Aviv Search

Karaite Korner Newsletter #367
Upcoming Aviv Search
The annual Aviv Search will be carried out this year on March 26 and 27, the last two days of the Twelfth biblical month. I thought this year would be a no-brainer since the Twelfth biblical month ends so late in the solar cycle. However, Devorah Gordon and I carried [...]

Rosh Chodesh Adar

Sundown Thursday February 26th begins Rosh Chodesh Adar for those of us here in the US.  The fast of Esther (a daylight fast) is on Wednesday, February 11th, and Purim starts at Sundown that night.
Also, the Aviv search will begin shortly after Purim and we will know within 2 weeks if a leap month will [...]

Kollel TeRumah

Kollel TeRumah
II Corinthians chapters 5 & 6

2Co 5:1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from Elohim, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
2Co 5:2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which [...]

Epistle TeRumah

Epistle TeRumah
2 John (all)

2Jo 1:1 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth;
2Jo 1:2 for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
2Jo 1:3 Grace, mercy, and shalom [...]

Talmidim TeRumah

Talmidim TeRumah
Mark 14:26-15:47

Mar 14:26 When they had sung the Hallel, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

It is Wednesday night, Nisan 14th,. Yeshua’s Passover Seder with His Talmidim and other followers was concluded.

Mark, continued:
Mar 14:27 Yeshua said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because [...]

Haftarah TeRumah

Haftarah TeRumah
I Kings 5:12-6:13

This is a passage concerning the construction of the Temple, not the Tabernacle, but the Sages wanted everyone to see the parallels between the two.

1Ki 5:12 YHWH gave Shlomo wisdom, as he promised him; and there was shalom between Chiram and Shlomo; and they two made a league together. [...]

Torah Portion TeRumah

Torah Portion TeRumah
Exodus 25:1-27:19

Exo 25:1 YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
Exo 25:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’el, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
Exo 25:3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,
Exo 25:4 [...]

Friday after Mishpatim

Friday after Mishpatim
Weekday Reading
Jeremiah chapters 7 & 8

Jer 7:1 The word that came to Yirmeyahu from YHWH, saying,
Jer 7:2 Stand in the gate of YHWH’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of YHWH, all you of Yehudah, who enter in at these gates to worship YHWH.

For our [...]

Thursday after Mishpatim

Thursday after Mishpatim
Weekday Reading
Jeremiah chapters 5 & 6

Jer 5:1 Run you back and forth through the streets of Yerushalayim, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
Jer 5:2 [...]

Wednesday after Mishpatim

Wednesday after Mishpatim
Weekday Reading
Jeremiah chapters 3 & 4

Jer 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again? Won’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says YHWH. [...]

Tuesday after Mishpatim

Tuesday after Mishpatim
Weekday Reading
Jeremiah chapters 1 & 2

Jer 1:1 The words of Yirmeyahu the son of Chilkiyah, of the Kohanim who were in `Anatot in the land of Binyamin:
Jer 1:2 to whom the word of YHWH came in the days of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon, king of Yehudah, in the thirteenth year of [...]

Monday after Mishpatim

Monday after Mishpatim
Weekday Reading
Isaiah chapters 65 & 66

Isa 65:1 I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask; I am found by those who didn’t seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

Referring to 10-Israel in the Diaspora, who are no longer [...]

Sunday after Mishpatim

Sunday after Mishpatim
Weekday Reading
Isaiah chapters 63 & 64

Isa 63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Botzrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Isa 63:2 Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments [...]

Kollel Mishpatim

Kollel Mishpatim
II Corinthians chapters 3 & 4

2Co 3:1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
2Co 3:2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;
2Co 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter [...]

Epistle Mishpatim

Epistle Mishpatim
1 John Chapter 5

1Jo 5:1 Whoever believes that Yeshua is the Messiah is born of Elohim. Whoever loves the father also loves the child who is born of him.
1Jo 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and keep his mitzvot.
1Jo 5:3 For this [...]

Talmidim Mishpatim

Talmidim Mishpatim
Mark 12:28-14:25

Mar 12:28 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he [Yeshua] had answered them well, asked him, “Which mitzvah is the greatest of all?”
Mar 12:29 Yeshua answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Yisra’el, YHWH Eloheinu, YHWH is one:
Mar 12:30 you shall love YHWH your Elohim with all [...]

Haftarah Mishpatim

Haftarah Mishpatim
Jeremiah 34:8-22, 33:25-26

Jer 34:8 The word that came to Yirmeyahu from YHWH, after that the king Tzidkiyahu had made a covenant with all the people who were at Yerushalayim, to proclaim liberty to them;
Jer 34:9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew [...]

Torah Portion Mishpatim

Torah Portion Mishpatim
Exodus 21:1-24:18

Exo 21:1 “Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

This is a series of rules that deal with social situations that were present in that age and time. There are, still, some principles that we can glean for ourselves today. First and foremost, it is important [...]

Friday after Yitro

Friday after Yitro
Weekday Reading
Isaiah chapters 61 & 62

This first section of Isaiah is one of the more famous passages, because Yeshua got up to read it as the haftarah portion one Shabbat in Synagogue and puzzled the crowd by abruptly stopping in the middle of a sentence then sitting down for discussion, without reading further. [...]

Thursday after Yitro

Thursday after Yitro
Weekday Reading
Isaiah chapters 59 & 60

At the end of chapter 58, Isaiah recorded that observing the Sabbath and making it a delight instead of going about your business or your own pleasure is important for us because it is one of the ways that we demonstrate to Elohim our commitment to His Covenant. [...]