When my daughter was in ninth grade, I required that she write a ‘term paper’. She wanted to write it on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and compare them to what the Bible says. This was the result.
A Sweet New Year – Apples and Honey
One of the traditions of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is to eat apples and honey. I decided to look up these two foods in Scripture and saw they had prophetic value to the Feast of Trumpets and the coming ‘day of the LORD.’
What is Biblical Judaism?
Yeshua taught ‘Biblical Judaism.’ He did not remove or destroy the Torah and Prophets, the Words of His Father. He came to live them out the way they were meant to be lived out: with love for Adonai and love for his neighbor. His ‘yoke,’ the ‘yoke’ of his Father is light and easy (Matthew 28:11-30). John, his disciple, understood his teachings and wrote that the “Torah is not burdensome” (1 John 5:3).
Peace – Hebrew: Shalom
Shalom aleikhem means ‘shalom upon you.’ The response is to return the ‘shalom’ by saying Aleikhem shalom or ‘upon you shalom.’ This is what Yeshua told his disciples as he sent them out to the ‘lost sheep of the house of Israel.’ Shalom aleikhem was the greeting he spoke when he appeared to his disciples after his resurrection.