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. There are many lessons we can learn from them today. The last few weeks we discussed how to please the Most High in our lives. These instructions were given to Moshe from HaShem via an angel for the people once there was a Mishkan (Tabernacle). We don’t have a Mishkan, or practicing cohanim, (priests), yet we can observe some of these mitzvot (commandment). The mitzvot concerning ritual purity and impurity that apply today, without a mishkan, or cohanim are the commandments which speak of men and women, bodily functions, intimate relations within a marriage, childbirth, and brit milah (circumcision). This [...]
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 h ...
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 you ...
Rabbi Ovadia slams US: We’re not their slaves In his weekly sermon (Around July 2009) Shas’ spiritual leader protests US pressure on Israel to halt settlement construction, says ‘Messiah will throw them out’ In his weekly sermon Saturday evening, Shas’ spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef slammed US President Barack Oba ...
You may have noticed that we have added a small corner banner to our website regarding our support with the land and people of Israel. While Beth HaDerech is not a political organization, this small banner simply shows our support for the Jewish people, our people, our alliance to the people of Israel for their land. The banner mentions Genesis 12: ...
Mashiach is the hope of Israel, not just a hope, but what the whole Hebrew Scriptures point to. Every working day we pray a prayer called “Et tzemach David” / “The sprout of David” We ask our G-d to bring the Mashiach soon in our days. We ask our God that His Yeshuah / Salvation come quick, (We ask for the Mashiach to ...
The Miracle of the Hekal (Temple) Menorah: One of the most important miracles that happen in the Beit HaMikdash after Yeshua left this earth was the Menorah in the Beit HaMikdash went out, and would not shine. Every night for 40 years (over 12,500 nights in a row) the main lamp of the Hekal menorah went out of its own accord, no matter what attempt ...
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