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 wrestling with the Angel of the Lord. (Isra’el) meaning “Contender with God”. AKAV: From the root word DUST To…
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: The ‘Face to Face’ Presence with the Lord (Deut. 5:15) ‘God spoke face to face with…
CANDLEGLOW LESSON: D’VARIM (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22) >> Watch this week’s video << Dear friends, this week we enter Deuteronomy, the final book of TORAH, which is said to be an almost complete repetition of TORAH instruction. It is considered a re-statement of the Covenant of the God of Israel to the Nation of Israel. Why would…
PARASHAH D’VARIM DEUTERONOMY 1:1-3:22, Week 44 D’VARIM: “Words” Moshe repeats the Law to Israel, in what he knows to be the end of his life on earth as the Leader of the Nation of Israel. He leaves the LAW for this young, chosen generation who are about to CROSS OVER into their INHERITANCE. MISHNAH TORAH: Repetition…
“The Lesson of our Dispossessing” Parashah MASA’EI (Numbers 33:1-36:13) Week 43 >> Watch this week’s video << “ADONAI spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo’av by the Yarden, across from Yericho. He said to tell the people of Isra’el, “When you cross the Yarden into the land of Kena’an, you are to expel all…
PARASHAH MASEI (Numbers 33:1-36:13) Week 43 MAZAL TOV! CHAZAK! CHAZAK! VE’NIT CHAZAK! (Mazal: To Drip from Above!) MASEI: Journeys of: “These are the stages of the people of Israel when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.” (From Ramses to Moab) ISRAEL’S 42 Encampments: …
“The Lesson of the Vow to Cross Over” Parashah MATTOT (Numbers 30:2 (1)-32:42) Week 42 >>Watch this week’s video<< The descendants of Re’uven and the descendants of Gad had vast quantities of livestock. When they saw the land of Ya’zer and the land of Gil’ad were good for livestock, the descendants of Gad and of…
PARASHAH MATTOT (Numbers 30:2 – 32:42) Week 42 MATTOT: Tribes NEDARIM: Vow, pledge DIBBUR EMET: Honest, Truthful SHEKER: Deception, Lying BLI NEDER: Without Promise…Used on the heels of a declarative statement to observe the law of NOT making unnecessary VOWS, which might lead to breaking of the vow. HALAKH: Our ‘WALK’ with the Lord…the journey…