There are two strains or types of prophecies about Messiah. One describes a figure known in Jewish literature as Mashiach Ben-Yosef, and the other is Mashiach ben-David. Ben-Yosef (son of Joseph) is the sad Messiah, rejected and tortured. The other, the son of David, is the victorious Messiah who brings peace and redemption. The popular imagination tends to focus on the second and forget about the former. Nevertheless they are all in the Tanach (Hebrew Bible). How can we make sense of it? Either there are two Messiahs (or kinds of Messiahs) or one Messiah must somehow fulfill them all. If one Messiah must fulfill them all, either he is victorious first and comes to a tragic end, or returns victorious from rejection (even death) to bring world peace at a later time? The latter answer is certainly the more desirable scenario, and fits well with the story [...]
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Q: Why is the Torah called The Law? Does it teach legalism? A: The Torah is called “The Law” simply due to a translation from one language to another. The Tanach (Jewish Hebrew Bible) was written in Hebrew (the holy tongue). The translation goes from the Ivrit (Hebrew) word “Torah” (“teaching”) to the closest wor ...
“So are we Jews better off? Not entirely; for I have already made the charge that all people, Jews and Gentile alike, are controlled by sin. As the Tanach puts it, ‘There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands, no one seeks God, all have turned away and at the same time become useless; there is no one who shows kindness, ...
Yehoshua ben Prachiah e Nitai HaArbeili ricevettero da loro (Yossi Ben Yoezer e Yossi ben Yochanan). Yehoshua ha detto: Fai per te un Rav (un insegnante), trovati un amico, e giudica ogni persona favorevolmente. ;חבר לך וקנה ,רב לך עשה ,א ...
Torah 24/7, the weekly Torah portion all at the convenience of your computer. Please keep our website marked so that you can get more articles concerning our hope, Melech HaMashiach. Torah is the Hebrew word meaning teaching. It’s root means to throw or shoot an arrow.? HaShem uses this word Torah in scripture to signify His Teaching to His p ...
El Shaliaj (Emisario) Shimon Kefa (Pedro) y el Shaliaj Shaul (Pablo) son reconocidos como los hombres que introdujeron el cambio entre los seguidoress de Yeshua. Lo interesante es que ambos declararon por separado que Yeshua el Mesias no vino a establecer una nueva religion sino mas bien a cumplir todo lo que estaba escrito en los escritos profetic ...
The Torah Scroll contains the five books of Rabbeinu Moshe. It is hand written on parchment (Animal Skin or Papyrus leaf paper). It is the holiest of all of God’s words in Tanach, A Sefer Torah is kept in the Beit knesset / Shul / Synagogue, and portions are read from it publicly on Shabbat, Yom Tov (Holidays), Azom (Fast Days), Mondays and T ...
Maran Yeshua Melech HaHaMashiach said to him, "’You shall love HaShem your God with all your heart, all your soul, and with all your resources.’ This is the first and great mitzvah. A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ The whole Torah and the Prophets depend on these two mitzvot." ...
Do you really want Mashiach Now? Many people have that cry in their lips, but do not mean it. In the Amida which is a set of prayers composed by eighteen different prayers, we find at the end of it a prayer asking for Mashiach to come, to reveal Himself, and to bring Yeshuah / Salvation to our people, to our lives, to bring true Shelema (peace) to ...
When we study the Hebrew Scriptures (from Genesis to Revelations writen by Jews to Jews), we find some very interesting verses concerning the tzitzit / fringes. In Hebrew, we say tzitziyot. Specifically, these verses are Mattityahu 9:20; 14:36a, Mark 6:56; and Luke 8:44. Without a shadow of a doubt, they demonstrate that Yeshua definitely was a Tor ...
Weekly Sidra: Bo (Go) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 10:1-13:16 Haftorah: Yermiyahu / Jeremiah 46:13-28 …It is the sacrifice of HaShem’S Passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.’ And the people bowed the head and worshippe ...
Weekly Sidra: Chayei Sarah (Sarah’s life) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 23:1-25:18 Haftorah: Melachim Alef / Kings I 1:1-31 Cave of Machpelah is a curious place only found in the text of Torah and Tanach in the book of Bereshit. Why? It is here because we needed insight into the death of the righteous. Avr ...
The question who is a Zionist is often a sterile (difficult) debate over semantics, rather than one of any substance. Contrary to popular concept, one does not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. A Zionist is anyone who believes that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendants forever. "Forever" includes t ...
To be a believer in our Rabbi Yeshua the Messiah is impossible without emuna (active faith), this element for a believer is the most essential along with love, and without it as our foundation, everything will be in vain and useless. So what is emuna? What role does it have in our life, and how can we obtain this blessed gift from God? The answer i ...
Open my heart to Your Torah, that I may hasten to do Your Mitzvot. There are several reasons why the Torah is to be lived. These are not presented in order of importance; they are meant to be considered equally. As we do so, a more complete picture will unfold. Because God Tells Us To! One word frequently used to describe much of the content of the ...
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