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The Jewish tradition generally places a high value on learning and study, especially of religious texts. Torah study (compromising study of the Torah and more broadly of the entire Hebrew Bible as well as Rabbinic literature such as the Talmud and Midrash) is considered a religious obligation.

Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Mashiach

Mashiach and the Torah of HaShem

Mashiach and the Torah of HaShem

Maimonides in his Thirteen Principles of Faith, the ninth principle reads:"I believe with complete faith that this Torah will not be exchanged and there will be no other Torah from the Creator, blessed be His Name." He also wrote in The Laws of the King Mashiach: "If a king will arise from the House of David who delves deeply into t ...

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Haggim, Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Rosh HaShana (Yom Teruah), Torah

Rosh Hashanah / Yom Teruah – Sounding the Shofar

Rosh Hashanah / Yom Teruah - Sounding the Shofar

...In the seventh month, on the first of the month, there shall be a sabbath for you, a remembrance with shofar blasts, a holy convocation. -Leviticus 16:24 (Note: when any Bible holiday falls any day, that day becomes Shabbat / Sabbath, even if it is Tuesday). Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah m ...

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Jewish Prayer, Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Rosh Chodesh

Rosh Chodesh Elul (Video)

Rosh Chodesh Elul (Video)

Rosh Chodesh Elul / ראש חדש אלול "The King is in the Field - HaMelech Ba'Sade" - This month, God is as approachable as hardly any other time of the year! The month of Elul is a time of repentance in preparation for the High Holidays of Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah) and Yom Kippur. ...

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Jewish Studies, Month of Elul, Torah

The Shofar and Mashiach (Video)

The Shofar and Mashiach (Video)

Perhaps one of Judaism's most familiar symbols is the shofar, or ram's horn. The Bible mentions two different types of trumpets; the silver trumpet, and the shofar. The shofar can be made from five species of animals; the sheep, goat, mountain goat, antelope, and gazelle. According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, Rabbi Judah states, "the shofar ...

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Mashiach

Mashiach Ben Yosef / Ben David

Mashiach Ben Yosef / Ben David

One of the major tenets in the thirteen articles of Jewish faith that Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon (Maimonides) wrote is the belief and affirmation that the Mashiach (Messiah) would come. The Mashiach is always been the hope of Israel for generations past to the present, for as we know that even Father Avraham saw His coming and rejoice in that fact, as ...

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Jewish Studies, Parasha Masei, Parasha Matot, Torah

A Man of His Word – Parashat Matot-Masei (Videos)

A Man of His Word - Parashat Matot-Masei (Videos)

If a man makes a vow to HaShem or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge; he must carry out all that has crossed his lips. [Numbers 30:3] This week we have a double portion Matot (Tribes) and Masei (Journeys). I will focus this week on Matot. The first Aliyah has Moses instructing Israel concerning vows. It ...

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week

The Parochet (Curtain) in the Mishkan (Video)

The Parochet (Curtain) in the Mishkan (Video)

Parochet (Hebrew: פרוכת) (also paroches, parokhet) is the curtain on the front of the Aron Kodesh (Torah Ark) in a synagogue that covers the Sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls). In most cases, behind the parochet is also a door. This curtain represents the covering that was on the original Ark of the Covenant. The term paroc ...

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Jewish Studies, News, Toronto Pride Parade

Pride is a Sin and an Abomination

Pride is a Sin and an Abomination

Pride is a Sin and an Abomination These first two verses perfectly set the stage for all of us as far as what God Almighty really thinks of this negative spirit and quality that could infect anyone of us at anytime. God is specifically telling us in these two verses that anyone who has become too proud in his own heart is committing a sin and an a ...

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Jewish Studies, News, Newsletter, Toronto Pride Parade

Pride Will Come Before the Fall – Part #2

Pride Will Come Before the Fall - Part #2

As you will see in one of the Scripture verses below - Satan was one of the highest of all the angels God has ever created. He was allowed to literally walk on the mountain of God Himself. He thus had to know how awesome and how powerful God really is and that there was no way that anyone could ever begin to try and overthrow Him. If God is all-po ...

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Israel, Jewish Studies, News, Newsletter, Toronto Pride Parade

Pride Will Come Before the Fall – Part #1

Pride Will Come Before the Fall - Part #1

As part of the sanctification process that God would like to start with each one of us - one of the things that God will be doing, through the power of the Holy Spirit, is to either take out or prevent certain types of negative qualities from entering into our personalities. Without question, one of the major qualities that God will be moving in o ...

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Jewish Studies, Parasha Pinchas, Torah, Torah Video

Passionate for HaShem – Parasha Pinchas (Videos)

Passionate for HaShem - Parasha Pinchas (Videos)

Parshas Pinchas starts off where last week’s parsha finished. Moses sends Pinchas and the rest of Bnei Yisrael to war against the Midianites. We read about the act of Zimri and the response of Pinchas. The episode is described as follows: "Adonai  spoke to Moses, saying, 11 "Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ha ...

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Castellano, Islam, Israel, Jewish Studies

Los Palestinos (Filisteos); los invasores (Videos)

Los Palestinos (Filisteos); los invasores (Videos)

Lo único que los palestinos modernos tienen en común con los antiguos filisteos es que ambos fueron invasores, ambos llevaron a cabo una ocupación de territorios que no les correspondían. El significado de palestinos es exactamente eso, invasores, o peleshet, del verbo pelesh, significando divisores, penetradores, o inv ...

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Castellano, Islam, Israel, Jewish Studies

Los Palestinos y su Identidad

Los Palestinos y su Identidad

No solamente los israelíes son engañados, sino también los palestinos mismos. Ellos son usados tan solamente como medio para alcanzar la meta, ya que de ellos se está haciendo un pueblo que en realidad nunca ha existido. El nombre "palestinos" deriva de la palabra "filisteos". Sin embargo, estos provenían origina ...

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Haggim, Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Torah

Fast of 17th Tammuz – Shiv’ah Asar b’Tammuz (Video)

Fast of 17th Tammuz - Shiv'ah Asar b'Tammuz (Video)

The start of the ‘three weeks’ comes about on the 17th day in the Jewish month of Tammuz, Jews all over the world fast and lament to commemorate the many calamities that befell the Jews on this ominous day. The Seventeenth of Tammuz (Hebrew: שבעה עשר בתמוז‎, Sh ...

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Israel, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week, Zionism

The land of Israel – אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ – Eretz Yisrael (Videos)

The land of Israel – אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ – Eretz Yisrael (Videos)

Every one who knows the problems of territory, religion, education, and simple racial hate and international involvement, knows that the greatest problem of all is related to the Bible. Jews have for the two thousand years of exile among the nations dreamed of returning to the land of their forefathers, the land of Israel, between the Jordan River ...

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