Yeshua Centered Judaism

The Pain of Existence

Maimonides on Life The Pain of existence, Part II Chapter 2, Law 7(e) “…Neither should a person be one prone to arguments, nor one obsessed with jealousy or obsessed with lust, nor a pursuer of honor. Likewise did the Sages state, ‘jealousy, lust and the [pursuit of] honor remove a person from the world’ (Pirkei…

Morning Blessings

The Law Regarding One Who Forgets to Recite the Morning Blessings The Morning Blessings (“Birkot Ha’Shachar”) are the blessings recited every morning beginning from the “Elohai Neshama” blessing until the end of the Blessings of the Torah. Both men and women must recite these blessings, as we have discussed in the laws of the Morning…

obligation to cover one’s head

Question: Must one wear a Kippa on one’s head at the beach? (Obviously, this refers to a situation where being present at the beach poses no modesty concerns, such as in Israel where there are kosher, separate beaches for men and women.) Similarly, when one wishes to recite a blessing, is placing one’s hand on…

Gospel of the Nazirenes

CHAPTER 46: The Transfiguration on the Mount. The Giving of the Law 1. After six days, when the Feast of Tabernacles was near at hand, Yeshua took the twelve and brought them separately up into a high mountain, and as he was praying his appearance was changed , and he was transfigured before them,…

Tu Be’av

Tu Be’av of the Sixth Year of the Shemitta Cycle This coming year, 5775 (beginning from this coming Rosh Hashanah) marks the Shemitta year (the Seventh year of theShemitta cycle). Beginning today, Tu Be’av (the Fifteenth of Av) of the Sixth year of the Shemitta cycle, some of the laws of Shemittacome into effect. The…

Daf Yomi audio shiurim

The following Daf Yomi audio shiurim were just uploaded to realcleardaf.com: Wednesday, August 13, 2014: Moed Katan 2 image of daf Tuesday, August 12, 2014: Megillah 32 image of daf Monday, August 11, 2014: Megillah 31 image of daf

Daf Yomi Digest Megilla

Megilla 32 Moed Katan 2 Moed Katan 3 Hadran Alach Masseches Megilla. Mazel Tov! Daf Yomi Digest is compiled by members of the Ruben Shas Kollel, edited by Rabbi Ben-Zion Rand. Halachah Highlights is not intended to be relied upon for halacha l’maase. It is intended for interest and information. For actual psak consult your…

Kaddish

Use of Spanish The only Spanish traditionally included in the services is a translation of the Haftara on the Fast of Av. However, in recent years a Spanish table hymn – Bendigamos – has been introduced to the London community from New York, being sung immediately before or after Birkat Hamazon. Although not an authentic London custom,…

Tu Be’av

Tomorrow, Monday, marks Tu Be’av, the Fifteenth of Av. The Mishnah in Masechet Ta’anit (26b) states: “Rabban Shimon ben Gamilel said: There were no better days for the Jewish nation than the Fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, for on the Fifteenth of Av the young women of Jerusalem would go out wearing borrowed white…

Shabbat Nachamu / שבת נחמו

Shabbat Nachamu (“Sabbath of comfort/ing) takes its name from the haftarah from Isaiah in the Book of Isaiah 40:1-26 that speaks of “comforting” the Jewish people for their suffering. It the first of seven haftarahs of consolation leading up to the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Maharal

Chapter 3: Mishna 4: Part 1 Rebbe Shimon says: Three who ate at one table, without saying words of Torah while upon it, are considered to have eaten from sacrifices to the dead (idols) as it is written: “All their tables are full of vomit and excrement, without [a clean] place.” But three who who…

Pirkei Avos

Pirkei Avos Abraham’s Legacy Chapter 5, Mishna 3 By Rabbi Dovid Rosenfeld “There were ten generations from Noah until Abraham. This shows how slow to anger G-d is, for all those generations increasingly angered Him until our forefather Abraham came and received the reward of them all.” This week’s mishna parallels the previous. Both mishnas…