Is the Torah the Hebrew Bible? Is the Torah the Old Testament? What is the Torah? The Torah is the primary document of Judaism. Torah, which means “teaching”, is God’s revealed instructions to the Jewish People. It teaches Jews how to act, think and even feel about life and death.
The book of Leviticus is called Vayikra ("and He called") in the Torah, and is also known as the Book of Sacrifices. It is sometimes called Torat Kohanim - the Law of the Priests - since it deals largely with the various offerings brought to HaShem for sacrificial purposes in the mishkan (Tabernacle). Vayikra opens where the book of Exod ...
Desde el 15 al 22 de Nisan- transcurren los 8 días de Pesaj. Aquí te contamos un poco en que consiste esta festividad que es tan importante para nuestra comunidad, ya que recordamos el momento de nuestra liberación de Egipto. La halajá (la ley religiosa) indica que varios días antes, en cada hogar judío, d ...
Vayikra or Leviticus 1:1 – 5:26 is also the name of the book which is differs from others in Torah. It is not a narrative of the people and HaShem's story. The Exodus has occurred, people are learning to live free people and as the Most High's people. This book is about learning to approach HaShem, understanding purity, and ...
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 fir ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ki Tisa (כי תשא), the twenty-first reading from the Torah, literally means “when you lift up.” It comes from the first words of the second verse of the reading, which could be literally rendered, “When you lift up the head of the sons of Israel to reckon them” (Shemot / Exodus 30:12). The phras ...
This Shabbat we read two portions, the weekly portion of Ki Tisa and a special portion for Parshat Parah (פרשת כי תיסע - פרה). Last week's parsha had the people of Israel leaving the mountain top experience of Mt. Sinai, seeing and hearing the Most High teach them the wa ...
Parashat Ki Tissa - Shemot / Exodus 30:11-34:35 (כי תשא — Hebrew for "when you take). We have arrived to the most famous infamous part of the entire Torah: the sin of the egel hazahav - golden calf. This parasha however is a diamond in the rough and a gold mine for Dvar Torah topics. But we will focus in th ...
Tetzaveh is the twentieth reading from the Torah and the eighth in the book of Shemot / Exodus. Tetzaveh (תצוה) means “You shall command,” as in the first verse of the reading, which says, “You shall [command] the sons of Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp ...
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