Weekly Sidra: Shemot (Names) Torah Portion: Shemot /Exodus 1:1-6:1 Haftorah: Yermiyahu /Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 This weeks Torah reading, starts the new book of Shemot (Sefer Shemot / Book of Exodus). We learn about the Hebrews gradual enslavement, Moses’s birth and some significant moments in his life. One of the most significant and dramatic event is Moses discovering the Burning Bush and God commanding him to “Go down Moses, way down to Egypt Land… tell old Pharaoh to Let My People Go!” Of course in the great tradition of Jewish conversations with God, Moses argues and tells God that He must of made some kind of divine accounting mistake and that he wasn’t the person for the job, choose some one else, please! Moses explains / reasons with God, (like He didn’t know) that he doesn’t have much self confidence to do anything great with his life, and that he’s a terrible public speaker. He basically argues, who Am I to do this amazing job, I can’t do it on my own! God says pratically – Yofi meod “Great! That’s exactly the type of self nullifying personal qualities I’m looking for, you’re hired!!” Moses is a reluctant Messiah type person, who after (some say) seven days of arguing with God, he begrudgingly takes on the job and starts to make his way to Egypt. What’s going on? A Burning bush? A self-conscious Messiah type?...
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Weekly Sidra: Shemot (Names) Torah Portion: Shemot /Exodus 1:1-6:1 Haftorah: Yermiyahu /Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 The word of the Lord came to me: 5 Before I created you in the womb, I selected you; Before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet concerning the nations. 6 I replied: Ah, Lord God! I don't know how to speak, ...
Weekly Sidra: Vayechi (He lived) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 47:28-50:26 Haftorah: Melechim Alef / Kings I 2:1-12 When David's life was drawing to a close, he instructed his son Solomon as follows: 2 "I am going the way of all the earth; be strong and show yourself a man. 3 Keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in ...
People talk about "believing in Jesus..." Let me ask you something, you who profess to believe in the Rav (Master), Yeshua ben Yosef, MiNetzeret... Yeshua says, 'THINK NOT that I have come to destroy the Torah and the Prophets. I HAVE NOT come to destroy but to bring them to their fullness. (Cf. Yeshayahu / Isaiah 42:21) For t ...
What is a tallit? The tallit (also pronounced tallis, or talet) is a prayer shawl, the most authentic Jewish garment. It is a rectangular-shaped piece of linen or wool (and sometimes, now, polyester or silk) with special fringes called Tzitzit on each of the four corners. The purpose of the garment is to hold the Tzitzit. Most tallitot (alternativ ...
* Searching for direction, purpose, and meaning in your life? * Wondering how to discern God's will for your life? Many people are unhappy with who God made them to be and wish they were like someone else. They feel inadequate, always reaching for but never grasping that perfect image of themselves. They want to be smarter, taller, wittier, more a ...
Sitting in the Seat of Moses. (Mattityahu/Matthew 23:1-3) “Then Yeshua addressed the crowds and His talmidim: “The Torah-teachers and the P’rushim,” He said, “sit on the seat of Moshe. So whatever they tell you, take care to do it. But don’t do what they do, because they talk but do not act!” Within the Me ...
HaShem said to Moses, “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present a food offering to HaShem. Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before HaShem your God. Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be ...
There was a game show many years ago called “To Tell the Truth”. It was a show that had one real person and three other imposters pretending to be the same person. The panel would ask questions and then try and determine the true one from the imposters. That is the argument made by Jews and anti-missionaries who try to dissuade Jews fr ...
Weekly Sidra: Ma’sei (Journeys) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 33:1-36:13 Haftorah: Yermiyahu / Jeremiah 2:4-28; 4:1-4:2 “I brought you to this country of farm land to enjoy its fruit and its bounty; But you came and defiled My land, You made My possession abhorrent”. (Jer. 2:7) “ If you will return, O Isra ...
The Torah states in Numbers 15:38: And the HaShem spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a thread of blue; And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look upon it, and remem ...
Weekly Sidra: Korach (Korah) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 16:1-18:32 Haftorah: Shamuel Alef / I Samuel 11:14-12:22 “Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there inaugurate the monarchy." 15 So all the people went to Gilgal, and there at Gilgal they declared Saul king before the Lord. They offer ...
Weekly Sidra: Bamidbar (In the Wilderness) Torah Portion: Bamidbar / Numbers 1:1-4:20 Haftorah: Hoshea / Hosea 2:1-2:22 “The number of the people of Israel shall be like that of the sands of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted; and instead of being told, "You are Not-My-People," they shall be ...
Like Moshe, Mashiach will be revealed, then hidden, then revealed again. (Bamidbar Rabbah 11:2) There is much confusion, for instance, concerning what connotes the "coming of the Redeemer" and the Redemption itself. The author of Sefat Emet (the Gerrer Rebbe) explains this difference using the example of Moses and the Redemption of the J ...
Within the pages of the book of Shemot / Exodus in our Holy Torah, we are given a lesson in gratitude hidden within the text for us to discover and receive as an instruction from God to apply to our lives. (Shemot / Exodus 2:11-12) “One day, when Moshe was a grown man, he went out to visit his kinsmen; and he watched them struggling at force ...
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