Proverbs 9:1-4, Why is wisdom considered feminine and how does wisdom...
Mishley / Proverbs 9:1-4
9:1 Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars; 9:2 She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine; She has also set her table; 9:3 She has sent out her maidens, she calls From the tops of the h...
Parasaht Beshalach, Searching for God’s Wisdom
In this week’s reading, Shemot / Exodus 13:17-15:26,
Pharaoh’s army follows the Children of Yisrael into the wilderness to overtake them and bring
them back to Mitzrayim (Egypt). The people feared and blamed Moshe ...
Parashat Bo, Are you beginning to resemble what you are worshiping?
In this week’s reading (Shemot / Exodus 10:1-11:3),
Moshe and Aaron speak to Pharaoh asking to let the people go to worship their God:
Shemot / Exodus 10:3 Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, ‘Thus say...
Parashat Va’era, By My name, Lord, I did not make Myself...
In this week’s reading from the Triennial Cycle (
Shemot / Exodus 6:2-7:7) God says to Moshe in
Shemot / Exodus 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My
name, Lord, I did not make Myself know...
Parashat Shemot: Hope’s Focus.
In the opening verses of Parashat Shemot, we learn that Yoseph (Joseph) dies and Pharaoh decides to
enslave the children of Yisrael (Yaakov) because they feared the multitude of people the children of
Yisrael had become. The S...
Psalms 25 – The Way God Works.
Tehilim / Psalms 25
1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, I trust in thee let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed let them be ashamed which transgress wi...
Parashat Vayechi, Love, Praise, Worship, and Passion for God
In this week’s Parashah, Parashat Vayechi, Yisrael (Yaakov/Jacob) is dying and Yoseph (Joseph) brings
his two children to Yisrael so that he could bless them before he dies. In the narrative Yisrael
adopts Yoseph’s...
Parashat Vayigash, Holding onto God in the midst of our suffering.
One of the most memorable moments in the Story of Yoseph (Joseph), in this week’s Parsha, Parashat
Vayigash, is when Yoseph wept over his brothers forgiving them of their sin against him.
Bereshit / Genesis 45:2 He...
Parashat Miketz, Remaining Faithful.
Parashat Miketz meaning “at the end” is the second word and the first distinctive word of the Parashah of the
tenth weekly Torah portion in the annual cycle of the Torah reading. The Triennial Cycle portion,
Beresh...
Parashat Vayeshev, The gifts God gives us.
In Parashat Vayeshev, Bereshit / Genesis 37:1-37:36, we read
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of
his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic. 37:4 His brothers saw that their fat...
Parashat Vayishlach, Testing our faith
Times of hardship can test the faith and convictions of all of us. God’s Word in
Parashat Vayishlach recognizes the challenge of testing in Yaakov’s (Jacob’s) life, whether it comes
from fear that resulted fr...
Parashat Vayetze: Yeshua is our ladder to Heaven
In the reading for this week, Parashat Vayetze (“and he went out”),
from Bereshit / Genesis 28:10-22, God gave Yaakov a vision of angels
ascending and descending upon a ladder at a place that is called Luz. Reading...
Parashat Toldot: Birthright, knowledge, and grace.
Bereshit / Genesis 25:29 When Jacob had cooked stew, Esau came in from the field and he
was famished; 25:30 and Esau said to Jacob, ‘Please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there, for I am famished.’
Therefore his...
Parashat Chayei Sarah: Being Honest by Remembering God’s Covenant
In this week’s reading from the Triennial cycle (Bereshit / Genesis 23:1-24:9)
in Parashat Chayei Sarah (life of Sarah), there are two very important observations on the life of Avraham, (i) Avraham’s
dealing with the Hi...
Yeshua’s healing power.
Recently, while reading through my Bible about the story of the woman with the issue of blood that Yeshua healed, in Luke 8:34-48, there was something about the Hebrew text that caught my attention. Luke 8:43 says th...
Parashat Vayera, The One whom Avraham is speaking to.
Bereshit / Genesis 18:1 Now the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he
was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day. 18:2 When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three
men were standing opposite him;...
Parashat Lekh Lekha, Avraham was led by faith.
Bereshit / Genesis 12:4 So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was
seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all thei...
Lucifer (Satan) and Judaism
Below is a discussion email response I gave a while back on the topic of "Lucifer (Satan) and Judaism." A lot of times there appear to be a disconnection between what we have accepted traditionally as doctrine such as that in discussions wi...
Muhammad or Jesus of Nazareth?
I have heard it said that a Muslim submits himself to Allah out of love, but does a Muslim submit himself to Allah and to Islam because he loves Allah? According to the encyclopedia Britannica, in the religion of Islam, the tradition or coll...
Is Isaiah 53 the only prophecy in the Bible for the...
Rabbinic Judaism teaches that the Messiah has not come. Some sects of Judaism even have their own messiah. Regardless of Judaism's questions on who the Messiah is we know for certain because the Bible prophetically revealed Yeshua as the Me...
