Tag Archives: Exodus 24

Feasting on the brightness of the divine presence

In the future world there is no eating nor drinking nor propagation nor business nor jealousy nor hatred nor competition, but the righteous sit with crowns on their heads, feasting on the brightness of the divine presence, as it says, “And they beheld God, and did eat and drink.” Babylonian Talmud, Berakoth 17a

Herberger on the Mosaic Covenant

Moses took the blood of the sacrifice and poured half of it upon the altar, and with the other half he sprinkled the people as well as the Book of the Law, saying (as it says in Hebrews 9:20), “’Behold, this is the blood of the covenant,’ or testament. By this blood it is testifiedContinue reading “Herberger on the Mosaic Covenant”