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Weekly Sidra: Shemot (Names) Torah Portion: Shemot /Exodus 1:1-6:1 Haftorah: Yermiyahu /Jeremiah 1:1-2:3 According to the yearly Torah cycle, this week we are reading the weekly Parasha called Shemot which means Names in Hebrew and begins the book of Exodus 1:1-6:1. This portion of Scripture details the birth of Moshe. At the time of Moshe’ birth the people of Israel were slaves to the kingdom of Pharaoh and Egypt / Mitzrayim. The root word of Mitzrayim, according to Brown, Driver and Briggs, is mem/tzadi/resh, metzeir, meaning to border, to shut or to limit. Other sources claim the etymology of the word Mitzrayim lies in tzar, either or the verb, means to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or cramped, while , a noun, means straits, or distress, and as an adjective means narrow, or tight. All commentators agree that Mitzrayim, the word, represents hardship, distress, oppression, a narrow place or straits etc. They were oppressed by the Egyptians and no matter how hard they worked, their lives were ultimately spent in bitter futility. They were without mercy in their condition and needed a saviour (a Mashiach type). This can be compared to the life of sin and death. This is similar to the situation Israel was in during the 1st Century under Roman rule when Yeshua was born. This is also a situation, at least spiritually, that we’re all in until...
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Do you know the differences between keduash (santity) and yeshuah (salvation)? HaShem gives us yeshuah. We believe that through having emuna (faith) in HaShem that He send us our holy Messiah that we are brought near and obtain the yeshuah of HaShem as a gift (insofar we maintain active faith in HaShem in the merit of our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua). Ked ...
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Yosef said to his brothers, "I am about to die and God will remember you (pakod yifkod) and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore about to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya'akov." (Bereishit 50:24) The words "pakod yifkod" – God will remember you - were not only his parting words, but the very words that Mos ...
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The Torah: Never Changing but Always Refreshing. (RAMBAM 13 Principals of Faith - Principal Nine, Lesson Eight Excerpt; Page 269) The Spiritual identity of the Torah appears, at first glance, to present us with two contradictory themes. On the one hand, we are taught that the Torah is static: “This Torah of Moshe will never be revoked and no ...
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“לםרבה המשרה ולשלום אין-קץ / Of the increase of His government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from ...
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(Pirkei Avot 3 Mishnah 17) “Rabbi Akiva said: Mockery and levity accustom a man to immorality. The transmitted Oral Torah is a protective fence around the Torah; tithes are a protective fence around wealth; vows are a protective fence around abstinence; and a protective fence for wisdom is silence.” All fences, whether physical or spir ...
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Sidra Semana: Vayishlaj (Y envio) Porción de la Torá: Bereshit / Genesis 32:4 - 36:43 Haftora: Obdiah / Abdias 1:1-21 Y le dijo D-s: "Tu nombre es Yacob pero ya no sera mas Yacob; Israel sera tu nombre" y le puso por nombre Israel, Bereshit 35:10. Yacob como cada uno de nosotros hemos necesitado un cambio en ...
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V'Zot HaBerachah, VeZot Haberakha, or Zos Habrocho (וְזֹאת הַבְּרָכָה — Hebrew for "and this is the blessing," the first words in the parshah) is the 54th and last weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah readin ...
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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 ...
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Sidra: VeZot HaBerajá Tora: Devarim 34:12 Haftara: Yeshayahu 61:10; 62:5 El tiempo más importante del año es este en el que actualmente nos encontramos: hemos celebrado Rosh Hashana ( el Año Nuevo), Yom Teruah (la Fiesta de las Trompetas) sonando el shofar, con sus sonidos y notas características que nos dan gozo ...
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Yom Kippur,יום כיפור means "Day of expiation". It occurs on the tenth day of the month of Tishrei and puts an end to the "Ten Days of Awe" which are the days of repentance that start on the first day of the month of Tishrei, for Rosh Hashana. Each one is called on this special day ...
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Sidra Semanal: Ha'azinu (Dale oido) Tora: Devarim / Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52 Haftora Shabat Shuva Hoshea / Hosea 14:2-10 Mica / Micah 7:18-20 Tora para Principiantes - Año #1 Semana 53 Aquí vemos a un Moshe reuniendo no solo al pueblo de Israel sino también a los Levitas y Sacerdotes para darles una serie de instr ...
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Kedusha (holiness) is the theme opening again for this portion. Twice Moshe speaks, about this lifestyle required of them. A lifestyle with more required and more restrictions than the rest of the Israelites. The priests and high priests were more than just religious figures performing roles. They stood in for the people, made korbanot (sacrifices ...
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Weekly Sidra: Nitzavim/Vayelech (Standing ones/And He Went) Torah Portion: Devarim / Deuteronomy 29:9-31:30 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 61:10-63:9 The future belongs to us, as well as the past. This Sidrah takes us back to the future when we all stood together as one people, committed to the covenant a new covenant... Devarim 29: ...
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El papel de la mujer en el judaísmo tradicional ha sido groseramente tergiversado y mal interpretado. La posición de las mujeres no es baja como mucha gente piensa, de hecho, la posición de la mujer en la halajá (ley judía), la cual se remonta a la época bíblica, es en muchos sentidos mejor qu ...
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