Devarim / Deuteronomy 10:20. Moshe says, “You shall fear HaShem your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him…” What does it mean to “cling to Him?” It is actually the same Hebrew word which is used of Adam in the garden when it says, “a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” (Bereshit / Genesis 2:24) But how is this cleaving done in practical terms? The Rabbis ask, “Is it possible for a man to cleave to the Divine Presence, seeing that it is written, “For HaShem your God is a devouring fire?” They answer the question by suggesting that “clinging to God” can be accomplished by clinging to the servants of God, i.e. those who teach Torah. This is explained specifically as the act of discipleship to a man of Torah who [...]
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(Mattityahu/Matthew 28:18-20) “Yeshua came and talked with them. He said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make all people from all nations into talmidim, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember! I will be with you always, yes, even until the end of the ag ...
One of the most difficult sections of the Torah to understand is the discussion of "Tzarat," a skin disease commonly mistranslated as "leprosy." In truth, Tzarat is a physical manifestation of a spiritual deficiency. The Talmud (Arachin 16) says that Tzarat comes specifically as a consequence of "lashon hara" – n ...
Weekly Sidra: Tazria-Metzora (Conceived-Leper) Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus 12:1-15:33 Haftorah: Melachim Bet / II Kings 7:3-7:20 There were four men, lepers, outside the gate. They said to one another, "Why should we sit here waiting for death? If we decide to go into the town, what with the famine in the town, we shall d ...
To some, the concept of a Jew believing in our Rabbi Yeshua seems to be a contradiction. The reason is, many people have a dichotomy set up in their minds. On the one hand, you have Jews and Judaism and on the other hand, Christians and Christianity. You are either one or the other…..so the thinking goes. But this simple dichotomy is in real ...
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 News ...
One of the Sages from the Mishnah is quoted as this, "May you be covered in the dust of your Rabbi." Rabbis are passionate and animated. They would spend their days taking their disciples around teaching them, and as they traveled from place to place, they would literally kick up a cloud of dust. And because the disciples were following t ...
What is Avoda Zara (Idol worship)? Idol worship is not just a plastic Mary on the dashboard of a taxi in Mexico city. Idol worship is coming into the presence of a holy God on your own terms, not on God’s terms. Doing what you want because your god loves you and changes His standards as you go along. Idol worship is placing your f ...
The Torah teaches us that there are no "coincidences". The Hand of Hashem causes things to take place, and directs events in specific directions. The daily "laws of nature", such as the rising and setting of the sun are controlled by Divine Providence. At the other end of the spectrum are those radical departures from the " ...
When our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua HaMashiach was crucified the earth shook and the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom. Surely this had significance, along with the strange miracles surrounding the temple after his death. During 200 years before 30 CE, when the high priest picked up one of the lots, again the selection was governed by chance. ...
Por que nos escogiste de todas las naciones – Asher bajar banu mikol ha-amim. Cada porción de Jumash (cinco primeros libros de la Biblia) tiene su propio significado y tema prescrito por el Eterno. Para comenzar me gustaría darles una definición de que es la Torá del Eterno: propiamente traducida al castellano Tor& ...
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 doin ...
(Bamidbar/Numbers 21:6-9) “In response, HaShem sent poisonous snakes among the people; they bit the people, and many of Israel’s people died. The people came to Moshe and said; “We sinned by speaking against HaShem and against you. Pray to HaShem that that He rid us of these snakes.” Moshe prayed for the people, and HaShem a ...
(Mattityahu/Matthew 14:22-24) “Immediately he had the talmidim get in the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, while he sent the crowds away. After he sent the crowds away, He went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night came on, and He was there alone. But by this time, the boat was several miles away from the shore, battling a ro ...
חבל משיח “Chevlei Mashiach” means the “Birthpangs of the Messiah.” Messianic Judaism (All Judaism is by theory Messianic) teaches that the arrival of Mashiach is accompanied by birth pangs. This is also sometimes referred to as the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble.” J ...
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