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Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up! I have tried over these past many years to bring our Messiah Yeshua not only to my own Jewish people but also to the non-Jews. There is a great misunderstanding in both communities about who Yeshua really was. If we closely examine his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, […]
To hear the Recorded message, click on https://youtu.be/_9BGl8TGP6k As Moshe continued his farewell speech, he was reminding the people that if they fulfilled the Commandments, they would live a good life in the Promised Land, but he also reminded them about the times they had worshipped the golden calf, the rebellion of Korach, the sin […]
What Makes us Different? This week’s portion, Va’etchanan וָאֶתְחַנַּן (and I pleaded), recounts one of the most emotional and profound speeches in history; it is Moshe’s personal message to his beloved nation, Israel. God had allowed him to climb up, to contemplate the land of Israel, but he didn’t only see the physical land; the future of […]
The stories in the Torah speak to people at every level of intellect and education. For those who love to delve into its mysteries, there is no end. For those who love to study human psychology, its characters are rife with personalities of every type. We can all find a person in its pages with […]
Do I Keep my Word? These two portions, Matot (Tribes) – Masei (Journeys) end the fourth book of the Torah Bamidbar (Numbers). Matot emphasizes the subject of vows. Our people, Israel had made a vow to “do and obey” the Ten Commandments that Moshe had brought down from Mt. Sinai. These tablets, the Constitution of […]
In the previous parashah, we saw how the action of Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, appeased the Eternal’s anger, by killing the Israelite and the Midianite who had committed an act of terrible indecency in front of the entire congregation stopping the plague that had killed 24,000 people as punishment for […]
16 Tammuz 5781 You will know them by their fruit When I was little, I remember that grandmother telling me: “Son, “Don´’t let anyone take you for a ride” i.e., don’t be easily deceived by others. Why? Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish the fake from the real. The same thing happens when we buy […]
To listen to the Record Message, click on https://youtu.be/rMGzLGQj-s8 How can we trust our Creator? This portion Chukkat can be a little confusing if we take it simply in its literal sense without understanding the process through which the Creator was taking the children of Israel. From יציאה the yetziah, the exit from Egypt to the Promised […]
2 Tammuz 5781 Korach, Datan and Abiram, the principal characters of Parashat Korach, were all first born sons (bechor) entitled to the double inheritance. Our sages say that Korach was quite a wealthy man in Egypt, in fact, in Israel there’s an expression… “as rich as Korach”, meaning he was filthy rich. People of power […]
Are You Paralyzed by Fear? After the departure from Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, the construction of the Mishkan, and the census taken of the men to go to war, the children of Israel were now preparing to enter the Promised Land. It says that […]
