Haftarah Matot

Haftarah Matot
Jeremiah 1:1-2:3
Matot is usually read together with Masei as a double portion by the Rabbinate when Parashat Pinchas falls after the fast of 17 Tammuz.  When that is the case, the haftarah reading for Masei is read.  Otherwise, the Haftarah portion for Matot is the same as the “after Tammuz 17th” alternate reading for [...]

Torah Portion Matot

Torah Portion Matot
Bemidbar – Numbers 30:2-32:42
Num 30:1 (30:2) And Moshe spoke unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Yisrael, saying: This is the thing which YHWH has commanded.
Num 30:2  (30:3) When a man vows a vow unto YHWH, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not [...]

Kollel Pinchas

Kollel Pinchas
II Timothy 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 Pinchas

Epistle Pinchas
John 11:28-57
If you recall, the setting is the death of Elazar.
John, continued:
Joh 11:28  When she had said this, she went away, and called Miriam, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Rabbi is here, and is calling you.”
Joh 11:29  When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
Joh 11:30  Now Yeshua had not [...]

Talmidim Pinchas

Talmidim Pinchas
Acts 21:1-23:11
This commentary is longer than usual because it is necessary to go back and cover parts of Acts 15 for context, for those who are jumping in late to the Torah Cycle.  This is one of the few readings that really can’t stand alone.  To understand it properly, a person really needs to [...]

Haftarah Pinchas

Haftarah Pinchas
FYI:  There are two separate haftarah readings for Parashat Pinchas, depending upon whether or not the Fast of 17th Tammuz has already occurred.  Both are presented below with line by line commentary, as usual.
before or on 17 Tamuz:  1 Kings 18:46-19:21
after 17 Tamuz:  Jeremiah 1:1-2:3
This year, according to the moon sighting, 17 Tammuz [...]

Torah Portion Pinchas

Torah Portion Pinchas
Bemidbar – Numbers 25:10-30:1
Num 25:10  YHWH spoke to Moshe, saying,
Num 25:11  Pinechas, the son of El`azar, the son of Aharon the Kohen, has turned my wrath away from the children of Yisra’el, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I didn’t consume the children of Yisra’el in my [...]

Kollel Balak

Kollel Balak
First Timothy chapters 5 & 6
First Tim 5:1 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;
First Tim 5:2  the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
First Tim 5:3  Honor widows who are widows indeed.
First Tim 5:4  But if any widow has children [...]

Epistle Balak

Epistle Balak
John 11:1-27
Joh 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, El’azar from Beit-Anyah, of the village of Miriam and her sister, Marta.
Joh 11:2  It was that Miriam who had anointed Adonai with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, El’azar, was sick.
Joh 11:3  The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Adonai, behold, [...]

Talmidim Balak

Talmidim Balak
Acts 19:1-20:38
Act 19:1 It happened that, while Apollos was at Korint, Sha’ul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain talmidim.
Act 19:2  He said to them, “Did you receive the Ruach HaKodesh when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Ruach HaKodesh.”
Act [...]

Haftarah Balak

Haftarah Balak
Micah 5:6-6:8
Mic 5:7  (5:6) And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as dew from YHWH, as showers upon the grass, that are not looked for from man, nor awaited at the hands of the sons of men.
Mic 5:8  (5:7) And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the [...]

Torah Portion Balak

Torah Portion – Parashat Balak
Bemidbar – Numbers 22:2-25:9
Num 22:2  Balak the son of Tzippor saw all that Yisra’el had done to the Amori.
Num 22:3  Mo’av was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Mo’av was distressed because of the children of Yisra’el.
Num 22:4  Mo’av said to the elders of Midyan, Now will [...]

Kollel Chukat

Kollel Chukat
First Timothy Chapters 3 & 4
First Tim 3:1 This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.
“Overseer” is translated in other versions as “bishop.”  It simply refers to a leader of the congregation.
Timothy, continued:
First Tim 3:2  The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the [...]

Epistle Chukat

Epistle Chukat
John 10:22-42
Joh 10:22  It was the Feast of Chanukkah at Yerushalayim.
Joh 10:23  It was winter, and Yeshua was walking in the temple, in Shlomo’s porch.
Joh 10:24  The [unbelieving] Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
By this [...]

Talmidim Chukat

Talmidim Chukat
Acts 16:16-18:28
Act 16:16 It happened, as we [Luke, Paul and others] were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
Act 16:17 Following Sha’ul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the El `Elyon, who [...]

Haftarah Chukat

Haftarah Chukat
Shoftim – Judges 11:1-33
Jdg 11:1 Now Yiftach the Gil`adite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gil`ad became the father of Yiftach.
Jdg 11:2 Gil`ad’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Yiftach, and said to him, You [...]

Torah Portion Chukat

Torah Portion Chukat
Bemidbar – Numbers 19:1-22:1
The Red Heifer
Num 19:1 YHWH spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
Num 19:2 This is the statute of the law which YHWH has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Yisra’el, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which [...]

Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

Karaite Korner Newsletter #392
New Moon Report
June 2009
Fourth Biblical Month
On Tuesday June 23, 2009 the new moon was sighted from Israel. The moon was
first sighted from Jerusalem at 20:14 by Nehemia Gordon and then immediately
thereafter by Joelle Crawshaw, Adam Kinghorn, and Eliyahu Netanel. The moon was
also sighted from Ashdod by Magdi Shamuel at 20:13.
Rosh Chodesh Sameach!
Happy [...]

Kollel Korach

Kollel Korach
First Timothy chapters 1 & 2
Introduction
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 [...]

Epistle Korach

Epistle Korach
John 10:1-21
Joh 10:1 “Most certainly, I [Yeshua] tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Joh 10:2  But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Joh 10:3  The gatekeeper opens the [...]