Chukkat – The Red Heifer
Rick Ortiz shares some interesting insights on the red heifer that was to be offered in order to make one ceremonially clean after having contact with a dead person.
Read More »Korach
Rick Ortiz highlights some of the attitudes of Korach, from the Levital clan of Kohath, and shows how these attitudes were spread to to his neighbors in the tribe of Reuben. A cautionary story of how we need to be careful of what our neighbors say.
Read More »Baha-alotcha – The Importance of Appointed Times
Patrick Shannon shares the importance of keeping the Passover at it’s appointed time and explains the cycles of the moon to know the times for certain. He also shows how the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai most likely happened on Shavuot (Pentacost) and how the Spirit that was put on the 70 elders in the 2nd year probably occurred on Shavuot as well. Then the pagan origins of birthday celebrations are exposed with the original meanings of many birthday traditions....
Read More »Passover 8 – Bitter Water
R. Paul Falk connects the Passover command to eat bitter herbs with the hard bondage in Egypt, the bitter waters at Marah, and the test for an adulterous wife to reveal a very interesting meaning of it all pertaining to what comes out of our mouths.
Read More »BeMidbar – The Firstborn Son
Rick Ortiz shares from the Torah portion, BeMidbar, highlighting God’s separation of the firstborn sons, choosing of the Levites to replace the firstborns, and how the commanded redemption of the firstborns is connected to the Creator’s threat to Pharaoh about releasing Israel, His firstborn son, or He would kill all the firstborn sons of Egypt.
Read More »Passover 6 – Idolatry
R. Paul Falk continues the series on Passover and specifically on purging out the leaven from our lives, which often takes the form of idolatry in ways that we many not recognize. He also shows from Leviticus how the Father removes this leaven when we do not.
Read More »Emor – The Name
Patrick Shannon analyzes the story of the man that is stoned to death by for blaspheming the name of YHVH, starting from exactly what the name is, the elusive pronunciation, what it means to blaspheme or profane the name, and a central point revealed by the chiastic structure of the story.
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Jerusalem Post
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