#Torah

There are Holy Spirit filled believers who do not keep Torah, why? Because the Holy Spirit has been revealed apart from the Law. Why were the first believers called The
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It’s even hotter than it was last night...time for another late night thread on an aspect of Judaism - reading from the Torah.And when I say “reading from the Torah”,
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The Torah of Brokenness- A Shavuot ReflectionAs much as I love the spirit of learning and celebrating the receiving of Torah that Shavuot brings, today my heart weighs a bit
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interesting idea, but in Judaism we start with the assumption that the original meaning of the biblical text is actually irretrievable without the oral interprative tradition which not only expands
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Hoo boy. I'm taking an online course about #Jewish scripture. It is free and online, so the other students are a mixed bag. The professor warned the students at the
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growing up, i always dreaded shavuot. until i was eighteen i had a life-threatening dairy allergy and i had to be hypercautious about cross-contamination. normally, this was manageable. but on
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1. I do not have time to do a full Twitter shiur on the halakhot of Mesira/Informing. However, for all those seriously asking why @jacobkornbluh is not a moser I
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Their voices need to be heard. This history of discrimination is one of the primary reasons why we absolutely refuse to give up sovereignty and become a minority again in
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1/8 Does the Quran contain less legal material than the Torah? This is a common assumption scholars make. But a short investigation coupled with a scholarly grasp of the Quran
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Torah thread for this day:"Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the Memphis skyFree at last, they took your life. They could not take your pride" (from the U2
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Jews literally worship Satan by the name of Samael and genocided many people.https://twitter.com/jennajameson/status/1280368994768175104 Jews don't believe Satan has fallen. They believe he's an angel of death/tribulation and many w
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This week's Torah Portion is Tazria-Metzora, and it's a Parsha we love to hate, universally dreaded by pre-B'nai mitzvah students. It's full of boils, fungal infections, rashes, sores, sprouting hair,
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A long overdue article on a major under-reported scandal: the wildly inflated appraised values given to 18th & 19th century torah scrolls bought by the MOTB and other evangelical buyers.
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1. This article is a good example of rabbis leveraging the "Orthodox" label for unearned halakhic legitimacy. In this case for an anthropocentric vision of Judaism.https://www.jta.org/2020/10/28/lifestyle/a-small-but-growing-numbe
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A thread on Jewish incantations, rituals, and anxieties, related to memory in late antiquity and the early medieval period. 1/24 There were two main incantations for improved memory and learning
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If you preach repentance without the law (Torah) what are they repenting of?It's like telling someone to turn the keys in the ignition of the car, without a car and
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