“And G-d said, “Let there be light,” �and there was light.”
Genesis 1:3
“This is the book of the generations of man” (Genesis 5:1)
�Each year we repeat the cycle of weekly Torah readings. Each reading is divided into seven portions, one for each day of the week. Though we repeat the Torah each year, it is a new book each time, as it reflects each person’s unique situation and gives him understanding and inspiration to navigate life’s challenges and adversities. The Torah contains allusions to each and every person; it is the story of each individual’s life. Everyone can find himself in the Torah reading of that day and week, and draw inspiration from it (Likutey Halakhot I, p. 196a-392).”�
REBBE NACHMAN'S TORAH: GENESIS - Breslov Insights into the Weekly Torah Reading (p. 16). Breslov Research Institute. Kindle Edition.
The Cave of Machpelah:
‘And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver’ (Gen 23:16).
The Temple Mount:
‘So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold’ (I Chron. 21:25).
And Joseph’s Sepulchre:
‘And he bought the parcel of ground.’ (Gen 33:19)”
Genesis Rabbah 79:7, Soncino Press Edition
“R. Judan b. R. Simon said: “This is one of the three place regarding which the nations of the world cannot taunt Israel and say, 'You have stolen them.’ These are they: The cave of Machpelah, the [site of the] Temple ,the sepulchre of Joseph.
“The children of Ishmael will at the same time rouse all the peoples of the world to come up to war against Jerusalem, as it is written, ‘For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, etc. (Zech. 14:2)’, also, ‘The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the L-rd, and against his anointed (Ps. 2:2).”
Zohar I:119a, Soncino Press Edition
“The earth that is without form, and desolate, represents the evil that can overcome a person. To rectify this evil, one must find its counterpart of good. This ability is found in the “spirit of G-d”–namely, the spirit of Mashiach, who always finds the good in everything. Thus, the Torah immediately states: “G-d said, ‘Let there be light’"–which corresponds to the good—“and G-d separated between the light and the darkness”–since by searching for the good, one can separate good from evil (Likutey Halakhot I, p. 3a).”
REBBE NACHMAN'S TORAH: GENESIS - Breslov Insights into the Weekly Torah Reading (p. 38). Breslov Research Institute. Kindle Edition
Preterist
Most prophecies were fulfilled in the time of the Roman Empire
Historical
Most prophecies have been fulfilled throughout history
Futurist
Most prophecies past Revelation 3 are yet to be fulfilled
Idealist
Most prophecies are symbolic & spiritual in nature
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Pastors: The end of the world is complicated
Protestants on The Rapture
36% - Pre-tribulation Rapture
25% - Rapture not Literal
18% - Post-Tribulation Rapture
4% - Mid-Trib Rapture
4% - Pre-Wrath Rapture
1% - Preterism
8% - None of the Above
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Pastors: The end of the world is complicated
Protestants on The Antichrist
49% - Figure who will arise in future
14% - Personification of evil
12% - No individual antichrist
7% - Not a person but an institution
6% - Figure who came in the past
7% - None of the Above
נרון קסר
200 + 60 + 100 50 + 6 + 200 + 50
666
Caesar Nero
(December 15, 37 - June 9, 68)
“Nero Redivivus”
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Protestants on Premillennialism
48% - 1000 year reign will happen
31% - Amillennialism, no reign
Jesus rules symbolically in � our hearts and minds.
10% - Postmillennialism, gradually becomes more Christian
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“And we say with confidence that they will never be restored to their former condition. . . . It accordingly behooved that city where Jesus underwent these sufferings to perish utterly, and the Jewish nation to be overthrown, and the invitation to happiness offered them by God to pass to others — the Christians.”
Origen, Contra Celsum, Book IV, Chapter 22, cited at New Advent
What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? Since they live among us, we dare not tolerate their conduct, now that we are aware of their lying and reviling and blaspheming. If we do, we become sharers in their lies, cursing, and blasphemy. Thus we cannot extinguish the unquenchable fire of divine wrath, of which the prophets speak, nor can we convert the Jews. . . . For, as all can see, God’s wrath over them is so great that gentle mercy will only make them worse and worse, and harshness little better. So away with them at all costs.
Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies
[The Jews’] rotten and unbending stiff-neckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.]
John Calvin, A Response to Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew
“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Matthew 16:18, KJV
He NEVER:
“Christians might be surprised to learn that the word ekkesia does not literally mean “church,” and that the Bible actually has no word equivalent to our English word “church.” Ekklesia translates the biblical Hebrew word kahal (). Kahal means “assembly,” “congregation,” or “community.” The word ekklesia is interchangeable with “synagogue,” and it appears hundreds of times in the Bible to describe the congregation of the people of Israel.”
Torah Club, Chronicles of the Messiah, Volume III, pg. 791
“This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina…”
Acts 7:37-38
Ezekiel 37
Vision of the Dry Bones
Resurrection of Israel
May 14, 1948
“I say then, has God cast away His people? �Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew.”
Romans 11:1, NKJV
For the Lord will not cast off His people,�Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
Psalm 94:4
31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The Lord of hosts is His name): 36 “If those ordinances depart From before Me, says the Lord, Then the seed of Israel shall also cease From being a nation before Me forever.”
Jeremiah 31:35-36, NKJV
G‑d said, “Let there be light!” and there was light (1:3)
The Midrash compares G‑d’s creation of the universe to the work of a human architect. When a person wishes to build something, first he fixes his purpose in his mind. Then he starts his labor. “Let there be light” was the first statement in Creation, because “light” is the true purpose of existence: through the study of Torah and the fullfilment of mitzvot, divine radiance is revealed. “Light” is the purpose of existence as a whole. Further, each individual is a microcosm of the world. “Light” is therefore the purpose of each Jew: that he or she transforms his or her situation and environment from darkness and negativity to light and goodness.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe cited at Chabad.org
The Torah’s first word, bereishit, is an acronym for beit reishit—“two firsts” (the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, beit, stands for the number two). This is to say that the world was created for the sake of two things called “first” (reishit)—the Torah (Proverbs 8:22) and the people of Israel (Jeremiah 2:3).
Rashi, Midrash Rabbah cited at Chabad.org
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with �G-d, and the Word was G-d. 2 He was in the beginning with G-d. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:1
בְּרֵאשִׁית הָיָה הַדָּבָר וְהַדָּבָר