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“‘Have you come to consult me? As I live,’ says Adonai YHWH, ‘I swear that I will not let you consult me.”
Some elders of Israel get an earful when they sit down with Yechezqel to seek YHWH. We touch on midrash, end of days / latter days, and holiness in Haftarah Qedoshim.
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“I will plant them on their own soil, no more to be uprooted from their land, which I gave them,” says YHWH your God.”
Haftarah Acharey Mot gives us Amos’ fifth vision depicting a shaking and sifting of Israel, and we discuss who Israel is, whether born into covenant or not.
(Our study covers all of chapter 9)
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“What we are doing is wrong. At a time of good news like this, we shouldn’t keep it to ourselves. If we wait even till morning, we will earn only punishment…”
Our story of four lepers who bring about relief for Israel is prefaced with some background of Arameans and the historical setting of haftarah Metzora’.
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Yoel explains the practical logistics of this component of the feasts and calendar based on the Aviv Search of 2019. This teaching was presented to our Weekly Bible Class group.
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“He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.”
The God of Israel interacts in a mighty way with the Syrian army leader, Naaman in this week’s haftarah Tazri’a. This recording is an excerpt from our Weekly Bible Class.
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“When they arrived at Nakhon’s threshing-floor, the oxen stumbled; and ‘Uzah put out his hand to steady the ark of God.”
You can be sincere, but you can be sincerely wrong. In contrast to last week’s example of underreaching with Torah, this week we see overreaching and the effects of stepping outside the boundaries of Torah.
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“But they neither listened nor paid attention, but lived according to their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, thus going backward and not forward.”
We discuss the repetitive cycle of the erosion of mankind and the lessons to be learned from Yirmeyahu, the kohen who never got to be a kohen, in Haftarah Tzav.
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“Thus says YHWH, Isra’el’s King and Redeemer, YHWH–Tzva’ot: “I am the first, and I am the last; besides me there is no God.“
We look at the background of the prophet Isaiah and his powerful prophetic plea in Haftarah Vayiqra.
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“And Solomon stood before the altar of YHWH in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven”
Haftarah Pequdei recounts the dedication of Solomon’s Temple. We look King Solomon’s prayer about prayer at this event in this excerpt from our Weekly Bible Class.
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“He made two capitals of melted bronze to set on the tops of the columns; each capital was eight-and-three-quarters feet high; he also made checker-work nets and chained wreaths, seven for the top of each capital. ” Is there a spiritual meaning to the technical parts of the biblical text? We look at how to understand text and the PARDES approach in this week’s haftarah Vayaqhel.
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