Apr 19, 2023
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...
Apr 10, 2023
(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...
Apr 9, 2023
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...
Mar 29, 2023
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...
Mar 27, 2023
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...
Feb 9, 2023
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...
