Lessons from the Stones (part 2)

Posted on Jan 9, 2015

010315sp by Rabbi Paul Falk REVIEW Matthew 3:9 & Luke 3:8 John the Immerser(baptist) talking to many Pharisees and Sadducees:  “And don’t think you can comfort yourselves by saying, ‘Abraham is our father’! For I tell you that God can raise up for Abraham sons from these stones!” ‘THESE’ STONES – John was at the Jordan river. Recall that YHVH commanded the Israelites to take stones from that very place and write the commandments on them....

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Chanukah

Posted on Dec 23, 2014

122014sd Chanukah It is an interesting festival because it is not required anywhere in the Tanakh you don’t find it there at all.  In fact interestingly the only way we know about Chanukah today especially in the Christian community is Yeshua celebrated it.  It is only found in John that Yeshua was at the temple for the Feast of Dedication.   And that’s what Chanukah means dedication.  It is a joyous eight (8) day feast.  It commemorates the victory of the few over the...

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The Children of Abraham the Sons of Elohim part 2

Posted on Dec 17, 2014

112214 sp by Rabbi Paul Falk.   There is way to much to try and pack into this idea of circumcision and the connection to the covenant. Last time we really connected it in regard to the Gentiles and the movement of the Gentiles and that James makes this point, well “Did not Yahweh call the Gentiles first is that not what He did when he called Abram?” and we talked about the idea of opening the heart, and that’s really and idea of an act of repentance, it says rend the...

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Abraham’s Children The Sons of Elohim

Posted on Nov 9, 2014

110814sp  by Rabbi Paul Falk.       I’ve said this I don’t know how many times, you open something in scripture, and it comes out in….It’s like striking the rock and the well coming out. A lot of times we sing Mayim, mayim, mayim. You can imagine if you are not singing in Hebrew, you’re going, water, water, water, water. Right?. And you can sit back and go, and I know, in sign language it’s like, [gestures] water, water, water, water, But the meaning is what’s significant....

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