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Parashat Eikev

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 7:12 - 11:25

Haftarah Portion: Isaiah 49:14 - 51:3

This week, the lesson is kind of involved. So I will start with making a few notations about passages I found of interest and then continue the lesson from there. In essence, the lesson this week is about Mezuzot or the posting of HaShem’s Laws on the door posts and gates of a dwelling and how (more…)

Parashat Va-ethannan

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11

Haftarah Portion: Isaiah 40:1-40:26

While reading this Torah Portion, I started reviewing the events of the giving of the Ten Commandments, (or the Nine Utterances for our Jewish Believers in Messiah), which are reviewed in Chapter 5. For whatever reason, this time (more…)

Parashat Devarim (D’varim)

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Torah Portion: Deuteronomy 1:1 - 3:22

Haftarah Portion: Isaiah 1:1 - 1:27

In this week’s Torah Portion, we see many cities which are conquered by the Israeli People. We see that for each one there were instructions of method and process (more…)

Parashat Matot-Masei

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Torah Portion: Numbers 30:2 - 36:13

Haftarah Portion [Ashkinazim]: Jeremiah 2:4-28; 3:4

Haftarah Portion [Sephardim]: Jeremiah 2:4-28; 4:1 - 4:2

Numbers 2 is retaught in James 5:12 in the instructions on how to live a life pleasing to HaShem. The rest of Numbers 30 is very interesting, as it describes the relationship of covering (more…)

Parashat Pinchas (Pinhas)

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Torah Portion: Numbers 25:10-30:1

Haftarah Portion: I Kings 18:46-19:21

In Numbers 26:52-56, as every tribe of Israel gained an inheritance sized according to their numbers in proportions, so each person has (more…)

Parashat Balak

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Torah Portion: Numbers 22:2-25:9

Haftarah Portion: Micah 5:6-6:8

In this lesson, we can see what the effect of a personal encounter with G-D can do to the life of a man. We can also see in deeds the strength of G-D’s Word.

In Numbers 23:8, we see the recognition that what is blessed of HaShem cannot be changed even by (more…)

Parashat Chukat (Hukkat)

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Torah Portion: Numbers 19:1-22:1

Haftarah Portion: Judges 11:1-11:33

Today, we will start with the purpose and the message of Yeshuah HaMashiach. When this term is used here, the meaning is literal. The term means “Salvation The Anointed and/or (more…)

Parashat Korach

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Torah Portion: Numbers 16:1-18:32

Haftarah Portion: I Samuel 11:14-12:22

Shabbat Rosh Chadesh: Isaiah 66:1-66:24

Mif: Numbers 28:9-15

In these passages we see the essence of how the L-RD operates. In Numbers 16, we have (more…)

Parashat Sh’lach L’kha

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Torah Portion: Numbers 13:1-15:41

Haftarah Portion: Joshua 2:1-2:24

The Torah Portion today is interesting to me because it centers around the idea of focus. Basically, all the Bible is really about focus and the way to keep it on the correct thing. Sure, there are stories about grace and (more…)

Sabbath In The World

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

The Isrealites had been told in the Torah (or Pentateuch) to keep the Sabbath. Most modern people believe that as a Christian we should at least keep the Ten Commandments which they believe to be the Word of G-d to us for clean living. The fourth command is to keep the Sabbath. But what does “keep the Sabbath” really mean and how (more…)