Who’s Your Teacher

The Sages, seeing that his mind was clear, entered his chamber and sat down at a distance of four cubits. ‘Why have ye come?’ said he to them. ‘To study the Torah’, they replied; ‘And why did ye not come before now’, he asked? They answered, ‘We had no time’. He then said, ‘I will…

Messiah is concealed in the name Noach

The Number 58-nun chet-spells the word Noach (Noah), whose name means “rest.” Noah, the tenth generation of mankind–“the tenth shall be holy for G-d” (Leviticus 27:32) –symbolizes the rest and peace that will bless the earth in the Messianic era. … of “all”–“for all is in it”) which had previously been concealed in it. Christopher…

THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION

Do not underestimate the greatness of repentance. There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine who do not need to repent. Nitzavim (נצבים | Standing) Torah: Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20 Haftarah: Isaiah 61:10-63:9 Gospel: Luke 24:1-12

KNOW YOUR BIBLE:

BS”D KNOW YOUR BIBLE: I Chronicles 11-12 Study Notes by Avraham ben Yaakov I CHRONICLES CHAPTER 11 “And all Israel gathered themselves to Israel to David…” (v 1). With the setting of the star of King Saul, the star of David now shone forth in all its radiance. The present chapter and the next tell…

Is the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife a Fake?

Coptic papyrus mentioning Jesus’ wife is a forgery, according to Coptic manuscripts experts Ellen White   •  04/27/2015 On September 18, 2012, the world was introduced to two women: Jesus’ wife and Karen L. King. The first woman, from antiquity, has been much speculated about; the second woman, from modernity, has already been venerated by…

PARSHA SHEMINI

Comparison of Torah JPS: Jewish Publication Society 1917 ONK: Targums Onkelos PAL: Jonathan Ben Uzziel/Palestinian JER: Jerusalem Fragments Leviticus 9:1 JPS 9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; ONK 9:1 And on the eighth day Mosheh called Aharon and his…

Pirkei Avot

Pirkei Avot Pirkei Avot (Literally, “Chapters of the Fathers”, and oftentimes called “Avot”) is a tractate of the Mishna composed of ethical maxims of the Mishnaic period. This little tractate contains five chapters and is often called “Ethics of the Fathers”. The text of this edition of the Avot is a paraphrased translation in idiomatic…

Parshas SHEMINI

UNIVERSAL TORAH: SHEMINI By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum Torah Reading: Parshas SHEMINI, Leviticus 9:1-11:47 THE EIGHTH DAY The “eighth day” with which our parshah of SHEMINI opens was the first day of the month of Nissan, one year since the Exodus from Egypt. This was the day marked out for the final inauguration of the Sanctuary…

Sefirat HaOmer

A “Sefirat HaOmer” chart by Aharon Varady in the design of Lauren Deutsch, following the color correspondences of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l. Each of the seven weeks and days of the Omer is represented by one of the seven lower Sephirot: Ḥesed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzaḥ, Hod, Yesod, and Malkhut, the creative emanations all the worlds…

PARSHA SHEMINI

SECTION XXVI.SHEMINI. LEVITICUS 9 (ONKELOS) — 1 And on the eighth day Mosheh called Aharon and his sons and the elders of Israel. 2 And he said unto Aharon, Take to thee a calf, a young bullock from the herd, for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering unblemished, and offer before…

“What is this Service to You?”

The Pesach Haggadah states: “What does the wicked son say? ‘What is this service to you,’ this implies ‘to you’ and not ‘to himself’. Since he has excluded himself, he has thus denied the existence of Hashem. You should therefore likewise blunt his teeth (scold him) and reply to him, ‘Because of this did Hashem…