A Very Big Miracle

For love of Sarah and the mother of the Master, a teaching about the death of Sarah in Parashat Chayei Sarah juxtaposed against the traditional story of the Dormition of Mary and her interment in the Tomb of Mary near the Garden of Gethsemane. This teaching was originally presented on Shabbat Chayei Sarah 5769.

Hashem tells Moses, "The time for you to die draws near." All men must die: but we don't like to think about it. The High Holidays remind us to get our affairs in order. The New Testament teaches us how to do that.

Why do we pray toward Jerusalem? And why is "Zion" such a big deal? This teaching from Parashat Shoftim reveals the greatness of Jerusalem and our connection to the City of the Great King.

Part Two for Reason Number 7 for believing that Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel focuses in on the reason that Yeshua performed miracles. Was it to prove that he is the Messiah? If not, why does the Gospel of John present his miracles, signs, and wonders as evidence? What's the real purpose behind Yeshua's miracles? This is the second of a two-part teaching. Listen to Part One: "The Miracle Worker."

Big news for Beth Immanuel about a very big miracle for the funding of the Beth Immanuel Mikvah Project.

"To those who are without Torah, I become as without Torah, though not being without the Torah of God but under the Torah of Messiah." What is the Torah of Messiah? How can there be a New Torah or different Torah? This teaching from the Second Day of Shavuot draws on the teachings of Lubavitcher Rebbe to unlock the msytery behind Isaiah 51:4, "A Torah will go forth from me" and the New Torah of Messiah, illuminating the meaning of several difficult texts in the apostolic writings and the significance of the New Covenant.

One good reason everyone should believe that Yeshua is the Messiah is that he never asked us to believe that. What did he ask us to believe? How did he present himself to the world?

If it's possible to be "born again," is it possible to be "conceived again?" The Apostle Shimon Peter teaches us the difference between perishable seed and imperishable seed. 1 Peter 1:17-25.

A Hanukkah message about the abomination of desolation and "that one time that love saved the world" as an illustration of the potent pwoer of Yeshua's Gospel message of repentance and love at the End of the World. This teaching is a follow-up message to Reason Number 5: Healer of all Israel.

The Talmud says that before God inflicts a wound he creates the cure. Yeshua of Nazareth, the prophet of the second Temple, taught the cure to the wound that the nation was about to undergo. It's all about love.