Yom Teruah, also known as Rosh Hashanah, is a Moed (appointed time) of great significance. Its central element is the sounding of the Shofar, specifically the note called Teruah, which serves as a profound call to the soul to awaken from spiritual lethargy and return...
In the contemporary imagination, the word "Apocalypse" immediately evokes images of global catastrophe, spectral horsemen, and the collapse of time. However, this semantic burden is a sediment of nearly two thousand years of cultural interpretation. To understand the...
When reflecting on education, those of us born and raised under a specific school system usually start with the bias that everything is fine, as if it had always been this way. However, this assumption becomes a barrier to clearly analyzing the current situation. This...
With this article, we seek to understand when John began his preaching. This is a fact often viewed through the lens of a modern calendar, without taking into account 1st-century daily life, such as: Temple shifts, harvest seasons, imperial edicts, etc. To achieve...
Traditional history often presents the origin of Christmas as the result of a natural evolution of Christian devotion. However, a rigorous analysis of the Chronograph of 354 (which contains the record of festivities from the year 336 AD) reveals a far more pragmatic...
JUDAISM IN SEPHARAD After the death of Muhammad, there were military conflicts among those who, as brothers, listened to the teachings of the "prophet," as some considered themselves more "his followers" than others, a characteristic that has defined this sect to this...
THE BEGINNING OF THE SEPHARDIM We are now going to discuss the Sephardim not because they are less important than the Ashkenazim, but because they are less complicated yet more significant. This latter point, largely unknown today due to the majority extermination by...
THE ASHKENAZIM AND CHRISTIANITY TODAY As noted in the previous article within this diaspora, there are several movements, and one of them, the Orthodox, is fragmented into various groups. An interesting question to ask is: Orthodox regarding what? Well, they are...
THE ASHKENAZIM Although I want to focus more on contemporary history, it's good to start by saying that between the 11th and 15th centuries, major rabbinic schools (yeshivot) developed in the area of Spain (known today as Sepharad) and the Eastern European region...
A General Overview A few days ago, someone wrote to me asking to explain the differences between the various Jewish groups, although we have several articles on this Blog that discuss this (here), the topic is so complex that questions always remain. So, I take this...
The word inspired by God, the Bible, not only empowers us to strengthen our spirit but also nourishes us with teachings and phrases capable of filling us with encouragement and hope. Its 613 commandments offer human beings guidance towards God (before the messianic...
Fragmentation is a phenomenon that spread across various spheres of social life at the beginning of the 20th century through art. This phenomenon gave rise to the possibility of representing truth, life, and even objective reality from an individual perspective. This...
What we know as the Renaissance marked a period of remarkable transformations that reverberated across various spheres. This phenomenon, which took place between the 14th and 17th centuries, revolutionized culture, the perception of the world, and human thought. We...
Hanukkah, a pedagogical resource in the hands of the apostles. We live in a world where spontaneity is constantly promoted, and although this is very good, the mistake has been to stigmatize everything falling under the category of ritual as bad. One of those who...
Jesus and the Feast of Hanukkah As mentioned in previous articles, the Jews, led by the Maccabean family, recognized that when they went to purify and dedicate the Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by Antiochus IV with a service to Olympian Zeus, God...