A Rabbi asked his students, "Where does God dwell?" His students replied, "Rabbi, how can you ask this question, God dwells in everything." He responded, "God dwells where every man lets him in."
My son Caleb is now 6 years old. He is growing up so fast and becoming a little man. The other night we were sitting in our living room reading John 12. I decided that we were going to read half that night talk about it and the other half the next night. When I stopped he asked "is that all?" Then he asked me if I could finish the chapter. I admit I was a bit taken back. He said he loves these stories and wanted to finish. I was pleased that he wanted to finish. My sons love for the Bible is growing every day. He is beginning to understand where God dwells.
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Hello!
To learn your son how to live like the historical Jesus you need to learn about non-selectively Torah-practise!
A quote from James H. Charlesworth – The historical Jesus:
“[Ribi Yehoshuas] devout Jewishness. [Ribi Yehoshua] was a very devout Jew. [p.48] (..) [Ribi Yehoshuas] devotion to Torah and Judaism is evident also in his actions. During his last week alive, [Ribi Yehoshua] was in Jerusalem. Why? Ha had ascended to the Holy City to celebrate Passover, as required by Torah. During this week, [Ribi Yehoshua] taught in the Temple and, quoting the revered prophet Isaiah, called the Temple “a house of prayer” (..) Thus, [Ribi Yehoshua] should not be imagined as the first Christian. He was a very devout Jew who observed Torah (the Law [Instruction is the correct translation] recorded in the Bible). Perhaps, as previously mentioned, he was so devout that he wore the religious garment of a conservative Jew, the sitsit [ציצית ; tzitzit], which pours outside the outer garment with fringes (..) “
The commentars in brackets are mine.
James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and Editor and Director of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls project.
The way is to live as him.. That is by practising Torah non-selectively!
About NT:
• [a] The documentation by the earliest Church historian Eusebius (EH III.xxvii.4-6), is that the original followers of Ribi Yehoshua (the Netzarim, Hellenized to "Nazarenes") refused and rejected the NT, BECAUSE it was an addition that contradicts Tanakh (ibid., inter alia) and
• [b] Even Christian scholars widely acknowledge (e.g. The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible) tens of thousands of redactions by Roman Hellenist idolaters that --some time AFTER 135 C.E. and the earliest (4th century CE) sources of the NT (see, for example, the late Oxford historian James Parkes, The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue).
Finding the historical Jew, who was a Pharisee (today's Orthodox) Ribi (see www.netzarim.co.il), brings, for the first time in your life, his *true* formula for profound meaning, inner happiness and purpose in your life.
From Anders Branderud
Geir Toshav, Netzarim in Ra’anana in Israel (www.netzarim.co.il) who are followers of Ribi Yehoshua – the Messiah – in Orthodox Judaism
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