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 […]
Category: Torah Portions
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 […]
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 […]
Understanding Your Inclination…and GRACE
It is very important that we not breeze over last week’s Torah Portion we are always ‘building’ upon the previous Torah Portion. Last week’s Torah Portion is about Noach and the flood, the repopulating of the earth, the Yetser of mankind, and The Tower of Babel. Law of First mention: ‘Noach found CHEN in the […]
‘And G-d said’ Concerning Image and Likeness
‘And G-d said, Let Us make humankind in Our tzelem (image), after Our demut (likeness)…’ ~ Genesis 1:26 Today’s Purpose: ‘To WALK in my predestination to be CONFORMED to the PREEMINENT IMAGE of Yeshua’. (SEE Romans 8:29) When The Ruach HaKodesh guides us to a deeper understanding of The Word, we begin to detest the […]
The Journey of FREEDOM
Where do I even begin? His Word changes everything. Everything! Actually, let me back up a bit… YOU COMING INTO AGREEMENT WITH HIS WORD changes everything. You see, I wasn’t raised going to any particular church. I went to church a few times, but it was mostly to get out of the house on a […]
GOOD NEWS
The Gospel Message – Good News – is FIRST declared in Genesis 1. Everything else is glorious Instructive Revelation of that Great Truth. Genesis 1:1-5 In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. The earth was tohu (worthless, chaos, confusion), bohu (complete emptiness & waste) and choshek (darkness, obscurity) was on […]
How Zealous are You for the things of ADONAI?
Torah: Numbers 25:10 – 30:1 Haftarah: 1 Kings 18:46 – 19:21 B’rit Chadashah: Romans 11:2 – 32 הָאְנִק – ‘qana‘ 11 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not […]
Mriy!
1 Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men. 2 And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the […]
Shelach-Lekha (‘Send for Yourself’)
This week’s Parashah Reading: Shelach-Lekha (“Send for yourself”) Torah: Numbers 13:1-15:41 Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24 B’rit Chadashah: Hebrews 3:7-4:1 The ‘Sin of the Spies’ account in this week’s Torah Portion follows on the heels of the account of Miriam’s sin of lashon hara (evil speech/slander/complaining, fretting, or whining all stemming from disbelieving hearts) against her brother Moses, the […]