If someone
had handed me a piece of paper with the words from a recent article I had
written, I would have said, “I have no interest in understanding the teachings
of Jesus and I don’t have a clue who Hillel is. And I have no interest in
learning Hebrew! I just read a story about the “sheep and the goats.” I know I
am a “goat” and “I desperately want to know how to become a sheep!”
Continue reading at –
https://mailchi.mp/db0a50c88aeb/i-desperately-wanted-to-know-how-to-become-a-sheep
Today
I was doing research on Jerusalem and the Temple that the New Testament
mentions in stories about Jesus. I dug out the two-volume work, The Jewish
People in the First Century: Historical Geography, Political History, Social,
Cultural, and Religious Life and Institutions . . . Here are some sections
that are loaded with great information. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/ffbbf9f500b2/visiting-the-jerusalem-temple-that-jesus-knew
Rabbi Leynor
wrote this on October 23, 2014. “Studying the Bible and discussing its
ancient words, concepts and ideas is something I enjoy very much. But, holding
the hand of a person that is about to take their last breath or that has just
discovered they have lost someone they loved very much is something very
different . . . But, if you come and study the biblical text with me
– that’s another matter! Choose Life, Do Tov & walk humbly
with “Your Higher Power” (whatever that might or might not be!)” Continue
reading at: https://mailchi.mp/383cc61077c6/hillel-and-jesus-a-kingdom-and-eternal-life-without-human-institutions
