I need to ask a question…what is the star of david? why this symbol? what is the difference between this symbol and the symbol that is seen in Hinduism? please help me with this because I am struggling with it. thank you & shalom   Devanagari: आनन्द मार्ग, meaning Path of Bliss) uses a motif…

Daf Yomi

The following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com: Sunday, August 31, 2014: Moed Katan 20  image of daf

Daf Notes

Please have our brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisroel in mind when you are learning the Daf. It should also be l’zchus Refuah Shleimah for all the injured Israeli soldiers. Daf Notes is currently being dedicated to the neshamah of Tzvi Gershon Ben Yoel (Harvey Felsen) o”h May the studying of the Daf Notes…

Gospel of the Nazirenes

Originally posted on Yeshua Centered Judaism:
  CHAPTER 46: The Transfiguration on the Mount.   The Giving of the Law 1. After six days, when the Feast of Tabernacles was near at hand, Yeshua took the twelve and brought them separately up into a high mountain, and as he was praying his appearance was changed ,…

Wearing a Kippa on One’s Head

Wearing a Kippa on One’s Head Question: Is one halachically obligated to wear a Kippa (skullcap) on one’s head? Answer: The Gemara (Kiddushin 31a) relates that Rav Huna son of Rav Yehoshua would take care not to walk four Amot(approximately six feet) without a head covering, for he would say, “Hashem’s Divine presence is above…

Avot 1:16

Avot 1:16 Rabban Gamliel used to say: Accept a teacher upon yourself  and remove yourself from uncertainty; and do not give excess tithes by estimating [instead of measuring]. Rabban Gamliel used to say… This is the first verse that does not link the sage with a predecessor but simply begins with ‘Rabban Gamliel used to say’….

ACTS 1: 8 Aramaic New Covenant

ACTS 1: 8 but when the Spirit of Holiness comes upon you 83 ’ela cn but, except, unless 793c kad adv when 219a ’eta vv bring, come 1652a ruha nn Spirit, wind 1543a qudsa nn holiness 1306a ‘al prp about, above, concerning, over, upon you take power, 1530a qebal vv accuse, take 605a haila nn…

The Way

Jewish Christians who lived during Jesus’ lifetime. In the November/December 2012 issue ofBiblical Archaeology Review [1], Dead Sea Scrolls and early Christianity scholar Geza Vermes [2]explores the origin of Christianity by examining the characteristics of the Jewish Jesus movement to see how it developed into a distinctly gentile religion. In the New Testament, Jesus only preaches to a Jewish…