Christmas is soon approaching—the season when much of the world erroneously celebrates the miracle birth of Yeshua (known to the Christian world as Jesus)… However, the great miracle of the Word made flesh did not begin with the birth but with the conception of Yeshua… and another celebration remembering the dedication of the Temple of Yah… Hanukkah!
Have you ever read the story of Jacob stripping bark off tree limbs in order to get his sheep to give birth to streaked, speckled, or spotted offspring? It is from this week’s Torah parashah Vayetze and you can find it in Genesis chapter 30. Having completed his fourteen years of labor, as payment to…
The Torah requires a thanksgiving offering for many situations and Thanksgiving is perhaps the perfect celebration to bring Christians and Jews together today without any pagan influence or mixture!
Bereishit 25:21 tells us that Yitzchak prayed for Rivka because she was barren and God accepted his prayer. One of the traits that distinguishes Yitzchak is his perseverance in affirmative prayer for a full twenty years… Yitzchak never stops believing and never gives up on her, but rather continues to pray until Hashem gives him children through her! Affirmative prayer is the same…
Many do not realize that God’s plan of reconciling and saving the world is by grafting them into the literal family of Israel and giving them the privilege of sharing in the promises God made to Israel concerning his covenant with Abraham, an inheritance in the land and a hope in the coming Messiah! Rabbi…
In the context of this week’s Torah focus on the life of Sarah and the example that she and Rivkah set for all righteous woman after them, the question arises about modesty and dress for all godly woman who desire to follow in the footsteps of our Matriarchs of blessed memory. In Bereshit (Genesis) 24:65…
This week’s parsha Vayera contains the famous story of the Akeidah Yitzchak [Binding of Yitzchak] and so I would like to relate further insight on this topic as an example for us in the context of passing our tests with the amazing Emunah faithfulness our Forefathers had! In Bereshit [Genesis] chapter 22 it tells the…
Jeremiah 17:10 says “I, YHVH, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” So we clearly see that God does search our hearts for sincerity and tests our will for resolve to be quick to serve Him without ulterior motive… Like Abraham who it is said was always quick to obey and never thought negative or grumbled in his heart… A great example for us!
Many ancient manuscripts and Dead Sea Scrolls equate Melchizedek with Shem, and to support this understanding, I provide a few quotes…
In light of God having “called out” Avraham in this week’s Torah parashah Lech Lecha, you may be surprised to find the many scriptural references to God calling out His assembly from the earliest of times… If you are being called out of something, you are naturally being called from something to something. If you are…