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- What Is the Torah? What Is the Pentateuch? - JW. ORG
Prominent among them is the Shema, or Jewish confession of faith One portion of the Shema says: “You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your strength ” (Deuteronomy 6: 4-9) Jesus described this as “the greatest and first commandment ” —Matthew 22:36- 38
- Ancient Jewish Temple Police - JW. ORG
It was the only Jewish armed corps that the Romans permitted According to scholar Joachim Jeremias, “Jesus’ words of reproach uttered at his arrest, that day after day he was in the Temple teaching and was not taken ( Matt 26 55 ), become most clearly understood if it was the Temple police who came to arrest him ”
- Jehovah’s Witnesses—Official Website: jw. org | English
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Our official website provides online access to the Bible, Bible-based publications, and current news
- Burial Preparations of the First-Century Jews | Did You Know? - JW. ORG
Many Jewish families buried their dead in caves and tombs carved out of the soft rock common in many parts of Israel In so doing, they followed the pattern set by the patriarchs Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, and others were buried in the cave of Machpelah near Hebron —Genesis 23:19; 25:8, 9; 49:29-31; 50:13
- What Is the Passover? - JW. ORG
The Passover is the Jewish celebration of God’s liberating the Israelites from Egyptian slavery in 1513 B C E God commanded the Israelites to remember that important event each year on the 14th day of the Jewish month Abib, which was later called Nisan
- Abib (Jewish Calendar) - Definition and Meaning | Bible Dictionary - JW. ORG
The original name of the first month of the Jewish sacred calendar and the seventh month of the secular calendar It means “Green Ears (of Grain)” and ran from mid-March to mid-April After the Jews’ return from Babylon, it was called Nisan —See App B15
- Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Zionists? | FAQ - JW. ORG
The Encyclopædia Britannica describes Zionism as a “Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine ” Its roots are both religious and political
- Why Did the Holocaust Happen? Why Didn’t God Stop It?
Myth: It’s wrong to ask why God allowed the Holocaust Fact: People of great faith have questioned why God allows evil
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