We have the culmination of the Mishkan (Taberncle) creation and beginning of use, doubled with the beginning Aaron and his sons being set aside as high priests occurring this week in the portion Shemini. Aaron loses two of his sons to the Most High’s fire and HaShem gives us the kosher dietary laws, kashrut. This parsha has quite the storyline to follow and see how it fits together. When we last left Moshe he was setting up the Mishkan daily. This day, the eighth day it was left standing. The eighth day is a new beginning differing from the past seven days, though unlike creation the count did not begin at one again. The week centers around Shabbat, and the rest of the days’ names are numbers in Hebrew. The eighth day marked a changing of the guard. Moshe was formally inaugurating the Mishkan. Unless their camp moved [...]
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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 go ...
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 ...
Weekly Sidra: Ki Tisa (when you lift up) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 30:1-34:35 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / Kings I 18:1-39 This Shabbat we read two portions, the weekly portion of Ki Tisa and a special portion for Parshat Parah (פרשת כי תיסע – פרה). ...
Ta’anit Esther / תענית אסתר Torah Portion: Exodus 32:11 – 34:10 Listen to the Megillat Esther (Scroll of Esther) according the Marroqui traditional tune. On the 13th of Adar, the Fast of Esther is observed in memory of the Fast observed by Mordechai and Esther and all Israel. On that ...
Parashat: Tetzavvè (Tu ordinerai) Parashà: Shemoth (Esodo) 27:20 – 30:10 Haftarà: Yechezekiel (Ezechiele) 43:10-27 La Torah specifica che l’altare sul quale venivano fatti gli olocausti era in legno e ricoperto da un sottile strato di rame, ed è pertanto indicato come "altare di rame" ...
"When Adar arrives, we increase our joy." (Talmud – Taanit 29a). The Hebrew / Jewish month of Adar is synonymous with joy because Adar has traditionally been a month of hope and blessing for the Jewish people. Adar is the last of the Hebrew months on the Jewish calendar, and in this way represents completion. The word Adar is cognat ...
Disclaimer: We are not the Jewish Church. The standard teaching of the Christian Church is that the Torah is no longer applicable for believers in our Rabbi Yeshua. Ma’asei HaShlichim / Acts 15 is often the text used to substantiate this claim. Ma’asei HaShlichim 15:19-22 "Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which f ...
Weekly Sidra: Yitro (Jetro) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 21:1-24:18 Haftorah: Yermiyahu / Jeremiah 34:8-22, 23:25-26 Parashat Yitro is considered one of the most important portions by our sages. There are varying opinions by the rabbis as to the chronology of the Torah. Did Yitro, the father-in-law of Moshe, come to him at the time ...
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 forced ...
In Parashat Beshalach we reach the climax of the exodus from the Egyptian exile―the parting of theRed Sea and the song the Children of Israel sang at the sea. HaShem led the people away from the sea, into the desert. Soon, however, the bitter reality of their journey in the wilderness eventually caused the people to complain to Moshe. After t ...
Parashat: Bo (Viens) Parashà: Shemoth (Esodo) 10:1-13:16 Haftarà: Yermihàu (Geremia) 46:13-28 La presente Parshat Bo descrive la conclusione delle dieci piaghe e l’esodo dei Bnai Yisrael dall’Egitto. Descrive, tra l’altro, e ne è un aspetto importante, anche i primi comandamenti che Moshe ...
Mem מ is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is also the second of the five final letters that when at the end of a Hebrew word are depicted differently. The mem is the thirteenth letter of the alef-beit. It has the sound of “m” as in “mom.” The pictograph for Mem looks like a wave of water, whereas the cl ...
Moshe ricevette la Torah sul Sinai, e la trasmise a Yehoshu’a, e Yehoshu’a agli Anziani e gli Anziani ai Profeti ed i Profeti la trasmisero agli uomini della Grande Assemblea. Essi dissero tre cose: Siate prudenti nei giudizi, istruite discepoli e fate una siepe alla Torah. לאנשי מסרו ...
מלך המשיח “He aquí que mi siervo será prosperado; será enaltecido y será levantado, y será muy fortalecido…” Tárgum Jonathan Yeshayahu – Isaías 52:13“He aquí, que mi siervo será sabio, el será exaltado ...
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