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Hadash

We will Survive – Sidra Bamidbar

Weekly Sidra: Bamidbar (Numbers) Torah Portion: Bamidbar / Numbers 1:1-4:20 Haftorah: Hoshea / Hosea 2:1-2:22 “The number of the people of Israel shall be like that of the sands of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted; and instead of being told, "You are Not-My-People," they shall be called Children-of-the-Living-God.” (Hosea 2:1) One thing that can be said about the Jewish people is that they have a strong resiliency for survival. This week’s reading starts the book of Bamidbar or Numbers in English.  Moses is commanded to take a census of the children of Israel. The Haftarah portion states that the people of Israel will be too numerous to count and that they shall be the people of God.  This is incredible viewed in the light of many attempts to eliminate the Jewish people.  The crusades, the pogroms and even the Holocausts could not rid the world of Jews. We [...]

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Chag Passover / Pesach, Jewish Roots, Sefirat HaOmer

Countdown from the Omer to Shavuot

Countdown from the Omer to Shavuot

Countdown from the Omer to Shavuot The presentation of the omer initiates a countdown of seven weeks, culminating in Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost) immediately after the 49th day. “And you shall count to you from the morning after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven weeks shall be comple ...

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Chag Passover / Pesach, Parasha Bo, Torah

Mashiach, Passover and Yom HaShem

Mashiach, Passover and Yom HaShem

Weekly Sidra: Bo (Go) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 10:1-13:16 Haftorah: Yermiyahu / Jeremiah 46:13-28 …It is the sacrifice of HaShem’S Passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.’ And the people bowed the head and worshippe ...

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Chag Passover / Pesach, Haggim, Torah, Torah Video

The Korban Pesach (Videos)

The Korban Pesach (Videos)

Korban Pesach (Hebrew: קרבן פסח "sacrifice of Passover") also known as the "Paschal Lamb" is the sacrifice that the Torah mandates to be brought on the eve of Passover, and eaten on the first night of the holiday with bitter herbs and matzo. According to the Torah, it was first offered o ...

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Jewish Studies, News, Parshat HaChodesh

Shabbat HaChodesh / Sabbath [of the] month

Shabbat HaChodesh  / Sabbath [of the] month

Shabbat HaChodesh ("Sabbath [of the] month" שבת החודש) precedes the first of the Hebrew month of Nisan during which Passover is celebrated. Shemot / Exodus 12:1-20 and the laws of Passover. On the first day of Abib / Nisan, God presented the first commandment to the children of Israel as to ...

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Parasha Terumah, Torah, Torah Video

Does Hashem Need a Building in which to Live?

Does Hashem Need a Building in which to Live?

Weekly Sidra: Terumah (Gift) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 25:1-27:19 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 5:26-6:13 11 Then the word of the Lord came to Solomon, 12 "With regard to this House you are building — if you follow My laws and observe My rules and faithfully keep My commandments, I will fulfill for you the promise ...

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Emunah, Parashat Chukat, Torah, Torah Video

Messianic Jewish Emuna: Eternal Remedy

Messianic Jewish Emuna: Eternal Remedy

(Bamidbar/Numbers 21:6-9) “In response, HaShem sent poisonous snakes among the people; they bit the people, and many of Israel’s people died. The people came to Moshe and said; “We sinned by speaking against HaShem and against you. Pray to HaShem that that He rid us of these snakes.” Moshe prayed for the people, and HaShem a ...

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Parasha Shemot, Torah, Torah Video

Mashiach like unto Moshe

Mashiach like unto Moshe

Weekly Sidra: Shemot (Names) Torah Portion: Shemot /Exodus 1:1-6:1 Haftorah: Yermiyahu /Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 According to the yearly Torah cycle, this week we are reading the weekly Parasha called Shemot which means Names in Hebrew and begins the book of Exodus 1:1-6:1. This portion of Scripture details the birth of Moshe. At the time of ...

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Emunah, Jewish Roots, Messianic Judaism

Messianic Jewish Emuna: Our Eternal Torah

Messianic Jewish Emuna: Our Eternal Torah

The Torah: Never Changing but Always Refreshing. (RAMBAM 13 Principals of Faith – Principal Nine, Lesson Eight Excerpt; Page 269) The Spiritual identity of the Torah appears, at first glance, to present us with two contradictory themes. On the one hand, we are taught that the Torah is static: “This Torah of Moshe will never be revoked a ...

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Jewish Roots, Mashiach, Torah

Tassels / Tzitzit / Fringes – Mashiach

Tassels / Tzitzit  / Fringes - Mashiach

ציצית – Tzitzit, or Tessels: The children of Israel are commanded to wear tassels on the 4 corners (canfei) of their garments with a cord or thread of blue in each one (see Bamidbar 15:37-41 and Devarim / Deut. 22).   HaShem has given us many reminders of who He is and what He desires for us to do. ...

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Rosh HaShana (Yom Teruah), Torah, Torah Video

Sound The Great Shofar: Helping To Bring Mashiach

Sound The Great Shofar: Helping To Bring Mashiach

Speak to the children of Israel, saying: “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Shabbat-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation” (Vayikra / Leviticus 23:24). The shofar is/was blown on the first of Tishri, the seventh month of the Jewish religious calendar. It is Yom Teruah, “the ...

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Parashat Devarim, Torah, Torah Video

The Beginning of the Oral Law

The Beginning of the Oral Law

Devarim 1:1 These are the words which Moshe spoke to all of Israel, across the Yarden, in the wilderness, in the plain over-against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Chazerot, and Di-Zahav אלה הדברים – Eleh HaDevarim These are the words- Moshe, the man who started hi ...

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Parasha Masei, Torah, Torah Video

Footsteps of Messiah – Parasha Ma’sei

Footsteps of Messiah - Parasha Ma'sei

Weekly Sidra: Ma’sei (Journeys) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 33:1-36:13 Haftorah: Yermiyahu / Jeremiah 2:4-28; 4:1-4:2 Bamidbar 33:1 These are the journeys of the Children of Israel when they went out from the Land of Mitzrayim in their legions by the hand of Moshe and Aaron. אלה מסע• ...

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Parasha Pinchas, Torah, Torah Video

Raising the Lowly on High

Raising the Lowly on High

Weekly Sidra: Phinehas (Pinchas) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 25:10-30:1 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 18:46-19:21 Bamidbar 25:11: Pinchas ben Elazar ben Aaron the Kohen turned My anger away from the Children of Israel, in his zealousness is My zeal, from among them, so I did not consume the Children of Israel in My jealousy. ...

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Parashat Chukat, Torah, Torah Video

Cleansed from Sin and Death

Cleansed from Sin and Death

Weekly Sidra: Chukat (decree) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 19:1-22:1 Maftir:  Bamidbar/ Numbers 28:9-15 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 66:1-66:24 Bamidbar 19:2 This is the decree of the Torah which Hashem commanded saying, Tell the Children of Israel that they shall take a completely red heifer without blemish that has not bor ...

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