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By: Rabbi Daniel Mechanic1 (In consultation with Doron Witztum2 and Harold Gans3) DANIEL MECHANIC is a senior international Codes lecturer and rese...
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Do we ever get a second chance in life? A year after leaving Egypt, the people of Israel were to bring the Passover offering on the afternoon of...
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Chapter 45 THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL 9:24 -27 Part 1 LIARS FOR JESUS
Part 2 THE PASSAGE: VERSE BY VERSE The decree Verse 24: Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city, to terminate the t...
Anointing the Holy of Holies The expression “and to anoint the Holy of Holies” refers to the reestablished Second Temple (Ezekiel 46:12) and the o...
Find out how Rabbi Kravitz succeeded in life by facing the challenges in the face with the help of Jewish wisdom.
It is said that when Jesus supposedly ascended to heaven every one of the six objectives to be accomplished had been fulfilled. It is said he fulfi...
Following these forty-nine years is a period of “troubled times” lasting sixty-two weeks or 434 years. During these years many enemies will arise s...
The second anointed one Verse 26. And after the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and he shall have nothing; the people of a lea...
The second part of verse 26 is a sweeping historical synopsis of events leading to the destruction of the Second Temple. This is the tragedy encaps...
The last week and its aftermath Verse 27. And it [the Roman government] shall make a strong covenant with many for one week; and during half of ...
The Romans were ever vigilant against a Jewish insurrection. Tenacious in their loyalty to ancestral beliefs and customs Jews presented Rome with a...
After the night comes the dawn Daniel’s text is followed by a simple but poignant statement concerning the post-destruction status of the Temple M...
ISAIAH 53: JESUS IS NOT THE SUFFERING SERVANT THE TEXT: ISAIAH 52:13-53:12 Behold, My servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, a...
The phrase, “My servant,” presents a problem for the trinitarian doctrine: servant and master are two separate entities. A servant by definition is...
The rest of the story The fact is that Jesus’ death through crucifixion was no remedy for sin. He did not die in man’s place; his death was not ...
ISAIAH 53:1 53:1: “Who would have believed our report [literally, “what we have heard”]?” As we enter chapter 53, a change of speakers occurs...
ISAIAH 53:2 53:2: “[H]e grew up … a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry land … no form nor comeliness … nor appearance that we should delig...
Continued from Part 5 ISAIAH 53:3 53:3: “He was despised, and rejected of men … and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, an...
(Psalms 41:10) New Testament authors attempt to legitimatize the claims they make on behalf of Jesus by referral to biblical verses.
Over 250 people attended a fantastic series of events with Jews for Judaism director, Rabbi Zalman Kravitz, at CChabadOrlando this past April.
Continued from Part 6 Jesus’ popularity in review: Do the Gospel’s describe Jesus as a person who “was despised and rejected,” or from whom p...
ISAIAH 53:4 5:4: “Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; but we considered him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” ...
Continued from Part 8 ISAIAH 53:5 53:5: “But he was wounded as a result of our transgressions, he was crushed as a result of our iniquities.”...
The rest of the story John’s claim that Jesus was “scourged” during the trial before Pilate (John 19:1) leaves open the extent of injury incurred ...
Not by blood loss Presuming Jesus was nailed to the cross, did blood oozing from the nail wounds cause his death? The Roman method of execution by...
Did Jesus fulfill the Torah’s requirements for blood sacrifice (Matthew 5:17-18)? Under no circumstances can one say that Jesus shed his blood as...
ISAIAH 53:6 53:6: “the Lord has visited upon him the iniquity of us all” The pre-Gospel church and its developing Christology The pre-Gospel...
ISAIAH 53:7 Isaiah 53:7: “as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb; and opened not his mouth” The silence that was a bit too loud Was Jesus hum...