CANDLEGLOW LESSON: KI’TETZE (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) Week 49 >> Watch this week’s video << In this portion of Deuteronomy, Moses expounds to the Nation of Israel the detailed life lessons which Adonai commanded Moses to teach the generation about to enter the Promised Land. At the time of their entry into Canaan, the new Nation would …
PARASHAH KI TETZE (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) Week 49 KI TETZE: When you go out: “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive…” This Parashah contains 74 of the 613 Commandments INITA: To humiliate! (Unholy sexual contact) SHAMAR: To Guard in …
CANDLEGLOW LESSON: SHOF’TIM (Judges) Week 48 (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) >> Watch this week’s video << Every level of the judicial system set forth by ADONAI for the Nation of Israel would demand a high level of holiness and adherence to the laws set forth in the Ten Commandments, and in the over six hundred laws which …
PARASHAH SHOTFTIM (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) Week 48 Shof’tim: Judges “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgement.” Mishpat: Justice Tzedakah: Righteousness Cohanim: Priests Cohen Gadol: High Priest Bet Din: House of Judgement Shotrim: Police …
CANDLEGLOW LESSON: RE’EH (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) Week 47 >> Watch this week’s video << Parashah RE’EH (SEE) was an amazing visual then and now, for God’s people to SEE that there are only two Kingdoms; the Kingdom of LIGHT, and the Kingdom of DARKNESS. There are only two choices to be made moment by moment as …
PARASHAH RE’EH (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) Week 47 RE’EH: SEE! “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse.” In RE’EH, is a command to SEE truth! The key is the word YOU as a ‘National You’. ALL OF ISRAEL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE ANOTHER. EACH INDIVIDUAL LIFE IMPACTS EVERY LIFE! Blessings and Curses: Blessings …
CANDLEGLOW LESSON: EKEV Week 46 (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) >> Watch this week’s video << “Some day your child will ask you, ‘What is the meaning of the instructions, laws and rulings which ADONAI our God has laid down for you?’ Then you will tell your child, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and ADONAI brought …
PARASHAH EKEV (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) Week 46 EKEV: ROOT word akav: “To take by the heel” (The name of Jacob who grabbed the heel of Esau during the birth process of the twins) Jacob was renamed, after the wrestling with the Angel of the Lord, Isra’el meaning ‘Contender with God’. AKAV: From the root word DUST …
CANDLEGLOW LESSON: VA’ETCHANAN (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) >> Watch this week’s video << Dear seekers, as we immerse deeply into Deuteronomy, the final Book of Torah, we are not only reminded of the historical journey of the New Nation of Israel, but of the leadership of Moses in the final 37 days of his life as her …
PARASHAH VA’ETCHANAN (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) Week 45 VAETCHANAN: “I PLEADED” … “And I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying…” GEMARTRIA OF VAETCHANAN: 515 GEZEIROT: Fencing / Fences (Discuss Torah Law Fences in the 613 Laws!) PANIM EL PANIM: Face to Face Presence (Deut. 5:15) ‘God spoke face to face with those gathered before Moses …