Mishnah Snapshots

#81 ✡ Bava Kamma 1:2-2:6

• Do this one thing to become God's private property, his special possesion.
• What do we have in common with lions, tigers, bears, and snakes?
• How was Yeshua's reason for not trusting anybody echoed in Jewish law?
• How are the Hebrew terms for foreknowledge and predestination related?
• Can we know that Paul wrote from a Mishnaic Hebrew mindset?
• What's the biggest difference between safe and dangerous people?
• How are Jacob's voice versus Esau's hands 'Parenting 101'?
• Encouragement if doing what's right feels like it's too punishing.

#82 ✡ Bava Kamma 6:4-9:3

• How are prophecy, causing a blaze, and the heart connected?
• Why did the sages call heretics "another" and how's that the Messiah?
• If it wasn't legal to have pigs in Israel what about the 2,000 that drowned?
• This list of illegal degrading acts are exactly what they did to Yeshua. 
• Did women always cover their heads in public? Can we know? 
• Was this law the background to "forgive as we forgive"?
• How is wrecking stuff the opposite of the "tikkun" work of Mussar?

#83 ✡ Bava Metzia 1:7-8

• Why did Paul use “covenant” for “last will and testament”?
• Why is it wrong to call the Bible the Old and New Testaments?
• Why is it so important to be fiercely conservative theologically?
• What made Yeshua’s “I say” statements so powerful?
• What’s a king’s job description and how is that a picture of God?
• Every religious Jew preaches the gospel a hundred times a day!
• Why did the Rabbis leave unanswered questions for Elijah?
• And, some personal things God told me in my teens.

#84 ✡ Bava Metzia 2:1-9:11

• How is publicly announcing a found article like preaching?
• How do doubled Hebrew verbs lend force to “seventy times seven”?
• Why is it important to use religiously neutral words when possible?
• Was it typical to prioritize your Rabbi over your family? 
• How much was the widow's mite? Is it in Jewish records?
• Returning to Torah is called “baal teshuvah”. How old is that term?
• What do the Telepathy Tapes and Mishnah agree on?
• How was the hired hand who ran from the wolf a double loser?
• The parable of the vineyard owner confirmed by ancient accounting!