God establishes a covenant with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and finally Jesus. In these succeeding covenants we see God expanding his covenant family until there is a one, holy, catholic ...
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto concludes: “Through complete devotion to the Holy Torah and the attribute of holiness, a person can achieve lofty insights and fulfill the divine potential hidden within his soul ...
Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of stubby horns. Michelangelo wasn’t the first artist to depict the Hebrew ...
Abraham Lincoln said it best when he spoke of “a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all ...
it shows no sign of the Ark of the Covenant. After Moses chastises his people for worshiping an idol while he was gone, the docuseries depicts Moses preaching the laws he received from God to his ...
said Moses to God. “And how can I possibly get the Israelites out of Egypt?” “Because I will be with you” replied God... The belief is that an important covenant took place between God and ...
Dr. Tzvi Novick points out in an insightful article in the Times of Israel (May 25,2023) entitled “Standing Under Sinai: On the Origins of a Coerced Covenant” that a famous rabbinical Midrash ...
Orthodox Jews believe that the words of the covenant were given directly from God to Moses, and as such they must be strictly followed.
The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement ... between God and Abraham and between God and Moses. The New Testament is an account of the pact ...
Parshah Yitro is replete with spiritual jewels we could discuss. Among the treasures here are learning the names of Moses’ ...