Maimonides saw that the injury inflicted by circumcision was a painful loss to the individual, not some surgical cure in search of moral and physical disease. It is a literal sacrifice, a choice to ...

Circumcision: Demonic Practice or Theological Covenant. Yigal Bin-Nun . The practice of foreskin removal likely originated in a popular belief rooted in the fear of harm caused by ...

Child of God, be ready to possess ... That was exactly what Abraham did. He offered a she goat, a ram and a turtledove. “He brought him all these, cut them in two, and laid each half over ...

“It captures the Jewish story, but also the human story – that even in the darkest moments, God ... lands of Abraham, of David, of the tabernacle at Shiloh. I believe in the covenant.

While Francis was still Bergoglio, he established a close friendship with local Buenos Aires Jewish leaders and with Rabbi Abraham ... “God continues to work among the people of the Old Covenant ...