Pre-Announcement: Israel Tour
What’s a pre-announcement? It means something like this: “I have very little specific information at this time but I need to start recruiting people who are highly interested.” Possibly December 2012 or January and February 2013. Israel. Galilee. Jerusalem. Dead…
The Heschel Files, #2
Abraham Joshua Heschel helps us think about definitions and distinctions important to the great questions of life, meaning, and God in the first chapter of God in Search of Man. See “The Heschel Files #1″ for a quick introduction. We…
Seal It Among My Disciples
The human condition is despair, facing the seeming absence of the Presence of God. Isaiah is sensitized to this disheartenment: Hashem, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob (8:17). Evil things happen, even to the chosen nation:…
At the YIC Blog: VIDEO, Bethlehem Star
When the very Jewish gospel of Matthew tells us the story of Messiah’s birth, you can bet it will be filled with Jewish themes. In fact, there are little known Jewish themes in the Matthew 2 story of the magi…
Teaching Series: Future Hope
We’ll be spending a dozen weeks or so at Tikvat David learning about the Future Hope themes in the Israelite prophets. I thought some of the upcoming topics might interest you …
Series: Hints of the Patriarchal Past
I scheduled a nine-part mini-blog series which many Musings readers will find fascinating. I posted Pt 1 today and the other parts will post through December 6 (skipping Thanksgiving and weekends). The payoff at the end: literary clues in Torah…
Hanukkah and Thanksgiving
It’s not hard to find some commonalities between Hanukkah (its origins in the 160′s BCE) and Thanksgiving (its origins in the Plymouth Colony (1621 CE). Both the first Thanksgiving and the first Hanukkah were about religious freedom. Both were about…
The Heschel Files, #1
Faith is not as easy for the everyday person as it used to be. In the past religion thrived on a lack of information and the masses heard for the most part only what their leaders told them. Now religious…
Bethlehem Shepherds, Video
The Messianic Jewish Musings blog is almost completely ported over to its new location here at DerekLeman.com/Musings. By Monday, November 21, it will be exclusively here (but old posts still up at derek4messiah.wordpress.com and messianicjudaism.me/Musings). And in December, we will…
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Isaiah on My Mind
Isaiah may not be quite as cool as Ezekiel (see “Ezekiel on My Mind”), but he is the guy who coined terms like “prince of peace” and the poet who gave us images like “a new heaven and earth” and…