Just like most Jewish synagogues everywhere we read through the Torah each year. The Torah portions are listed here and you will also see a drash(short teaching) from each. As the years and months go on the drash will be more and more complete, we pray it will be a blessing to your life yielding fruit just like Etz Chaim (“Tree of life”). “It is a tree of life to those who take hold of it and happy are those who support it. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace”.
Weekly Parsha by David Friedman, former academic dean of King of Kings College in Jerusalem, holds a Ph.D. in Judaic studies and an M.A. in Arabic.
Author of They Loved the Torah
A well-informed discussion which will help New Covenant believers think about the place of Torah in their lives."
David Stern--author and translator of the Jewish New Testament and Commentary, theComplete Jewish Bible, and other Messianic Jewish books
HaShem spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying: This is the decree of the Torah, which HaShem has commanded, saying: Speak to the Children of Yisrael, and they shall take to you a completely red cow, which is without blemish, and upon which a yoke has not come. You shall give it to Elazar the Kohen; he shall take it out to the outside of the camp and someone shall slaughter it in his presence. Elazar the Kohen shall take some of its blood with his forefinger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times. Someone shall burn the cow before his eyes – its hide, and its flesh, and its blood with its dung, shall he burn. The Kohen shall take cedarwood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he shall throw them into the burning of the ...
HaShem spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying: This is the decree of the Torah, which HaShem has commanded, saying: Speak to the Children of Yisrael, and they shall take to you a completely red cow, which is without blemish, and upon which a yoke has not come. You shall give it to Elazar the Kohen; he shall take it out to the outside of the camp and someone shall slaughter it in his presence. Elazar the Kohen shall take some of its blood with his forefinger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the Tent of Meeting seven times. Someone shall burn the cow before his eyes – its hide, and its flesh, and its blood with its dung, shall he burn. The Kohen shall take cedarwood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he shall throw them into the burning of the ...
"Hashem spoke to Moshe, saying, "Send forth men, if you please, and let them spy out the land of Canaan that I give to the Children of Yisrael; one man each from his father’s tribe shall you send, every one a leader among them.”Bamidbar 13:1-3
So, why the "if you please” in the authorization from G-d to send out the spies?It seems the people made the petition to Moshe, and Moshe brought the matter to G-d.G-d’s answer?He would permit it.So, why did the people want to send out spies into the land?It seems probable that they did it in their own effort to drive out their obvious fear and replace it with faith.The report would certainly be positive and ...
Then adonai spoke to Moshe, saying, "Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of yIsrael. You shall say to them:
Adonai bless you, and keep you;
adonai make His face shine on you,
And be gracious to you;
adonai lift up His countenance on you,
And give you peace.’
"So they shall invoke My name on the sons of yIsrael, and I will bless them.”
Let’s make a few questions regarding this ultimately famous portion of scripture…Why doesn’t G-d just bless the people? Why doesn’t G-d bless the people H-mself? Why doesn’t G-d tell Moshe to bless the people? Why does G-d tell Aharon and his sons after him to bless the people? What is G-d saying with this blessing?
Well, let us begin. Perhaps the reason G-d puts the blessing in the mouth of Aharon and his sons after him ...
