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Be-Ha’alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)

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Post date Sunday 06/08/14

by Rabbi Paul Falk. and YHVH spoke to Moses saying speak to Aaron and say to him, “When you light the lamps…. ” This is a Torah portion that has many teachings. One aspect of it is Faith. In the world, most believers today study only from Matthew to Revelation. Messiah didn’t come to build something new. He came to repair, fix what had been distorted. We are going to start off with trying to understand Faith. Then we are going to step back …. “Saved by Faith,” is what has been taught. Matthew 9:2 says this “Then behold, they brought to him a paralytic that was lying on a bed, when Yeshua saw their faith, Yeshua said, “son, be of good cheer your sins are forgiven.” Was it the faith of the paralytic or the people who brought him. The people who brought him. …… Why could we not cast it out? Because of your faith.. “.. if you have the faith of a mustard seed..” Strong Faith equals what? You could be healed. You can cast out demons. It means forgiveness of sins. We can cast mountains into the sea. [mountain is a metaphor for big problem, obstacle] But we must ask in Faith for what is within YHVH’s will. … Can we just use the Gospels to define these words. Absolutely not. These concepts have been being built since Genesis 1.

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From Shavuot to Pentecost

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Post date Wednesday 06/04/14

by Rabbi Dennis Richards. The supplanting of Gods feast of Shavuot by mainstream Christianity, and reasons for that error, including the intentional change of date by changing the date from which it is counted.

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Nasso (Numbers) 4:21-7:89

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Post date Sunday 06/01/14

by Rick Ortiz. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying: “Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon throughout the houses of their fathers by their families.” “Register them, from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who enter to perform the service, to do the service in the Tent of Appointment.” Also in this Torah portion is the challenge of a jealeous husband accusing a wife suspected of adultery. How he brings her to the priest to make the accusation, the method of testing, and what happens in the result of either innocence or guilt. Extending the metaphor to the nation (of Israel), proving by the waters.

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Fallen Shepherds

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Post date Sunday 06/01/14

by Rabbi Paul Falk. Comparison of the second chances given in the scriptures to the leaders who fail but continue to try to serve, and today’s society, where more often, restoration is not the case. How that contrasts with YHVH’s responses shown in scripture.

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Counting the Omer

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Post date Sunday 05/25/14

by Rabbi Paul Falk. Why are we commanded to count the Omer? Seven (7) weeks of days (Shabbats) completed, and then the day after, for a total of fifty days. Lev 23:17 you shall bring from dwellings two (2) wave loafs. Deuteronomy 16:9-10, you shall count 7 weeks for yourself, from the time you shall put the sickle to the grain. You shall give an offering as Yahweh blessed you. Deuteronomy 16:11-12 . You shall rejoice before Yahweh your Elohim, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant your female servant , the Levite who is in your gates, the stranger, the fatherless, the widow, shall worship and praise Yahweh, and you shall remember you were a slave in Egypt, you shall be careful to observe the statutes.

Key points to consider: Count after first fruits. First fruits in the midst of unleavened bread the first thing to come up was barley. You would cut it (the first of the barley), and offer it to Yahweh. (You could not eat leavened bread again until after first fruits is offered.) New grain offering is going to be baked with leavening.

Connections: to this season of counting is the Sabbath year and the year of Jubilee. (Lev. 25:2-3) Speak to the children of Israel and say “When you come into the land, then the land shall keep a Shabbat to Yahweh. Six years you shall sew your field, and six years your shall prune your vineyard and gather your fruit. But in the seventh (7th) year, there shall be a Shabbat of solemn rest for the land. A Shabbat to Yahweh. You shall neither sew your field nor prune your vineyard. What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap nor gather the grapes of the undressed vine; for it is a year of rest unto the land.” (listen for more…)

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Be-Midbar (Numbers 1:1-4:20)

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Post date Sunday 05/25/14

explained by Rick Ortiz. God tells Moses he wants him to count all the people, a census. The form of the camp and where each tribe and how many is pictured. “And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of meeting on the first day of the second month in the second year.” To count all the males 20 and up who could go to war. The Levites were not to be counted among them, since they were to be in place of the firstborns. Then a census of the Levites was taken, of males one month old and upward. (Numbers 3 and 40).

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What Did Yeshua Teach?

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Post date Sunday 05/18/14

by Rabbi Dennis Richards. The “rest” believing world would like us to believe that Yeshua taught a new covenant or set of rules further to the old rules from Moses on Mt. Sinai. Instead the reality is he taught the same thing, and there are scriptural that demonstrate.

Torah Portions

Be-Chukkotai (Leviticus 26:3-27:34)

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Post date Sunday 05/18/14

explained by Rabbi Paul Falk

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Moses

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Post date Saturday 05/10/14

by RPF. Discipleship is more involved than evangelism. It requires becoming a part of the lives of the disciples; a commitment to help and guide. Moses early beginning being placed among the reeds in an ark (of reeds, with pitch) , can remind of Noah being saved from the sea. Moses through God, delivering his people from oppression, and leading them to where he would be on the mountain with God and teach what God had given him.

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Be-Har (Leviticus 25:1-26:2)

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Post date Saturday 05/10/14

by Patrick Shannon. Moses is on the mountain (of God) bringing to God’s people the teachings. The Sabbath year letting the land rest; God provides an abundant crop in the preceding year or time, so that it will be possible to let the land rest. Jubilee occurs 7×7 years, then the 50th year.