The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like myself; him you shall heed. 16 This is just what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, saying, "Let me not hear the voice of the Lord my God any longer or see this wondrous fire any more, lest I die." 17 Whereupon the Lord said to me, "They have done well in speaking thus. 18 I will raise up a prophet for them from among their own people, like yourself: I will put My words in his mouth and he will speak to them all that I command him; 19 and if anybody fails to heed the words he speaks in My name, I myself will call him to account. 20 But any prophet who presumes to speak in My name an [...]
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Torah Tidbit: What is Emuna? What does it mean and how does one have the means of obtaining it? Emuna is faith. Pure and utter faith almost to an ignorance of all common sensibility and reason. Believing that everything happens for a reason and is for the best. It is a belief that God controls every aspect of the entire universes, from a galaxy col ...
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, ...
The 613 commandments are found in Torah. Some are positive (you shall), while others are negative (you shall not). The Jew was given 613 commandments (mitzvot), according to the Talmud, which contain 248 positive commands and 365 negative ones. The positive mitzvot equal the number of parts of the body; the negative mitzvot correspond to the number ...
Weekly Sidra: Shemini (Eight) Shabbat: Parah Adumah (Red Heifer) Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47 Special Maftir: Bamidbar / Numbers 19:1-19:22 Haftorah: Yechezkel / Ezekiel 36:16 – 36:38 Shemini, Sh’mini, or Shmini (שְּׁמִינִי &mdas ...
Weekly Sidra: Terumah (Gift) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 25:1-27:19 Haftorah: Yeshayahu / Isaiah 66:1-24 Terumah or Trumah (תְּרוּמָה — Hebrew for "gift" or “offering,” the twelfth word and first distinctive word in the parshah) is the nineteenth weekly Torah porti ...
Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, or Eqeb, עקב, is this week’s portion. It’s Deuteronomy 7:11 – 11:25. Ekev carries the simple meaning of “if”. This section of Torah has Moshe retelling the story of the sin of the Golden Calf with the repercussion and consequences for making an idol. Througho ...
This week’s parsha Korach, Bamidbar (Numbers) 16:1 – 18:32 follows the story of the spies’ lashon hara against the land and speaking against what the Most High had promised the people. There is a connection between last week and this week. Now we have three men, Korach, Datan and Aviram who are contesting and speaking ...
If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments…I will grant peace in the land, and you shall lie down untroubled by anyone; [Vayikra 26:3-6] There was a phenomenon many years ago called “The Secret”. The book sold millions of copies and was featured everywhere from Oprah Winfrey to ABC News. People bought this book o ...
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