Gentiles of the Nations – Come celebrate ‘Thanksgivukkah’!

[This year— 5774 in the biblical reckoning of time, 2013 according to the Gregorian calendar — Israel’s ‘Festival of Lights’ or Hanukkah’s first of its 8-day celebration falls on USA’s Thanksgiving Day, Thursday.   According to Rabbi Benjamin Blech of aish.com, to commemorate this unusual coincidence, a new descriptive word has been coined:  “Thanksgivukkah.” He […]

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Deuteronomy/Davarim 34: "But there arose no further prophet in Israel like Moshe, whom YHVH knew face to face"

 [What does it matter where the ‘remains’ of the earthly part of man ultimately rests?   Bereshiyth 3:19 says:  for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.  Ecclesiastes 12:7: the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. We tend to hang on to the material […]

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Deuteronomy/Davarim 30: "Rather, near to you is the word, exceedingly, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it!"

[Having come from Christian/Messianic ROOTS, it is difficult NOT to keep connecting what we have been taught by man-made religion, and what we have learned —not from ‘religion’ but from the Revelation given on Sinai, the Torah.   Truly, how does one reconcile the declarations of YHWH in this chapter with the Christian teaching that —- […]

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Deuteronomy/Davarim 29: "But YHVH has not given you a mind to know or eyes to see or ears to hear, until this day."

[This chapter ends with one of the ‘OT’ verses we used to commit to memory as Christians/Messianics; we should continue to keep it in mind, now that we have seriously taken YHWH’s TORAH as the one and only ‘very words of God’.     The Revelator on Sinai has given humankind only the instructions relevant […]

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