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Jews for Judaism — Kedoshim 5784

Выпуск: Jews for Judaism — Kedoshim 5784. Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit. Поисковые термины: шалом байт, брак, отношения, shalom bayit, marriage, שלום בית, זוגיות. For instance, when describing the obligation to follow the Torah and its laws we are told, “what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach … it is very near to you in your mouth, and in your heart so that you may do it” (Deuteronomy 30:11-14). Instead, it will renew and enhance the original so that even the Jewish people will not be able to break it, This is because God will intervene and transform our heart, as it states, “I will give you a new heart … and cause you to follow My laws and carefully keep My ordinances and do them” (Ezekiel 36:26-27). ‫בס"ד‬ Spiritual Insight For The Week with Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz Our Eternal Covenant Isn’t Obsolete Centuries of tragic Jew-hatred is documented in The Roots of Christian Anti-Semitism by Malcolm Hay and Constantine’s Sword by James Carrol. it mistranslates the words “I was a husband.” Instead of saying that God remained a “husband” [‫–בעלתי‬ba’alti] to the Jewish people, the New Testament says that God “turned away from [rejected] them” (Hebrews 8:9). The prophet Hosea compares the Jewish people’s relationship with God to a marriage, saying, “I will betroth you to Me forever, I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion” (Hosea 2:19-21). This idea is significant because the flame of Judaism is compared to the fire burning on the Altar that will never go out, as it says, “a perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the Altar” (Leviticus 6:6). Observing In addition to saying that observing the Torah is within our grasp, the Torah provides the commandment of repentance [return-‫ ]תשובה‬as the means to rectify the Torah is our mistakes. Jeremiah refers to an urge to be this as a New Covenant with the words, “I will make a new covenant with the “unfaithful” house of Israel… I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts. It is inexplicable that God would refer to circumcision—the most guarded Jewish ritual—as an “everlasting covenant” (Genesis 17:13), only to be rejected by the New Testament (Galatians 5:2). Furthermore, rather than calling the Jews “children of the devil,” the Torah repeatedly refers to them as the children of God, as it says, “Israel is My son, My firstborn” (E

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Jews for Judaism

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10 мая 2024 г.

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Темы: relationships_shalom_bayit