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Oct 24, 2026, 11:32 PM

The Failure of the Antiochus Creed

The facts outlined in the previous article of this blog (see “A Biblical Book Against God”) make Daniel the most important book in the Hebrew Bible. It is the only biblical book that mocks belief in divine salvation from...

Oct 20, 2026, 6:42 PM

A Biblical Book Against God

Please meet the Book of Daniel. It is the most important book in the Bible. It is the only book in the Bible that mocks divine salvation. And it is the only one that mocks it through a verified...

Oct 19, 2026, 5:58 AM

Will You Follow the Truth?

Whenever I discuss the Book of Daniel in private, I am often asked how its Hebrew-language visions remained wrongly decoded for more than twenty centuries. Some even pose the question as decisive proof that the evidence for its true...

Oct 16, 2026, 3:32 AM

God Will Not Save You

The first article in this series presents a tale of two biblical visions. The first vision is Daniel 7, an Aramaic-language apocalypse and a key foundation of Christian belief. The second is Daniel 8, a Hebrew-language vision with a...

Oct 15, 2026, 7:03 AM

Countdown to the Destruction of Jerusalem

The chronology of Daniel 9:24–27 sets the fulfillment of Daniel 8:9–12 in AM 3830 = 69/70 CE. The computation is straightforward, and the resulting date permits a single historical interpretation of the vision: the destruction of the Second Temple...

Oct 6, 2026, 3:34 PM

The Heavens Belong to God: May a Jew Leave Earth?

Apollo 8 Flight Plan, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-apollo-8-delivered-moment-christmas-eve-peace-and-understanding-world-180976431/
Overlaid with astronaut:, stock photography licensed via Canva

Early Space exploration precipitated an interest in how Jewish law might be kept beyond the confines of planet Earth. Before asking how Halakha could be observed in Space, we need to return to an earlier question: whether humans may...

Oct 1, 2026, 8:14 PM

What ‘They Shall Be My People’ Does Not Mean

The Jerusalem Noahide Congress is not the next step toward the House Brit Olam has printed a verse over the First International Noahide Congress and treated the printing as arrival. “And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in...

Sep 15, 2026, 3:59 AM

Lifechanging: Rebekah’s Moment

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In non-biblical writings that invoke the Hebrew Bible’s matriarchs — Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel and Leah — Sarah seems to get the most attention. Leah gets no respect: Heck, in the order in which these women are typically listed, she’s...

Sep 14, 2026, 12:11 PM

The Years in the Chumash Parallel Jewish History (Vilna Gaon) (2/2)

List of significant events for the Jewish people in modern times: July 4, 1776 - 17th of Tamuz /5537, the foundation of The United States of America. דברים כד: יח פרשת כי תצא וזָֽכַרְתָּ֗ כִּ֣י עֶ֤בֶד הָיִ֨יתָ֙ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם וַיִּפְדְּךָ֛ ה'...

Sep 10, 2026, 8:57 AM

The Years in the Chumash Parallel Jewish History (Vilna Gaon) (1/2)

private picture. Bint Jebel, Lebanon

We are taught that the world is to exist for 6,000 years. Then there will be another thousand years of Tohu. The cycle then starts again. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 97a) comments: Rav Katina said: "Six thousand years the world will...

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