Why does the Jewish community call Yom Teruah “Rosh HaShanah”? I thought the Biblical New Year began in the Spring.
Jewish Tradition
There is a great deal of significance attached to this day in Jewish theology, as it is most often emphasized as a time when God looks down from Heaven and reconsiders where He stands with people. It is a time when His people are to rejoice and celebrate, remembering His goodness, but also begin a sober examination of their humanity, and consider faults and sins which must be rectified.
What are the seven Noahide laws? I recently heard a teaching that Orthodox Jews are secretly controlling the New World Order, and that they will impose the Noahide laws to get people to only worship God proper, and that those who worship Yeshua the Messiah will be put to death.
Why are there so many leaders in the Messianic movement who call themselves “rabbi”? Yeshua explicitly forbade this in Matthew 23:8.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews the arguments commonly presented to support the traditional, Pharisaical method for counting the omer between Passover and Shavuot. Part 2 of 2
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews the arguments commonly presented to support the alternative, Saddusaical method for counting the omer between Passover and Shavuot. Part 1 of 2
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews what is intended by Paul in communicating that the Jewish people have been entrusted with “the oracles of God”? Is this just to be taken as the Holy Scriptures / Tanach (OT) proper? Or, could this also be extended to various (oral) explanations of how the Scriptures are to be followed?
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses some of the past experiences he has had, in remembering the Fall High Holidays.
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.