Warning!! Blessings and Curses Ahead – The Road signs of Life 26 See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: 27 blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin upon you this day; 28 and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow other gods, whom you have not experienced. 29 When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter and possess, you shall pronounce the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal. — 30 Both are on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the west road that is in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah — near Gilgal, by the terebinths of Moreh. [Devarim [...]
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Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, or Eqeb, עקב, is this week’s portion. It’s Deuteronomy 7:11 – 11:25. Ekev carries the simple meaning of “if”. This section of Torah has Moshe retelling the story of the sin of the Golden Calf with the repercussion and consequences for making an idol. Througho ...
“Y rogué a Dios en ese momento” (Devarim 3:23). Moshé cumplió su misión trascendental como el guía que llevó a los hijos de Israel de la esclavitud en Egipto a la libertad en la Tierra Prometida. El Amor Divino oyó que la gente suplicaba por la libertad, y también escuchó a ...
Va’etchanan or Va’eschanan (ואתחנן — Hebrew for “and I pleaded,” the first word in the parshah) is the 45th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the book of Deuteronomy. The forty-fifth reading from the Torah and the second read ...
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 i ...
Balak (Balak, בלק) era el nombre del rey moabita en los días de Moisés. También es el nombre de la 40 º lectura de la Torá. Se trata de la segunda estrofa de la lectura de esta semana, lo que dice, "Ahora Balak, el hijo de Zippor, vio todo lo que Israel había hecho a los amorreos" ...
Then the Lord uncovered Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, his drawn sword in his hand; thereupon he bowed right down to the ground. 32 The angel of the Lord said to him, "Why have you beaten your ass these three times? It is I who came out as an adversary, for the errand is obnoxious to me. 33 And when ...
“Coré, que era hijo de Izar, nieto de Coat y bisnieto de Leví, y los Rubenitas Datán y Abirán, hijos de Eliab, y On hijo de Pélet,2 se atrevieron a sublevarse contra Moisés, con el apoyo de doscientos cincuenta israelitas. Todos ellos eran personas de renombre y líderes que la comunidad misma h ...
Bamidbar 19:2 “Este es el estatuto de la Torá que HaShem ha ordenado, diciendo: “Di a los hijos de Israel que te traigan una novilla roja sin defecto, que no tenga manchas y sobre la cual nunca se haya puesto yugo.” – Este versículo dice que el mandamiento de la vaca roja es el juk, o la juká, más ...
El autor de este artículo no es un creyente en Maran Yeshúa. Nunca menos sus ideas acerca de Mashíaj están bien vale la pena leer. HaShem dio a la idea de pueblo judío sus caminos y cómo Él realmente funciona, aunque es posible que no lo entienda por completo. Debemos recordar que no están rec ...
Caleb hushed the people before Moshe and said, "Let us by all means go up, and we shall gain possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it." 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We cannot attack that people, for it is stronger than we." [Bamidbar 13:30,31] This week’s reading deals with the scouts which Moshe ...
The thirty-seventh reading from the Torah is called Shelach (שלח), an imperative verb that means “send out.” The portion is so named from the first few words of the second verse: “Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan” (Numbers 13:2). The Torah reading tells the tragic story ...
This week’s parashah, Emor, is known as Torat Cohanim, the teaching for / of the Cohanim. Whereas the previous sections of the Torah focused on the holiness code for all the people, this section reads as a manual for the priests, instructing them on attaining holiness through their own set of symbolic obligations, duties, and maintenance. In ...
Literalmente, Shavuot significa fiesta de las semanas. Shavuot es una de las tres fiestas de peregrinaje del Judaísmo (Shalosh Regalim – שלוש רגלים). Es la fiesta que celebra el encuentro, en el Sinaí entre el Eterno, la Torá y el pueblo de Israel, o dicho de otro modo ...
This week”s reading is a double portion since it is a nonleap year. We are reading Tazira and Metzora – Vayikra 12-16. These parashot primarily address the issue of purity and impurity. Often these concepts are not understood and called unnecessary, ancient, and not understandable by today’s standards. Ther ...
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