by Shmuel Parzal | Oct 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Purpose of this Article I am basically writing this piece to make my personal position clear: I am against those who spread violence and death, whoever they are, and whatever religion they might belong to. I support anyone who is innocent in times of war, whether...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Introduction: The Purpose of Yom ha-Kippurim The majority of this article is taken from the Introduction to the Prayerbook for the Day of Expiations. For a shorter, condensed version of the content in this article, see this blogpost. The whole purpose of the Day of...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, There are some religious preachers who will threaten or shame you into following their teachings. I‘m not going to do that. There are some religious teachers who will wow you by proclaiming that they are spiritually evolved beings, who have been...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
General Introduction The Yahwist principle of mutual responsibility comes from the transactional nature of the various covenants described in the Miqra. Living life under God’s Covenant implies a mutual relationship, and so if one side in any given relationship...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
General Introduction This is the third in my series of ‘reaction articles’ to the recent set of lectures given on 27-28 May 2023, by Dr Bart Ehrman, on the topic of ‘Jesus & Paul: The Great Divide’ (you can read my very first article in this series by...
by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Some forethoughts I remember an episode of Stargate SG1 (‘Avatar’, S8 Ep6), where Teal’c had to re-live the same day over and over again – a day of battle inside the SG1 base, each time correcting all the mistakes that he had made in the previous...
