by Shmuel Parzal | Dec 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
The third passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mt 5:2-12, Lk 6:20-23, and Th 54:1, 68:1, 69:1-2. This week’s passage from the Sefer Yeshua is perhaps the most well-known, and most well-loved of all the sets of Yeshua’s sayings, because of the hope it gives us in a...
by Shmuel Parzal | Dec 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
The second passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mt 22:2-10, Lk 14:16-24, and Th 64:1-12. 2. 1Yeshua` said, ‘To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It’s like a great wedding feast a certain king ordered to be prepared. And when it was ready, he sent...
by Shmuel Parzal | Nov 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, Midweek, whenever I can, I’m going to try and say a little bit about each of the 173 passages of the Sefer Yeshua. The Sefer Yeshua is drawn from all the Jewish, Yahwist passages of the 3 synoptic gospels (Mark, Matthew & Luke), plus the Gospel of...
by Shmuel Parzal | Nov 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Yeshua taught, “By this everyone will know that you are my followers: if you have love for one another”. Have the followers of Jesus kept this teaching over the last 2000 years? As early as primary school (US: 1st-4th grade), I remember first learning about the...
by Shmuel Parzal | Nov 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
(the main content of this article was originally written in Nov 2008) Shabbat shalom, my beloved brothers and sisters, This week’s sidra (Dt 17:14-21) covers the biblical Yahwist view of kingship – ‘messiah-ship’, and it is quite different to what Christianity or even...
by Shmuel Parzal | Nov 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
This blog-post is mostly by way of a reference article for newcomers. Do you have to become Jewish to follow Jesus? Paullist theology has one way of answering the question, “Do you have to become Jewish in order to follow the teachings of Jesus?” Both...
