Torah

  • 04.05.24 Review of Deuteronomy Part 2, Chs. 5-11

    10:12-13 “So now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask from you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in His ways and love Him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, to keep the commandments of Yahweh and His statutes which I am commanding you…

  • 04.01.24 Deuteronomy 32-34

    32:39 See now that I, I am He, and there is no god besides Me; it is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded, and it is I who heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.  The Book of Deuteronomy concludes with a song that will…

  • 3.25.24 Deuteronomy 29-31

    31:16 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the foreign gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have cut with them.”…

  • 3.20.24 Deuteronomy 22-26

    26:18-19 ‘Yahweh today has declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments; and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, a name, and beauty, and that you should be a people holy to…

  • 3.18.24 Deuteronomy 18-21

    18:13, 19:19 “You shall be blameless before Yahweh your God; you shall purge evil from your midst” Israel has been instructed that through their prosperity and righteousness, the nations will see the true God at work in His people. These qualities that bear witness to God’s character will be protected through religious rituals and wise…

  • 3.15.24: Deuteronomy 11-13

    13:5 “But he shall be put to death because he has counseled rebellion against Yahweh your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to drive you from the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge evil from your midst.”…

  • 3/13/24: Deuteronomy 5-7

    7:7-11 “Yahweh loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your fathers, and Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. You shall therefore know that Yahweh your God, He is God, the faithful God” Moses begins…

  • 3-11-2024: Deuteronomy 4

    ‘To you it was shown that you might know that Yahweh, He is God; there is no other besides Him” This chapter closes the preamble of Moses’s great exposition of the laws Israel has received since the nation’s founding at Mount Sinai. The incident with the Midianite women and their gods is a graphic the…

  • 3/10/24: Deuteronomy 1-3

    3:21-22 And Moses commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross. Do not fear them, for Yahweh your God is the one fighting for you.” Despite recording…

  • March 9, 2024: Numbers 35-36

    35:34 “You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I Yahweh am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.” As we come to the conclusion of Numbers, Yahweh puts the finishing touches on the commands to apportion the land. The 23,000 Levites will…