Rosh Chodesh means the Head of the Month. This month in the Jewish Calendar is Nissan and began after the stars came out Tuesday, March 16. In Shemot or Exodus we learn, "And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: 'This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you.'" (12:1-2) This Rosh Chodesh is also the beginning of the spiritual year. The Jewish Calendar is unlike other modern calendars which have arbitrarily set 30/31 days or 28/29 days for the months lengths with a leap year to compensate. It is lunar or moon based while most other calendars are solar or sun based. There is a lunar leap month added in on a regular basis to account for the fractional days and months. Here is a calendar showing the Hebrew and English dating The month of Nissan. The Jewish calendar is based on three things which are independent of each other. First is the rotation of the Earth about its axis, a day. Second is the revolution of the moon about the Earth, a month. The moon revolves...
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The Beta Israel, the Lemba, Igbo Jews, and more... After the fall of the Kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom) in 720 B.C. and the Kingdom of Judea (Southern Kingdom) sixth century B.C., there have been several groups who have either fled the land of Israel, or who were captured and removed as slaves, which in turn commenced a diaspora that formed ...
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Who needs a plastic Jesus? What is Idol worship? Idol worship is not just a plastic Jesus on the dashboard of a taxi in Mexico city. Idol worship is coming into the presence of a holy God on your own terms, not on God’s terms. Doing what you want because your god loves you and changes his standards as you go along. Idol worship i...
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Our source of life must be the Scriptures and Yeshua who is the Living Torah. Simply put, the Torah is a set of instructions that HaShem has given to His redeemed people. The Torah consists of commandments, statutes, precepts, and ordinances that HaShem has given us to observe, remember, and keep so all would be well with us (we can be then ...
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The Jewish community of Croatia dates back to at least the third century AD, although little is known of the community until the tenth and fifteenth centuries. The community, over 20,000 strong on the eve of World War II, was almost entirely destroyed in the Holocaust. After the WWII half of the survivors choose to settle in Israel while some 2,50...
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Muchos investigadores creen que el término “sefardí” se refería originalmente a los Judios que viven en y después expulsados de España en 1492. Debido asi llamaban a judios establecidos en la peninsula iberica (comprendida por España, Portugal, Andorra y Gibraltar). T...
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On this, the 53rd anniversary of Israel's independence, it is all too tempting for friend and foe alike to define Israel, and Zionism, solely by the Arab world's bloody hostility. To do so is to miss the normal miracles that occur in Israel daily, the millions who are able to live and learn, laugh and play, in the Middle East's only democracy. To ...
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Why does it matter? This week two portions are read and we are finishing the book of Shemot or Exodus. In this week's portions are Vaykayel and Pekudei. The prophet and the kohen are to wear different clothes. Why? Clothes set us apart and can designate authority. The prophets were in and out of the peoples' lives and carried different messages to...
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Israel and the charge of Apartheid Day by day the anti-Israel alliance, and sadly in collaboration with major church movements mainly from the Protestant world, is seeking to make the Apartheid label stick to Israel. We see this at present in the fortnight of global agitation known as “Israel Apartheid Week.” There is more to this sche...
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A Passover Seder involves the whole family. It's an evening filled with stories and symbols to celebrate a Festival of Freedom from slavery in Egypt. Our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua later turned these promises of Israel's deliverance to a message of deliverance from our own slavery to sin. It is a telling witness to what He has done and is doing to redeem...
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Summary of this week`s readings: Vayakhel The twenty-second reading from the Torah and the second-to-last reading from the book of Exodus is called Vayakhel (ויקהל), which means “and he assembled.” The name comes from the first words of the first verse of the reading, which could be literally translated to...
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Pablo y sus discipulos guardaban la Torá y las fiestas solemnes. Ma'ase Hashlijim / Hechos 24:5 Porque hemos hallado que este hombre es una plaga, y promotor de sediciones entre todos los judíos por todo el mundo, y cabecilla de la secta de los nazarenos...2 4:10 Habiéndole hecho señal el gobernador a Pablo para que hab...
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Vayaqhel (ויקהל — Hebrew for "and he assembled,” the first word in the pasha) is the 22nd weekly Torah portion (pasha) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the 10th in the book of Shemot / Exodus. It constitutes Shemot 35:1–38:20. Pequde (פקודי — He...
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Do you know the differences between keduash (santity) and yeshuah (salvation)? HaShem gives us yeshuah. We believe that through having emuna (faith) in HaShem that He send us our holy Messiah that we are brought near and obtain the yeshuah of HaShem as a gift (insofar we maintain active faith in HaShem in the merit of our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua). Ked...
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The history of the Jews in Poland dates back over a millennium. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Jewish community in the world. Poland was the centre of Jewish culture thanks to a long period of statutory religious tolerance. This ended with the Partitions of Poland and persecution especially by the Russian author...
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