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The religion, philosophy, and culture of Jewish people, based on the Hebrew Bible, especially the Torah, and on other ancient Jewish texts and traditions.

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Is there tradition in Judaism about seeing God through nine mirrors?

Yes this is true Jewish traditionalism is distinguished into the “Halachah” and the “Haggadah.” The Halachah were the settled legal determinations, whereas the Haggadah, according the Alfred Edreshei …
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Did the Jews use icons and images to help them worship as Catholics or Orthodox worshippers do?

Early Rabbinic sources have a very ‘hard line’ against all kinds of images, or pictorial representations on coins, or whatever other form. Not only for using them in gross idolatry, through aids in wo …
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In light of grace, How does a Christian consider the devotedness of Muslims and Jews?

In that Epistle we find some of the most severe warnings in all of scripture, because turning away from Christ to Judaism is exposing your soul to the danger of hell – with a sort of 'fast track' direction … If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth (i.e. turn away from faith in Christ and return to Judaism), no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation …
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Could the messiah be adopted into the lineage of David like Jesus and if no why?

The genealogy connection of Jesus to David was something that was proved when the records actually existed and mattered more. It was proven two thousand years ago to those that had direct records to p …
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Struggling w/ Jesus and Jewish law

From reading your question I see two main ideas that possibly you have not considered. The first is that of the covenants God made with man in the Old Testament prior to Moses, and how the Mosaic cov …
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Was baptism practiced before Christ?

The ‘rite’ which the Baptism of John  used was not new at all, or limited to sects, but was, based on Old Testament teaching and mainstream rabbinic tradition, however, John used it in an entirely dif …
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Do Christians believe that Jews and Muslims go to hell?

There are two kinds of Christianity that will give you two different answers. The first kind believes that we are saved by the works that God graciously performs in us. The second group believes that …
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Why were the Christians anti-Semitic?

The answer is short and simple. Christians are part of the world and the world’s sin creeps into even the real invisible church. A closer look at Luther for example will show its not so cut and dry as …
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Why did Christianity not follow Philo of Alexandria's definition of logos?

From the works of Philo we can see how he saw the logos, or word/wisdom directly and try to compare a bit with Plato and with Christ. But the divine word which is above these does not come into an …
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