Category Archives: Jewish History/Culture

Cherubim

Cherubim
A Biblical cherub is not a chubby, cute being that laughs while floating on clouds and shoots love darts at us. Cherubim wield swords and have a role to guard and protect. While many categorize them as a type of angel, the Bible doesn’t actually refer to them as such. We usually find them associated…
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Extra Time?

Extra Time?
February 29 is an odd occurrence. It’s a “make up” day to keep our seasons on track, as calculated on the Gregorian calendar. The Jewish calendar is tied more closely than ours to observational astronomy – the relative rotations of the earth, the moon the sun. Because days go from sunset to sunset, a day…
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Choosing Love

Choosing Love
Yes, this is the season for love. Romantic movies, candies and flowers abound. These are all great fun and can be meaningful in a healthy relationship. This kind of love, eros in the Greek, is a passionate, physical attraction. The word eros doesn’t occur in the Bible but we see an example of it in…
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Keeping ties

Keeping ties
The Eastern culture embracing symbols and pictures has lasted from Biblical times even to today. There is a high value on remembering, so they are surrounded with tokens, photos, even habits, to be reminders. We see this practice in the Bible as God told the Jews to wear tassels so they don’t forget to keep…
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