Blog posts related to the weekly Torah portions. How Messianic and Hebrew Roots believers in Messiah Yeshua can apply insight from the Portions.
Each year The Messianic Light makes available a Torah Portion Calendar for the annual Torah reading cycle. The calendar follows the Hebrew months, beginning with the seventh month Tishrei when the new cycle starts. The annual Torah Portion cycle begins and ends following Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles. We encourage readers to think in terms … Read more
The Messianic Torah Portion calendar for 5783 is now available for download. One primary purpose for this design is to encourage Messianic and Hebrew Roots believers to think in terms of the Creator’s calendar.
Joseph spent time in the pit – twice. King David wrote about being in a “pit.”. Yeshua experienced the lowest pit possible – dead in the grave.
Reading the Torah portions has long been a practice in the Jewish community and Messianic Judaism has continued the custom. Many more have joined in as well.
God instructs Moses on five different kinds of sacrifices to be offered in the sanctuary. They allow the people to be brought near and experience his love.
This beautiful hymn based entirely on Psalm 90 was composed at a time when songs sung in church services were almost always the actual words of Scripture.
At the end of his life, “Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.”
Psalm 14 and Psalm 53 are nearly identical Psalms of David. Reading or hearing the same thing twice might be an indication it should be given a little more attention. Both begin with the same declaration: The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” “The fear of ADONAI is the beginning of … Read more
Make your commitment now that you will read and study the Torah portions this coming year. Now is the time to prepare and have everything ready to start.
During a study of Torah portion Ekev, a gentleman in our group asked me about the “other ark.” Honestly, I had no idea what he was talking about.