Jorge Alejandro DelaVega Lozano

"Shemá Israel" (escucha Israel) es el nombre de una de las principales plegarias en la religión judía. En la plegaria se dice: "Escucha, oh Israel, el Señor es nuestro Dios, el Señor es Uno". En hebreo: שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָֽד׃‎. La plegaria "Shemá Israel" es fundamental en la creencia judía monoteísta. Jesús de Nazaret en Marcos 12:29-31 consideró la plegaria "Shemá Israel" como el primero de los dos mandamientos y lo ligó con un segundo en Levítico 19:18.  En el Antiguo Testamento "Shema Israel" aparece en Deuteronomio 6:4. E n el Nuevo Testamento "Shemá Israel"  aparece en el Evangelio de Marcos 12:29-31.  La palabra "Israel" del hebreo "Yashar El" significa directo (Yashar) a Dios (Él) y se refiere a las personas que están enfocadas directamente en Dios. Antes de la creación del universo sólo existía Dios. Después de la creación, todo lo que hay en el universo es parte d...

Are doubts the beginning of wisdom? Is our egoism so visceral that it can convince us that we are not egoists? Should we sort out the doubts from the certainties, not the certainties from the doubts? Is our world a place where there is nothing to correct but ourselves? Pleasure and desire cancel each other out every time we get what we want? Is knowledge a projection of our desires? Is there nothing in the world to correct but our intentions? Are visible things made of invisible things such as quarks, hadrons, baryons and mesons invisible constituents of matter in strong interaction? Is conflict a reaction of the "I"? Is there is a profound unity because we are all made of the same substance and have the same Father who nourish mother Earth? Is the desire to receive the essence of Creation and we are portions of the desire to receive? Are all events merely changes in our desire to receive? Reality depends more on the person who looks, than ...

Jesus was more Jewish than you think, says Bible prof Matthias Henze says the source for the Christian Messiah's faith is best explained after looking at the Second Temple era, when Judaism and Christianity overlapped When Rice University religion professor Matthias Henze visits local Houston-area churches and synagogues to promote interfaith understanding between Christianity and Judaism, he focuses on discussing one particular time period: the four-to-five-century gap between the Old and New Testaments. “It’s been overlooked for a number of reasons,” said Henze, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism, with an emphasis on the Second Temple. “Both Jews and Christians don’t pay much attention to this period.” He contends that Hebrew religious texts from this period, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, helped influence Jesus, whom he describes as a Jew who practiced the Judaism of his day. This argument is alluded to in the subtitle to his new book, “Mind the Gap: How the J...