Dialogue with the Christian community is critical again. A leading Haredi rabbi recently advised a colleague of mine to ...

Interestingly, Melchizedek suddenly appeared, not prefaced in the preceding verse: “After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet ...

‘For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, Priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being ...

Jesus taught His disciples on the Emmaus Road that the Old Testament was actually about Him. As Augustine said, the New Covenant is hidden in the Old Covenant and the Old Covenant is only fully ...

R.R. Reno takes up the thankless task of critiquing Garry Wills' silly dismissal of the priesthood. Wills basically says that the problem is that decades after a priestless Church of liberal ...

And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they ...

Many claims are made about Abraham, most likely to enhance his stature, reputation, distinction, and prestige. Perhaps also because it was felt that Abraham must have had some kind of relationship ...

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Why is “behind the curtain” a key phrase? Within the Jerusalem temple, a heavy curtain separated humans from God, where God dwelt in the “Holy of Holies.” Once a year, on Yom Kippur, the high priest ...