Simchat Torah for the Triennial Torah Reading Cycle

Shalom Chaverim. We have reached the final pericope of Mordechai (Mark) and D’barim.  We will be discussing the concluding remarks of the Torah and the Nazarean Codicil.

We will do a superficial review of the Amalek and then launch out into the depths of these final words to see what relevance they might have.

We will look at the three titles for the B’ne Yisrael to see what they tell us. We will also look at the cryptic passage from Jude which tells us that Michael the archangel argued over the body of Moshe. What could Jude (Hakham Tsefet’s scribe) possibly have been saying.  The class will deepen when we take a deeper look at all the snakes of the past pericope and further relevance.

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Yeshua, the Rabbis and the Educational system of 1st Century

This Torah Focus looked at some of the educational systems of the 1st Century. We also looked at Yeshua within the Rabbinic mindset and framework. We took an informal approach to these subjects seeing what we can learn about Yeshua, the Talmidim and the Rabbis of the 1st century.

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Mesorah of Mark 119f

This Torah Focus Class will looked at the readings associated with Deuteronomy 15:7-16:17.

We will looked at the Commentary on Amos 8:4-10 and 9:13-15 and Our Selection of Mark which looks at the mockery Yeshua went through by the Roman Cohort of Pilate. Mark 15:16-21.

Class materials can be located at Keslev 21, 5772

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Mesorah of Mark and Triennial Torah Readings For Keslev 21 5772

This Torah Focus Class will look at the readings associated with Deuteronomy 15:7-16:17.

We will look at the Commentary on Amos 84-10 and 9:13-15 and Our Selection of Mark which looks at the mockery Yeshua went through by the Roman Cohort of Pilate. Mark 15:16-21

Class materials can be located at Keslev 21, 5772

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Torah Readings for Chanukah 5772 Part 1

Chag Semach to everyone this Chanukah Season

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Mesorah of Mark 105a

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This Torah Focus looked at Mark 12:28-34  In this pericope of Mordechai Yeshua discusses the relative mitzvot which deals with the Shema and loving ones neighbor. Of course this was not new to Rabbinic thought.  Some questions to ponder for tonight’s class will be…

1. How did Yeshua and the Sofer (Scribe) find common ground when Bible scholars suggest that Yeshua was opposed to and by all the Soferim.?
2. Were there any further commonalities between Yeshua and this Sofer?
3. Were other Soferim present?
4. What is the most important mitzvah of all?
5. We ask these questions and several others.

We looked a may relative facets of the Torah Seder and its presented ideas along with connections and things concluded in the Torah Seder.

Torah Seder with Commentary to Mark – Compiled by His Eminence Rabbi Dr, Yoseph ben Haggai

Who can Count

Commentary and translation of Mark by Dr Walter Oakley

Mark 12:28-34

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Mesorah of Mark Series Connecting the Torah and the Nazarean Codicil

This Mesorah of Mark looked at the 104c pericope of Mark. This material is weighed against B’Midbar 22:2-23:9, which contains the story of Balaam and Balak. How does the story of Mordechai 12:18-27 where the Tz’dukim (Sadducees) present the story of the seven brothers and the resurrection. What is the real focus of this pericope? We delve into all of this material and much more.

Triennial Torah Readings for

Torah Seder – Compiled by His Eminence Rabbi Dr. Yoseph ben Haggai

And Balak saw

Mordechai – Commentary by Dr. Walter Oakley

Mark 12:18-27

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The Rabbis have taught the Torah study is equal to prayer.¹ Devotional and application of Torah is different from the western way of reading and interacting with the Torah. Hakham Shaul described the Torah as a living book.² Torah is not a book read from a Western perspective. The Torah is a book this learned for the sake of living what is recorded therein. The Rabbis further stated that study of the Torah without practice was absurd.³ While there were those, who were concerned with “faith vs works” the true talmid is concerned about “Learning and doing.” ⁴ When the Torah is studied and applied, it purifies the soul. Consequently, Jacob Neusner and Yeshua both derive the restoration to Eden and the androgynous man.

1. Yitzhak Bauxbaum, Jewish Spiritual Practices, Jason Aronson Inc., 1994 p. 309 [↩]
2. Cf. Heb. 4:12 [↩]
3. Montefiore , C.G, Lowe, H. A., Rabbinic Anthology, Schocken Paperbacks on Judaica 1974, p.174 [↩]
4. Ya’akov (James) 1:22 [↩]

Reading Through the Biblical Calendar

Tonight Torah Focus will begin a new series.  We will begin looking at the Biblical Calendar.  However, this will be a special class.  We will be looking at the Study Guide prepared by His Honor Rosh Pakid Hillel Ben David.   This special document looks at EVERY day on the Biblical calendar.  This special document will reveal many things about Biblical events and repetitious patterns found in the Bible.

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Three Weeks, 17th Tammuz and the 9th of Av

In tonight’s class we will be looking at the tragic events of the 17th of Tammuz and how they lead to the destruction of the Temple on the 9th of Av.

We will also be looking at relevant thoughts for us today with lessons from the Temple.

Biblical Calendar

Study Guide

Positive Mitzvah #160

160. To rest on the seventh day [of the festival], as [Exodus 12:16] states: “On the seventh day, there will be a sacred holiday.”

Two Trees, One man, One Woman, One Snake and the Big Question

Tonight’s Torah Focus Live Class will look at “Two Trees, One man, One Woman, One Snake and the Big Question.”  We will delve into the third chapter of Derech HaShem Part 1. What is mans primary purpose in this life?  How do we look at the fall of Adam?  Why am I given the Yetzer hara?

The following Study Guide will be requite.

Positive Mitzvah #159

159. To rest on the first day of Pesach, as [Exodus 12:16] states: “And on the first day, it shall be a sacred holiday.”

Positive Commandment #153

153. To sanctify the months and to calculate the years and months. [This mitzvah is incumbent on] the court alone, as [Exodus 12:2] states: “This month will be for you the first of the months.”

“Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day”—Exodus 16:29.
It is forbidden on Shabbat to travel more than 2,000 cubits (approximately 3000 ft.) out of a city’s parameters.