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Is the Torah the Bridge to God?

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  “Torah is the mysterious bridge which connects the Jew and God, across which they interact and communicate, and by means of which God fulfils His covenant with His people to sustain them and protect them.” So says Rabbi Shraga Simmons in an article on the Aish website about Shavuoth. He also tells us that: At Mount Sinai when the Torah was given, the entire Jewish nation – 3 million...

The Lord’s Sabbath rest

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Today we’re going to go back to Exodus. So, if you’ve been with us for a while, you know that I’ve been looking at the lessons we can learn from Israel’s wanderings through the wilderness. And we now come on to the Ten Commandments passage. The centre-point if you like, of the Exodus story. And indeed, of the whole of the Old Testament, the Hebrew scriptures, in which God...