Shalom everyone, During the 1990s, when I was doing research for The Exhortations, a few people wanted me to include the Book of Enoch. However, after having fully read its contents from cover to cover, digested its beliefs, and researched its origins, I ended up...

Modern Misconceptions about ancient Jewish denominations Because most modern people formally belong to one sect, church or denomination, most Christians think that Yeshua must have belonged to one of the 4 sects mentioned by Josephus: either an Essene, a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The teachings of the Prophet Yeshua is the lens through which Talmidis understand Torah It needs to be stated, right at the very start, that it is fundamental to the Talmidi Israelite faith, that we tend towards the compassionate interpretation of any commandment....

Shalom everyone, The month of Av is for remembering the joy and sadness of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem – joy over its existence, and sadness over its destruction. The loss of the Temple is commemorated by the Fast of Tisha be'Av (the 9th of Av – see Jer 36:9)....

Shalom everyone, If you have been brought up in a Christian environment, you have probably been taught that religion and politics don’t mix. You have probably also been taught that a religious minister or leader should not criticise the government, and that meddling...