admin | August 22, 2020
By Mike Caton John 6:59, He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. Why did Matthew, inspired by God to write, put this verse in his book? What is significant about the fact that Jesus taught these things in the synagogue
admin | August 22, 2020
When travel comes back, and it will, I have on my list one of the best kept travel secrets, the city of Dijon, the capital of the bountiful Burgundy region in France, one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
admin | August 22, 2020
Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions A wall is being built aroundShorewood, Whitefish Bay and the east side of Milwaukeebut most people will never see it or even realize it's there. The wall is formed by the Lake Michigan bluff, combined with utility poles and steel wire atop streetlights, to form an eruv, a symbolic enclosure that allows Orthodox Jews to carry items outside of their home during the weekly Shabbat observance, which begins at sundown on Fridays and lasts through nightfall on Saturdays. The eruv allows them to bypass traditional Shabbat restrictions because the new contiguous wall of utility lines, overhead wires and Lake Michigan bluff creates a new public-private space that acts as an extension of the home under Torah law.
admin | August 22, 2020
The most sacred Jewish holidays are approaching, bringing with them the longest and most well-attended services of the year. Even in the best of times, a congregations intensive preparations for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur take months. But this year, there is no road map for those preparations, which are dominated by the mortal threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
admin | August 22, 2020
The decision to send Israel down the rabbit hole of a fourth general election in a year and a half could come this weekend, either at the prime ministers residence or at his private home in Caesarea, when Benjamin Netanyahu sits down with his darling wife and eldest son. Some might say this is imprecise: When two people constitute a majority, the third person is just sent to do the job
admin | August 22, 2020
A British nudist who liked to give press briefings wearing only a pith helmet and boots and a dapper Scotsman partial to wearing kilts with his dress uniform in contravention of Army regulations have much to teach modern military strategists. During World War II these two British officers, Orde Wingate and Colin Gubbins, developed inventive applications of irregular warfare in high-intensity conflict against peer competitors. Their innovations provide constructive lessons for the U.S.
admin | August 20, 2020
Recently I did two amazing things; two things that seem to have nothing in common, but are surprisingly intertwined.I finished Masechet Shabbat, the second masechet in the seven-and-a-half-year cycle of learning Talmud. And I finished the first 100 kilometers of the Israel Trail, a trail that consists of about 1,100 kilometers in total.As I started considering these two accomplishments and thinking about how proud I am of myself and how grateful I am to have the opportunity to reach this moment, I realized just how similar these two activities are.Last year, my family set a goal of walking the Israel Trail together. So far, we have found nine days to put aside for the task, and we broke each day into 10- to 12-kilometer hikes
admin | August 20, 2020
The laws of marriage are derived from the Torah portion of Ki Teitzei. The Talmud explains that there are three ways to betroth a woman: A woman is acquired by (i.e., becomes betrothed to) a man to be his wife in three ways, and she acquires herself (i.e., she terminates her marriage) in two ways.
admin | August 20, 2020
By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks In Shoftim, Moses speaks about the great institutions of Judaism: courts, judges, officers, kings, priests, Levites and prophets. In the case of the prophet, Moses says in the name of G-d: I will raise up a prophet for them from among their own people, like yourself: I will put My words in his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him. (Deut.
admin | August 20, 2020
Much of the Book of Genesis zeros in on the family that became the nation of Israel. Its an inspiring and intriguing story but missing many details we would really like to know.Midrashic literature fills in many of the blanks, but the text itself reveals nothing about Abrahams background before he was chosen by God and shares little information about Abrahams son, Issac. Jacobs few recorded conversations mainly express strife and sadness.And what of Jacobs sons, who form the foundation of the Twelve Tribes of Israel?Relatively full pictures emerge of Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Judah and Joseph.
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