Posts Tagged Judaism

Parasha Nitzavim, Parasha Vayelech, Torah, Torah Video

The Noahide Movement – Parasha Nitzavim-Vayelech (Videos)

The Noahide Movement - Parasha Nitzavim-Vayelech (Videos)

The Torah is for Everyone – The Problem with the Noahide Movement You stand this day, all of you, before HaShem your God — your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, 10 your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer — 11 to enter into the covenant of H ...

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Jewish Roots, Mashiach, Torah

Motivations for following Torah (Torah lishma)

Motivations for following Torah (Torah lishma)

Open my heart to Your Torah, that I may hasten to do Your Mitzvot. There are several reasons why the Torah is to be lived. These are not presented in order of importance; they are meant to be considered equally. As we do so, a more complete picture will unfold. Because God Tells Us To! One word frequently used to describe much of the content of th ...

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Parasha Ki Tavo, Torah, Torah Video

The Importance of Tithing / tzedakah

The Importance of Tithing / tzedakah

The Hebrew word "tzedakah" is commonly translated as "charity" or "tithe." But this is misleading. "Charity" implies that your heart motivates you to go beyond the call of duty. "Tzedakah," however, literally means "righteousness" -- doing the right thing. A "tzaddik," likewise, ...

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Parasha Ki Tavo, Torah, Torah Video

Parasha Overview: Ki Tavo (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Ki Tavo (Videos)

Ki Tavo, Ki Thavo, Ki Tabo, Ki Thabo, or Ki Savo (כִּי-תָבוֹא — Hebrew for “when you enter,” the second and third words, and the first distinctive words, in the parshah) is the 50th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sevent ...

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Parasha Ki Teitze, Torah, Torah Video

Parasha Overview: Ki Teitzei (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Ki Teitzei (Videos)

Ki Teitzei, Ki Tetzei, Ki Tetse, Ki Thetze, Ki Tese, Ki Tetzey, or Ki Seitzei (כִּי-תֵצֵא — Hebrew for “when you go,” the first words in the parshah) is the 49th weekly Torah portioan (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the book of Deuteronom ...

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Parasha Ki Teitze, Torah, Torah Video

The Truth about Yeshua and Adultery

The Truth about Yeshua and Adultery

1 But Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At daybreak, he appeared again in the Temple Court, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The Torah-teachers and the P'rushim brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery and made her stand in the center of the group. 4 Then they said to him, "Rabbi ...

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Beit HaMikdash, Mashiach, Torah, Zionism

Mashiach and the Jewish Temple (Hekal)

Mashiach and the Jewish Temple (Hekal)

When our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua HaMashiach was crucified the earth shook and the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom. Surely this had significance, along with the strange miracles surrounding the temple after his death. During 200 years before 30 CE, when the high priest picked up one of the lots, again the selection was governed by chance ...

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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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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, “th ...

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Parasha Shofetim, Torah, Torah Video

A Glimpse of the Messiah – Are there Prophets Today?

A Glimpse of the Messiah – Are there Prophets Today?

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like myself; him you shall heed. 16 This is just what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, saying, "Let me not hear the voice of the Lord my God any longer or see this wondrous fire any more, lest I die." 17 Whereupon the Lord sa ...

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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. Jews in ...

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Parasha Ree, Torah, Torah Video

Parasha Overview: Ree (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Ree (Videos)

Re'eh, Reeh, R'eih, or Ree (ראה — Hebrew for “see,” the first word in the parshah) is the 47th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17. Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in August or ea ...

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Parasha Ree, Torah, Torah Video

Warning! The Road signs of Life – Parasha Ree

Warning! The Road signs of Life - Parasha Ree

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 ...

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Bat Torah, Parasha Ekev, Torah

No fear, except the fear of Heaven

No fear, except the fear of Heaven

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.  Throughout the portion it also contai ...

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Jewish Prayer, Mashiach, News

Speaking to God – Tefilot (Prayers)

Speaking to God - Tefilot (Prayers)

Jewish prayer is an aid to developing a meritorious attitude and a commendable way of feeling. Therefore, Jews actively seek reasons to praise God's creation. There are Jewish prayers to be said when witnessing a falling star, when hearing the clap of thunder in the clouds, when seeing a rainbow, when noticing the first bud of spring on the branch ...

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