by Shmuel Parzal | May 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
My dearest sisters and brothers, This coming Sunday is when Talmidis, Karaites and Samaritans all celebrate Shavuot. So in the run-up to Shavuot, why have we been remembering the 7 parts of God’s Covenant over the last few weeks? When I was going through my...
by Shmuel Parzal | Apr 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, This blog post is about the question, “Why did God create the Universe and the Earth”? Or put another way, “Why is there something as opposed to nothing, other than God?” My gut-feeling is that the answer to this question is ultimately known...
by Shmuel Parzal | Apr 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
(message put out to the group Thurs 6th Apr 2023) Shalom everyone, This evening, we hold our Seders, when we remember the story of the Exodus. One of the purposes of retelling the story, is to enable us to feel as if we came out of Egypt ourselves. This aspect of the...
by Shmuel Parzal | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, We all know that each religious festival has themes, and that there is a purpose to having those festival themes: that by celebrating these festivals together, God has the opportunity to shape and mould us into the kind of people that God intended us...
by Shmuel Parzal | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
A Harmonisation of the Four surviving versions of the Torah The fruits of a twenty-year project are now available for you to purchase online – the HEBT Translation of the Torah (HEBT stands for, ‘Harmonised and Expanded Bible Translation’). It is a completely new...
