“You will not do things the way we do them here today, where everyone does whatever in his own opinion seems right…”-Deuteronomy 12:8 Starting from verse 8, we are introduced to yet another fundamental Torah principle. It is God, not man, who authorizes how He is to be worshipped. So what is the proper worship […]

“There you will eat in the presence of Adonai your God; and you will rejoice over everything you set out to do, you and your households, in which Adonai your God has blessed you.”-Deuteronomy 12:7 Deuteronomy Chapter 12 is giving us a nice little review of many of the fundamentals we were first exposed to […]

“You will bring there your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tenths [that you set aside for Adonai], the offerings that you give, the offerings you have vowed, your voluntary offerings, and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep.”-Deuteronomy 12:6 The other day I read something interesting about the word “praise” as it pertains to our […]

“A true (theologically) conservative position, one that preserves the values of our heritage, is a position that stands between the extremes and preserves the tension between them. It is not enough to maintain that religion itself has changed constantly since the time of the wilderness experience of ancient Israel. Older practices may be outdated; but […]

Another revolutionary principle we’re introduced to here in Deuteronomy is that our God is knowable. This was a laughable notion and literally flew in the face of everything universally understood about the spiritual world in the Biblical era. This was the first time in history that a God had come down from heaven (metaphorically speaking […]