Shalom everyone, This year, the date God has chosen for the opening of the gates of heaven begins on Sunday evening, 13th October 2024. So I thought I would write a little about one particular aspect of the Great Day, ha-Yom ha-Gadol. Before I begin, I just want to...

I was recently posed a question about the terms and conditions of God’s Covenant with Israel, and was asked, “I don't know what to make of the covenant that the children of Israel agreed to, because it seems to me that someone in their right mind would not have agreed...

Shalom everyone If there is just one thing that we can learn from being followers of the Prophet Yeshua, it is that we should always seek to interpret the Hebrew Bible with compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and love. If we are instead tempted by our baser natures to...

Shalom everyone, In preparation for the upcoming season of repentance, I thought it would be useful to explain the theological background to the process of Expiation – and not the modern Jewish understanding of it, but rather the original, ancient, pre-Exile, Yahwist...

Shalom everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about having a mission and a purpose in life. This article here is a follow-up to it. In this blog, I want to take a look at the concept of God having a plan – the Great and Ultimate Plan. Free Will and Objections to a...

Shalom everyone, A friend recently asked me about the topic of, ‘Our Purpose in Life’, and specifically its negative effects on people who are unable to divine their purpose in life. I have to admit that I wasn’t previously aware of this phenomenon. Apparently, some...

The twenty-ninth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Lk 15:8-10. As a result of having compared the notes of various commentaries, the last verse here is slightly different from the one currently in The Exhortations; I will update it in the next edition. The...

I occasionally get asked why there are no miracles mentioned in the Sefer Yeshua. The simplest answer is that I wanted Yeshua’s own words to justify themselves, without distractions. If you could read a ‘red letter’ edition of the Sefer Yeshua, you would see that the...

The twenty-eighth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Lk 15:11-32. The scholars of the ‘Jesus Seminar’ voted it as category pink – that is, that Yeshua probably said something like this, but the scholars had some reservations. 28. 1There was a Zealot who...

Tonight, being the start of the Fourth-month, we begin the 3-day countdown to Theophany Day (9th-10th July 2024). Theophany Day is when we celebrate and remember the manifestation of God’s Glory on Mt Horeb in the presence of all the Israelites, and the Giving of the...