Parshat Devarim – [Administering Justice from Deep Sense Sensitivity, Empathy and From Personal Experience, as well as Judging Others Favorably] From HaGaon Rav Zevadia HaCohen Shlit”a, The Head of the Batei Din in Tel Aviv (translated by our dear friend Rav Daniel Levy Shlit”a, Leeds UK) This week we shall read the pasuk, “These are…
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The Number 40
The number 40 has great significance throughout the Torah and the Talmud. The number 40 represents transition or change; the concept of renewal; a new beginning. The number 40 has the power to lift a spiritual state. Consider: When a person becomes ritually impure, he must immerse in a ritual bath, a mikveh. The Talmud…
Lesson 37
Parashah 37 Shalach L’kha שׁלח־לך 13:1-15:41 Rashi comments : Send for yourself: According to your own understanding. I am not commanding you, but if you wish, you may send. Since the Israelites had come [to Moses] and said, “Let us send men ahead of us,” as it says, “All of you approached me…” (Deut. 1:22),…
Lesson 36
Parashah 36: Be-Ha’alotekha – 8:1-12:16 8:1 (i) And ADONAI (יהוה) spoke to Moshe, saying: 8:2 “Speak to Aharon, and say to him, ‘When you arrange the nerot (lamps), the seven nerot (lamps) shall give light in front of the Menorah.’ “ 8:3 And Aharon did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the menorah,…
Lesson 34
BREAKING GENERATIONAL CURSES THERE IS TERRIBLE JUDGMENT COMING…ARE WE READY, YOU AND I? IF YOU ARE A MINISTER, DID YOU KNOW THAT EVEN MANY MINISTERS ARE NOT READY? LET’S COME TO TERMS WITH THE FAITH OF THE FIRST CENTURY BREAKING GENERATIONAL CURSES DARE TO LOOK AT THIS PAGE OF THE ZOHAR (WHAT THE ECSTASY-SEEKING HASIDIM…
Lesson 33
Parashah 33: Bechukotai ( by my regulations) 26:3-27:34 26:3 (LY:i) Im-bechukotai telekhu (תלכו) ve’et-mitzvotay ti shomeru va’asitem otam. (If you walk in My statutes, and keep My mitzvah, and do them;) 26:4 Ve natati gishem ey chem be’itam(season) ve natenah (yield) ha’eretz yevulah(increase) ve’etz (tree) ha sadeh(field) yiten(their) piryo(fruit). (Then I will give you rain…
Lesson 31
Parashah 31:Emor (Speak) 21:1-24:23 21:1 (i) Vayomer ADONAI el Moshe: Emor (אמר) el ha Kohenim Benai Aharon, ve amarta alehim lenefesh lo-yitama bamav There shall none be tamei (defiled) for the dead among his people: 21:2 But for his kin, that is karov (near, קרב) to him, [that is], for his mother, and for his…
Lesson 30
Parashah 30: Kedoshim (Set Apart people)19:1-20:27 [In regular years read with Parashah 29, in leap read separately] Kedoshim : Holiness code, Parents, Shabbat n idols of chapters 19-20 consist of 64 verses and 51 mitzvot Exercise the mitzvot in Disciplinary lifestyle Key instruction: Love first Elohim with all our hearts, mind and nefesh and then…
Lesson 29
Torah Moshe 3: Vayikra / ויקרא Leviticus Chapter 16: 1-27 Parashah 29: ACHAREY Mot (after the death) (אחרי מות) 16:1-18:30 [In regular years read with Parashah 30, in leap years read separately] Day of Atonement Yom Kippur 16:1 (i) וידבר יהוה אל־משׁה אחרי מות שׁני בני אהרן בקרבתם לפני־יהוה וימתו׃ Vayedaber ADONAI el-Moshe acharei mot…
Lesson 28
Parashah 28: Metzora (Person afflicted with Tzra’at) 14:1-15:33 [In regular year read with Parashah 27, in leap years read separately] 14:1(i) And Adonai spoke to Moshe, saying: 14:2 This shall be the Torat ha metzora in the day of his Tohorah (cleansing): The First stage of Metzora’s purification (2-8) He shall be brought to the…
Lesson 27
12:1(i) And Adonai spoke to Moshe, saying: 12:2דבר אל־בני ישׂראל לאמר אשׁה כי תזריע וילדה זכר וטמאה שׁבעת ימים כימי נדת דותה תטמא׃ Daber el-benei Yisrael lemor isha ki tazria veyaldah zakhar vetamah shivat yamim kimei nidat devotah titma: Speak to children of Yisrael, instructing: “If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then…
Lesson 26
Parashah 26:Sh’mini (Eighth) 9:1-11:47 Offerings Presented by Aharon Yom HaShemini after the previous seven during which the Yisraelite performed the seven days of Inauguration offerings. It also known as “Hanukah ha Beit” (inaugural dedications service) in chapter 8:33-36. Yom HaShemini is also known as Day One – Yom Rishon Torah outline 1st Aliyah – Call…
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