I am beginning tonight with a very brief video clip. It is from--I believe that he is a rabbi--and he is arguing--he is not arguing--he is presenting an answer to the question what makes Judaism different? His answer is compelling! Because he says we are the only people who have ever experienced God's formative revaluation activity at a national level. Where typically there is a teacher and he has private communion with the deity or discovers books buried in a cave or what have you. But Israel at Mt Sinai, 600,000 families are there to see God in this great kind of a light show display where the Torah is given to the people. But that is not what I am playing . I am playing a short clip because it is an insight into how Jewish people regard the Torah. And if we have an insight like this, then we better appreciate why the introduction of the Gentiles into the people of God along with the bringing of the Torah at least in its covenantal form to an end sounded so radical and even perhaps blasphemous. So our lack of acquaintance with Judaism makes us throw them into the legalism basket in a rather uninformed way as if obedience to God and his revealed religion is by definition legalistic and that they were all wanting to earn their way into heaven which is obviously not true. I hope that you can hear it...

Tonight's hand-out:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J6YiBqc14qYJfUbjZp1eI50J8p9oSt1-/view?usp=sharing