2017 Articles

This is one of the most baffling passages in Scripture. Jacob, who is alone, wrestles with a man and then says, “I saw God face to face and yet my life was spared.”

Consider the greatness of the Fathers. They were prophets, great prophets! God spoke to them. They heard His voice. And He wasn't ashamed to be called their God. How great are our fathers!

Seven branches - seven lights. Seven is significant. Seven is a recurring number in Scripture. It is associated with completion and perfection.

Peter said to Yeshua, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters (sukkot)—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah."

Judaism calls the story of Genesis 22 the Akedah. Seven days a week, twelve months a year, the story of the Akedah is read and prayed over in the morning prayer service.

The Torah commands the Children of Israel to dwell in booths for seven days in remembrance of a time when God tabernacled with His people in the wilderness.

Yom Kippur comes just ten days after Rosh Hashanah. It is regarded as a day for doing serious business with heaven. It is a day of judgment, but it is also a day of atonement.

The Torah commands us to blow the shofar on the Feast of Trumpets as a memorial, but it does not tell us what the blowing of the shofar memorializes!

This week, in Parshat Ki Tetze, the Torah outlines the laws concerning Marriage and Divorce. The Talmud says that when a couple gets divorced, it is as if the Altar sheds tears.

The most explicit Messianic prophecy found in the Torah occurs in this week's Torah portion ~ Parshat Shoftim, as Deut. 18:15 tells us that God will one day send a prophet like unto Moses.