Treating someone with appropriate honor, kavod, is a major concept underlying Jewish life and thinking. Kavod connotes weightiness, and the term is often used to remind us to accord to all things their appropriate weightiness, especially to God Himself. This is why we read in the Bible “Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the […]
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By now we are all more than familiar with the discussion about whether anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism may fairly be equated. I would say that in some cases, definitely yes. There are people who hate the Jewish State because it is the Jewish State. But that is not what I want to talk about today. Instead, […]
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not one of them remained. But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. Thus the Lord […]
I have a confession to make: my respect for both Judaism and Christianity gets me in trouble with some people who call themselves Messianic. This calls for some explanation. What is now called the Messianic Movement, formerly the Messianic Jewish Movement, is nothing if not diverse. So people who make generalizations about the movement had […]
One of my treasured mentors, Dr Bobby Clinton, talks about leaders having core books of the Bible, those that have become subjects of special concentration through centrality or relevance to their work, or through personal affinity. For me, one of those core books is Devarim (Deuteronomy). Of all the books in the Torah this is the […]
Here at Interfaithfulness, we serve both Christians and Jews, but not always through the same project. One of our projects especially designed to serve single and married or intermarried Jews and their families is HaB'er. Our mission statement for this project is “Living well at home in Jewish life with the Messiah.” Here is what we say […]
“Mawwiage is what bwings us together today. Mawwiage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam within a dweam.” So declaims the Impressive Clergyman in the cult-classic, “The Princess Bride.” But “mawwiage,” or rather marriage, is not a dream within a dream: it is reality. In an interfaith marriage, what do we need to do to keep our […]
Here on our page you can find out a lot about us. That's good. But besides you knowing what we are about, it's important that we who work with Interfaithfulness in various capacities also have a grasp of what we are up to. That's why I was so happy to find this brilliant grid written […]
Shakespeare’s Macbeth described a life not worth living when he said: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor […]
Suppose the unthinkable happened, God forbid, and the State of Israel got eliminated. What then would be the center of Jewish cohesion? I was recently in Florida, where so many of our people live. I saw many of them, retirement age, but making no pretense of staying within the boundaries of Passover eating. These were Jews […]
