Derek Leman's Blog

• Jews and Christians Together . . . in Holy Matrimony!

  June 30, 2009

  • Rich Nichol, the Director of the Rabbinical Ordination Institute at MJTI (mjti.com) says, “For final redemption to occur, the Church and the Jewish people must come together as never before.”Stuart Dauermann, the Senior Scholar at MJTI just released a booklet this year called Christians and Jews Together.Of course, what they are both talking about is the happy realization by Jews that ...
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• Shavuot (Pentecost) and Pilgrimage to the Temple

  May 29, 2009

  • The following is an excerpt from my 2008 book,Feast, available at lifeway.com:…………………….A Pilgrim FeastIn the really old days, before there was a temple, there was only a tent called the tabernacle. It moved from place to place, eventually resting for a long time in central Israel in a settlement called Shiloh. Later, David brought it to Jerusalem, and then Solomon replaced the ...
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• Shavuot (Pentecost) and Mt. Sinai

  May 19, 2009

  • The Torah commands a positive mitzvah that we make known to our offspring from generation to generation all that transpired there [Mt. Sinai], both visually and audibly. There is a very great purpose to this mitzvah. –Maimonides You will not exactly find a verse in the Bible which says, “On Shavuot (Pentecost), God appeared to Israel at Mt. Sinai and spoke the Ten Words.” The belief ...
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