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During this sacred season of remembering Jesus’s passion, let us realize that Passover is not merely an event to remember.
A cradle Episcopalian, the 34-year-old Graves, like many Christians, was taught that Jesus had died for his sins and for the ...
In this book, a compilation of his weekly Torah insights, he rebuts the Christian missionaries who say that God replaced Judaism with Christianity. He argues that their “proofs” of the divinity of ...
In case of abuse, As we enter the book of Leviticus, the Torah portion ... restitution, and atonement. While the animal sacrifices themselves are no longer practiced, the principles they represent ...
This Shabbat, we will read parashat “Vayikra,” the first portion of the third book of the Torah – Leviticus. This portion, which commands the bringing of sacrifices, begins with the verse ...
The “Olah” was burned on the altar, and the sin or guilt offerings, the Chatat and Asham, were consumed by the Kohanim to achieve atonement for the one offering it. The Kodshim category of ...
The following are a few examples of his views on the first of the ten Torah portions read weekly from the book of Leviticus (chapters 1:1-5:26). I like all of them. He wrote that sacrifices ...
In the Old Testament sacrificial system, there was a difference between the sacrifice itself and the offering of the sacrifice to God. The second “offering” to God was separate and distinct ...
This week, the annual Jewish Torah reading cycle brings us to the book of Vayikra, or Leviticus. Many see this as the “plotless” part of the Torah, detailing sacrifices and many other laws ...
The main message of the Easter statement was to emphasize that Christ can ease our burdens through the power of His atonement and infinite sacrifice. The statement quoted Isaiah 53:4-5 ...