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The Concealed Light: A Book Review
The Zohar – the mystical commentary on the Torah – is even more specific in its discussion of the nations’ plot to rise up against Israel: At that time King Messiah will wake up and will leave the...
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The Best Within Us
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have...
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The Sacrifice at Golgotha
I am hoping you will be able to resolve a very important issue confronting the very foundation of Christianity. God’s way of testing Abraham by calling for the sacrifice of Isaac…and then the abrupt...
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Notes On the Church From an Insomniac
Old English cir(i)ce, cyr(i)ce, related to Dutch kerk and German Kirche, based on medieval Greek kurikon, from Greek kuriakon (dōma ) ‘Lord’s (house),’ from kurios ‘master or lord.’ I’ve always...
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When Israel Asked for a King
“When Jacob came to Egypt, … your fathers cried out to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place. But they forgot the Lord their...
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After the Meal of the Messiah has Ended
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the ekklesia, in filling up what is lacking in Messiah’s afflictions. Of this ekklesia I was...
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What am I, Chopped Liver?
For the conductor with the neginos, a psalm, a song. May God favor us and bless us, may He illuminate His countenance with us, Selah. To make known Your way on earth, among all the nations Your...
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On the Occasion of Ha’azinu and Building a Sukkah
As I write this, I put our little sukkah kit together several hours ago. It’s only a 4 x 6 foot sukkah and the frame snaps together, but it still took me a little over an hour. The canvas is the...
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R.C. Sproul, Jesus, and the Doctrine of Active Obedience
I don’t think there’s any more important text in all the New Testament that defines the work of Jesus than this one. That Jesus was sent to fulfill all righteousness. And what that meant to the Jew was...
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If You Could Imagine
Imagine that King David encouraged you to recite his Psalms. Imagine that King Solomon encouraged you to learn from the wisdom of Mishlei (Proverbs). Imagine that Hillel and Rabbi Akiva encouraged you...
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Finding God on the Slopes of Kilimanjaro
Margareth said: Like you, I have found Aish articles really uplifting. It has really made me respectful for the profound wisdom I see in the articles there. There are people like this I have met on the...
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Atonement, The Temple, and Tisha B’Av
Animal offerings aided the atonement process, as they drove home the point that really the person deserved to be slaughtered, but an animal was being used in his/her place. The offering also helped...
View ArticleWhat If Messiah Became King Two-Thousand Years Ago?
I’m having some frustrating connection problems today. I can get to Google sporadically, but I can’t open search results, nor can I get to Amazon. I’ve tried a Windows and Mac computer and multiple web...
View ArticleLiving a Life
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of being a Christian or a Gentile disciple of Rav Yeshua, or whatever you want to call me. My life has taken a downturn recently, specifically since...
View ArticleFaith and Hope Without Torah
How can we find and hold onto joy in this world without it slipping out of our hands? The holiday of Simchat Torah provides an answer. As we dance with the Torah, we bask in the unique, eternal...
View ArticleThe Consequences of Trinity Sunday
I had no idea there was such a thing as Trinity Sunday until I was sitting in a little, local Lutheran church with my Mom last Sunday and the Pastor was preaching on it. I guess it’s a “thing,” just...
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