WIT-Cast by Rico Cortes

Did Yeshua keep Hanukkah? with Yoel Halevi and Rico Cortes

An often question for believers is if we should celebrate Hanukkah, since it's not one of the biblical feast commanded in Torah or Leviticus. Yet, we read about Yeshua being in Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of light. So Rico and Yoel Halevi discuss the topic, specially during this uncertain time.

 

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Are Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur feasts with Rico and Joe?

In this teaching, Rico Cortes and Joe Good present an in-depth and assertive explanation of the Holy Days of Yom Teruah or Day of Trumpets and Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement from the Hebrew language perspective, and the Temple service.

CALENDARS, THE BOOK OF ENOCH AND MORE with with Rico Cortes and Yoel Halevi

This is a podcast with Yoel Halevi from Hebrew in Israel, where we discuss the validity of the calendars in Israel. Is the Enoch calendar valid or did the current community had any legal authority to establish a calendar?

Resources: 

Abbeg, Martin G., Jr., Cook, Edward M., and Wise, Michael Owen, The Dead Sea scrolls: A New Translation 1999 San Francisco: Harper, SanFrancisco 1999.

Baumgarten, Albert I., The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation, (Supplements to the Journal of the Study of Judaism 55), Brill: Leiden, 1997.

Ben Dov, Jonatan, Head of all years: astronomy and calendars at Qumran in their ancient context, Leiden: Brill 2008.

• “The 364-Day in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Pseudepigrapha”, In The Qumran Scrolls and Their World, Kister M. (ed.), Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Tzvi, 2009, pp.435-476.

Black M. in consolation with James C. VanderKam, The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch: A New English Edition with Commentary and Textual Notes, Leiden: Brill, 1985.

Flusser, David, Yadin Azzan, Judaism of the Second Temple Period: Qumran and Apocalypticism Vol.1, Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 2004.

• Judaism of the Second Temple Period: Sages and Literature Vol.2, Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 2004.
• Jesus, Magness Press: Jerusalem, 2001. 

Nickelsburg, George W.E., VanderKam, James C., 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation, Fortress Press: Minneapolis, 2012.

VanderKam, James C., Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Measuring Time (The Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls), Routledge: Milton Park, 1998.

-              Jubilees: The Hermeneia Translation, Fortress Press: Minneapolis, 2020.

Rico Cortes Interview Ryan White and Discuss Purim, Esther, History, and the Jews

This is the very first podcast interview where Rico Cortes and Ryan White have a great discussion about the Book of Esther. We discuss the historical setting, the lack of reference to God, and much more including how this book speaks to our lives and culture today.