http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 14 May 2010 02:38:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Torah: B’Midbar (In the wilderness), B’Midbar (Numbers) 1.1-4.20 Haftorah: Hoshea (Hosea) 2.1(1.10)-22(2.20) Suggested Messianic Writings: Romans 9.22-33 Shalom, We now begin book 4 of Torah, known in English as Numbers. Unless one had a particular interest in arithmetic, to the uninformed this book may seem like something of little interest. The original Hebrew title ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/b%e2%80%99midbar/ Torah: Acharei Mot (After the death), Vayikra (Leviticus) 16.1-18.30 along with: K’doshim (Holy people), Vayikra (Leviticus) 19.1-20.27 Haftorah: Amos 9.7-15; Yechezk’el (Ezekiel) 20.2-20 Suggested Messianic Writings: Mattityahu (Matthew) 5.43-48 Shalom, The original “Temple” Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) service is described in Vayikra 16. The English word “atonement” can be found at least 15 times ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/acharei-mot-k%e2%80%99doshim/ Torah: Tazria (She conceives), Vayikra (Leviticus) 12.1-13.59 along with: M’tzora (Infected one), Vayikra (Leviticus) 14.1-15.33 Haftorah: Shmu’el Bet (2 Kings) 7.3-20 Suggested Messianic Writings: Mattityahu (Matthew) 23.16-24.2, 30-31 Shalom, These are Torah portions that can present difficulty in a surface reading only. Vayikra (Leviticus) 12 is a short chapter on the laws of childbirth and ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/tazria-m%e2%80%99tzora/ Torah: Ki Tissa (When you elevate), Sh’mot (Exodus) 30.11-34.35 Haftorah: Yekhezk’el (Ezekiel) 36.16-38 Shabbat Parah Suggested Messianic Writings: 2 Cor 3.1-18 Shalom, As our parashah opens, Moshe is still up on the mount with ADONI, receiving the rulings for living a righteous life, which he will deliver back to the nation of Israel. The ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/ki-tissa/ Torah: Tetzaveh (You shall command), Sh’mot (Exodus) 27.20-30.10 Haftorah: Yekhezk’el (Ezekiel) 43.10-27 Suggested Messianic Writings: Heb 13.10-16 Shalom, Sh’mot 27.20: "You are to order the people of Isra'el to bring you pure oil of pounded olives for the light, and to keep a lamp burning continually.” Pure oil – oil prepared from olives that ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/tetzaveh/ Torah: Mishpatim (Rulings/Judgments), Sh’mot (Exodus) 21.1-24.18 Haftorah: Melakhim Bet (2 Kings) 11.17-12.17 Suggested Messianic Writings: Mattityahu (Matthew) 17.1-11 Shalom, We come to a special section of Torah now. Well, they’re all special, but there is just a lot in this one. Israel had just been given the Ten Commandments (as we read in the ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/mishpatim-2/ Torah: Yitro (Jethro/abundance), Sh’mot (Exodus) 18.1-20.23(26) Haftorah: Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 6.1-7.6, 9.5(6)-6(7) Suggested Messianic Writings reading: Mattityahu (Matthew) 5.8-20 Shalom, It is known that the Hebraic style of writing in the Tanakh is not necessarily chronological, as opposed to the typical Greek style writing that we in the western world are used to. Sh’mot 18 ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/yitro-2/ Torah: B’shallach (When he let go), Sh’mot (Exodus) 13.17-17.16 Haftorah: Shof’tim (Judges) 4.4-5.31 Suggested Messianic Writings reading: Revelation 19.1-20.6 Shalom, As we begin this week’s parashah, Israel has finally been given “permission” from Pharaoh to leave Egypt, and so they headed out into the wilderness, following the column of cloud by day and the ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/b%e2%80%99shallach/ Torah: Bo (Go), Sh’mot (Exodus) 10.1-13.16 Haftorah: Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 46.13-28 Suggested Messianic Writings reading: Romans 9.14-29 Shalom, Difficult situations have arisen coming into this parashah. Pharaoh has repeatedly refused to let Israel go on a “worship journey,” and the worst of calamities are yet to come. Some may find it difficult to understand why ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/bo/ Torah: Va’era (And I appeared), Sh’mot (Exodus) 6.2-9.35 Haftorah: Yechezk’el (Ezekiel) 28.25-29.21 Suggested Messianic Writings reading: Revelation 16.1-21 Shalom, “I appeared to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya`akov as El Shaddai, although I did not make myself known to them by my name, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh (YHVH) [Adonai].” These words open this parashah, but a reading without an ... http://www.mordekhi-yisraela.com/va%e2%80%99era/