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• Contempt: The Relationship Killer April 22, 2025
  For the week of April 26, 2025 / 28 Nisan 5785 Sh’miniTorah: Vayikra/Leviticus 9:1 – 11:47Haftarah: 2 Shmuel/2 Samuel 6:1 – 7:17 As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and […]
• The Bread of Affliction April 15, 2025
  For the week of April 19, 2025 / 21 Nisan 5785 PesachTorah: Shemot/Exodus 13:17 – 15:26 & B’midbar/Numbers 28:19-25Haftarah: 2 Shmuel/2 Samuel 22:1-51Originally posted the week of April 11, 2015 / 22 Nisan 5775 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread (matza), the bread of […]
• Sacrifices—What Gives? April 8, 2025
  For the week of April 12, 2025 / 14 Nisan 5785 ZavTorah: Vayikra/Leviticus 6:1 – 8:36 (English: 6:8 – 8:36)Haftarah: Malachi 3:4-24 (English 3:4 – 4:6)Originally posted the week of March 28, 2015 / 8 Nisan 5775 (updated) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying “Give Aaron and his sons this command: ‘These are the regulations […]
• More than Heart March 30, 2025
  For the week of April 5, 2025 / 7 Nisan 5785 VayikraTorah: Vayikra/Leviticus 1:1 – 5:26 (English: 1:1 – 6:7)Haftarah: Isaiah 43:21 – 44:23For the week of March 19, 2016 / 9 Adar II 5776 (revised) If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall […]
• Divine Interruptions March 25, 2025
  For the week of March 29, 2025 / 29 Adar 5785 PekudeiTorah: Shemot/Exodus 38:21-40:38; Shemot/Exodus 12:1-20Haftarah: Ezekiel 45:16 – 46:18; 1 Shmuel/1 Samuel 20:18-42Originally posted the week of March 12, 2016 / 2 Adar II 5776 (updated) Then, the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And […]
• It’s Happening March 18, 2025
  For the week of March 22, 2025 / 22 Adar 5785 Vayakhel & ParahTorah: Shemot/Exodus 35:1 – 38:20; B’midbar/Numbers 19:1-22Haftarah: Ezekiel 36:16-38 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of […]
• Is It Your Time? March 11, 2025
  For the week of March 15, 2025 / 15 Adar 5785 Ki TissaTorah: Shemot/Exodus 30:11 – 34:35Haftarah: 1 Melachim / 1 Kings 18:1-39Originally posted the week of February 27, 2021 / 15 Adar 5781 (revised) And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14) These […]
• Amalek March 4, 2025
  For the week of March 8, 2025 / 8 Adar 5785 T’tzavveh & ZachorTorah: Shemot/Exodus 27:20 – 30:10; D’varim/Deuteronomy 25:17-19Haftarah: 1 Shmuel/1 Samuel 15:2-34 Thus says the LORD of hosts, “I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and strike […]
• Show and Do February 25, 2025
  For the week of March 1, 2025 / 1 Adar 5785 Terumah; Rosh Hodesh; ShekalimTorah: Shemot/Exodus 25:1 – 27:19; B’midbar/Numbers 28:9–15Haftarah: 2 Kings 12:1–17 (English: 11:21 – 2 16)Originally posted the week of February 20, 2021 / 8 Adar 5781 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its […]
• Practical Torah February 18, 2025
  For the week of February 22, 2025 / 24 Shevat 5785 MishpatimTorah: Shemot/Exodus 21:1 – 24:18Haftarah: Jeremiah 34:8-22; 33:25-26Originally posted the week of February 6, 2016 / 27 Shevat 5776 (updated) Now these are the rules that you shall set before them (Shemot/Exodus 21:1) Last week’s parsha (weekly Torah reading portion) included the giving of […]