by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Aug 11, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
As Mormons, we know why the Jewish people need us. But why do Jews need the Saints? I wish to give you six reasons. 1. The Savior read the Hebrew bible and preached his wisdom from it. His Hebrew name is Yeshua, meaning “he who makes free”. Though not an ordained...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Aug 3, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
Look at the clock on the wall. What do you see? A finite shape with finite numbers. Unchanging and therefore predictable. We live by the clock, don’t we? The alarm goes off, we rush out of the house, to school, to work, lessons, seminary. We wear time on our arms,...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Jul 24, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
In my fifth book, A Mormon’s Guide to Judaism: Introduction to Jewish Religion and Culture for Latter-day Saints, I list the essential similarities and differences between the two religions. Understand that these are really two sides of the same coin. In Genesis...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Jul 12, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
Symbols are pictures which we use to give a message to others that are full of meaning.The interpretation of the symbol is personal and unique to each individual, and those that represent religious ideas, tokens and ceremonies are evocative of spiritual feelings....
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Jul 4, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
From John Locke, A number of times throughout history, tyranny has stimulated breakthrough thinking about liberty. This was certainly the case in England with the mid-seventeenth-century era of repression, rebellion, and civil war. There was a tremendous outpouring of...
by Marlena Tanya Muchnick | Jun 28, 2012 | LDS and Jewish beliefs
Marlena Tanya Muchnick LDS author, speaker and researcher In this article I want to clear up questions I have been asked that refer to the main geographic categories of Jewish people. They are: Mazrachi (Eastern), Ashkenazi (Eastern European) and Sephardi (Latin)....
