Poor In Spirit or Just Plain Poor!
Posted on Abidelines.com on January 25, 2019 by Barbara Cohen Hyland Yeshua was always preaching and teaching others. That was His mission. He spoke in the context of 1st century Jewish…
Seeking Happiness
by Barbara Cohen Hyland Seeking happiness, wherever it can be found has always been one of the utmost priorities in life. Of course that means focusing on self, instead of…
Worth More than Sparrows
by Barbara Cohen Hyland Yeshua knew that the disciples and the generations to come after them would face times of intense persecution. At those times, it might seem as if…
God vs Planned Parenthood
By Barbara Cohen Hyland In the Biblical account of creation, after God creates man and woman, the first thing He tells them is be fruitful and multiply. Really? Aren’t we…
A painting of Jesus entering Jerusalem, celebrated by Christians as Palm Sunday, in the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Skopje, North Macedonia. Photo by Petar Milošević/Creative Commons
Palm Sunday: The most anti-Semitic time of the Christian calendar
What might surprise Jewish readers of the New Testament are the Israel-affirming bits that show that the Gospels are thoroughly Jewish. Jesus and his rivals argue about food laws because, well, Jews argue about food laws. They argue about how to relate to Rome because that was a contentious issue in first-century Judea. They argue together with tools all Jews recognize and honor — the Torah and the life of worship and festival known as Judaism.
So what do we do with these texts that are still in our Christian Scripture? We don’t dismiss them. We situate them historically as I have done here — as a reflection of one claimant to the legacy of Israel clawing for space against another.
Restoration Of All Things
We believe in the biblical principle of restoration. God made everything in the world “very good” (Genesis 1:31). Yet, Adam's sin and Satan's rebellion caused much destruction. God's plan of redemption not only saves us from damnation,
The Passion of Yeshua
Resurrecting the Jewish Jesus "At the first night of Passover, the youngest person at the table asks the question "Why is this night different from all other nights?" Appropriately, the place to begin speaking of The Passion of Yeshua is to ask the question "Why is this Passion Oratorio different from all other Passion Oratorios?" A devoted educator and mentor, he grew up with both Christian and Jewish faiths in his household. His parents were born in Iran, and he was free to examine his faith from multiple perspectives. Ultimately, he accepted that Jesus was the foretold Messiah, but this did not disavow his Jewishness. After all, Jesus was Jewish.
The Jewish Understanding of Dance
The Old Testament is the first part of the Bible, and so we must turn to this in order to understand the role of dance in Jewish culture. There are twenty-two references to dance in the Old Testament,
The Restaurant
“While it is true that at the present time a majority of believers in Yeshua are Gentiles - a fact we celebrate! - Yeshua is truly the Jewish Messiah. Faith in Yeshua cannot make Jews into Gentiles. Allow me to illustrate this idea with a story about a Jewish restaurant (the Bible), the food it served (Yeshua, 'the Bread of Life', John 6:35), and the mostly Gentile neighborhood where it was located (the world).
Though They Be Red Like Crimson
Becoming increasingly prevalent among bible students is the realization that the key to proper interpretation of the scriptures is found in understanding the Hebraic nature of the accounts themselves. When…