Bereshit / Genesis 18:1-22:24 Melachim Bet / 2 Kings 4:1-37 Kefa Bet / 2nd Peter 2:4-11 Bereshit {18:13} HaShem said to Avraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’ {18:14} Is anything too hard for HaShem? At the set time I will return to you, when the [...]

Shemot / Exodus 18:1-20:23 Yeshayahu / Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6 Mattityahu / Matthew 5:17-32 Ivrim / Hebrews 12:18-24 Shemot {20:16} “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour. There is One who has never told a lie. However, there is also one who consistently tells them. The one who is the liar and the One [...]

Devarim / Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9 Yeshayahu / Isaiah 51:12-52:12 Ma’asei Talmidim / Acts 3:22-23 Devarim {21:1} If one be found slain in the land which HaShem your G-D gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him; {21:2} then your elders and your shoftim shall come forth, and they [...]

Devarim / Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25 Yeshayahu / Isaiah 49:14-51:3 Romim / Romans 8:31-39 Devarim {8:3} He (G-d) humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your avot (father’s) know; that he might make you know that ish (man) does not live by bread only, but by everything that [...]

Bamidbar / Numbers 30:2-36:13 Yirmeyahu / Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4, 4:1-2 Pilifim / Philippians 3:12-16 Yaacov / James 4:1-12 This week’s reading is a double portion, however; I have chosen to comment only on Parasha Masei. It is fascinating how the composition of Parasha Masei moves. Although it focuses on the distribution of the Land to [...]

Bereshit / Genesis 6:9 -11:32 Yeshayahu / Isaiah 54:1- 55:5 Kefa Aleph / Peter 3:18 – 22 We have all I am sure, heard the expression “natural selection.” This is a term which refers to the survival of the fittest. Anyone who has ever watched National Geographic certainly, visually experienced natural selection. Beginning in Parsha Bereshit [...]