Thanks for visiting our website. This Shabbat, October 17 Sharbel Richard will be teaching about spiritual warfare Please read Ephesians 6:10-20 about the spiritual armor God provides for us. Eph 6:10 Finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of HIs might. The command tells us that we …
Summary of Haftarat Vayera 2 Kings 4:1-37 The haftarah portion for Vayera contains two stories about Elisha the prophet. The first relates of a story of a widowed woman who is about to lose her sons to her creditors. She appealed to Elisha for help. He instructed her to collect …
There are many lessons to be learned from the celebration of Sukkot, but from an overall perspective the grand lesson is that God intends His people to realize a life a joy, a joy that flows out of relationship with Him first of all, and then out of the relationships …
Va’etchanan “ And I besought” Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 Isaiah 40:1-26 At chapter 40, the scroll of Isaiah begins with what Rabbi Ibn Ezra called, “the second part of the book.” Isaiah 40-66 contains a series of consolations in which the prophet offers a messianic vision of hope and renewal to the …
Summary of Haftarat Shabbat HaChodesh Shabbat HaChodesh is the last of the four special Sabbaths that come before the month of Nisan: Sheklim, Zachor, Parah, and HaChodesh. On the fourth of the four special Sabbaths, they read the passage of Exodus 12:1-20 that begins, “This month shall be for you, …
The Word of God as CovenantIt is clear from a study of the structure of the Torah (and specifically certainsections as well as the whole book of Deuteronomy) that the word of God wasgiven to Israel in the form of a covenant. It is specifically called a “covenant”in its initial …
The Torah as Foundation (סוֹדְיּ ַה, HaYesod) By Tim Hegg used with Permission Torahresource.comThe first notice of writing the word of God is found in ExodusEx. 31:18 When He (God) had finished speaking with him(Moses) upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of thetestimony, tablets of stone, written …
The book we now refer to as the “Bible” consists of 66 books (39 in the Tanach; 27 in the Apostolic Scriptures). The word “Bible” derives from the Greek word biblion (biblivon), a word that could mean any written document, whether in a scroll or a codex (book form). The …
In 1989 I began reading more and more about the Shabbat and was struggling on whether to keep it or not. I did not grow up keeping the Shabbat, and when I came to know the Lord we were not keeping the Shabbat. I was growing in the Lord and …
1 Kings 5:26-6:13 In Haftarat Terumah, King Solomon makes a covenant of peace with Hiram of Tyre and secures a trade agreement. Hiram supplies Solomon with timber and craftsmen for the construction of the Temple in exchange for agricultural produce. Solomon an Israelite labor force to prepare the materials for …