Introduction to Torah Study I. Life is for pleasure Tell your class: “It is a principle of Jewish understanding that G-d created us because He wanted to give us pleasure. Illustration: When you have children you’ll see, or if you already have children you know that all
Read more →Breishit 19 (Ch. 20) In the 19th century, a group of German scholars started what developed into modern theories of Bible criticism. Discovering (!) that the Torah uses different names to refer to G-d, they came up with the theory that the Torah was really put together from different documents
Read more →Author: Rabbi Ari Kahn ARCHAEOLOGY – OUTSIDE VERIFICATION Rabbi Ari Kahn Archaeology is the science of analyzing relics of the Ancient World. As far as interpreting the data, there is a fairly high level of subjectivism. Utter objectivity is difficult if not impossible, because sometimes a “clue”
Read more →Biblical Criticism is an attack on the veracity of the Torah. We will discuss 3 areas of criticism: ArcheologyLiterary AnalysisGeneral Questions Archeology Biblical criticism in the field of archeology usually goes something like this: It says in the bible xyz, and we could not find any signs
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