Author: Mark

Portions for July 05/2025 Shalom Aleichem, We reach out to you the 4th of July here, with a simple message from the Torah. Yet, can you handle the truth and contemplate what it might mean? The Parasha, Chukat word means “Statute”, or law. It is a no brainer, that refers to Torah, the laws of… Read more

June 27, 2024 Shalom Aleichem, Rosh Chodesh is Hebrew for the top of the month, or new month. Last week, we covered the Torah portions about sending out it’s spies and the “Rising Lion”, and this week we add some special selections. No one said our Star of David shaped Challah bread is perfect, it… Read more

Shalom Aleichem, Peace upon you, and soon almost literally. Welcome to the 37th Torah portion reads, and a world that sits on the edge of their seat as the Israel and Iran conflict is shaping real fast, and high stakes. It is also currently a war where Benjamin Netanyahu has declared in prophecy unfolding of… Read more

Shalom Aleichem, May your memories of the Colorado Boulder antisemitism and ideologically driven terror attack serve to increase your own safety and security or your Synagogues and home Synagogues. The Jewish are typically the tripwire, the canary in the coal mine to know how dangerous society can be in the first strike alerts against the… Read more

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