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Hadash

Parasha Overview: Shemini (Videos)

Weekly Sidra: Shemini (Eight) Shabbat: Parah Adumah (Red Heifer) Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47 Special Maftir: Bamidbar / Numbers 19:1-19:22 Haftorah: Yechezkel / Ezekiel 36:16 – 36:38 Shemini, Sh’mini, or Shmini (שְּׁמִינִי — Hebrew for "eighth,” the third word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 26th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 9:1–11:47. Its name comes from the first words of Shemot / Exodus 9:1, which says, “Now it came about on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel” (Leviticus 9:1). The text goes on to describe the events of the eight day after setting up the Tabernacle, a phenomenal worship service followed by a tragic incident. The reading concludes with the biblical dietary laws regarding animals fit for consumption and [...]

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Haggim, Purim, Torah

Purim and Melech HaMashiach (Video)

Purim and Melech HaMashiach (Video)

Purim, a holiday with its roots in the Bible, can provide loads of fun for adults as well as for children. Purim can provide fun-filled family activities which reinforce Biblical truth. The Purim holiday is celebrated with special food, gift-giving, music, games, costumes, and noise-making. It is also celebrated with the public reading of the book ...

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Jewish Studies, Parasha Tetzaveh, Torah

Remember / Tizkor (Videos)

Remember / Tizkor (Videos)

Weekly Sidra: Tetzaveh (offering) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 27:20-30:10 Haftorah: Yechezkel / Ezekiel 43:1-27 Tetzaveh, Tetsaveh, T’tzaveh, or T’tzavveh (תצווה — Hebrew for "you command,” the second word and first distinctive word in the parshah) is the 20th weekly Torah portion (parsh ...

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Jewish Roots, Jokes

It’s Jewish!

It's Jewish!

When we present God’s holy law, And arguments from scripture draw, objectors say, to pick a flaw, ‘It’s Jewish.’ Though at the first the Eternal One blessed be He sanctified His day of rest, the same belief is still expressed, ‘It’s Jewish.’ Though with the world this rest began, And thence through all Scri ...

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Parasha Shofetim, Torah, Torah Video

Parasha Overview: Shofetim (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Shofetim (Videos)

Shoftim, Shof’tim, or Shofetim (שֹׁפְטִים — Hebrew for “judges,” the first word in the parshah) is the 48th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9. Je ...

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Parasha Ekev, Torah, Torah Video

The True Prosperity Jewish Gospel (Videos)

The True Prosperity Jewish Gospel (Videos)

And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, the Lord your God will maintain faithfully for you the covenant that He made on oath with your fathers: 13 He will favor you and bless you and multiply you; He will bless the issue of your womb and the produce of your soil, your new grain and wine and oil, the calving of your herd and the l ...

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Bat Torah, Parasha Vaetchanan, Torah

Remember, Find and Return to the Path

Remember, Find and Return to the Path

Va’etchanan, Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11 is this week’s Torah portion. It is the tale of Moshe pleading with the Most High to enter the Promised Land, and the response of the Holy One answering Moshe will see the Promised Land. He retells the people’s history, stressing this is a first for people to have a relationship with the ...

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Bat Torah, Jewish Studies, Parasha Korach, Torah

Life and Death: Spiritual Balance and Order

Life and Death: Spiritual Balance and Order

This week’s parsha Korach, Bamidbar (Numbers) 16:1 – 18:32 follows the story of the spies’ lashon hara against the land and speaking against what the Most High had promised the people.  There is a connection between last week and this week.  Now we have three men, Korach, Datan and Aviram who are contesting and speaking ...

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Jewish Roots, Parasha Naso, Torah

Parasha Overview: Naso (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Naso (Videos)

The second reading from the book of Numbers and the thirty-fifth reading from the Torah is called Nasso (נשא), a word that literally means “lift up.” It comes from the first word of the second verse in Hebrew, which could literally be translated to say, “Lift up the heads of the sons of Gershon,” an idiomat ...

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Jewish Studies, Messianic Judaism, Newsletter

The Good News was written in Hebrew

The Good News was written in Hebrew

הבשורה טובה הגאולה What language was the Besora Tova HaGeula (Good News of Redemption) written in? Most people will tell you it was written in Greek. They go on to tell you that it was the "language of the day". They say everything during that ...

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Parashat Shemini, Torah, Torah Video

Playing with Fire – Parasha Shemini (Videos)

Playing with Fire - Parasha Shemini (Videos)

Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and they offered before HaShem alien fire, which He had not enjoined upon them. 2 And fire came forth from HaShem and consumed them; thus they died at the instance of HaShem. [Vayikra 10:1-3] This weeks Torah reading deals in part with the death o ...

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Parasha Tzav, Torah, Torah Video

Keep the Fire Burning (Videos)

Keep the Fire Burning (Videos)

Parashat Tzav / פרשת צו – Vayikra / Leviticus 6:1-8:36 “The fire on the altar shall be kept burning, not to go out: every morning the priest shall feed wood to it, lay out the burnt offering on it, and turn into smoke the fat parts of the offerings of well-being. A perpetual fire shall be kept burning ...

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Parasha Pekudei, Parasha Vayakhel, Torah, Torah Video

Parasha Overview: Vayakhel / Pekudei (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Vayakhel / Pekudei (Videos)

Weekly Sidra: Vayakhel (and he assembled) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 35:1–38:20 Haftorah: Melechim alef / 1 Kings 7:13–26 Vayakhel, Wayyaqhel, VaYakhel, Va-Yakhel, Vayak’hel, Vayak’heil, or Vayaqhel (וַיַּקְהֵל – Hebrew for "and he asse ...

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Jokes, Video of the Week

Cool Jewish Videos of the Week

Cool Jewish Videos of the Week

Week of Dec. 27 2009 – Jan 2, 2010 Best Internet Jewish, clean Videos of the Week. Best new internet videos, best music video and funny video. Jewish humour is the long tradition of humour in Judaism dating back to the Torah and the Midrash, but generally refers to the more recent stream. Jewish humour is rooted in several traditions. The fir ...

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, News, Torah

The blessing of the Sun

The blessing of the Sun

Birkat Hachama (ברכת החמה, "Blessing of the Sun") refers to a Jewish blessing that is recited on the Sun once every twenty-eight years, when the vernal equinox as calculated by tradition falls on a Tuesday at sundown. When the sun returns to the same position, at the same time of the week, t ...

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