1. Meat and Milk Together.
Should one eat milk and meat together?
Religious Jews do not eat milk products together with meat ones.
Is there any Biblical Justification for this?
What should we do?
Answers:
(a) The Rabbinical Understanding has Justification from the Hebrew Bible.
See Grammatical Biblical Justification for Rabbinical Understanding of this
commandment.
http://britam.org/Questions/QuesJudaism.html#Milk
(b) Practical Benefits and Suggestions.
Experience in the Israeli Army and elsewhere shows that there are psychological
as well as possible physical benefits from this practice.
It has Biblical Justification.
If you are Jewish you should practice it.
If you are not Jewish you do not have to but you can if you so wish.
Brit-Am is not a religious authority.
We may point to different sources, suggest guidelines, etc, but we are not
laying down the law.
Jews are obliged to Keep the Biblical Laws according to the Rabbinic
explanations and instruction.
Non-Jews who believe they are of Israelite descent probably should accept upon
themselves Biblical Commandments.
Even when they accept Biblical Commandments however they probably have the
option of only going as far as the simple meaning of Biblical Passages suggest.
For the sake of convenience they do not necessarily have to follow all the
Jewish laws and regulations on a particular matter.
Nevertheless, neither should they dismiss or ridicule the Rabbinical Learning
and Practices.
Studies show that these are justified and efficacious.
2. Israeli archaeologists uncover first
artifact confirming written record of Temple worship
Haaretz [Israel], 25.12.11
Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the first archeological find to
confirm written testimony of the ritual practices at the Jewish Temple
in Jerusalem. An Israeli Antiquities Authority archaeological survey at
the northwestern corner of the Temple Mount yielded a tiny tin artifact,
the size of a button, inscribed with the Aramaic words: "Daka Le-Ya,"?
which the excavation directors on behalf of the IAA, archaeologists Eli
Shukron and Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa, explain
means "pure for God.".
Researchers believe the artifact, dated to the first century, towards
the end of the Second Temple period, is a seal similar to those
described in the Mishnah. If they are correct, this is the first time
physical evidence of the temple ritual was found to corroborate the
written record.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
national/israeli-archaeologists-uncover
-first-artifact-confirming-written
-record-of-temple-worship-1.403505
See also Arutz Sheva [Israel]:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
News/News.aspx/151057#.TvojVkpGjss
3. David Jackson: Pi and the Molten
SeaYair,
I came across an interesting item in a book I was reading. The extent to
which the bible has been studied and analyzed is truly phenomenal. This is an
instance of it.
The verse below in Kings in Chronicles has been a source of criticism of the
bible by liberal critics. It seems to say that the circular bronze sea that
stood in front of Solomon?s temple was 10 cubits across and 30 cubits in
circumference.
That conflicts with the geometry of a circle, which requires that the
circumference be somewhat greater than 3, specifically the value Pi, or 3.141?
ad infinitum.
The criticism was to the effect that if the bible were truly inspired then God
should have known that 3 is a grossly imprecise approximation of Pi, especially
given that the Babylonians and Egyptians had some 1000 years earlier calculated
it (still somewhat inaccurately) to be 3.125 and 3.160, respectively. Why could
not the God of the Hebrews do better than that? (It wasn?t until AD 150 that
Ptolemy obtained a more accurate estimation for Pi.)
The traditional apologetic explanation has been that 10 cubits was the outside
diameter of the rim and 30 cubits was the inside circumference. This would allow
the math to be presumed to be correct because the two values weren?t referring
to the same thing.
4. Ugarit and the Bible
http://www.theology.edu/ugarbib.htm
Note: Read this article with the thought in mind that the people spoken of were
actually Israelites (as proposed by Velikovsky) who had created a synthesis
between Canaanite Beliefs and those of the Hebrews.
5. God's Amazing Accuracy .
Source Unknown.
Forwarded from the Internet.
Extract:
God's accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs.
For example:
-the eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
-those of the canary in 14 days;
-those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;
-The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
-those of the mallard in 35 days;
-The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.
(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!)
God's wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant...
The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No
other
quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a
huge body, too large to live on two legs...
For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground
easily.
The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first.
A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first.
How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!
God's wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as
in the
number of grains.
-Each watermelon has an even number of stripes on the rind.
-Each orange has an even number of segments.
-Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
-Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
-Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and
each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row
an odd number.
-The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of
weather.
All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified
thirty fold, sixty fold,
and a hundred fold - all even numbers.
God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day,
so that
Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing
the right
kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night
by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!
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