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What about Matthew 23 and calling no man rabbi?
1Then spoke Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: 3All therefore whatever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not you after their works: for they say, and do not. 4For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,…
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What about Nehemiah 13:19-21??
Nehemiah 13:19-21 Jerusalem gate open 19And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day. 20So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. 21Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge you about the wall? if you do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time…
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Leviticus 23:32 A little clarification please!
Yom haKippurim is on the 10th day of the 7th month. Lev 23:32 says that the Shabbat begins on the even of the 9th and continues to the even of the 10th. Many or most seem to interpret this as the end of the 9th to the end of the 10th. This is well and good but I thought the even begins the days. So the even of the 9th would be the start of day 9 and the even of the 10th would start the 10th. It seems to me if the day does start at the even, then this Shabbat should start at the even of the 10th…
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Yom Kippur Day of Atonement October 6, 2011
The Day of Atonement begins the evening of the 9th and goes to the evening of the 10th of the 7th month. Most would agree with this but the question is, when does the timing fall according to the pagan calendar? By our reckoning, this would be 10/5/2011 to 10/6/2011. We are questioning if we are not a day late. We do not seem to feel that we are early and this is for a lot of reasons. We are going to chart the moon closely and see how the month ends up working itself out. I will admit, this is the one Shabbat that seems to make sense running…
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Keep From Doing As You Please
As I was studying out the Day of Atonement in Scripture, I came across a familiar passage, Isaiah 58:13-14: “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.” The mouth of the LORD has…
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God Called the Light “Day”
I’ve been challenging the notion that a Biblical day is reckoned from evening to evening for a few months now. And tonight I had an “aha” moment. Genesis 1:5 simply states, “God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night”. And there was evening and there was morning — the first day.” What if the Biblical day is simply “light”, whether it be full light or mixed light as we see in both evening and morning? And the Biblical night is simply darkness, the absence of light. What if it’s not reckoned evening-to-evening or morning-to-morning but rather morning-to-evening. I wonder if the references to a literal “day” in the Bible…
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This day’s date
While working on our Sukkah, I took a picture of the moon just before night set in. Isha and I are still working on setting up our calendar. We are leaning toward calling this day the 8th day of the 7th month. That is a long conversation in and of itself. For the time being, consider this the official kick-off of our new blog. I am Ish and my wife is Isha. We are not quite gentile Christians and not quite Jewish either. We are in that strange outer boundary between two worlds. That too is a long conversation. I would like to share my little project with you. We…
