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Weekly studies on YouTube channel Beth Yeshua Amsterdam
Posted on 05 April 2021 by Elze Erwteman
Watch here live each Shabbat at 4 p.m. for our Bible studies in English. On our own YouTube channel: Beth Yeshua Amsterdam. Click here for the weekly Bible readings texts (used in our live stream studies). Choose to subscribe and thumbs up! Pay attention: there are different channels with names like ours. We are:...
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Posted on 01 January 2021 by Elze Erwteman
In this time of pandemic life is tough for the people of the world. Families, the elderly, singles, refugees, people who have corona and are seriously ill, the people in care, in short, all of humanity suffers from this. In addition, we know that the governments of Europe are failing in their policy towards refugees...
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Shalom in the Fall of 2020
Posted on 09 September 2020 by Elze Erwteman
AUTUMN 2020 Shalom! Register here for our free newsletter! now read in 28 countries This is a most unusual time when we are approaching the High Holidays: Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot with rules to prevent contamination with the coronavirus. All countries in the world are affected by the virus. Despite this...
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Introducing the G-d of Torah
Posted on 18 September 2019 by Elze Erwteman
by Elze Erwteman A very interesting Jewish scholar is the historian Dennis Prager who has written a book in which he also analyzes the Torah in a rational way. (see below). Moshe Dann writes about this book in the Jerusalem Post of June 10, 2019 citing Prager: “The God introduced into the Torah is the...
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Biblical Psychotherapy
Posted on 18 September 2019 by Elze Erwteman
Scholars who use Torah without being religious can come to surprising insights. The famous Jewish neurologist Sigmund Freud, for example, often used Biblical insights in his psychotherapy and he particularly liked the person of Biblical Joseph. Freud considered religion as a danger to the personality that could lead to neuroses. In the Jerusalem Post of...
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Four blood red moons and Sukkot
Posted on 10 August 2018 by Sonja Haisma
By Sonja Haisma For some time there is talk on YouTubefilms about the next four total lunar eclipses , which look like blood red moons. They occur at dates of some Biblical Jewish High Holydays: Passover and Sukkot (Tabernacles).The last one, a total eclipse, occurred on July 22 of this year 2018. Also in 2015...
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Feast of Weeks
Posted on 27 November 2012 by Lion Erwteman
Heavenly present In a short, intensivce course of 50 days Israel got prepared in order to receive a heavenly present. Those 50 days started with the exodus from Egypt. A literally killing life of slavery and the ten great kicks (plagues) with which the Lord delivered Israel made a heavy impression, both on us and...
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