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Parashat Ha’azinu 5782 Parashat Ha’azinu is the song in which Moshe says goodbye to the people of Israel after having led them through the desert and is now approaching his death. This song describes the history of our people and their relationship with the Creator in a nutshell. Here Moshe speaks mostly about the future, […]
https://youtu.be/LiO3oXbCqVo In Jewish tradition, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement is the holiest day of the year; however, the Torah says that all the Moedim, God’s Appointed Times hold equal value. It is believed that on this special day we will be forgiven for all our sins as if there is only one day when can […]
Blog Vayelech 5 Tishrei 5782 This is the intermediary Shabbat between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur. Vayelech is very short but full of meat and meaning. Moshe is reminding us that at 120 years of age he won’t be allowed to enter the Promised Land with his children. How difficult that must have been for […]
My hope and desire are that the Eternal would pour out His blessings for us in this new cycle of the year 5782. I would like to speak a little about the shofar, its use, the types of shofarot that exists and what is the meaning of the command to “hear the sound of the […]
Blog Nitzavim 27 Elul 5781 https://youtu.be/esPefrBEg3g I know that I’m stating the obvious, but when you want to know what someone said, you go to the source. In this case, the best way to know what God wants from us is to “read” what the Torah says, not what others say it says. Of course, it’s […]
Written in Spanish by Alejandro Alvarado – see Spanish Blogs Translated and narrated by Peggy Pardo This parashah Ki Tavo (When you enter) contains the instructions for what the people of Israel should do “when” they enter the Promised Land. The first thing was to set aside the first fruit of the land’s harvest and […]
This week’s parashah, Ki Tetze כִּי־תֵצֵא (When you go) contains more applications of the commandments than the others, giving us clear examples on how to apply them in relation to others and to the rest of creation (to animals, the land and even to plants). Unlike Western thought, where the so-called “law of love” must rule our […]
When I was in high school back in 1961, we read the Bible. I went to a protestant school, and I remember being fascinated by the stories that I heard about Jesus, but Jewish girls do not bring Jesus home; besides he was the god of the gentiles. Years later in 1989, after spending years searching, I […]
I have tried over these past many years to bring our Messiah Yeshua not only to my own Jewish people but also to the non-Jews. There is a great misunderstanding in both communities about who Yeshua really was. If we closely examine his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, we can clearly see that Yeshua was […]
Today I’d like to talk about the first part of Second Commandment which says “You shall not make for yourself any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is the water under the earth…” When our Creator handed this commandment to Moshe, […]