Shalom everyone, We are so used to the story of the Exodus, that there are some very obvious questions we no longer think about. A while back, a good friend wrote and asked me: … since God, being omniscient, knew that the presence of the Hebrews in Egypt would lead to...

Shalom everyone, Last year, I received several questions about ghosts, and why a Yahwist is forbidden to summon or speak to the dead. From what I recall, the questions were prompted by seeing people on TV – mediums – who claimed to be able to speak to the spirits of...

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....