Esau's Kiss by Mary F Holley
Exploring and improving and long and storied relationship between Christianity and Judaism aiming to transcend our drive to convert Jews to Christianity, and instead adopt a learners posture toward the deep and ancient Wisdom found in in Rabbinic Judaism.
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Personal Message (opens the original)
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Greetings subscribers. Sorry to disappoint, I have no article this week. My husband is at this very moment having open heart surgery, triple bypass, on the heart-lung machine, and I am sitting in a hospital waiting room utterly distracted. I cannot concentrate for even a moment. He has been sick for weeks and is now stable enough to have surgery. He will be recovering for many more weeks, God willing. I will write again when I can think again. Hold us in your prayers.
Devequt Cleaving to God (opens the original)
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We spend most of our daily lives in the lower part of our soul, the nefesh – ego soul – going, speaking, doing in the physical world. That’s what we are here for, to actuate God’s will in this world. “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Expressing God’s nature in this physical-social world is what the Kingdom of God is all about.But if we stay confined to this world we slowly starve to death, because our nourishment comes from higher sources. “Give us this day our daily bread.” “Jesu
Rosh Hashanah for Christians (opens the original)
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Rosh Hashanah is approaching, the Feast of Trumpets. “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the LORD’” (Lev 23:24-5). The sounding of the shofar is the central event on the Jewish New Year.The atmosphere is festive and generous like our Christmas season. And the underlying theology is just as earth shattering
The Gift of Divine Light (opens the original)
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The sound of the shofar is not ancient history to Jews. “We of the Jewish faith are convinced of the truth of the prophecy of Moses, not simply because of his wonders, but because we, like him, witnessed the theophany on Mount Sinai.” [1] Like we Christians can close our eyes and witness the suffering of Jesus on the cross, they were alive with their ancestors three thousand years ago and saw the sky split and heard the sound of the shofar. The words of Moses are still alive in their hearts.“On
Footsteps of Messiah (opens the original)
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Part of the daily morning and evening prayer in Judaism is this: “He sows tzedakot and causes yeshu’ot to sprout.” Translation of this is challenging. Both primary words have multiple layers of meaning and numerous connotations. Tzedakot is usually translated “charity” but the root of the word also means “righteousness.” It basically means “doing the next right thing.”Yeshu’ot is in the plural and normally translated “deliverances.” It forms the foundation of the name we know as Jesus. It can be
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