ministry
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The Peace Offering He Called for
The Hebrew words translated as peace offering are zevah shelamim (“sacred gift of greeting”). What is the Hebrew greeting? Shalom. What does shalom mean? Peace. This peace is a wholeness of being in body, mind, spirit. The shelamim, translated as… Continue reading
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The Grain Offering He Called for
Leviticus 2 covers the stipulations of the grain offering (minhah). Minhah basically means “tribute, gift,” harkening more to the offering’s function than its contents. Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem (meaning House of Bread), on the night He was betrayed… Continue reading
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The Burnt Offering He Called for
The burnt offering is the first offering mentioned in Leviticus. In Hebrew, it’s called the ‘olah. It’s the same word from which we get Holocaust. It was completely burned up on the bronze altar. None of it was eaten by… Continue reading
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He Assembled His People to Follow Him According to all the Accounts
This time, I’ll focus on three things: the repetition of the tabernacle instructions and what it has to do with Jesus, the glory of the Lord in the tabernacle and what that has to do with Jesus, and the leading… Continue reading
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When You Take the Chance to Stand up and be Counted in God’s Census with Unveiled Face
This reading portion takes us through instructions for the half-shekel census, the bronze basin, the recipe for holy anointing oil, the recipe for holy incense, the commissioning of Bezalel and Oholiab to make everything associated with the tabernacle, Shabbat, the… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He Lived: The Lion of the Last Days
I am very excited about this portion because it contains “one of the most widely accepted Messianic prophecies in Judaism” (CJSB, 66). The siddur (Jewish prayer book), the Targum of Onkelos, the Jerusalem Targum, and Rashi (a very notable rabbinic… Continue reading
