As I read this week’s Torah portion, Tazria, I have found myself really pondering something. Uncleanness. And Sin. This portion always brings this up for me. How can something biological Abba created in women to allow for the procreation of mankind be sinful? I’m not the first to ask this question, nor will I be the […]
I’m sharing my thoughts on Torah Portion Bamidbar (in Hebrew it means “In the wilderness” NOT “numbers”). This is our fifth reading cycle of Torah and I learn something new each time. I use a different translation each Torah cycle. This cycle I am using the Schocken Bible: The Five Books of Moses. I have to […]
Wow… I’m still studying Torah Portion Bo and now I have to write a Part Two. There is so much going on here in this portion!!! In this portion we have the command to keep the Pesach (Passover) as a memorial. First I looked up the meaning of Pesach, Gesenius gives a telling definition… Pesach: […]
Sowing and Reaping Galatians 6:7 Do not be led astray: Elohim is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he shall also reap. The concept of sowing and reaping is well-understood from an agricultural sense; the type of seed you plant will produce the fruit you expect (such as planting a tomato seed produces […]
What are these “Weightier Matters” that Yeshua admonished the Pharisees for ignoring? Are we falling into the same trap? Mat 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe the mint and the anise and the cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah: the right-ruling and the compassion and the […]