Archives for January 2019

“You must not do this to Adonai your God! For they have done to their gods all the abominations that Adonai hates! They even burn up their sons and daughters in the fire for their gods!“-Deuteronomy 12:31 Deuteronomy Chapter 12 ends with the Lord calling out the abominable practice of child sacrifice AND… …making it […]

“When Adonai your God has cut off ahead of you the nations you are entering in order to dispossess, and when you have dispossessed them and are living in their land; be careful, after they have been destroyed ahead of you, not to be trapped into following them; so that you inquire after their gods […]

“Only the things set aside for God which you have, and the vows you have vowed to make, you must take and go to the place which Adonai will choose.  There you will offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of Adonai your God. The blood of your sacrifices is […]

“When Adonai your God expands your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I want to eat meat,’ simply because you want to eat meat, then you may eat meat, as much as you want.  If the place which Adonai your God chooses to place his name is too far away from you; […]

We’ve been engaged in quite a lengthy discussion concerning God’s universal law on blood which states that one is not to ingest blood under any circumstances. We also learned it is because of this instruction in Torah that a Jew would never even consider symbolically drinking wine as blood. Yet in what seemed to be […]