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Oct 9, 2026, 6:31 AM

What “A House of Prayer for All Nations” Does Not Mean

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Isaiah 56:7 invites people to serve Hashem. It does not invite anyone, Jew or gentile, to bring a service of their own up the mountain. The sentence you were handed You may have heard that the day has a simple shape....

Oct 2, 2026, 1:32 PM

Isaiah: The Prophet Behind the Scroll

The author/soldier with his book "Jewish Journeys, The First Temple Period" (Koren: 2025). Photo ©️ T. Book, 2026

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem is concluding a remarkably successful exhibition, "A Voice from the Desert: The Great Isaiah Scroll." For the first time in almost 60 years, the public has seen the complete scroll, more than seven meters...

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...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 24, 2026, 12:40 AM

A Messianic Harvest That Can Overcome Even Gog And Magog

The developing El Niño climate phenomenon is now the strongest on record, according to scientists monitoring Pacific Ocean temperatures. Daily sea surface temperatures in a key region of the central-eastern Pacific were 3.05C above average on 19 September -...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 22, 2026, 2:25 PM

The four species as a symbol of unity in Israel

Hadas (myrtle) growing in Neot Kedumim nature preserve

In Vayikra 23:40, we read about the four species which are used on Sukkot: You shall take for yourselves, on the first day, the fruit of the beautiful tree, a branch of palm trees, boughs of thick leaved trees and...

David Charles Pollack

Sep 19, 2026, 6:05 PM

Did Muhammad Fast on Yom Kippur?

Before Muslims had to fast during Ramadan, there was Ashura. Ashura falls on the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic year. Muhammad is said to have explained that fasting on Ashura atones for the sins of...

Sep 9, 2026, 2:14 PM

Kahlat and the Hidden Archive of Section 60: Jordan River and Copper Scroll

Geographic Background and Identification Traditions: Ein Samiya versus Ein Kahlat Over the years, research on the Copper Scroll has examined several sites in an attempt to identify the mysterious location called “Kahlat.” Ein Samiya (in the Wadi Yitav system): The largest...

Aug 30, 2026, 6:09 PM

Jericho area: A New Hypothesis on Mysterious Latin Letters in the Copper Scroll

The Copper Scroll: Are Its Mysterious Foreign Letters Codes Used by Ancient Water Engineers? The Uniqueness of the Jericho District and the Concentration of the Greek Signs One of the most striking features of the Copper Scroll is not the meaning...

Pinchas M. Orbach

Aug 27, 2026, 9:29 PM

The Ivory Pomegranate and the Living God

Replica of the ivory pomegranate and its disputed Paleo-Hebrew inscription. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

There is a particular kind of tremor that passes through the academic world whenever the earth beneath our feet seems to whisper something that lines up unusually well with the biblical record. In biblical archaeology, a handful of dirt or...

Aug 25, 2026, 8:47 PM

Jerusalem: Unknown Reservoirs in Absalom’s Tomb on Pilgrims’ way to Temple Mount

The Hidden Waterworks of the Kidron Valley: Do Sections 48–49 of the Copper Scroll Lead to Absalom’s Tomb and the Tomb of Jehoshaphat? This article explores an attempt to decipher a mysterious and potentially extensive water installation beneath the western...

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