• Firstfruits

    We just celebrated Passover, the day of redemption and salvation. We honored the death of our Messiah Yeshua as our eternal Passover Lamb whose shed blood has made a way for us to return to the Father in perfect repentance. HALLELUYAH! As we continue to honor the remaining days of...

  • Passover

    We are in the month on Nissan, the first month of the Biblical calendar. This is the month in which Jews and Gentiles celebrate Passover and the Biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt. But the story of Passover is a foreshadowing of an even greater Exodus that God had...

  • Purim

    Purim is the time in which we celebrate a great victory in Jewish history as mentioned in the biblical Book of Esther. Purim (which means lots) reminds us of the lots that were cast for the fate of the Jews living in ancient Persia. An evil man named Haman, an...

  • Thanks-for-giving – An Attitude of Gratitude

    “Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.” Psalm 95:1-2 There are 52 Bible verses with the phrase “give thanks.” In this, we are...

  • Kohelet Rabbah 1:9

    Just as it says of the first redeemer “So Moses took his wife and his sons, mounted them upon the donkey…” (Shemot 4:20) so too the last redeemer, as it says “…humble, and riding a donkey…” (Zechariah 9:9) –Kohelet Rabbah 1:9

  • Talmud Bavli –Sukkah 52a:3

    Granted, according to the one who said that the lament is for Messiah ben Yosef who was killed, this would be the meaning of that which is written in that context: “And they shall look unto Me because they have thrust him through; and they shall mourn for him, as...

  • Yeshivat Ahavat Shalom, pg. 130-131

    The Josephian Messiah suffers illnesses and afflictions to atone for the people of Israel and for the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. He is called “the leper of the house of Rabbi,” meaning the one who suffers for Israel and Jerusalem. Ben Ish Chai, Ben Yehoyada, cited in Days...

  • Targum Song of Songs 7:12; 14

    And when it will be the Lord’s will to redeem His people from Exile, the King Messiah will be told, “The term of the Exile has already been completed…Now rise! Receive the kingdom that I have reserved for you!” –Targum Song of Songs 7:12; 14