| Shalom Alecheim…. This year, Rosh Chodesh Adar (I) was actually Thursday the 27th in the USA as to a calendar day placement. Don’t panic, you’re good, it’s a “minor” holiday, roughly corresponding to “March”, the words implying “joy”, “strength”. A new moon. Adar is the sixth month of the civil year, the twelfth month of your spiritual year on the Hebrew calendar. We put it to the 28th, today, as remember, a Hebrew-Israelite day begins the night before, into the next day, just like a Shabbat starts on Friday evening, into Shabbat day the following day. Yet, on Hebrew calendar, we call it “30 Sh’vat – 1 Adar 5785”. Simple? Well, not really. Fun? Yes! Educational? Yes! Can we learn things going back to our Hebrew calendar the world once followed? Yes! The conspiracy to remove us from our dates, times, and laws, is what you’ll lane over time, so you can’t recognize your own spiritual faith. Were still coming out of Egypt, watching Egypts plagues and downfall in the background issues, peoples needs increased, giving became less under the circumstances. Think about it, what happens on a new moon? The animals come out, they have light to see, looking for something to eat. Nature gives and shares it to them. Yahweh likewise gives us something to eat from his words every illuminated shabbat read you do. Terumah is about giving. Hard to think about tithes in meantime, when there is no Third Temple yet, or sanctuary spoken of by the Temple Institute. Exodous portion reads of the Ark of the….Covenant. Key word is covenant. The Temple Institute speaks of the Ark of the Covenant well as does Exodous. In meantime, the covenant you have with G-d of Abraham that you individually can do, is right in front you in Torah and Shabbat while we all yearn for seeing the Ark Of The Covenant again and Third Temple. We’re still learning how to behave. Realizing we need to be sharing and giving to each other. Terumah is about giving. Many of today’s Christians use the word “tithe”, but “tithe” was stopped a long time ago when the temples collapsed, and was based on a agriculture law. Yet, “giving”, “donating” on the other hand, is done freely and has never ended, …unless of course, you are one who doesn’t give, or thought it was about a “tithe” to a shiney heartless building with homeless sleeping in nearby tents, or a building where you can’t read it, eat it or drink it or share it. Share, help and compassion is one way of looking at it, be it duty of love and care to elderly parents, sick family and disabled strangers, or just seeing hard times around you. Giving. Terumah. Common sense and soul karma really. Giving to those of less “strength”, is a “joy” as another way of looking at it. We really have to be “told” to give? Apparently. Have to have a female to feed you 24/7/365? Also, it is a females day off, ….do observe Adar. Nature and Yaweh shares with us, please don’t force a female to work Adar. Day off. Torah: Terumah…Exodous 25: 1, 27:-19, Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Numbers 28:1–15 Boresh: 1 Peter 2:4–10 We are freely given everything we need in the words we read every Shabbat under Yahwehs light, don’t cast it all out as we tend to do. Freely read it, share it, give it. Yashua was the chief cornerstone, as Yashua, was the Torah law. Don’t cast out the Torah. asst.rabbi@mountainmajestyministries.com |