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Parasha Naso (Lift up): Can a Holy God Be Jealous?

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This Parasha models community living, especially in regard to serving the Lord. When we live and work together in community, and everyone has their own assigned tasks so that each carries part of the load, the burden does not fall too heavily on a few key individuals. This is the ideal behind the communal lifestyle of the Israeli kibbutz movement. It's also the lifestyle of the early kehillah – the early community of Believers.

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Parasha Bamidbar (In the Wilderness): Does God Ordain Suffering?

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The Haftarah (prophetic portion) promises that God will allure Israel, bring her back to the Land, and that the relationship between God and Israel would be, once again, like a healthy marriage. To understand the themes of marriage, betrayal and redemption in Hosea, we must understand Hosea’s situation. God instructed him to take a harlot for a wife—a woman who was seemingly destined to be unfaithful to him. The rabbis, in fact, believe that Hosea’s resulting domestic tragedy was actually ordained by God

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Shavuot (Pentecost): Your Destiny and the Power to Fulfill It

Shavuot marks the completion of the seven-week period called Counting the Omer, which occurs between Passover and Shavuot. Indeed, on this very day almost 2000 years ago, when the Jewish people celebrated the Feast of Shavuot (Weeks) in the Temple and the new grain offering was presented to the Lord, God poured out the promised Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) on the first Believers in Yeshua.

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Parasha Behar-Bechukotai (On the Mount-By My Decrees): The Year of Jubilee

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Every seven years, the Land wasn’t to be worked in any kind of way. It wasn’t planted, pruned, or harvested. You may wonder how the people ate. Although they couldn’t reap or sow, whatever the land yielded could be eaten (Leviticus 25:7). While the land lay fallow, fruits growing of their own accord could be eaten by anyone.

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Parasha Acharei-Kedoshim (After-Holy Ones): Holy Confidence

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This week’s combined Torah portion, Parasha Acharei-Kedoshim, discusses Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and holiness, and begins with Aharon, the Cohen Hagadol (high priest), preparing for the crucial once-a-year sacrifice on the Day of Atonement. In order to minister before the Lord on this holy day, Aharon first immersed himself in the mikvah (ritual cleansing) and then put on a holy, linen tunic. Before he brought the ketoret (incense offering) into the Holy of Holies, the innermost chamber of the Sanctuary, he donned simple, white linen clothing, representing purity and humility, which was appropriate for this sacred day, instead of his resplendent golden garments.

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Parasha Tazria-Metzorah: What Does Leprosy Have to Do with Slander and Gossip?

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This week’s Torah portion deals with the laws of tumah (ritual impurity) and tahara (ritual purity). The laws pertaining to purification, including post childbirth, purity in marriage (niddah), and leprosy are discussed. These regulations may be understood in purely hygienic terms, or for their religious significance, or both. The issue, however, is not one of clean versus unclean, but pure (tahor).

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