My Thoughts on Valentine’s Day

My Thoughts on Valentine’s Day

Despite the roots of the holiday, Valentine’s Day is designed to be a celebration of love; a day that should we choose, we have the opportunity to express our feelings to the special people in our lives. Family, friends, neighbors, or people at work, everyone...
The Tallit and Tzitzit

The Tallit and Tzitzit

The Prayer shawl is a Tallit, pronounced “tah-LEET”. This is the modern Yisra’el pronunciation. (Plural tallitot, “tah-lee-TOHT”). The tasseled fringes on the corners are the the Tzitzit, pronounced “TSItsit” The most common...
Etiqueta del Talit y Tzitzit

Etiqueta del Talit y Tzitzit

El Talit/Talis es una ropa como su camisa/blusa, capa/capote, que tiene un propósito especial. El propósito del Talit es sostener/llevar el Tzitzit. La Torah ordena llevar los Tzitzit en las esquinas de nuestra ropa. Están allí para recordarnos los mandamientos de...
Mezuzah and Believers

Mezuzah and Believers

As Believers: As Believers in the Messiah Yeshua/Jesus Christ we are bombarded daily by the world and its self centered and evil ways, so going back to Torah and following G‑d’s commandments helps us stay on track. We as believers are Grafted in to...
Where Can Atonement Be Found?

Where Can Atonement Be Found?

Every year on the day before the Day of Atonement, the ritual of Kapporoth may be seen enacted in many Orthodox households. This is the ceremony of substitution, and the head of the household begins it by pronouncing, “a soul instead of a soul.” He then...
The Torah

The Torah

Do NOT think I have come to destroy the Torah and the prophets. I did Not come to destroy but to complete.(Mattithyahu 5:17) Most Christians have been taught that keeping the law is a bad thing. They say it is legalism and bondage to keep Torah (Torah means teaching,...