Valley Princess

  • The Pure Order

    The Torah portion for February 28, 2026, Tetzaveh (You Are to Order) covers the vestments of the priests, the ordination process, and the altar of incense. The Haftara covers part of the instructions God gave Ezekiel about the future temple.… Continue reading

    The Pure Order
  • The Light’s Contribution to the World

    The Torah portion for February 21, 2026, T’rumah (Contributiuon), concerns the material contribution and instructions for the tabernacle, God’s dwelling place among His people. The Haftarah portion concerns how this tabernacle structure meant for a nomadic people in the wilderness… Continue reading

    The Light’s Contribution to the World
  • The Secret to Risk-Free Investment

    Set your mind on things aboveAnd not on things below,For wherever your treasure isYour heart will be also.Do not store your treasure upWhere moth and rust destroy,Where thieves can break into and stealAnd you will none enjoy.Store your treasure in… Continue reading

    The Secret to Risk-Free Investment
  • His Rulings Are Upright

    This portion begins with various rulings on social situations between people concerning slaves and restitution for losses in various situations, includes the confirming of the covenant between God and Israel, and ends with Moses, Aaron, Aaron’s sons, and 70 elders… Continue reading

    His Rulings Are Upright
  • To Proclaim His Excellencies

    First, I want to talk about how the giving of the Ten Commandments at Sinai (Horeb) foreshadows the coming of the Holy Spirit and the second coming of the Messiah in the last days, as well as how the Mosaic… Continue reading

    To Proclaim His Excellencies
  • After He Had Let Go

    This portion takes us through the beginning journey of the Israelites out of Egypt, to the parting of the Red Sea, to the bitter water at Marah, to Elim with twelve springs and seventy palm trees, to the wilderness of… Continue reading

    After He Had Let Go
  • Bo (Go)

    This portion is absolutely full this week, so I will have to be selective about what I discuss. It was during the week of this appointed portion that I was born. It includes the last three plagues of Egypt: locusts… Continue reading

    Bo (Go)
  • Correction to My Last Post

    I want to take a minute and correct part of my latest post. I said the portion for this last week went through the first six plagues of Egypt, but it actually goes through the first seven. I forgot the… Continue reading

    Correction to My Last Post
  • “I Appeared” as the Serpent Lifted Up

    This portion of Exodus takes us from God’s imperative on Moses to prophesy to the Hebrews and to Pharaoh, through the initial showdown between Moses and Pharoah’s magicians in Pharoah’s courtroom, and through the first seven plagues on Egypt. Continue reading

    “I Appeared” as the Serpent Lifted Up
  • Names: Their Importance and Their Power

    The oppression of Israel to bitter slavery before the Exodus is the stage upon which we see a messiah arise, Moses, and I would like to argue he acts too as a foreshadowing of the Messiah Who was promised to… Continue reading

    Names: Their Importance and Their Power