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Parasha Vayakhel / Pekudei, Video of the Week, torah

Parasha Overview: Vayakhel / Pekudei (Videos)

Parasha Overview: Vayakhel / Pekudei (Videos)

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 ...

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Jewish Studies, Parasha Tetzaveh, torah

Remember / Tizkor | Parasha Tetzaveh (Videos)

Remember / Tizkor | Parasha Tetzaveh (Videos)

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 (parshah) in the annual Hebrew / Jewish / Isrealite cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the book of Shemot / Exodus. It constit ...

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Haggim, torah

Purim and Mashiach (Video)

Purim and Mashiach (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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Anusim, Castellano, Video of the Week

¿Quienes son los Judios Marranos? (Videos)

¿Quienes son los Judios Marranos? (Videos)

El término marrano hace referencia a los judíos convertidos externamente al cristianismo Catolico en las coronas de Castilla y Portugal y que siguieron observando clandestinamente sus costumbres y su religión original. ambién se les ha denominado judaizantes o cripto-judíos, por su parte, los judíos sefard ...

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week

Manipur Jews – Bnei Menashe (Videos)

Manipur Jews - Bnei Menashe (Videos)

In east India in the States of Manipur and Mizoram exists a community which sees itself as descendants of the Menashe Tribe (which is one of the 10 lost tribes). These people have Chinese appearance and they claim that after their forefathers were exiled and enslaved by the Assyrians they somehow escaped from slavery and arrived in China. Later on ...

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Anusim, Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week

The Marranos Jews (Videos)

The Marranos Jews (Videos)

The story of the Marranos, the lost Jews from Spain, started in the 14th century when the Spanish Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church persecuted the large Jewish community in Spain and Portugal. Many Jews preferred to die rather than to give up their faith and convert. Many other Jews were forced to become Christians. Despite this, the church ...

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How to Videos, Jewish Prayer, Jewish Roots, torah

How to put on Tefillin – Phylacteries (Video)

How to put on Tefillin - Phylacteries (Video)

Tefillin is one of my favorite mitzvot of the whole 613 mitzvot. It is one of action, of doing, of experience. Tefillin is technically the plural form (the singular being "tefillah"), it is loosely used as a singular as well. I do encourage all Jews, benei Anusim to get a pair of Tefillin and get going with this wonderful mitzva. Here is ...

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Jokes, Video of the Week

Cool Videos of the Week – Jan 3 – 9th

Cool Videos of the Week - Jan 3 - 9th

Week of Jan. 3 2010 - Jan 9, 2010 Best Internet Jewish, clean Videos of the Week. Best new internet videos, best music video and funny video. A Joke now, then the videos: Tales of the Rebbes Three hasidim are bragging about their Rebbes: "My rebbe is very powerful. He was walking once, and there was a big lake in his path. He waved his handke ...

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How to Videos, Jewish Roots, Mashiach, torah

The Shabbat Table – Video

The Shabbat Table - Video

Honoring the Sabbath day, known as Shabbat in Hebrew, is considered the most important observance in Judaism. The order to celebrate Shabbat originates in the ten commandments handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. The fourth commandment (Exodus 20: 8-11; Deuteronomy 5: 14-15), translated from Hebrew, reads “Remember [observe] the Sabba ...

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Jewish Studies, Mashiach, torah

Mashiach ben Yosef #1

Mashiach ben Yosef #1

I am making available to you, the reader, writtings on Mashiach ben Yosef from a non Messianic Jew. Very interesting. Background: Jewish tradition speaks of two redeemers, each one called Mashiach. Both are involved in ushering in the Messianic era. They are Mashiach ben David and Mashiach ben Yosef. Now to the article: A number of months ago, I s ...

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Mashiach, Newsletter, torah

The Order of Things

The Order of Things

When we study Torah we should be very careful not to read into it things that are not there. At the same time there is an abundance of ideas and issues that are not so obvious to the casual reader. I am not referring to what we might call "reading between the lines," where all sorts of concepts may be developed with little or no actual c ...

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Mashiach

Desiring Mashiach’s Salvation

Desiring Mashiach's Salvation

In the fifteenth benediction of the Shemone Esreh we pray, "Et tzemach David avdecha mehera tatzmiach, vekarno tarum biyshuatecha ki lishuatecha kivinu kol hayom. Baruch ata Hashem matzmiach keren yeshua - (lit.) The offspring of your servant [King] David may you speedily cause to flourish and enhance his pride through your salvation, for we ...

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Israel, Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Mashiach

Chanukah Kadosh / Holy

Chanukah Kadosh / Holy

The Hebrew word for "dedication" is Chanukkah. Chanukah is not one of the commanded feasts of Vayikra 23; however Yochanan tells us that our holy Rabbi, Maran Yeshua celebrated this feast.  "Then came Chanukkah in Yerushalayim. It was winter, and Yeshua was walking around inside the Temple area, in Shlomo's Colonade. So the Jud ...

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Anusim, Jewish Studies, Mashiach, News

Benei Anusim (Videos) English

Benei Anusim (Videos) English

Benei Anusim is the Hebrew term for people whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Catholicism over five centuries ago, during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Historians have often referred to them by the derogatory term "Marranos." “There is a real awakening taking place among the Anousim, many of whom feel a strong and en ...

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Mashiach

A man Born from Above

A man Born from Above

Yochanan / John 3:1-4 “Now there was a man of the Perushim (Pharisees) named Naqdimon, a ruler of the Judeans. The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him." Yeshua answered him, "Most certainly, I tell yo ...

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