Thanks
to one of Jesus’s disciples, billions of Christians have prayed and still pray
a common prayer. It is probably the most widely known prayer in history. In
this blog I want to focus on the Jewish view of prayer. It is very different
from the way I was taught to pray in my church. One thing Jesus did not have
to teach his disciples was how to pray. They were all Jews, Hebrew speakers
and had participated in the Shabbat
and synagogue services as a regular part
of life. Read the complete blog at -- https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2018/10/learning-how-to-pray-lords-prayer.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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