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This Week's Torah Portion is: Shemini
 The Leper Messiah (Isaiah 53)
In the Talmud it is written, "When will the Messiah come?" And "By
what sign may I recognize him?" Elijah tells the rabbi to go to the gate
of the city where he will find the Messiah sitting among the poor
lepers (Sanhedrin 98a). "The Messiah — what is his name?… The sages
say, the Leper Scholar, as it is said, ‘surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a leper, smitten of God
and afflicted…’" (Sanhedrin 98b). Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi met Elijah
standing by the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. He asked…Elijah, "When
will the Messiah come?" "Go and ask him," Elijah replied. "Where is he
seated?" Rabbi Yehoshua asked. "At the entrance to the city of Rome,"
Elijah answered. "How will I recognize him?" Rabbi Yehoshua asked.
Elijah replied, "He is sitting among the poor lepers, all [...]
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 Taharat HaMishpaja / Pureza Familiar
Sidra Semanal: Tazria-Metzora Porcion de Tora: Vayikra / Levitico
14:1-15:33 Haftora: Melachim Bet / 2 Reyes 7:3-20 Besora Tova: Romim /
Romanos 6:9-23 Shalom ajim v’javerim (hermanos y amigos) desde Israel
(en Israel es Parashat Tazria-Metzora): Para la porcion de esta semana
tenemos basicamente el estado al que entraba una persona que enfermaba
de lepra junto con sus respectivos sacrificios despues de ser limpio de
su lepra, un hombre que tenia flujo de semen y la mujer que entraba o
entra al periodo mensual de la menstruacion… El siguiente es un tema muy
privado en cada persona (en que area D-s no esta presente, para los que
Le amamos?) y podriamos decir que hasta controversial para quien hace
caso omiso de la Torah o Pentateuco… por favor lee: Levítico 15: 19Y
cuando la mujer tuviere flujo de sangre, y su flujo fuere en su carne,
siete días estará apartada; y cualquiera [...]
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 The Number Eighth – Shemini
Weekly Sidra: Shemini (Eight) Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus
9:1-11:47 Haftorah: Sh’muel Bet / II Samuel 6:1-6:19 This week’s
Parasha is called Shemini, which could be translated the Eighth. The
number eight represents a level that is higher than nature, and above
time. This is the level of the miraculous, which is not bound by the
laws of nature. The number eight is also associated with the revelation
of Mashiach. It is also commanded that when a son is birth that we are
to perform the rite of circumcision on the eight day of his birthday.
This number is also related to the world to come, which can be viewed
through the shadow of Shemeni Atzeret which is the “the Eighth [day] of
Assembly” , which is a day after the last day of Sukkot, which is
celebrated the eight day. So the number eight is not an end but the
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 Stranger, Foreigner or Sojourner
So, what is a “ger”? What is Zar? Let’s start off with what ger
means. Strong’s translates the Hebrew word ‘ger’ as stranger,
sojourner, alien. It is defined as: a) a temporary inhabitant, a
newcomer lacking inherited rights b) of foreigners in Israel, through
conceded rights. A “ger” is one who dwells among Israel as one who is
not against them, but alongside them. The ger has no inheritance rights
and therefore has no way to support themselves and their family because
they own no land. The ger is listed as one of the disadvantaged people
in the Torah – “the widow, the orphan and the foreigner…” They,
therefore, are given special place as servants in the families of
Israel. It’s easy for non-Hebrew speakers and readers to feel a sense of
confusion when one non-Hebrew is allowed to do something and another
isn’t and then there’s the [...]
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 Los Judíos y Los Apellidos Desconocidos
Revisando apellidos: Los Judíos desconocidos. Los Judíos y Los
Apellidos Desconocidos. Eran tan orgullosos, por ejemplo, que cada
familia pintaba la casa del mismo color que sus padres. Y no sabían que
el color de las casas eran una alusión a sus orígenes, a la sangre que
habían heredado de sus antepasados junto con las viviendas. No sabían
que , muchos siglos atrás, los normandos tenían por costumbre pintar las
casas de blanco, mientras los griegos utilizaban siempre el azul, y los
árabes distintos tonos de rosa y de rojo. Lo judíos en cambio, usaban
el amarillo. Sin embargo todos ellos se consideraban sicilianos. Las
sangres se habían mezclado tanto en el decurso de los siglos ya no se
podía identificar al propietario de una casa por sus facciones y, si
alguien le hubiera dicho al dueño de una casa amarilla que tenía
antepasados judíos, podrí
a terminar con [...]
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 Yom Hashoah – Remembering the Holocaust (Videos)
This year, This Thursday April 19 is Yom Hashoa v’Hag’vurah-
Holocaust Memorial Day. Really it is the Day of the Martyrs and Heroes .
begins on Sunday, April 11th starting at sundown and continues through
Monday, April 12th at sundown. The commemoration of Yom Hashoah is held
on the 27th day of Nissan, one week after the seventh day of Passover.
Passover celebrates the freedom of the Jewish nation from the harsh
slavery of the Egyptians, while Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah or Day of
(Remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism, grips our hearts with
tremendous sorrow in memory of the enslavement and execution of 6
million Jews and a great number of other “undesirables”. We deeply mourn
the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the evil and cruelty
of the Nazis. We mourn the way of life that was destroyed. The Jewish
community of Europe [...]
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 The ‘Secret Jews’
I strongly recommend that you research a fascinating and tragic
period of Jewish history that stretched for more than three hundred
years yet is little known. The story of the Anusim, the Secret Jews, is a
valuable and significant, yet rarely discovered, Jewish event that, in
its world range, the numbers of Jews killed or affected by it for
centuries can be called the longest genocide in world history. I refer
to the fate of the Spanish and Portugese Jews at the hands of the
Spanish Inquisition. The campaign of the Catholic Church to eliminate
the Jews went beyond the borders of Spain and Portugal. The plague
of Ant-isemitism swept through north Africa, across the Atlantic to
South and Central America, and to the Caribbean in pursuit of the Jews.
Under threat of deportation, torture, and death by being burnt alive at
the stake many Jews adopted an overt Christian [...]
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 Missed Opportunity – Sidra Shemini
Weekly Sidra: Shemini (Eight) Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus
9:1-11:47 Haftorah: Sh’muel Bet / II Samuel 6:1-6:19 David was afraid
of the Lord that day; he said, "How can I let the Ark of the Lord come
to me?" 10 So David would not bring the Ark of the Lord to his place in
the City of David; instead, David diverted it to the house of Obed-edom
the Gittite. 11 The Ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom
the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and his whole
household. 12 It was reported to King David: "The Lord has blessed
Obed-edom’s house and all that belongs to him because of the Ark of
God." Thereupon David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house
of Obed-edom to the City of David, amid rejoicing. (Sh’mwel Bet 6:9-12)
This week is Parashat Shemini which means [...]
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 Countdown from the Omer to Shavuot
Countdown from the Omer to Shavuot The presentation of the omer
initiates a countdown of seven weeks, culminating in Shavuot (the Feast
of Weeks or Pentecost) immediately after the 49th day. “And you shall
count to you from the morning after the Sabbath, from the day that you
brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven weeks shall be complete:
Even to the morrow after the seventh week shall you number fifty days;
and ye shall offer a new meal-offering to HaShem. You shall bring out of
your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth-parts: they shall be of
fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, and they are the
first-fruits to HaShem” (Leviticus 23:15-17). At this second offering of
first-fruits, the grain is not presented in its natural state, but has
been thrashed and winnowed, so that only the useful portion is retained.
The “fine flower” produced in [...]
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 Seudat Mashiach / Messiah’s Feast
Towards the last day of Passover: Happy Yom Tov! And on the fifteenth
day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened bread to the Lord; for
seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall
have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. But you
shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh
day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.” Vayikra
/ Leviticus 23:5-8 The seventh day of Passover is a day of rest and
according to tradition this is the day God parted the Yam Suf (Sea of
Reeds, Red Sea) when Pharaoh chased Israel with murderous intent. There
is also a custom from Hasidic Judaism of having a Messiah feast on this
day, or as it is called in Hebrew a Seudat Mashiach. The seudat mashiach
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 What Does the Bible Say About Beard?
Here is some of what I have found in my studies on the subject.
“Don’t round your hair at the temples or mar the edges of your beard.” -
Leviticus 19:27 Nowhere does HaShem say that cutting the beard is
acceptable. One of the humiliations of a conqueror was to shave or take
off the beards of the men. The reason for both prohibitions in Lev.
19:27 have to do with pagan practices. HaShem told His People Israel not
to shave their hair around the temples by the ears and around the head.
This was not only a perversion of the hair of the head but also a
practice of idolatry. HaShem commanded His People not to cut or to trim
their beards because of grief toward the dead. This was another pagan
practice. They were not to ‘mar’ or destroy their beards. Yeshua
therefore, like Fathers Abraham, Isaac, [...]
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 Mashiach, Passover and Yom HaShem
Weekly Sidra: Bo (Go) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 10:1-13:16
Haftorah: Yermiyahu / Jeremiah 46:13-28 …It is the sacrifice of HaShem’S
Passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel
in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.’ And
the people bowed the head and worshipped. (Shemot / Exodus 12:27) This
biblical concept of Yom HaShem (a day when HaShem reveals Himself via
King Messiah), causing the wicked to be punished while the righteous are
saved, this day is also known throughout the Hebrew Bible as HaShem’s
Day of Judgement (Yom HaDin). "The day of HaShem" is a general phrase of
judgment that can describe the final eschatological judgment of the
world, but more often describes any forthcoming day of judgment. Yom
HaShem is known throughout Tanach as the day when HaShem reveals Himself
via King Messiah, our Rabbi, causing the wicked to be [...]
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 A Jewish Message for Mankind
Our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua is Jewish. This obvious reality has too often
been obscured by both Christian and Jewish attitudes polarized by
prejudice, hatred, and fear. There is a growing number of Jewish people
who, like Rabbi Lichtenstein, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, have been prompted,
for one reason or another, to investigate seriously what the Good News
actually contains. This writer is among them. We have come to recognize
through careful investigation that the Good News is something different
than we had first supposed. First of all, we have discovered that its
authorship and cultural background are Jewish. The beginning scenes of
the Good News are centered in the land of Israel, at the time of the
Second Temple. Even as the focus widens from the original setting, the
action takes place primarily among Jewish communities in the Diaspora.
The Good News writers, with perhaps the exception of Luke [...]
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 Jews of Iran (Videos)
The beginnings of Jewish history in Iran date back to late Biblical
times. The biblical books of Isaiah, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles,
and Esther contain references to the life and experiences of Jews in
Persia. In the book of Ezra, the Persian kings are credited with
permitting and enabling the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild
their Temple; its reconstruction was carried out "according to the
decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia" (Ezra 6:14).
This great event in Jewish history took place in the late sixth century
BCE, by which time there was a well-established and influential Jewish
community in Persia. Persian Jews have lived in the territories of
today’s Iran for over 2,700 years, since the first Jewish diaspora when
Shalmaneser V conquered the (Northern) Kingdom of Israel (722 BCE) and
sent the Israelites (the Ten Lost Tribes) into captivity at Khorasan.
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 Counting of the Omer / Sefirat HaOmer
We mark the passage of time between Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot
(Pentecost) by the “counting of the omer.” A period of seven weeks is
observed in which each day is counted off for 49 days ending on the
fiftieth day known as Shavuot /Pentecost (Pentecost-means 50). It is the
number of days from the barley harvest to the wheat harvest. The
counting of the days of the Omer is a biblical commandment incumbent
upon every believer. Traditionally, the period of the Omer count is to
be a time of spiritual introspection as the counters prepare themselves
for Shavuot. Because it begins during Passover and concludes at Shavuot,
the counting of the Omer remembers the journey from Egypt to Mount
Sinai. The symbolism is strong. Just as the first omer of barley was
brought as a first fruits of the whole harvest, so too Messiah’s
resurrection was a first [...]
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 The Korban Todah (Pesach)
The Korban Todah (offering of thanksgiving) of a Nation. The special
laws of the korban Pesach (offering of Passover) can be understood in a
similar manner, for it too is an offering of thanksgiving – not for a
personal case of redemption, but rather for our national redemption.
Let’s review the special laws of the korban Pesach to show how they help
to create a special environment in which we can thank the one who took
us from Egypt to the promise land. a) First of all, in the time of the
Bet HaMikdash (Temple), everyone was obligated to gather in Jerusalem
and offer their korbanot in the Bet HaMikdash while the Leviim sang the
Hallel (Psalms 113–118). [That in itself is a 'national thanksgiving.']
b) Eating the korban Pesach was by ‘invitation only.’ In other words, it
was necessary to know ahead of time (before the korban [...]
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 A Loving Creator – Parasha Pesach (Videos)
Chol HaMoed Pesach or Chol Ha-Moed Pesach (also transliterated from
Hebrew as: Hol HaMoed Pesach or Hol Ha-Moed Pesach) refers to the
intermediate or middle days of the Passover or Pesach festival as well
as another Jewish festival, the autumn harvest festival of Sukkot.
Literally-speaking, Chol HaMoed means "The Non-Holy Appointed Time" in
Hebrew, where Chol means "Non-Holy" as opposed to "Kodesh" which means
"Holy"; Ha means "The", and "Moed" means "appointed time." Our reading
this Shabbat starts with the successful attempt by Moses to have God
reconsider and have God come close again and lead the people through the
wilderness. Let’s read: So Moses carved two tablets of stone, like the
first, and early in the morning he went up on Mount Sinai, as HaShem had
commanded him, taking the two stone tablets with him. 5 HaShem came
down in a cloud; He stood with him there, [...]
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 Mashiach, Torah and the Jewish Temple
Mashiach kept the whole Torah. He told every one that Torah was to be
kept (see Mattityahu HaLevi / Matthew 5, also 28). All his teachings
have as a base the Holy Torah and the Prophets. ANY ONE who teaches or
proclaims that the Holy Mashiach broke the Torah and such notion is
acceptable to him; this individual must be judged that his so called
Mashiach is a false one, not the real one. This is the spirit of Armilus
(anti-Messiah) present these last days. (See 1 Yochanan / John 2:18-22;
4:3) Armilus hates Torah and Israel. The Holy Mashiach was to come
before the destruction to the Holy Temple according the prophet Daniel
(Daniel 9:26). This means that the Holy Mashiach would be able to KEEP
THE WHOLE TORAH. Not just part as we do today (since about one third of
all the commandments of the Torah [...]
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