Post-Biblical History
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Can you give me some info on these, what they found, and there significance? The Dead Sea Scrolls are a wide assortment of documents found near the Dead Sea in Israel. Most notable is that they include many portions of…
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Torah Portions
Deuteronomy (31:10-13) tells us to read the Torah once every seven years during the festival of booths. I also know that about a thousand years ago, a Rabbi decided that the people were forgetting what the Torah said so he…
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Legal Debate
If all of the Torah was given at Sinai, why is there so much legal debate? For example, opinions differ on when the Sabbath begins. If the Sabbath laws were given at Sinai, how would debate on this matter ever…
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Amalek Descendants
If Amalek was descended from esau- do we know who his descendants are? Does HaShem (G-d) dislike them by automatically or were they also warmongers? Hi, Traditionally, we understand that the descendents of Esau were represented by the Romans, then…
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Talmud
What is the Talmud? The Talmud is the Oral Law, a commentary on the Written Law. Jews believe that G’d gave both to Moses in the Wilderness. The Talmud consists of the Mishna and the Gemara and it records the…
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History of the Nikkudim
My earlier readings indicated that the diacritic marks, or “nikkudim,” were added much later in the history of the evolution of the Hebrew language. Can you tell me approximately what century this occurred? Can you please provide me good English-language…
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Rejection of Jesus as Messiah
Why did the Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah? Is it because of the abominations that this “so called servants of Jesus” did in “his name” that Jews can not love and receive him as Messiah? Answer: A bit of…
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Torah Verbiage
I recently had a conversation with someone who said that if the Torah would be given today that Hashem would not have used certain words such as slaves as that concept doesn’t really exist today. I think he might have…
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The Khazars
What was the name of the Caspian king who converted to Judaism in the early middle ages? King Bulan of the Khazars converted to Judaism around the year 750.