
An introductory lecture outlining the course aims, explaining the written and oral Torah, and previewing how law, Kabbalah, and Hebrew word meanings guide living.
Explore the Tanach's five books, examining prophecy, divine presence, and the shift from collective belonging to individual understanding amid idol worship and myths, today relying on intellect or emotion.
Explore the science of Bible criticism and its nonscientific assumption that the Torah is not divine, questioning prophecies and events like the Exodus from Egypt.
The Torah lives within the nation as a living tradition passed through generations, predating the written text and shaping Jewish life from ancient times through the covenant with Israel.
A debate on oven purity shows how halacha follows the majority of rabbis, not a heavenly voice, revealing the living dialogue between the written and the oral Torah.
The Sanhedrin centralized authority and issued judgments by majority vote for all Israel; after the temple's destruction authority fragmented to local rabbis, with Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud authoritative.
Explore what Kabbalah reveals about the hidden inner Torah and how the hidden Torah contrasts with the revealed Torah, guiding seekers from prophecy to unity of divine light.
Explain how Hebrew words encode meaning beyond sound, as God speaks and light appears: the Hebrew word omeo has three aspects—spoken, thought, and will—revealing God’s instant will vs human effort.
This Bible Gateway course based on Jean Jacques Rousseau words In the 17th century;
“At Sorbonne University, There is no doubt that the prophecies about the messiah are referring to Jesus. It is also clear to the Rabbis of Amsterdam, with the same degree of certainty, that they are not connected to Jesus at all!
I think that I will never know what the Jews truly claim as long as they do not have their own free country, Study halls and universities where they can speak and discuss without fear.
Only then will we be able to know what they say.” [Emile 4]
Indeed, the Hebrew nation has returned to its land, despite everyone’s expectations, and is finally beginning to share with the world the secrets that preserved it - and the insights it lives by!
It is a Bible Gateway course since, In this course, you will encounter the earliest fundamental difference between the world attitude towards the Bible [learning the Bible] and the Old Hebrew nation [leaving the Bible]. Those insights are related to every person, regardless of their gender, race, color, or anything else, at the end, we are all children of the same father!
That's it, We study the Bible differently than the rest of the world, and we are confident, when our way of Bible study will spread all over the world, it will give a good influence on us all to a better world with a good relationship between us all.