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Prerequisite

Prerequisite n: something that is necessary to end or to the carrying out of a function – prerequisite adj.

Idioms for Repentance

“incline the heart to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info […]

Repentance

From the Encyclopaedia Judaica 14:73 Repentance is a Prerequisite n: something that is necessary to end or to the carrying out of a function – prerequisite adj. for divine forgiveness: God will not pardon man unconditionally but waits for him to repent. In repentance man must experience genuine remorse for the wrong he has committed […]

Zealots

From the Ency. Judaica 16:947 The name, recorded by the Jewish historian Josephus, by which some Jewish resistance fighters were known in the Jewish War, 66-73 C.E. This name is important in view of it’s portable origin.Meaning of the Name. Josephus provides a clue to it’s real meaning both by his apparent reluctance to use […]

The Goal Of Time

When a Jew Celebrates by Harry Gersh Pages 9-11 According to the Jewish idea, time has a goal, a reason. Time exists so we can grow better, and in growing better, make the world better. Time will reach it’s goal when everyone in the world is absolutely goodטוֹבTransliteration:ṭôḇ Pronunciation:tobe – good (as an adjective) in […]

Tithe

The rendering of the tithes of property for sacral purposes was common all over the ancient near east, though well documented and first hand evidence concerning tithes comes mainly from Mesopotamia

Proselytes (law of conversion)

From The Encylopaedia Judacia 13:1183-1184 The procedure, established by the tannaim, according to which a non-Jew may be into the Jewish faith, was elucided as follows: “in our days, when a proselyte came to be converted we say to him: ‘What is your objective? Is it not known to you that the people of Israel […]

Proselytes

The Encyclopaedia Judaica 13:1182 contains a fascinating analysis that provides extensive evidence of an increasingly common trend towards the conversion to Judaism during the Second Temple period. This period, especially in its later stages, witnessed a marked rise in the use of the term “ger”, previously reserved for referring to strangers or aliens, to denote […]