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21 Tevet 5783 God Formulates His Pattern for Humanity Recorded message: https://youtu.be/qSNRBPgUguE Parashat Shemot begins by listing “ha shemot”, the names of the eleven sons of Israel who went down to Egypt, and their brother Joseph, who was already there. The next part of their journey would transform these brothers from twelves tribes to the nation […]
14 Tevet 5783 Speaking to the Heart To hear the recorded message: https://youtu.be/kkKH-uxZoi4 In Parashat Vayechi, we read the epilogue of the life of Yaakov, Yosef and of Bereshit (Genesis). As I was reading this week’s portion, I noticed that Bereshit begins by turning chaos (Tohu V’vohu) and into order (Tikkun). Where there is order, life […]
7 Tevet 5783 Taken from Ranebi’s message on December 23, 2017 Are Yeshua ben Yosef and Jesus Christ the same? To listen to the recorded message:https://youtu.be/DshQhLvRdE Vayigash is a very important Parashah in Bereshit. It is the culmination of the encounter of the two main brothers, Joseph and Judah with their other brothers and their […]
30 Kislev 5783 Listen to recorded message: https://youtu.be/_2f62wh7nd Is there more than one Messiah? Tomorrow is Christmas day and the seventh day of Hanukkah. It’s a time of lights and a time of miracles. The Christian world is celebrating the miraculous birth of their Savior, their Messiah. In the Jewish world, as we light the […]
23 Kislev 5783 To listen to the recorded message: https://youtu.be/z9Kq88D87V0 “Though the LORD is exalted, He looks kindly on the lowly; though lofty, He sees them from afar. Tehillim 138:6” “The lowly he sets on high,” Job 5:11 “Wisdom’s instruction is to fear the LORD, and humility comes before honor.” Proverbs 15:33 Parashat Vayeshev tells the […]
16 Kislev 578 What do Jacob and Hanukkah have in common? Listen to the Recorded Message: https://youtu.be/VZ8vuuYzbMw In a couple of weeks, we will celebrate a special festival for our people, Hanukkah. This is the Festival of Lights and this year we will light the seventh candle on Christmas day. There is a relationship between the […]
9 Kislev 5783 https://youtu.be/qVP4W2qOnys What does Jacob’s Ladder Symbolize? The beauty that I find in our community, Kehilat She’ar Yashuv and that our rabbi always brought to our attention is that we are not a religious group that censors outside ideas and that although we have unity, we are not stuck in uniformity in how […]
2 Kislev 5783 Rejoice, O barren one! https://youtu.be/kOEEORSpSEY Isaiah 54:1 says: “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband, says the LORD.” Today, many of us […]
25 Cheshvan 5783 Are we living a life of integrity? https://youtu.be/bWHI0WJ-8ck Every story in the Torah contains pictures that are meant to teach us principles on how to live our lives. One picture is worth a thousand words. When I prepare a message, like our rabbi did for so many years, I ask our Creator […]
18 Cheshvan 5783 Am I compromising my integrity? To set the stage of the message for today, allow me to give you a little history about Parashah Vayera. Abram has now become Abraham and Sarai, Sarah. There’s a very interesting narrative in chapters 18 and 22 which are important in light of religions creating and […]
