More Righteous than the Pharisees?

The Master said that unless the righteousness of His disciples exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, they will not enter the Messianic Era (Matthew 5:20). The conventional stereotype assumes that the Pharisees and teachers of the Torah were merely hypocrites pretending to be pious. Under that assumption, the righteousness of the Pharisees and scribes was…

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WHAT IF?

WHAT IF I ACCEPT Eashoa ‘Msheekha as my Lord and Savior? When we accept Eashoa Msheekha ‘as our Lord and Savior Scripture teaches that God gives us a new heart, a new spirit, and promises that one day we will see God and be with him forever. “I will give you a new heart and…

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He shall be called a Nazarene

Matti 2:23. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, [He shall be called a Nazarene.] Those things which are brought from Isaiah 11:1 concerning Netzer, the Branch; and those things also produced concerning Samson the Nazarite, a most noble type of Christ, have their…

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Parashat Vaera / פרשת וארא

  Parashat Va’era פרשת וארא “And I appeared” “And God spoke to Moses…” (Exodus 6:2) Torah Portion: Exodus 6:2-9:35
 Haftarah: Ezekiel 28:25-29-21 B’rit Chadash/New Covenant: Romans 9:14-33 Shabbat |9 January 2016  |  28 Tevet 5776 THE PHARAOH WITHIN US “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles, let not your heart exult. Lest…

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Torah Portion Shemos

Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh (often contracted in English as “I AM”) is one of the Seven Names of God accorded special care by medieval Jewish tradition.[1] The phrase is also found in other world religious literature, used to describe the Supreme Being, generally referring back to its use in Exodus. The word Ehyeh is considered by many rabbinical…

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PARASHAS SHEMOS

THE KEY IS SHABBOS Adam was created for the highest mission, to “fill the earth and conquer it and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and every living being swarming on the earth” (Gen. 1:28). But Adam fell from his mission, and instead of “tending and guarding” the…

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Mar Yah Is Come

From Netzari Faith Aramaic Covenants Mat 1:23 “Look, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a bar. They shall call his name Amanuil;” which is translated, “Allaha with us.” Behold, a virgin  shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which, being interpreted,…

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Netzarim Beni Eashoa

The Netzari are the followers of Yahshua, and mentioned numerous times in Scripture. Notable verses include:
(1) Isaiah 11:1 Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,and a Netzer (Branch) shall grow out of his roots.

Only One

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Melech HaMoshiach Yeshua. Orthodox Jewish Bible 1 From Yehuda, eved (servant) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua/Yeshua [Zech 6:11-12; Ezra 3:8] and a brother of…

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Did Jesus Contradict the Torah’s Commandments?

Bible teachers often make a simple mistake of presenting the teachings of Yeshua in antithesis to the Torah of Moses. Since we assume that the Gospel replaced the Torah (and that the New Covenant replaced the Old Covenant), we misread the teaching of Yeshua to support that wrong assumption. We mistakenly suppose that Yeshua came…

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