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Accessing their deep knowledge of both Jewish and Christian tradition, Joshua teaches a weekly Bible Study in person and on Zoom. The classes are dynamic and highly interactive, bridging the worlds of academic and devotional learning. This summer, join us for a class on the spiritual insight gained from the study of Hebrew. Use the link above to sign up for the Bible Study with Joshua mailing list.
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Joshua’s deep love of the Eucharist, traditional liturgy, and sacramental life in the Episcopal Church has led them to discern a vocation to the priesthood. Joshua is an aspirant in the Diocese of Rhode Island, and works as a Worship Leader and Livestream Producer in their home parish.
Oops, pushed th send before finishing. Continuing, the church altered to Tanach to give it a christological meaning. All of which are all well documented in Rabbi Tovia Singer's two volume books "Let's Get Biblical",, subtitled "Why doesn't Judaism accept the Christian Messiah". Not only was this undeniable truth, but proves beyond any shadow of a doubt the Christianity is a man made religion. I further discovered that the Greco Roman Hellenized world was full of mythological demigods, which are depicted as offspring of a deity and a mortal. I found at least 37 that had the same resume as JC, including Buddha, Attis, Krishna to name a few. Please tell me how does someone prove a virgin birth? Mary had every reason in the world to make up this story to avoid being stoned to death for her adulteress activities with likely a Roman soldier. Next, the pagan ritual of vicarious atonement, widely believed in ancient, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, as well as Celtic traditions. Vicarious atonement is aborant in the Tanach. Furthermore , is zero historical evidence of JC by contemporary writers of the time. Additionally, why is there no mention of the zombie Apocalypse in Matthew chapter 27: 52-54. There is solid evidence that the new testament writers were imitating Homers Odyssey. (view MythVision podcast under this title), by former Christian Bible scholars Dennis macDonald and Richard Miller. I could go on writing a book on the topic, but I'll end by saying, that you will suffer the consequences in Gehinnom for turning from the God of Israel to idolatry. Watch Rabbi Yaron Reuven's RU-vid video on Gehinnom, where he sights 170 sources.
@@nicolegallagher4319I’m not sure that there’s a point in continuing to argue with you. I practice a different religion from you, obviously we are going to disagree about some things. I will say one thing: Christianity hasn’t touched the Tanakh in any way shape or form. When we go to read it in the “original” we just pick up a Tanakh, usually by a Jewish publisher these days. The only difference is that the books are a different order. But the Christian order of the books is just an older Jewish order from the first century. Again, Judaism has changed a lot in two thousand years. If you’re going to make accusations about changes, you should be aware of the incredible transformation Judaism has undergone. But even taking difference into account, you are severely misrepresenting Judaism by threatening a stranger with Gehenna. There isn’t any halachic basis for that, nor really for your accusation of idolatry. I was trained to be a rabbi, I’m very well aware of these things. You’re welcome to disagree, but you need to remain respectful if you want continued access to my content.
Your story is incomprehensible. I was raised in Christianity, spent 64 years believing the nonsense of this man made religion. Having had many unanswered questions over all those years, I finally took the time to do some research into the claims of Christianity. I'll grant you the 500 contradictions and inconsistencies in the New testament, but the blatant corruption done to the Tanach but the church was shocking. The church literally changed the original text to give a
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Wow, ana with the stress on last a pronounced anaa, means exactly the same thing in my language which is an African Cushitic language!! What a coincidence!!
@@mingosutu probably not! That’s not so far away. There are so many relationships between Hebrew and other Semitic Languages, some Northeast African languages, even PIE.
Thanks for recognizing the fact that it's not always summer in June. 😊 İn fact İ come from an equatorial country where you have neither summer nor winter. 😃
I have never heard that before and that’s hilarious. I feel like I should be offended, but I’m too busy laughing! 😂 Good question. I am Jewish, was born Jewish, raised with Jewish identity by not super religious parents. But my mother’s family is Christian. I went through a lot of formal Jewish education, became very religious, and was on my way to becoming a rabbi, then had a conversion experience and became a Christian. So I am a Christian, catholic, specifically Episcopalian. But, to be clear, Jewish law does not necessarily consider Christianity to be idol worship. It depends on which authorities you ask, even in the Orthodox world today. Either way, yes I worship the One God of Israel, who I believe is the Trinity.
❤ Shabat SHALOM! ❤ I'm learning Hebrew and I see everybody has a different Hebrew 😂😭🤔 By the way: is it BEiN or BEN (son) ? As far as I know it is "BEN" ! Otherwise those two horizontal dots are for ONE vowel sounding: "E" or TWO vowels sounding "Ei" ??? 😳 I have never heard of "Ei", but I learn from another two students... (Or this must come with the English phonetical system, isn't it? That letter E is pronounced "ei", in English.) I'm neither an English native speaker; thanks! TODA RABA!
He says he's using modern pronunciation in the beginning of the video. The good news for you is that other than pronunciation, they're not super different.
@@danielwatkins877but not Modern Hebrew as in Israeli Hebrew. There are some significant differences between Classical and Modern grammar. Like Classical doesn’t have true tenses and Modern has a ton of influence from Aramaic, Arabic, and English. Classical tends to also be more “terse” and use far less words to say the same things.
@@lesliec9311 there isn’t a difference in standard pronunciation but there was in classical Hebrew. There are grammatical differences but that comes later. :)
If you talk to a Yemenite Jew, they can most likely pronounce certain letters the old, gutteral way. But nobody really uses those sounds anymore. You can try to Google ancient Hebrew pronunciation. I think there's at least one video of it.
@@katialbert yes absolutely! Yemenite is still very similar to reconstructed Classical, probably in part due to Arabic influence. I am planning a short video on Classical pronunciation. Coming soon!
