This is a double parsha, made up of parshas Behar and Bechukotai. The seven aliyot of this week’s reading are indicated by special aliyah markings within those two parshas in the Chumash. Parshiyot Behar and Bechukotai are power-packed doubleheaders, this one emphasizing the connection between the Jew and Eretz Yisrael. The lunisolar Hebrew calendar contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between 50 in common years and 54 or 55 in leap years. In leap years, parshah Bechukotai is read separately. In common years, parshah Bechukotai is combined with the previous parshah, Behar, to help achieve the needed number of weekly readings. Behar: The thirty-second reading from the Torah and second-to-last reading from the book of Leviticus is called Behar (בהר), which means “On the Mountain.” The name comes from the first words of the first verse of the reading, which could be literally translated to [...]
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Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his fire pan, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and they offered before HaShem alien fire, which He had not enjoined upon them. 2 And fire came forth from HaShem and consumed them; thus they died at the instance of HaShem. [Vayikra 10:1-3] This weeks Torah reading deals in part with the death o ...
Parashat: Pésach (Pasqua) Parashà: Shemot (Esodo) 33:12-34:26 (I Sefer) Maftir: Bamidbar (Numeri) 28:19-25 ( Haftarà: Yechezkel / Ezechiele 37:1 – 14 Questa lettura si conclude con l’esortazione relativa al dovere di Israele di restare fedele a D-o. Israele deve ad HaShem sia la sua esistenza e sia la ...
Galut or Golus (Hebrew: גלות), means literally exile. Galut or Golus classically refers to the exile of the Jewish people from the Land of Israel. There were altogether four such exiles. These are said to be alluded to in Abraham’s biblical vision of the future of his descendants according to Bereishit Rabba (44:1 ...
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 o ...
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 ...
"Jesus was a good Christian boy who went to church every sunday" We might as well begin with a Before/After kind of test in which you, the reader, are its main protagonist. How many mistakes can you spot on the top of this article? Most believers will spot three; only those "in the know" will catch the fourth one. Try it yoursel ...
Il terzo libro della Torah, Vaikrà, conosciuto anche con il nome di Torat ha korbanot, legge dei sacrifici od anche Sefer ha tararà ve ha kedushà, libro della purità e della santità, inizia con questa Parashat che così introduce la chiamata: לֵאמֹר מוֹ&# ...
Messianic Judaism – The Need for Halacha (Jewish Law) This is the next in a series of articles about the growth of Messianic Judaism within the broader Jewish movement. This time I will focus on the need for Messianic Halacha. Wikipedia defines Halacha as follows: Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה ) — also transli ...
The following explanation is meant to serve as a primer to the individuals’ search to become "Torah Observant". The following "drash" (teaching example) should enlighten the average believer: ‘Most new automobiles come with two important pieces of literature: an owner’s manual, and a set of registration papers. ...
Generally translated as trust, bitachon is a powerful sense of optimism and confidence based not on reason or experience, but on emunah (active faith). You know that "G‑d is good and He’s the only one in charge," and therefore you have no fears or frets. That is, if a bad occurrence happens, then true, it is a bad occurrence t ...
Parashat: Tetzavvè (Tu ordinerai) Parashà: Shemoth (Esodo) 27:20 – 30:10 Haftarà: Yechezekiel (Ezechiele) 43:10-27 La Torah specifica che l’altare sul quale venivano fatti gli olocausti era in legno e ricoperto da un sottile strato di rame, ed è pertanto indicato come "altare di rame" ...
"When Adar arrives, we increase our joy." (Talmud – Taanit 29a). The Hebrew / Jewish month of Adar is synonymous with joy because Adar has traditionally been a month of hope and blessing for the Jewish people. Adar is the last of the Hebrew months on the Jewish calendar, and in this way represents completion. The word Adar is cognat ...
Disclaimer: We are not the Jewish Church. The standard teaching of the Christian Church is that the Torah is no longer applicable for believers in our Rabbi Yeshua. Ma’asei HaShlichim / Acts 15 is often the text used to substantiate this claim. Ma’asei HaShlichim 15:19-22 "Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which f ...
Parashat: Mishpatim (Ordinanze) Parashà: Shemoth (Esodo) 21:1-24:18 Haftarà: II Sèfer Malchìm (II Re) 12:1-17 La parashat Mishpatim è estremamente importante in quanto introduce ed è la fonte dei primi 53 dei 613 precetti, dei quali 23 positivi e quindi prescrittivi e 30 negativi, contenenti ...
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