Avi says: Difficult Times Ahead

Millennium Communications
November 28th, 2008
Difficult Times Ahead
I am certain that each of you that are receiving this mailing are acutely aware of the rather difficult times in which we are all living. Like you, I have my moments when I am not sure whether I should be happy and laugh or be sad and cry. On one hand, I’m happy because [...]

Rosh Chodesh Kislev

Karaite Korner Newsletter #359
New Moon Report
November 2008
Ninth Biblical Month
On Saturday November 29, 2008 the new moon was sighted from Israel.
The new moon was first sighted:
*from Jerusalem at 16:42 by David Cachicas and at 16:49 by Nehemia Gordon;
*from elsewhere in Jeruaslem at about 16:49 by Dina Marcus and
Veronica Knowles;
*from Masliah at 16:42 by Neria Haroeh;
*from [...]

Kollel Toldot

Kollel Toldot
Romans Chapters 11 & 12

Rom 11:1 I ask then, did Elohim reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Yisra’eli, a descendant of Avraham, of the tribe of Binyamin.

Psa 105:1 Give thanks to YHWH! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples. Psa 105:2 Sing to [...]

Epistle Toldot

Epistle Toldot
I Peter Chapter 1

1Pe 1:1 Kefa, an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Diaspora in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1Pe 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of Elohim the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Yeshua the Messiah and [...]

Talmidim Toldot

Talmidim Toldot
Matthew chapters 15-17

Mat 15:1 Then Perushim and scribes came to Yeshua from Yerushalayim, saying,
Mat 15:2 “Why do your talmidim disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

The key word here is “tradition” as in “takanot.” There is no commandment in Torah for anyone [...]

Haftarah Toldot

Haftarah Toldot
Malachai 1:1-2:7

None of these sections of the Book of Malachai exists intact in the Dead Sea Scrolls – we don’t get a readable text until chapter 2 verse 10. However, the exhortation to stop presenting worthless offerings is found in the Damascus Document (CD) 6:5, repeating Malachai 1:10 and continuing on, echoing the same [...]

Torah Portion Toldot

Torah Portion Toldot
Genesis 25:19-28:9

Gen 25:19 This is the history of the generations of Yitzchak, Avraham’s son. Avraham became the father of Yitzchak.
Gen 25:20 Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivka, the daughter of Betu’el the Syrian of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Lavan the Syrian, to be his wife.

This would have [...]

Kollel Chayei Sarah

Kollel Chayei Sarah
Romans chapters 9 & 10

At the outset it is important to recall that in Yeshua’s own words, as YHWH Incarnate, anyone who teaches against Torah is a false prophet.

Deu 13:1 (13:2) If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams – and he give thee a [...]

Epistle Chayei Sarah

Epistle Chayei Sarah
James chapter 5

Jam 5:1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
Jam 5:2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Jam 5:3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your [...]

Talmidim Chayei Sarah

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Talmidim Chayei Sarah
Matthew chapters 13 & 14

Mat 13:1 On that day Yeshua went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
Mat 13:2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

Mat 13:3 [...]

Haftarah Chayei Sarah

Haftarah Chayei Sarah
I Kings 1:1-31
1Ki 1:1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
1Ki 1:2 Therefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and [...]

Microchip scare going around.

I am posting for you this letter from Avi Ben Mordechai concerning a recent article in a Hebrew Newspaper and email that has been making the rounds.  It turns out that the chips required in Israel will only be in your National ID (for now at least), similar to the new requirements for US passports [...]

Torah Portion Chayei Sarah

Torah Portion Chaeyei Sarah
Genesis 23:1-25:18

Gen 23:1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.
Gen 23:2 Sarah died in Kiryat-Arba (the same is Chevron), in the land of Kena`an. Avraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Gen 23:3 Avraham rose up from before his dead, and [...]

Kollel VaYera

Kollel VaYera
Romans Chapters 7 & 8

Rom 7:1 Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

There are two possible contexts for this statement, and both are in view. First is the Law of Sin [...]

Epistle VaYera

Sorry this is late.
Epistle VaYera
James Chapter 4

Jam 4:1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Jam 4:2 You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

This [...]

Talmidim VaYera

Talmidim VaYera
Matthew 10:24-12:50

Mat 10:24 “A talmid is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his Rabbi.
Mat 10:25 It is enough for the talmid that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Ba`al-Zibbul, how much more those of his household!
[...]

Haftarah VaYera

Haftarah VaYera
2 Kings 4:1-23 Sephard
2 Kings 4:1-37 Ashkenaz

All readers begin here.

2Ki 4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear YHWH: and the creditor is come to take to him my [...]

Torah Portion VaYera

Torah Portion VaYera
Genesis 18:1-22:24

Gen 18:1 YHWH appeared to him [Avraham] by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Tradition has it that this was immediately after he and his household were circumcized, in chapter 17. Now that he has been brought into the covenant [...]

A note about Aramaic/Hebrew

Apparently, WordPress does not import Hebrew or Aramaic fonts.  There may be a way around this, but at the moment I don’t know what it is.  In the commentary for the Kollel study for Lech L’Cha, there is one verse, Romans 5:20, I believe, that I typed in the Aramaic to demonstrate the correct translation.  [...]

Kollel Lech L’Cha

Kollel Lech LeCha
Romans Chapters 5 and 6

Rom 5:1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have shalom with Elohim through Adonai Yeshua the Messiah;
Rom 5:2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of Elohim.

Of course, it is [...]