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Parashah Tetzaveh

In the Garden of Eden, Adam, the first man, was in communion with the Creator and heard His voice. There was nothing he had to do to establish that connection with Yehovah because he lived in His presence.After being expelled, from the earliest times, Ada ...

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Parashah Yitro

At this point in the Exodus narrative we find Moses taking on the monumental task of judging the people of Israel. Sitting from morning to evening, Moses attended to the disputes and conflicts among the Israelites, seeking to impart justice according to d ...

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Parashah va’Era – I appeared

The God who appeared to Abraham and made a covenant with him is the same God who appeared to Moses in the bush. Curiously, this parashah opens by questioning whether Abraham had known Him by His Name:I appeared to Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov as El Shad ...

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Parashah vaYgash – He approached

From the earliest childhood Yosef, son of Ya'akov, was considered a special person. Having been born of the one who was “the woman he loved”, and occurring in his old age, Ya'akov considered him as a leader from his youth. All this was confirmed by the re ...

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Parashah Vayshlach – The meaning of Israel

The name Israel appears for the first time in this section of the Torah. Jacob is named after the mysterious being with whom he wrestled until dawn on his way back to the land of Canaan.What Jacob did not know at the time is that this name, through his de ...

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Parashah Chaiei Sarah – The life of Sarah

Genesis 23:1 - 25:18 The name of this section of Scripture is translated as “The Life of Sarah”. Sarah is known as the first of the matriarchs and from her womb came the son of promise, from whom all the people of Israel descended.Although her life wa ...

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Abraham, the chosen one of Yehovah

Abraham stands as a monumental figure in the history of faith, not only revered as the father of nations but also celebrated for his unwavering devotion to Yehovah. His journey is a story of profound challenges, acts of obedience, and a commitment to a co ...

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Parashah Noach (Noah)

The story of Noah is one of the most mythical in the entire Torah. Noah was the tenth since Adam and the world had already become corrupt and forgotten its purpose. All of Creation would be destroyed, return to a state of purity and experience a new begin ...

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Parashah B’reshit

The beginning of the Torah (the Pentateuch) is probably the most mysterious text of all the Scriptures. In an extremely succinct manner it communicates to the reader the most amazing feats, in which Elohim (the Hebrew term used for “God” in Genesis 1) cre ...

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The History of the Apocryphal Books

One of the oldest books found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran is the Book of Enoch.The Bibles we have today include a compendium of books that were written at a particular period in history. The word canon, whose origin is generally traced to the Gre ...