Kollel Beresheit

Kollel Beresheit
Romans Chapter 1 & 2
Updated October 2009
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 our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Sha’ul also, according [...]

Epistle Beresheit

Epistle Beresheit
James Chapter 1
Updated October 2009
James, in his epistle, borrows extensively from the themes in the writings of Ben Sirach.  That book appears in the apocrypha which many protestants do not have in their Bibles.  For serious Bible study, it is recommended that everyone have several different translations and versions of the Bible in order [...]

Talmidim Beresheit

Talmidim Beresheit
Matthew chapters 1-4
Updated October 2009
Mat 1:1 The book of the geneology of Yeshua the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Avraham.
Mat 1:2  Avraham became the father of Yitzchak. Yitzchak became the father of Ya`akov. Ya`akov became the father of Yehudah and his brothers.
Mat 1:3  Yehudah became the father of Peretz and Zerach [...]

Haftarah Beresheit

Haftarah Beresheit
Isaiah 42:5-21 Sephard
Isaiah 42:5-43:11 Ashkenaz
Updated October 2009
All readers begin here.
Isaiah 42:5a  Thus says the Elohim, and Elohim who created the heavens and stretched them out…
This very interesting literal rendering comes to us from 1QIsa(a) and resists the later “correcting” of the Tanakh by the Masorites who wanted to eliminate instances where the Deity seems [...]

Parashat Beresheit

Torah Portion Beresheit
Genesis 1:1-6:8
Updated October 2009
This is a long Parashat and covers a lot of esoteric theological ground.
Gen 1:1 בראשׁית ברא אלהים את השׁמים ואת הארץ׃
The word “beresheit” has given people fits for a long time.  It is the preposition “B” linked with the root “R-SH” (as in “Rosh,” meaning a literal “head,” a [...]

Kollel Hazinu

Kollel Hazinu
Hebrews chapter 12
Heb 12:1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Heb 12:2  looking to Yeshua, the author and perfecter of faith, [...]

Epistle Hazinu

Epistle Hazinu
John chapter 20
Joh 20:1 Now on the first day of the week, Miriam from Magdala went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
It is Sunday, the Feast of Firstfruits, which is NOT a sabbath.  Yeshua is the “firstfruits of the dead,” and rose [...]

Talmidim Hazinu

Talmidim Hazinu
Revelation chapters 18 & 19
Chapter 17, recall, was a vignette concerning the “whore of babylon,” the false religious system that had ensnared all the kingdoms of the earth.  The 10 kings who will have power with the False Messiah, however, collude to convince him to discard the “whore,” and instead embark on a direct [...]

Haftarah Hazinu

Haftarah Hazinu
II Samuel 22:1-51
II Sam 22:1 David spoke to YHWH the words of this song in the day that YHWH delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Sha’ul:
II Sam 22:2  and he said, YHWH is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
II Sam 22:3  [...]

Torah Portion Hazinu

Torah Portion Hazinu
Deuteronomy 32:1-52
This chapter is prophetic not just for ancient Israel and her deportation from the land and destruction of the Temple, but to the modern day as well.  Like all prophetic passages, it has a double application – the “foreshadow” known to us in history and the end times application that is yet [...]

Kollel Vayelekh

Kollel Vayelekh
Hebrews chapter 11
Heb 11:1 Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Like Resurrection or the Parousia.
Hebrews, continued:
Heb 11:2  For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
Heb 11:3  By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of Elohim, so that what is seen has not [...]

Epistle Vayelekh

Epistle Vayelekh
John 19:23-42
Joh 19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Yeshua, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
Joh 19:24  Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it [...]

Talmidim Vayelekh

Talmidim Vayelekh
Revelation chapters 16 and 17
At the end of the last chapter, John witnessed the closing of the Gates of Repentance and the assignment of the 7 angels with the last remaining plagues.  It is now the waning hours of Erev Yom Kippur, the last days of the 7th year of the Tribulation.
Revelation, continued:
Rev [...]

Haftarah Vayelekh

Haftarah Vayelekh
Yeshayahu – Isaiah 55:6-56:8
Isa 55:6  Seek you YHWH while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:
Isa 55:7  let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to YHWH, and he will have mercy on him; and to our Elohim, for he will [...]

Torah Portion Vayelekh

Torah Portion Vayelekh
Devarim – Deuteronomy 31:1-30
Deu 31:1 Moshe went and spoke these words to all Yisra’el.
Deu 31:2  He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and YHWH has said to me, You shall not go over this Yarden.
To “go out and [...]

Kollel Netzavim

Kollel Nitzavim
Hebrews chapter 10
Recall, the writer of Hebrews has been describing to his audience that the priesthood of the Firstborns preceded the Levites, and the appointment of the Levites represented as substitution of the earlier ways – which we know that Adam learned when he ate of the tree, that the Firstborns were the legitimate [...]

Epistle Netzavim

Epistle Nitzivim
John 19:1-22
Yeshua has been questioned by the politically appointed lackeys of Rome that comprised the Sanhedrin, and finally turned over to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea.   No doubt those in the Tribulation can expect similar treatment from the “officials” of the False Messiah’s government.
John, continued:
Joh 19:1 So Pilate then took Yeshua, [...]

Talmidim Netzavim

Talmidim Nitzavim
Revelation chapters 14 and 15
Recall in chapters 12 and 13 we read some vignettes concerning Israel, the birth of Messiah, hasatan, the appearance of the Beast (the False Messiah) and his sidekick, the False Prophet.  Now we have another vignette, of the results of the ministry of the 144,000 Israelite Youths, who traveled and [...]

Haftarah Netzavim

Haftarah Nitzavim
Yeshayahu – Isaiah 61:10-63:9
Isa 61:10  I will greatly rejoice in YHWH, my soul shall be joyful in my Elohim; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her [...]

Torah Portion Netzavim

Torah Portion Netzavim
Devarim – Deuteronomy 29:10-30:20
Deu 29:10  You stand this day all of you before YHWH your Elohim; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Yisra’el,
Deu 29:11  your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts [...]