Author: Mark

05/30/2025 Shalom Aleichem, Greetings to you, and we hope your week has been blessed. As you wind down to observe Shabbat within your home and be with family, have you ever wondered what “Bamidbar” means? We’ll, now you know, it is the 4th book of the Torah, being Numbers. Yet, it means….”in the wilderness”. Leaving… Read more

Shalom Aleichem, Peace unto you and well wishes….hoping your week has been a reflective, healthy and nurturing one. Behar-Bechukotai is Hebrew that reads out as “On the Mount By My Decrees”. At this time, we don’t have our second Temple anymore, or Third Temple yet to be on the mount, and we are spread out… Read more

05/17/2025 Shalom Aleichem, Greetings from and for your weekly home synagogue readings. Parahsat Emor…what is Emor? Emor is Hebrew for (“Say”), it opens with laws regulating priestly behavior, working in the Mishkan (Tabernacle), and consuming sacrifices and priestly food. It further describes the biblical holidays of Passover, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, and… Read more

For 05/10/2025 Shalom Aleichem, Be holy….Kedoshim, K’doshim, or even Qedoshim is the 30th weekly Torah portion of our annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Leviticus. In short, it’s a real-life, still true command to this very day in call out to “Be Holy”. Repeats the Ten Commandments, and… Read more

Friday, April 25, 2025 Shalom Aleichem, We have such a short simple messege this week. It’s a bit off the beaten path of how Torah portions go due to God’s interactive nature with humans in this life. The life of a ministry founder was called home, …to the rooms in her heavenly fathers house, having… Read more

Friday, April 18, 2025 Shalom Aleichem, Greetings and well wishes to all, we are entering the Pesach II phase of Torah readings, and much to share in our festival of liberation. We altered the post title to reflect Chag Hamatzot. Passover, and Feast of Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot), which lasts seven days, are actually 2 seperate things,… Read more

Parashat Tzav April 12, 2025 Shalom Aleichem, Blessings, peace unto you and of course, chag pesach sameach to you this week from the internet synagogue to you and your home synagogue. No one likes to be bossed around, but Hashem (Yahweh) certainly did to Moses, …the Hebrew word “Tzav” is “command”. Hashem certainly was the… Read more

Parashat Vayikra for April 5, 2025 Shalom Aleichem, And he called….is the English call out of the Hebrew word “vayikra” here at the 24th weekly portion Torah. It is also a form of Hebrew for the book of Leviticus, God calling Moses at the tent of meeting, discussing the laws on animal sacrifice. This week,… Read more

March 29 2025 – Rosh Chodesh Nisan Shalom Alecheim and Chodesh Tov, We hope you are well and in good health, for we have much for you to share with you this week. Chodesh Tov, means “good month to you” or “head of the month” as we start a new one, and filled with fullness of… Read more

Parashat Vayak’hel for March 22, 2025 Shalom Alecheim, In Hebrew, is “Moses Assembled”. We continue the journey now. The next four Shabbat sessions deal with the approaching passover. Moses assembled the entire community of the Israelites and said to them, “These are the things that God has commanded to do.”. In the last few post,… Read more