Parsha Naso, is Bamidbar (Numbers) 4:21 – 7:89, and it is the longest single parsha in the Torah. This portion follows weeks of learning the Most High's ways of holiness, being a community, family and relationships. As a coin as two sides and is recognized by either side, mitzvot (commandments) have both positive and negative forms (do or do not). The last two portions emphasized the blessing of following Torah and mitzvot as well as the consequences or curses of chose to not keeping Torah and the mitzvot. Those truths already known to the people as they answered we will do and hear on Shavout at Mt. Sinai are the foundation of Naso. Three sobering examples of living and observing mitzvot become clear in this parsha. First, the census isn't taken lightly in Torah. When done incorrectly, there are harsh consequences. This accounting determined who had the job of transporting the mishkan (temple) at a mature age. The literal phrase means to “lift the heads”, and is understood to be a census taking. In other census heads weren't counted but coins were counted as given by the men. An indirect count of people for the census, yet this census was a “head count”. Multiple meanings and word pictures are present in Hebrew and this just one example of this playing out and shedding further light on this parsha. “To...
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Honoring the Sabbath day, known as Shabbat in Hebrew, is considered the most important observance in Judaism. The order to celebrate Shabbat originates in the ten commandments handed down to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. The fourth commandment (Exodus 20: 8-11; Deuteronomy 5: 14-15), translated from Hebrew, reads “Remember [observe] the Sabba ...
Do you know the differences between keduash (santity) and yeshuah (salvation)? HaShem gives us yeshuah. We believe that through having emuna (faith) in HaShem that He send us our holy Messiah that we are brought near and obtain the yeshuah of HaShem as a gift (insofar we maintain active faith in HaShem in the merit of our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua). Ked ...
Messianic Jewish Emuna: Tevunah – תבונה “Now, it is known that in Binah itself there are two levels; Binah and Tevunah. The matter of Tevunah is the aspect of the spreading forth of the light of Binah. (Shaar HaYichud, the Holy Rabbi Dov Ber of Lubavitch) The concept of Tevunah (תבונ ...
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1) Now, when one reads the verse above in English, it sounds very straightforward. However, if you read the same verse in Hebrew (the original language of Torah) you get so much more. Let us look at the same verse in Hebrew. בְּרֵא ...
Weekly Sidra: Mikeitz (at the end) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 41:1-44:17 Haftorah: Zecharya / Zechariah 2:14-4:7 Yosef and Asenath had two sons, the first of whom Joseph called Manasseh, for God had made him forget all his toil and all his father's house, and the second of whom he called Ephraim, for God had made him fruitful ...
ציצית - Tzitzit, or Tessels: The children of Israel are commanded to wear tassels on the 4 corners (canfei) of their garments with a cord or thread of blue in each one (see Bamidbar 15:37-41 and Devarim / Deut. 22). HaShem has given us many reminders of who He is and what He desires for us to do. The ...
People talk about "believing in Jesus..." Let me ask you something, you who profess to believe in the Rav (Master), Yeshua ben Yosef, MiNetzeret... Yeshua says, 'THINK NOT that I have come to destroy the Torah and the Prophets. I HAVE NOT come to destroy but to bring them to their fullness. (Cf. Yeshayahu / Isaiah 42:21) For t ...
When we study Torah we should be very careful not to read into it things that are not there. At the same time there is an abundance of ideas and issues that are not so obvious to the casual reader. I am not referring to what we might call "reading between the lines," where all sorts of concepts may be developed with little or no actual c ...
Weekly Sidra: Vayishlach (he sent) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 32:4-36:43 Haftorah: Obadiah 1:1-1:21 As you did, so shall it be done to you; Your conduct shall be requited. Yea, against all nations The day of the Lord is at hand6 That same cup that you drank on My Holy Mount Shall all nations drink evermore, Drink t ...
The Land of Israel is the only place on earth which God says He owns in terms of property ownership that can be transferred. (Of course, we know the whole world is His, yet this one parcel of land on the earth has a unique relationship to Him.) About Israel, He says, "The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine: fo ...
If I believe in Maran Rabbeinu Yeshua as the Messiah, won't I lose my Jewishness? No you won't! HaShem made you Jewish and no one can ever change that, regardless of what people say. You are still a descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Besides, the real question is, "Is Maran Rabbeinu Yeshua the Jewish Messiah?" If he really is ...
"Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he who observes Torah, happy is he." - Proverbs 29:18 A pastor was visiting a rabbi friend, when the pastor asked, "What do you believe the world to come is like?" The rabbi responded, "Where the righteous dwell for eternity, one may study Torah all day long, without ever h ...
Weekly Sidra: Vayetze (and he left) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 28:10-32:3 Haftorah: Hosea / Hosea 11:7-12:12 HaShem has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds. In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with G ...
The Sage Hillel formulated a negative form of the golden rule. When asked to sum up the entire Torah concisely, he answered: That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn. —Talmud, Shabbat 31a, the "Great Principle" Let me just start by saying I am no ...
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