THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION: From ancient times there has been a weekly portion (Parashah) from the first five books of Moses (the Torah) and an ending (Haftarah) from the Prophets read on the Sabbath in synagogues around the world.  This portion is given a Hebrew name drawn from the opening words of the Torah passage. [...]

      Rainbow directly over the Temple Mount and Mount of Olives. Saturday afternoon, January 28th 1.  FORMER RAINS OVER ISRAEL CONTINUE.  “Let us now fear YHVH our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season.  He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”  (Jeremiah 5:24)  “Let [...]

THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION: From ancient times there has been a weekly portion (Parashah) from the first five books of Moses (the Torah) and an ending (Haftarah) from the Prophets read on the Sabbath in synagogues around the world.  This portion is given a Hebrew name drawn from the opening words of the Torah passage. [...]

  In Jerusalem the almond trees are blossoming! “And I said, ‘I see a branch of an almond tree.’  Then the LORD said to me, ‘You have seen well, I am watching over my word to perform it!’”  (Jeremiah 1:11-12)       WAKEFULNESS In Biblical Hebrew the word shaqad is related etymologically to sha’qed—almond.  [...]

THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION: From ancient times there has been a weekly portion (Parashah) from the first five books of Moses (the Torah) and an ending (Haftarah) from the Prophets read on the Sabbath in synagogues around the world.  This portion is given a Hebrew name drawn from the opening words of the Torah passage. [...]

Ceramic seal impressed with menorah.  The 1500 year-old seal, discovered recently by archaeologists near Acre, is thought to have been a “bread stamp” used by a Jewish baker to certify his bread as kosher.         “Then Yeshua said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread [...]

      “And he led the flocks to the back of the desert . . .”  Exodus 3:1    THIS WEEK THE TORAH PORTION BEGINS THE MIGHTY BOOK OF EXODUS (SH’MOT).  WE WILL DRAW OUR PRAYER FOCUS FOR ISRAEL FROM TRUTHS REFLECTED IN THESE FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS PRECEDING THE EXODUS. Please click on the [...]

 From ancient times there has been a weekly portion (Parashah) from the first five books of Moses (the Torah) and an ending (Haftarah) from the Prophets read on the Sabbath in synagogues around the world.  This portion is given a Hebrew name drawn from the opening words of the Torah passage. An illustration of this [...]

THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION: From ancient times there has been a weekly portion (Parashah) from the first five books of Moses (the Torah) and an ending (Haftarah) from the Prophets read on the Sabbath in synagogues around the world.  This portion is given a Hebrew name drawn from the opening words of the Torah passage. [...]

         Site of the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron.   Here are buried Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah   SIX YEARS:  THE LION CONTINUES TO SLEEP  “Will you work wonders for the dead? Shall the shades arise and praise you? Selah. Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave?  Or [...]