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  • 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
  • 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

    He Lived: The Lion of the Last Days
  • New Website Updates and Features

    Hello all, I just wanted to let you know that I finally made the long overdue update to my blog page. Now you can easily subscribe to my blog with the subscribe form and button. You can also share with… Continue reading

    New Website Updates and Features
  • He Approach: to Live Among Us

    The sages taught of two different messiahs, Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben Judah. This week’s parsha and haftarah reveals the mystery of the two messiahs becoming one and how God used Ezekiel to reveal it. Continue reading

    He Approach: to Live Among Us
  • The Real Christmas Tree

    I Am an Evergreen Tree.From Me comes your fruit.I Am an Evergreen Tree.I Am David’s Root.I Am an Evergreen TreeIn midsummer’s heat.I Am an Evergreen TreeIn its winter retreat. When you decorate your fir,And spruce your spruce with tinsel,Wrap your… Continue reading

    The Real Christmas Tree
  • Chanukah: “I Will Live Among You.”

    In this post, I go through Zechariah’s vision and explain how Yeshua Jesus is the Branch, the Servant, the High Priest, the Stone, the Menorah, the Temple, and the Capstone. The accuser constantly tries to take what belongs to God,… Continue reading

    Chanukah: “I Will Live Among You.”
  • At the End: The Suspense of the Latter Days

    This portion begins with Pharoah’s dream and ends with the dramatic climax between Joseph and his brothers, who still didn’t know it was him. Their money they tried to buy grain with had been returned to their bags with their… Continue reading

    At the End: The Suspense of the Latter Days
  • He Continued Living: He Lives for Me and You

    Joseph’s “here I am” follows a line of momentous events in his family line. In Genesis chapter 22, God called Abraham and Abraham answered, “Here I am” before God then told him to sacrifice his son, Isaac. In Genesis chapter… Continue reading

    He Continued Living: He Lives for Me and You