The Secret of the Fig Tree By Steve Eisenhauer, The Exodus Project The story of Jesus and the fig tree is almost universally misunderstood. The standard explanation claims that Jesus cursed the tree as a display of divine power or as a symbolic rebuk...
UNIVERSAL TORAH Lessons for Humanity from the Weekly Parshah by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum • To subscribe to the UNIVERSAL TORAH weekly email click here • Back to Parshah Index EMOR Torah Reading: Parshas EMOR, Leviticus 21:1-24:23 SAY TO THE PRIESTS As...
When Sin Becomes Law: The Hidden Torah Warning Behind the Fall of Sodom By Steve Eisenhauer, The Exodus Project The cluster of texts drawn from Genesis, later midrashic interpretation, and prophetic reflection offers a deeply layered critique of soci...
UNIVERSAL TORAH Lessons for Humanity from the Weekly Parshah by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum • To subscribe to the UNIVERSAL TORAH weekly email click here • Back to Parshah Index ACHAREI MOS Torah Reading: Parshas ACHAREI MOS, Leviticus 16:1-18:30 AFTER T...
The Month of Iyar, Ziv A Month of Light, Radiance, Healing and Counting of the Omer Part of an ongoing series entitled Hidden Sparks Beneath the Surface By Betty Tabor Givin aka Elisheva Tavor All the months are interrelated, each connecting to the...
UNIVERSAL TORAH Lessons for Humanity from the Weekly Parshah by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum • To subscribe to the UNIVERSAL TORAH weekly email click here • Back to Parshah Index TAZRIA Torah Reading: Parshas TAZRIA, Leviticus 12:1-13:59 In last week’s pa...
Trump’s Ultimatum and the Red Sea: Why Iran Cannot Surrender When a Leader Stops Choosing: From Pharaoh to Tehran Rabbi Chaim Goldman, Noahide Wold Center How does the most sophisticated military force of the ancient world — the army of Egypt, the gr...
Isaiah’s Torah vs. Matthew’s ‘Name’: Examining a Critical Textual Divergence By Steve Eisenhauer, The Exodus Project The passage in Matthew 12:18–21 is often presented as a faithful quotation of Isaiah 42:1–4. At first glance, the wording appears clo...
Did Paul Misquote David? Rethinking ‘None Are Righteous By Steve Eisenhauer, The Exodus Project Paul’s use of “none are righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10) is often treated as a definitive, universal statement about the total moral bankruptcy of...
By Rod Reuven Bryant, Dir of Education, NETIV Yeah, I get why it feels like everything’s falling apart—headlines scream disaster every day. But if you step back and look at the actual numbers, the world is measurably better than 50 years ago, or 100....
