“What is the day of Pentecost?” Answer: "Pentecost" is significant in both the Old and the New Testaments. Pentecost is actually the Greek name for a festival known in the Old Testament as the Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:9). The Greek word means "fifty" and refers to the fifty days that have elapsed […]
“What is the Jubilee?”……Answer: The word "jubilee"-literally "ram's horn" in Hebrew-is defined in Leviticus 25:9 as the sabbatical year after seven cycles of seven (49) years. The fiftieth year was to be a time of celebration and rejoicing for the Israelites. The ram's horn was blown on the tenth day of the seventh month to […]
“What is the Feast of Weeks?” Answer: Described in Leviticus 23, The Feast of Weeks is the second of the three "solemn feasts" that all Jewish males were required to travel to Jerusalem to attend (Exodus 23:14-17; 34:22-23; Deuteronomy 16:16). This important feast gets its name from the fact that it starts seven full weeks, […]
…A yad (Torah pointer) is used to keep one’s place while reading from the Torah scroll toprotect the parchment and handwritten text. Shabbat Shalom John! Welcome to Ha'azinu (Listen), this week's Parsha (Torah Portion). Please join us as we focus on the Torah portion that will be read in synagogues around the world during this […]
TheLost Tomb of Jesus. "But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips … holding…to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as…these." (2 Timothy 3:1-5) … Mea Shearim (Hundred Gates), which was established in […]
“Who are the Jehovah’s Witnesses and what are their beliefs?”……Answer: The sect known today as the Jehovah’s Witnesses started out in Pennsylvania in 1870 as a Bible class led by Charles Taze Russell. Russell named his group the "Millennial Dawn Bible Study." Charles T. Russell began writing a series of books he called "The Millennial […]
“Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions?”……Answer: Acts 15:19-21,28 is the Scripture Jehovah’s Witnesses typically point to as the reason they refuse to accept blood donations. Acts 15:20 says, “Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from […]