B’ha’alotcha: When you Raise up)
The word of the day, ענן (anan), from this week’s portion is CLOUD. If you are familiar with the Hebrew letters you will recognize two letter NUNs in this word. NUN, which is one...
Foundations in Torah Dr. Dinah Dye
The New Moon and the Born Again
This teaching uncovers a connection between Rosh Chodesh (the Festival of the New Moon) and the concept of born again in John 3. It ties being born of the water and the spirit to the...
Nasso (to carry, or to raise up)
The Torah portion Nasso begins with a commandment from God to Moshe to take a census of the descendants of the families of Gershon and M’rari. These are two of the three Levitical families...
B’har (on the mountain)
“The glory of Adonai stayed on Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it six days. On the seventh day He called to Moshe out of the cloud. To the people of Israel the glory...
Emor (say)
Torah Gemstones: Emor (say) Leviticus 21:1-24:23 “You shall take fine flour and you shall bake it into bake twelve loaves, two-tenths shall be for one loaf. You shall put them in two vertical...
Acharei Mot (After Death)
Torah Gemstones: Acharei Mot (After death) Leviticus 16:1-18:30 This parshah contains the story of the eternal destiny of two goats at Yom Kippur and two sets of sons, one Nadab and Abihu, and...
Ta’zria (She Conceives)
Torah Gemstones: Ta’zria (she conceives) Lev 12:1-13:59 This week’s Torah portion is Ta’zria, which translates “she conceives”. The root of ta’zria is “zerah” or seed. Here we have a woman “yielding seed”, but...
Chol HaMoed Pesach
Torah Gemstones: Chol HaMoed Pesach Exodus 33:12-34:26 This week’s Torah reading is actually a portion from Ki Tissa (when you take) that was chosen by the rabbis to connect to Chol haMoed Pesach...
Rapture or Bust
This series begins by tracing the historical development of the rapture. From there it takes an in depth look at the person of Enoch and Noach to show how these two figures are critical...