Weekly Sidra: Ki Tisa (when you lift up) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 30:1-34:35 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 18:20-18:39 This parashah, Ki Tisa begins with the giving of the half shekel by every man over 20 years, equally rich and poor alike as an offering to make atonement for their souls. This takes place after the golden calf incident showing us that we cannot take this book chronologically but according to the stories and pictures it is telling us. We have become so caught up in the idea that only the shedding of blood can bring atonement and forgiveness for our sins. Here is another paradigm shift where the focus is not on the subject but on the One who brings true atonement or forgiveness. Forgiveness can only come from God; it does not lie in the ransom money or in the animal sacrifices. The more we read about [...]
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Parashat: Vayakel – Pekudè (Radunò – Questo è il computo) Parashà: Shemoth (Esodo) 35:1-40:38 Haftarà: Melachim Alef / I (I Re) 7:51-8:21 La Parashat di questo Shabbat è divisa in 7 sezioni. Inizia con la Mitzvah dello Shabbat e la pena per la sua trasgressione. Si noti che il pas ...
Parashat: Ki Tisá (Cuando tomes el Número) Parashà: Shemoth (Esodo) 30:11-34:35 Haftarà: Melachim Alef (I Re) 18:1-39 La Parashat Ki Tisa racconta, tra l’altro, la storia del vitello d’oro, sicuramente uno dei peggiori peccati commessi dal popolo di Israele nei loro viaggi nel deserto. Sar&agra ...
Weekly Sidra: Shemini Atzeret (the Eighth [day] of Assembly) Torah Portion: Devarim / Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17 Maftir: Bamidbar / Numbers 29:35 – 30:1 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 8:54 – 8:66 On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, seven days for HaShem… on the eighth day, there sha ...
Weekly Sidra: Ki Tisa (when you lift up) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 30:1-34:35 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 18:20-18:39 Ahab sent orders to all the Israelites and gathered the prophets at Mount Carmel. Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you keep hopping between two opinions? If the Lord is God, fo ...
Weekly Sidra: Terumah (Gift) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 25:1-27:19 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 5:26-6:13 11 Then the word of the Lord came to Solomon, 12 "With regard to this House you are building — if you follow My laws and observe My rules and faithfully keep My commandments, I will fulfill for you the promise ...
Weekly Sidra: Chayei Sarah (Sarah’s life) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 23:1-25:18 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / Kings I 1:1-31 Cave of Machpelah is a curious place only found in the text of Torah and Tanach in the book of Bereshit. Why? It is here because we needed insight into the death of the righteous. Avr ...
Weekly Sidra: Chayei Sara (The life of Sarah) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 23:1-25:18 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / Kings I 1:1-1:31 5 Now Adonijah son of Haggith went about boasting, "I will be king!" He provided himself with chariots and horses, and an escort of fifty out runners. 6 His father had never scolded him ...
Weekly Sidra: Phinehas (Pinchas) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 25:10-30:1 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 18:46-19:21 Frightened, he fled at once for his life. He came to Beer-Sheba, which is in Judah, and left his servant there; 4 he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush and sat down un ...
In our prayers, we ask for the coming of Mashiach and the advent of the Redemption more than 100 times every day. But do we really think through to what we are asking? Are we ready to be changed by King Messiah and his Torah (Mashiach does not come to abolish Torah but to teach the outmost deep understanding of it). Indeed, it is one of the fundame ...
Weekly Sidra: Vayakhel (and he assembled) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 35:1-38:20 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / I Kings 7:13 – 7:26 "King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram, whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, ...
ראש חודש אייר Rosh Chodesh is the two day period in the diaspora, (one day in Israel) welcoming the new month as the new moon appears. The Torah refers to it as the second month when counting from the month of Nissan. In Melachim 1(Kings 1) 6:1 Ziv’s connotation is radian ...
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