by Shmuel Parzal | Oct 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Introduction Biblical Hebrew and ancient Jewish Aramaic had a small vocabulary compared to modern languages, and so one word often had to cover several meanings, when in English, for example, we would use different words in each case. Such a word is the Aramaic...
by Shmuel Parzal | Oct 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, On the other days of the week during Sukkot, we asked for blessings upon all the Peoples and Nations of the earth; today, now that the sukkah is down, we pray for our needs as Yahwists, and for the needs of Israel, and we take a look at what it means...
by Shmuel Parzal | Oct 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Introduction I felt I had to write this article, because there are a growing number of people out there saying that, since the historical, ancient Ebionites believed this and that about Yeshua – that Yeshua was ‘the messiah’ and ‘the son of God’ – therefore, that’s...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, In the Talmidi and Karaite communities, Yom Truah is our Simchat Torah – Rejoicing in God’s Torah. Whenever we come to discuss Torah, our community’s history inevitably means that we have to address the elephant in the room. What Torah is not Through...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Shabbat shalom everyone, I had an after-thought, that my Shabbat commentary on the Yahwist theology behind the sin-offerings (in Lev. chapter 4) might have been a bit too much for those who are not familiar with pre-Christian, pre-rabbinic, biblical Israelite...
