exegesis

  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • He Sent: Jacob and the Son

    In this portion, there is a lot to cover, but I will focus on the relationship between Esau and Jacob and Jacob’s faith in God, foreshadowing the Messiah and how believers can hold the same faith of Jacob in times… Continue reading

    He Sent: Jacob and the Son