TORAH STUDENTS: We are building upon B’RESHEET – THE FOUNDATION OF OUR FAITH (AGREEMENTS!). Holding onto your worthless idols, Parents? Abraham CAST THEM OFF… Every soul has an IDENTITY CRISIS. Why? We are still consuming from and confusing The Two Trees… Whatever dysfunctions in our lifetime that we CHOOSE to not be delivered from, WE […]
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Loving ADONAI ELOHEINU with your ENTIRE ATTITUDE?
Did you know that we OFTEN mistake our emotions FOR G-D’S VOICE? How many times have you ‘heard and obeyed’ (shama!) YOUR OWN VOICE? That is YOUR own CURRENT STATE OF EMOTIONS YOUR OWN ATTITUDES – YOUR OWN DESIRES – YOUR OWN APPETITES? It will only be in our individual and collective ‘TURNING ASIDE TO SEE’ that […]
Musings from Mishlei
CONSIDER YOUR WAYS –> THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE. Proverbs 1 (Complete Jewish Bible) 1 The proverbs of Shlomo the son of David, king of Isra’el, 2 are for learning about wisdom and discipline; for understanding words expressing deep insight; 3 for gaining an intelligently disciplined life, doing what is right, just and fair; 4 for […]
The Case of Mistaken BOUNDARIES
Men and women have erected the wrong boundaries: THEIR OWN. Whose Boundaries have you ERECTED, RESPECTED & PROTECTED? Do you know? Are you aware? Are they G-D’s? Or are they yours? If yours, you get the opposite effect of what you’re hoping for. Within the Torah, we find G-D’s Framework for properly erecting and building […]
Responding to The First Lament
Genesis 3:9 The FIRST LAMENT and LIFE-LONG POINT OF CONSIDERATION 9 Adonai, God, called to the man, “Where are you?” For context ‘Ayeka?’ is the penetrating question we contemplate each morning IN THE LIGHT OF MESSIAH that it may DIRECT OUR DAY(s). It’s most often translated ‘Where are you?’ But its Hebrew meaning is much deeper than […]
Beware of Spiritual Laziness
Every RELATIONSHIP requires GOOD WORK. It’s not like we have an option to work or not to work. Not working IN any relationship is actually a ‘bad work’ in and of itself, as it CREATES DYSFUNCTION. Let’s see why… We are already CREATORS as we were created in The Creator’s Image and Likeness. In a […]
WORTHLESS RELIGION & ELEMENTARY LIVING
Sermons motivate us, but only G-D’S RUACH OF EMET (Spirit of Truth) – The LIVING TORAH – IS THE POWER to continue delivering our souls (which is what we must have to prove ourselves Disciples of Messiah – see John 15:8): James 1:19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, […]
Noach, Yetzer Hara, and VICTORY!
CALL YOURSELF (ONLY) WHAT G-D CALLS YOU (PROCLAIM/CALL OUT/RECITE). Are you? VICTORIUS ATTITUDE comes from our ‘yetzer hatov’ (GOOD/properly functioning inclination). DEFEATIST ATTITUDE comes from our ‘yetzer hara’ (evil/dysfunctional inclination). Expounded from this thought in Genesis from this week’s Torah Portion ‘Noach’… YETZER is a ‘framework, purpose, and mindset’. We have TWO [since we ‘ate […]
‘PRAYER FOR DUMMIES’ and Kavanah
The ‘prayer struggle’ is real. I mean the HOW TO’S of prayer seem essential to the Follower of Messiah. Let’s look at a Hebrew word that will give us some insight, some helpful instruction, kind of PRAYER FOR DUMMIES. The Hebrew word kavanah is essentially MINDFULNESS in the words we pray. It is the word […]