anthologies, is worth its weight in twenty dollar bills. It is, unfortunately, out of print and available only used online. The reading I selected today is from a more modern writer, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Holidays, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism, Torah
Tagged Ludwig Lewisohn, Pentecost, Shavuot
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Ezekiel: Anti-Deuteronomy?
I am reading God
Posted in Bible, Christian, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism, Torah
Tagged Deuteronomy, Ezekiel, Kenton Sparks
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New Modern Orthodox Prayerbook
I have recently bought a Koren Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and it is beautiful. Imagine my interest when I heard from MJTI’s Carl Kinbar that Koren has just released (as of May 15) a Modern Orthodox Siddur (Prayerbook) translated and commented … Continue reading
Posted in Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism, Messianic Prayer, Prayer
Tagged Jonathan Sacks, Koren, Prayerbook, Siddur
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Suddenly Sabra and Jews for Jesus
I just read an article in the Jerusalem Post and it brought up for me my former life and a whole host of issues about Jewish-Christian relations.
Posted in Christian, Gospel, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
Tagged Christian missions, Jews for Jesus
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Five Days Preceding Shavuot, 1st of Sivan Today
On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. And when they set out from Rephidim and came into the … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
Tagged Pentecost, Shavuot
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Free Shavuot Resource
I just posted a free download on mountolivepress.com, my effort at serving Messianic Judaism with much-needed literature at low-cost (and some for free). What I have prepared is a Shavuot Haggadah. It is incomplete, but there is more than enough … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
Tagged Pentecost, Shavuot
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Who Let the Jews Out (of Messianic Judaism)?
I just read a thought-provoking essay on the history of Messianic Judaism and the current crisis of identity that has stalled so great a movement in God
Posted in Christian, Judaism, messianic, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Judaism
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Poll: Terminology and MJ
In distinguishing a Messianic Judaism which has a lot to do with Jewish people and Judaism from the wide variety of groups who also use the label “Messianic” and “Messianic Jewish” and “Messianic Congregation” and so on, it is always … Continue reading
Posted in Messianic Jewish
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Shavuot and Mt. Sinai, Part 1
The Torah commands a positive mitzvah that we make known to our offspring from generation to generation all that transpired there [Mt. Sinai], both visually and audibly. There is a very great purpose to this mitzvah. –Maimonides You will not … Continue reading