“The leaders of that town are to bring the heifer down to a vadi with a stream in it that never dries up, to a place that is neither plowed nor sown; and they are to break the cow’s neck there in the vadi.“-Deuteronomy 21:4 Following on the heels of my last post, we’re in […]

“After it has been determined which town is the closest, the leaders of that town are to take a young female cow that has never been put to work or yoked for use as a draft animal. The leaders of that town are to bring the heifer down to a vadi with a stream in […]

“If, in the land Adonai your God is giving you to possess, a murder victim is found lying in the countryside; and the perpetrator of the murder is not known; then your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance between it and the surrounding towns.”-Deuteronomy 21:1-2 From today, we’re going to […]

We are in the process of talking about “bloodguilt”, a subject that is given very little if any discussion in both Christian churches and Jewish synagogues. As I mentioned yesterday, it’s no secret that the shedding of blood plays a central role throughout the Scriptures. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, […]

I’m feeling a little uncomfortable today because I know darn well that I’m going to be touching on a topic that is very, very sensitive to adherents of Judaism: the idea of BLOOD ATONEMENT. When believers of the Messianic faith affirm that blood atonement is the central and most important form of atonement in the […]