Judaica World Archives

  HAPPY (PESACH) PASSOVER! Write Pesach and Seder on board   Pesach is a national holiday of the Jewish people.  Pesach means life, liberty, pursuit of justice and inalienable rights at the hand of the Creator. This is not a real Seder. That can only be given by a Jewish male who is over 13 or 14 years old and has been declared an adult by his synagogue. This is only a demonstration. Passover, called Pesach in Hebrew, lasts eight days and seven nights. It commemorates the Exodus of Israelites from Egypt in 1250 b.c. That’s about 3200 years ago, and the formation of a Jewish nation. is quite complex and almost as old as the Exodus, which happened in 1250 b.c. The Hebrew word “Seder” means order. The Seder is a service made up of ordered parts structured around the sharing of four cups of wine and a symbolic meal. Each cup conveys a theme of the Seder: WRITE ON BOARD: Sanctification (HOLINESS), History, Thanksgiving, and Hope and HAGADDAH . Passover is a very happy event, but also a seri...

Dear Reader, This excerpt is one of 13 stories from my second book. It is my testimony of Christ and his church. It is now out of print but will become a Kindle book soon. If you would like to read the other stories and the four preceeding chapters outlining the life and times of the Savior, please email me at:  marlenatanya@gmail.com and I will let you know when the Kindle is available.    Marlena I was born into a family of Jews, descendants of Russian and western European stock who, in the early years of this century left their homeland and traveled with great hope in their hearts to this wondrous land of America, there to make a new life for themselves and their heirs. Growing up, I heard of the wonders of God; how he had saved our people from Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman, German and Russian tyranny, bringing them through the anguish of slavery, through their great wanderings in the deserts of Judea and out of the shivering darkness of the shtetls of western Europe.  I he...

Link to Binyamin Netanyahu speech to Congress, May 24th, 2011: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-24-netanyahu-israel-iran_n.htm   Uri Friedman Uri Friedman – Tue May 24, 3:28 pm ET Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined his vision for peace with the Palestinians this afternoon in a rare address to a joint session of Congress, days after President Obama floated a peace proposal  in which the borders of Israel and Palestine would be based on a modified version of the boundaries that existed before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Netanyahu claimed he was willing to make “painful compromises” and “give up parts of the ancestral Jewish homeland” to broker a two-state solution but once again said he considers the pre-1967 lines “indefensible” for Israel. For the people who measure these things this way , the affection for Netanyahu in the chamber was clear: the Israeli prime minister received 29 standing ovations from Congress during his address; at President Obama’s last S...

Image via Wikipedia The festival of Rosh Hashanah –the name means “ Head of the Year “–is observed for two days beginning on Tishrei 1 , the first day of the Jewish year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve , the first man and woman , and their first actions toward the realization of mankind’s role in G-d’s world. Rosh Hashanah thus emphasizes the special relationship between G-d and humanity: our dependence upon G-d as our creator and sustainer, and G-d’s dependence upon us as the ones who make His presence known and felt in His world. Each year on Rosh Hashanah, “all inhabitants of the world pass before G-d like a flock of sheep,” and it is decreed in the heavenly court, “ who shall live, and who shall die… who shall be impoverished, and who shall be enriched; who shall fall and who shall rise. ” But this is also the day we proclaim G-d King of the Universe . The Kabbalists teach that the continued existence of the universe is dependent upon the renewal of the di...

And here’s a pix for you. Please click on www.jewishconvert-lds.com to order my books at $10 each. You can also purchase Notes of a Jewish Convert to the LDS Church and my fifth book, A Mormon’s Guide to Judaism  as Kindle books  through Amazon.com. And find me on Mormon.org. for firesides and classes on similarities and differences between Mormons and Jews, email me at: marlenatanya@gmail.com

Section from the book “A Mormon’s Guide to Judaism: Introduction to Jewish Religion and Culture for Latter-day Saints”, by Marlena Tanya Muchnick and Daniel C. Baker. Available from: www.jewishconvert-lds.com and Amazon. Also a Kindle book. Contact the author: comeuntochrist@att.net. History of the Jews There is no written history about the lives of the Hebrews in their homeland or about the Dispersion from Babylon after about 430 B.C. but there are narrative histories from the period 170 B.C. to A.D. 70. These come from the works of Josephus (37 B.C.- A.D. 100) who was a priest in the rebuilt Second Temple, Herod’s temple. He was a Pharisee and politically astute. He was of course not immune to bias or self interest or even selective ignorance, but his works are better than none at all. Jewish history really began with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in the period between 722 B.C. and 586 B.C. Through the eyes of the prophet Isaiah we read the warnings that were given...

By Stephen E. Robinson The Savior introduces a new standard of righteousness to followers of the Law of Moses. Much of the New Testament deals with the Law of Moses and with the implications of its fulfillment in the gospel of Jesus Christ. The books of Galatians, Romans, and Hebrews, and important parts of several others, including Acts, James, Colossians, Jude, 2 Peter, and 2 Corinthians, all wrestle with the issue of the Law, and its continued role after the Atonement. Therefore, it is important to understand what the Law was and how it was fulfilled in order to fully understand these portions of the New Testament. Strictly speaking, the Law of Moses consists of the first five books of the Old Testament—what the Jews call the Torah. These five books of Moses (Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; Numbers; and Deuteronomy) are also called the Pentateuch, but in the New Testament they are usually just “the Law.” Sometimes the term “the Law” was used for the whole Old Testament, but usually a di...