As I have mentioned in the commentaries, it is important to observe Elohim’s Festivals on the correct day that He commands us to observe them. They are not just commemorations of things past. They are, as Shaul agree, signposts for the prophetic future on Elohim’s calendar. It makes it more difficult for us to identify [...]
Archive for May, 2009
See, the moon sightings ARE important!
05/28/2009Kollel BeMidbar
05/26/2009Kollel BeMidbar
First Thessalonians, chapters 1 & 2
We must always remember the warning of Peter when we start a new Pauline epistle – that false teachers distort Shaul’s words to make it appear he was teaching Torahlessness.
Second Peter 3:15 Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Sha’ul also, according [...]
Epistle BeMidbar
05/26/2009Epistle BeMidbar
John 8:1-30
Joh 8:1 So Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives.
Joh 8:2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the Temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.
Joh 8:3 The scribes and the Perushim brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the [...]
Talmidim BeMidbar
05/26/2009Talmidim BeMidbar
Acts 5:1-7:19
In the last parashat, the NT was discussing how the Believers sold their excess possessions (following Yeshua’s admonition not to hoard wealth for the future) and gave freely to the talmidim so that the poor could be properly provided for.
Act 5:1 But a certain man named Chananyah, with Shappirah, his wife, sold [...]
Haftarah BeMidbar
05/26/2009Haftarah BeMidbar
Hosea 2:1-22
This is one of those passages where there is a fairly obvious discrepancy between the Hebrew Bible and English versions, so I have used the JPS translation here to cover all the bases.
Hos 1:10 (2:1) Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, [...]
Torah Portion BeMidbar
05/26/2009Torah Portion BeMidbar
Numbers 1:1-4:20
Num 1:1 YHWH spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
It is Iyar the first, one year and about two weeks from the original [...]
Rosh Chodesh Sivan
05/26/2009Karaite Korner Newsletter #383
New Moon Report
May 2009
Third Biblical Month
On Monday May 25, 2009 the new moon was sighted from Israel. The moon was first sighted from Jerusalem by David Cachicas at 19:46 and shortly thereafter by Nehemia Gordon, Devorah Gordon, Yehoshua Newman, Joelle Crawshaw, Eli Crawshaw, Rick Busenbark, Aviva Azkerman, Sam Crawshaw and Adam Kinghorn.
The [...]
Kollel BeChukotei
05/21/2009Kollel BeChukotei
Colossians 3 & 4
If you have not read the introduction to Colossians preceding chapter one last week, please do so.
Colossians, continued:
Col 3:1 If then you were raised together with Messiah, seek the things that are above, where Messiah is, seated on the right hand of Elohim.
Col 3:2 Set your mind on the things that [...]
Epistle BeChukotei
05/21/2009Epistle BeChukotei
John 7:25-53
Joh 7:25 Therefore some of them of Yerushalayim said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
Referring to Yeshua.
John, continued:
Joh 7:26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Messiah?
Joh 7:27 However we know where this man [...]
Talmidim BeChukotei
05/21/2009Talmidim BeChukotei
Acts 2:14-4:37
Setting: It is still Shavu’ot, 50 days after the Resurrection on Firstfruits.
Act 2:14 But Kefa, standing up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Yehudah, and all you who dwell at Yerushalayim, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
Act 2:15 For [...]
Haftarah BeChukotei
05/19/2009Haftarah BeChukotei
Jeremiah 16:19-17:14
Jer 16:19 YHWH, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
Jer 16:20 Shall a man make [...]
Torah Portion BeChukotei
05/19/2009Torah Portion BeChukotei
Leviticus 26:3-27:34
Lev 26:3 “‘If you walk in my statutes, and keep my mitzvot, and do them;
Lev 26:4 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Lev 26:5 Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and [...]
Kollel BeHar
05/13/2009Kollel BeHar
Colossians 1 & 2
We must always remember the warning of Peter when we start a new Pauline epistle – that false teachers distort Shaul’s words to make it appear he was teaching Torahlessness.
2Pe 3:15 Regard the patience of Adonai as salvation; even as our beloved brother Sha’ul also, according to the wisdom given [...]
Epistle BeHar
05/13/2009Epistle BeHar
John 7:1-24
Joh 7:1 After these things, Yeshua was walking in the Galil, for he wouldn’t walk in Yehudah, because the Judeans sought to kill him.
As we have mentined before, saying “the Jews” is painting with way too broad a brush. We know from Josephus and other secular sources that the High Priest, the hereditary [...]
Talmidim BeHar
05/13/2009Talmidim BeHar
Luke 23:39-Acts 2:13
Events of the crucifixion, continued.
Luk 23:39 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Messiah, save yourself and us!”
Luk 23:40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear Elohim, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
Luk 23:41 And we indeed justly, [...]
Haftarah BeHar
05/13/2009Haftarah BeHar
Jeremiah 32:6-27
Jer 32:6 Yirmeyahu said, The word of YHWH came to me, saying,
Jer 32:7 Behold, Chanam’el the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy you my field that is in `Anatot; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.
Jer 32:8 So Chanam’el my uncle’s son came to me [...]
Torah Portion BeHar
05/13/2009Torah Portion BeHar
Leviticus 25:1-26:2
The Sabbath years and the Year of Jubilee
Lev 25:1 YHWH said to Moshe in Mount Sinai,
Lev 25:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’el, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Shabbat to YHWH.
Lev 25:3 Six years you shall sow your [...]
Kollel Emor
05/07/2009Kollel Emor
Philippians 3 & 4
If you have not read the introduction to Philippians from last week’s parashat, please do so. Shaul was not a false prophet who taught against Torah.
Phi 3:1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in Adonai. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is [...]
Epistle Emor
05/07/2009Epistle Emor
John 6:36-71
Joh 6:36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe.
Joh 6:37 All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
Joh 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own [...]
Talmidim Emor
05/07/2009Talmidim Emor
Luke 22:31-23:38
Luk 22:31 Adonai said, “Shim`on, Shim`on, behold, Hasatan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,
We must not forget that hasatan is not going to be thrown out of heaven until the midpoint of the tribulation. Until that time, he is still quite busy accusing us night and day in [...]
