21stcenturyjudaism

Overcoming Regressive Beliefs

Prophets, court scribes, wise men and women, poets, and priests each understood the divine will somewhat differently. Their different understandings are what one finds in the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures, the TaNaKh. In the priestly conception, the world, in God’s sight, was divided into clean and unclean, holy and secular, and blessing and curse. […]