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The Real Yeshua Torah Readings for May 20 th are now online at https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-real-yeshua-torah-readings-for-may.html

The actions of Yeshua and his disciples regarding prayer have deep roots in the Jewish customs and practices of the Second Temple period. Already in the daily life of Yeshua and his disciples, thanksgiving and blessing were an integral part of their everyday experience and customary practice . Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2017/05/thanksgiving-and-blessings-were-regular.html

The government can assist religion only if (1) the primary purpose of the assistance is secular, (2) the assistance must neither promote nor inhibit religion, and (3) there is no excessive entanglement between church and state. Read complete article at http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/first-amendment-and-religion

It is important that we seek to clarify the term Judaism before going further. Judaism may be defined as the religion and culture of the Jewish people. Jewish civilization includes historical, social, and political dimensions in addition to the religious. Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2017/05/clarifying-term-judaism.html

An understanding of the Essenes, Sadducees, Pharisees, Herodians and Zealots enhances our ability to better understand the teachings of Yeshua by making us aware of the times he specifically addresses key points in their teachings. Read the complete blog at https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2017/05/yeshua-and-essenes.html

Below are Tweets that we posted on the following accounts today – Biblical Heritage Center, The Real Yeshua and the TOV Center. There are links at the bottom of the Biblical Heritage Center’s and TOV Center’s Home Pages. Follow us there and get the Tweets live. ● Liberty without authority becomes license; authority without liberty becomes domination . (Mark Gerzon) ● Freedom without order becomes anarchy; order without freedom becomes dictatorship . (Mark Gerzon) ● Our political, religious, and/or cultural beliefs are the cornerstone of our identity . (Mark Gerzon) ● We are social animals. We hand on our genes as individuals, but we survive only in groups . (Rabbi Jonathan Sacks) ● Our political, religious, and/or cultural beliefs are the cornerstone of our identity . (Mark Gerzon) ● Our inclination to act well towards others, whatever its source, tends to be confined to those with whom we share a common identity . (Rabbi Jonathan Sacks) ● Deuteronomy conta...

Once we are thrown out, or walk out of our “Egypt”, what is known, what is familiar, what is habit -- is wiped away . We wonder, where are we, where do we go, what will happen now? In the Biblical context, we enter the Midbar , Wilderness in Hebrew. What’s interesting is that in the Biblical context, when many important individuals and groups encounter their Higher Power, a Deity, or their Highest Self – regardless of which -- everyone and everything is changed – everything is different . The trajectory of life goes in another, unexpected direction. Read Rabbi Leynor’s complete blog at – https://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2017/05/finding-ourselves-in-middle-of-nowhere.html

It is easy to determine how much one’s personal or group’s beliefs are like the core teachings and values of Yeshua and his Movement. Yeshua’s core message also reflects a universal spiritual principle -- Helping oneself and helping others are inextricably intertwined . Read the complete article by Clicking Here .

The Real Yeshua Torah Readings for May 13 th are now online at https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-real-yeshua-torah-reading-schedule_12.html

The following is from Blasphemy: Verbal Offense against the Sacred from Moses to Salman Rushdie by Leonard W. Levy, page 32: Until at least 325 CE, when the Council of Nicaea formulated the first creed (at least for the Eastern division of the Roman Empire), there were Christian churches but not a Christian church, not one that was catholic, or universal . Nor did Nicaea settle anything. The dissident parties, who were condemned as blasphemers and heretics by the emperor and council, soon became dominant, won the support of the state, and controlled most of the churches. That reversed the definition of orthodoxy until another emperor made possible a reaffirmation of the Nicene Creed at the Council of Constantinople in the year 381. The Trinitarian victory was not secure until confirmed by the council of Chalcedon in 451. Not until the fifth century did the Roman Catholic Church have the power to enforce its theology as orthodoxy. The Council of Nicaea in 325 laid the...

Articles and features in the May 2017 edition of  Understanding Our Biblical Heritages : A Conversation about “the Bible” By Dr. Ike Tennison & Jim Myers When Nothing Will Ever Be the Same By Rabbi Jeffery Leynor Shavu’ot By Jim Myers Some Tips for Better Understanding Yeshua’s Life & Teachings By Jim Myers The Spanish Inquisition By Jim Myers May Memorials Remembering those whose lives inspired us. Read or download this newsletter in PDF format – CLICK HERE

There is no question about who committed the murder – Cain murdered Abel! But when we look at the entire context of the story, which began in Genesis 1:1, it raises some interesting questions like these -- Did Cain understand the potential consequences of his actions? Was it possible for Cain to even understand what murder was? Keep in mind no human had witnessed or experienced at this point in the text. This was a first in human history. Read complete article at -- http://www.tovcenter.org/parenting_01.html

Jim Myers created this guideline in the late 1980s as a guide for people to use in his Bible studies when disagreements arose over conflicting beliefs. It is now the Primary Guideline of the Biblical Heritage Center and the TOV Center. If you agree please share it. Biblical Heritage Center TOV Center

The Real Yeshua Torah Readings for May 6 th are now online at https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-real-yeshua-torah-reading-schedule.html

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s book Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity contains valuable insights about human actions, including the fundamental truths about human beings -- https://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2017/05/fundamental-truths-about-human-beings.html

While the “ canon of scripture ” means “the list of books accepted as Holy Scripture”, the other sense of “canon” – rule or standard – has rubbed off on this one, so that the “ canon of scripture ” is understood to be the list of books which are acknowledged to be, in a unique sense, the rule of belief and practice . Questions that we should be able to answer about our “Scriptures”: (1) How did certain documents -- and these only -- come to receive this recognition? (2) Who, if any one, decided that these -- and no others -- should be admitted to the list of the Holy Scriptures? (3) What were the criteria which influence this (#2) decision? Source: The Canon of Scripture By F. F. Bruce; © 1988 F. F. Bruce; InterVarsity Press; Downers Grove, IL; p. 18.

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