Posts from 2025 (Page 3)

Parashat Devarim: Recognizing the Yetzer Hara Ego vs. Divine Consciousness and Choosing the Higher Path

Parashat Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22) marks the beginning of Moses’ final address to the Children of Israel. Standing at the threshold of the Promised Land, Moses recounts the journey through the wilderness—not just as a historical review, but as a spiritual reflection. What stands out in this parashah is Moses’ tone of humility. Despite having led…

Understanding the Importance of Fasting

Over the years I have taught many people the benefits of fasting for spiritual growth, power and healing and now would like to share this knowledge with you as I get so many questions on the topic.  It is a powerful spiritual practice that purifies the person, connects them to God’s Spirit and helps keep them “in the zone” with God imbuing them with power to be overcomers of sin and all evil influences!  So let’s take a look at the spiritual benefits of fasting and prayer, and how they can help you stay “in the zone” with God.

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Parashat Korach: Ego vs. Divine Consciousness – The Path to Division and Death or Blessings and Bliss!

Parashat Korach teaches that ego divides and destroys, while Divine Consciousness unites and blesses. May we strive to quiet the voice of the ego within us, and like Moses, become humble vessels for peace, love, and truth. When we do, we not only avoid the pitfall of rebellion—we also inherit the true Promised Land: a life of harmony with God and others.

Parashat Sh’lach L’kha: The Power of Perception and the Cost of Fear

The story of the spies is not just ancient history; it’s a profound metaphor for our own inner spiritual journey. Every one of us is given a personal “Promised Land”—a destiny filled with purpose, growth, and divine blessing. But along the way, we are often confronted by metaphorical “giants”—obstacles, doubts, fears, and limiting beliefs that seem too powerful to overcome… Find out how to overcome these doubts and fears through the powerful lessons and parallels provided by Israel for us today!

Happy Father’s Day

Wishing all our wonderful Godly men a very Happy Father’s Day today as you all have the privilege of being Spiritual Fathers to someone even if you don’t have any children of your own! God bless you and remember to also give thanks to our Heavenly Father today who has shown us His amazing infinite…

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The Importance and Beauty of Tzitzit

This week’s Torah portion of Shelach L’kha introduces a very practical commandment still applicable for us still today! In Torah parashah Sh’lach Lecha, after seeing that God’s people were having difficulty remembering and guarding God’s commandments, and thereby losing their intended blessing, we see an introduction to the principle of wearing a “reminder tassel” called a…

The Importance of Shabbat!

How Important is Keeping Shabbat Holy?

God’s people are called to love the Lord with all their heart, mind and soul .  Luke 10:27  Deut. 6:5

God says, “‘You shall most certainly observe My Sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, so that you may know [without any doubt] and acknowledge that I am the Lord who sanctifies you and sets you apart [for Myself].” Exodus 31:13

Thus keeping Yah’s Sabbaths holy is what sets us apart as His People and makes us holy, sanctifying us from sin!

Q:  What is sin?
John said, “Sin is transgression (breaking)of the Torah (Commandments) I Jn. 3:4

Q:  Aren’t we under grace and able to break the law now?

No… Paul said, “Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be!” Rom. 6:1,2

Q:  Didn’t Yeshua do away with the law by fulfilling it?

No… Yeshua said, “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stoke of a letter of the law to fail.” Luke 16:17

Q:  Can’t we break just one?

James said, “If we break one law, we are guilty of all.” Jms. 2:10

Q:  If we know of someone who strays from the truth and sins, what are we to do?

James said, “we are to turn the sinner from their error!” Jms. 3:19,20

Q:  Which law are we breaking?

God said in the Ten Commandments, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.” Ex. 20:8-10

Q:  Which day is the seventh day?

“And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James,…very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun… ” Mark 16:1-6. (Note: everybody knows that Sunday was the resurrection day. The Sabbath was past when it dawned. Thus it is evident that the Sabbath is Saturday, the day before Sunday.) In many languages the Saturday is named after the Sabbath

Q:  How did God himself set the example of keeping the seventh day Sabbath?

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed and all their hosts. And on the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh daythen God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it (sanctified means set apart for only holy use). Genesis 2:1-3

Q:  Is Sabbath only for the Jews?

No, Scripture clearly shows that the Bible Sabbath was given to mankind at the end of the Creation Week, (Genesis 2:1-3) thus fixing of the seven-day weekly cycle on a world-wide basis, and giving an ancient world-wide knowledge of the Seventh-day Sabbath as revealed in over 70 languages (as seen below)

Few realize that the word “Sabbath” and the concept of resting from work on the seventh day of the week (Saturday) is common to most of the ancient and modern languages of the world. This is evidence totally independent of the Scriptures that confirms the Biblical teaching that God’s seventh day Sabbath predates Judaism. The Babylonian language, was in use hundreds of years before the Hebrew race was founded by Abraham. That language designated the seventh day of the week as “sa-ba-tu,” meaning rest day — another indisputable proof that the Bible “Sabbath” was not, and is not, exclusively Jewish.