Judiasm (Page 2)
Understanding Yom Kippur and How to Observe it
Each year to prepare for the fall feast and the prophetic foreshadowing of the coming of the King all of Israel would begin repenting from the beginning of the month of Elul for 30 days up to Rosh Hashanah/Yom Terumah and then 10 final days leading up to Yom Kippur the 10 days of Awe!
Yom Teruah is the prophetic foreshadow of the coming of Messiah and the Marriage of the Lamb. This year we celebrate it starting the evening of the 25th after sundown. The ancient Jewish wedding is a custom that every believer should study and understand. Why? Because Yah Himself instituted and followed the steps of a…
Learn about the Hebrew month of ELUL and how it is a special time for Reflection, Relationship, Repentance and Righteous Deeds!
For those who are interested in understanding their Jewish brothers and our Jewish faith, we thought it worthy of familiarizing you with the 13 Foundational Principles of Judaism. These thirteen Principles compiled by Maimonides outline Judaism’s tenets, which one must acknowledge as truths in order to be considered a Jew, and to partake in the World…
Tu B’Av is celebrated as the Hebrew-Jewish day of ahavah love (Hebrew: חג האהבה, Hag HaAhava), similar to Valentine’s Day and has been said to be a “great day for weddings”.
This year the Tisha B’Av (9 Av) fast begins the evening of Wednesday July 26, 2023 and goes through Thursday July 27 This is the fast of the fifth month mentioned in Zechariah 8:19. Here is a fascinating overview capturing the meaning of the holiday and fast… Rabbi Avraham Goldhar has amazed audiences around the…
There are Three Weeks that are an annual mourning period that falls out in the summer. The Three Weeks or Bein ha-Metzarim (Hebrew: בין המצרים, “Between the Straits”) (cf “dire straits”) is a period of mourning commemorating the destruction of the first and second Jewish Temples. This is when we mourn the destruction of the Holy Temple and our launch into a still-ongoing exile. The period…
(The following excerpts come from Rabbi Isaac’s book available at Amazon) Many may be surprised to find out that Yeshua kept the Written Law, the Oral Law and the traditions of Judaism as a Jewish Rabbi. Yeshua also taught his followers to do the same in Matt 23:3 saying, “All therefore, whatsoever, they [the Jewish…
Tevilah and Mikvah During Biblical Times Tevilah is the Biblical act of immersing oneself in a natural living water source for ritual cleansing of sin and symbolizing death to the self-centered ego and rebirth to a new spiritual life of selfless love in harmony with the principles of God’s law of love – “Torah”. In…