Parashah Notes: B’resheit, aka How My Four-Year-Old Taught Me To Understand Genesis

One of the great joys of having children is watching them learn. Preschoolers in particular always seem to be asking questions: "Why? Why? Why?" My four-year-old son's favorite questions all start the same way, "How did God make ____ ?" He hasn't yet figured out the difference between the natural and the artificial, so the …

The Latter Stars

This post will be a bit late for the subject matter, but I wanted to get the ball rolling on a project that I’ve had in mind for some time: providing some commentary on the Parsha, the weekly Torah portions read in the synagogue. Where I’ve failed in that task before is in trying to …

Messiah in Exodus

Apparently people like it when I publish what amounts to raw notes. Actually, that makes sense: I'm more to the point, the notes are easy to scan, and they serve as a jumping-off point for one's own studies. So, that being the case, here's a follow-up to Messiah in Genesis. On the many Messianic prophecies …

Messiah in Genesis

A reader of the old Hebrewroot page expressed concern about losing an article that I wrote back in the day called, well, "Messiah in Genesis." In the interest of preserving my old work (even if it looks more like a few notes than a finished article), I'm reposting it here. Obviously, it crosses over significantly …

Can Women Minister? – 1 Timothy 2:11-16

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved …

Can Women Minister? – 1 Corinthians 14:33-38

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask …

Question and Answer About Melchizedek

So, yet again, a move has put me off of posting for a couple of months straight. Of course, that doesn't mean that I've been doing nothing: Johnny McMahon and I have continued to jam on the Iron Show, and I've got an upcoming gig with Paul Kennedy on the Acts 17:11 Radio Network that …

David, Bathsheba, and the Dangers of the Letter of the Law

Whoo, boy!  Two months!  Sorry about that; I was busy getting ready for the move, then moving, then without internet for a week, then dealing with several ministerial crises that popped up.  Baruch Hashem, though!  The crises actually opened up some wonderful opportunities.  I'll have to get everyone's permission to share the events some day …

Daniel 7 Commentary (incomplete)

Okay, I know I've been slacking on the blog.  The good news is that I've gotten the first several YouTube vids' worth of talk and slides prepped.  The bad news is that I now get to combine them into actual videos.  Yay! After I've cut my teeth on those, I'll get to work on the …

Revelation 3:7-13 – Philadelphia

I apologize sincerely for taking so long to get this out.  I was waiting for Cyber-Synagogue to update so that the notes and streaming would be in tandem, but we appear to be experiencing unusual delays . . . or the usual ones, as the case may be.  Sorry about that.  So for the sake …