June 22, 2018

Scriptures–Important Part of Jewish Life: Every congregation, whether Orthodox, Conservative or Reform reads the same Torah section on Mondays, Thursdays…

June 19, 2018

Good Similarities Extend to Latter-day David: Jews expect a "latter-day" David who would be similar to the former David in…

June 11, 2018

Sources of Davidic History: Most of what we know about David, Saul, and his son Jonathan, comes from the Holy…

June 4, 2018

Imbalance of Faith and Works: In Judaism, "belief" is super ceded by "doing." Hence the 613 commandments (365 do not's…

May 25, 2018

Samuel Means Dedicated to the Lord: Hannah, the wife of Elkanah and the mother of the prophet Samuel, is a…

May 18, 2018

Few Women Revered in Jewish Thought: Ruth is one of them. A woman convert to Judaism is given or "takes…

May 11, 2018

Defense Minister, Mr. Lightning: Barak ("lightning" in Hebrew), the military leader of Israel, was hesitant to follow Deborah's prophetic instruction…

May 7, 2018

"Prophet in Waiting:" The selection of Joshua to replace Moses was anticipated by the Israelites. There was (and still is)…

April 30, 2018

How Are You Using Your Anchors? The Children of Israel did so poorly in keeping a "spiritual" standard that Moses…

April 16, 2018

What Do Jews Think of Balaam? The collection of Jewish traditions about Balaam are mostly negative and confusing. First of…