Why does it matter? This week two portions are read and we are finishing the book of Shemot or Exodus. In this week's portions are Vaykayel and Pekudei. The prophet and the kohen are to wear different clothes. Why? Clothes set us apart and can designate authority. The prophets were in and out of the peoples' lives and carried different messages to them from HaShem. The Kohen's position was the same forever. Their job was never changing. The clothing further set them apart when they served in the temple. The temple's and HaShem's glory and magnificence was further highlighted with the Kohen's clothing. What does that tell us about our role today as we serve HaShem and are in public? As the prophets are roles are multiple we do not have a dress code as the kohens. Our dress is to be modest so to draw attention to the inner person not the outer shell. This doesn't mean to be frumpy, but classy and modest. It applies to us as women as well as to the men. In today's society the outer person is judged to be who we are at first glance. If dressed in a classy, modest manner more attention will be paid to who we are as a person, what we said and what we do. That means that our walk before the Most High with...
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Since September 2000, Israel and its citizens have been going through dark times. First, Homicide bombers were blowing themselves up (and by that taking lives of innocent civilians with them), and had become an overwhelming, frightening threat to the people of Israel. Then, rockets fired by Hamas from Gaza put hundreds of thousands of Israelis in ...
Time to be still and reflect after the seders while we are in the middle of Pesach after the Seders and before Shabbat. Where has the Most High met you and brought you out of your Mitzrayim / Egypt this year? When we tell the stories we are telling our story, to ourselves, and to our loved ones. The story reinforces who we are, whose we are, and i ...
Towards the last day of Passover: Happy Yom Tov! And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the sev ...
Weekly Sidra: Pesach (Passover) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 12:21-12:51 Maftir: Bamidbar / Numbers 28:16-28:25 Haftorah: Yehoshua / Joshua 5:2-6:1 This week's portion is Chol HaMo'ed Pesach. The morning Torah reading of Shabbat Chol Ha-moed consists of selected portions from Parshas Ki Tisa. The conclusion of the kriah summa ...
Chametz is any food that contains wheat, barley, oats, spelt, or rye that has fermented. These particular grains will ferment by themselves in the presence of water. This process can begin in as little as 18 minutes. Obvious foods such as breads, cakes, pastries, pasta, cookies, crackers, pretzels, breaded foods, etc. must be consumed or disposed ...
Chol HaMoed Pesach or Chol Ha-Moed Pesach (also transliterated from Hebrew as: Hol HaMoed Pesach or Hol Ha-Moed Pesach) refers to the intermediate or middle days of the Passover or Pesach festival as well as another Jewish festival, the autumn harvest festival of Sukkot. Literally-speaking, Chol HaMoed means "The Non-Holy Appointed Time" ...
Chag Sameach Pesach, Happy Passover to All. This is a wonderful week to reflect on the freedoms HaShem has brought into our lives. It also is a period to focus on what pleases the Holy One, Blessed be He. When the intermediate days include a Shabbat the reading is Shemot or Exodus 33:12 – 34:35. The portion begins with Moshe pleading with th ...
Seder traditions for us are an collection of practices that are Sephardic in origin, but for many of us these practices have grown and changed because they were practiced underground in either maranno or crypto-Jewish households. Remember: Sephardic Passover customs and traditions can vary from region to region, country to country, city to city, c ...
Korban Pesach (Hebrew: קרבן פסח "sacrifice of Passover") also known as the "Paschal Lamb" is the sacrifice that the Torah mandates to be brought on the eve of Passover, and eaten on the first night of the holiday with bitter herbs and matzo. According to the Torah, it was first offered ...
At Pesach many people are invited to family gatherings but there is no reason why you cannot do it yourself should you find you are "it". The good news is that you may already have the "manual" or can buy one - the Haggadah normally tells you what to do as you go along. However here are a few tips: Firstly do not worry too much ...
A Passover Seder involves the whole family. It’s an evening filled with stories and symbols to celebrate a Festival of Freedom from slavery in Egypt. Our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua later turned these promises of Israel’s deliverance to a message of deliverance from our own slavery to sin. It is a telling witness to what He has done and is doi ...
One day a famous Jewish teacher said, "Someone who is trustworthy in a small matter is also trustworthy in large ones, and someone who is dishonest in a small matter is also dishonest in large ones. So if you haven't been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who is going to trust you with the real thing? If you haven't been trustworthy wit ...
Our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua is Jewish. This obvious reality has too often been obscured by both Christian and Jewish attitudes polarized by prejudice, hatred, and fear. There is a growing number of Jewish people who, like Rabbi Lichtenstein, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, have been prompted, for one reason or another, to investigate seriously what the Good New ...
Weekly Sidra: Beha'alotcha (when you step up) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 8:1-12:16 Haftorah: Zecharyah / Zechariah 2:14-4:7 The third reading from the book of Numbers and the thirty-sixth reading from the Torah is called Beha’alot’cha (בהעלותך), a word that literally means ...
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