In this week’s Torah Portion we see that the King of Moab tried about three times to curse the Hebrew people as they Sojourned from Egypt to Canaan. Each time the King tried to get Balaam to curse the Hebrews instead of a curse he heard a blessing. Even Balaam’s […]
🌬This is actually last week’s Torah Portion but it still brings up an interesting paradox we should be mindful to pay attention to. As I was reading the Torah Portion reflection by First Fruits of Zion I read: “Sprinkling of the ashes of the red heifer purified the unclean, but […]
Many West African marriage traditions can be found within ancient Hebraic marriage traditions. One of these traditions is Knocking during engagement: 👰🏾The igbo translation of iku aka is ‘to knock on the door’ and “Iju Ese” is translated as: ‘to ask about or inquire’. 👰🏿When a man decides to marry […]
After spending about 2 weeks in Nigeria I boarded a flight to Accra, Ghana for the last leg of my ministry trip. The plan I had was to visit the Sefwi Jewish community in Sefwi-Wiawso. I visited the Sefwi community last year when I went to Ghana and I also […]
When we read this week’s Torah Portion we see a great deal of family dysfunction. We see Rebekah and Isaac each choosing a child to favor, we see the division of brothers and we see Isaac repeating a mistake of his father Abraham. The mistake Isaac repeated can be found […]
How to be chosen by Yah for greatness: Service & Discernment The passage for this week’s Torah portion is called Chayei Sarah-The Life of Sarah by many scholars. In this week’s Torah portion we see the death of a dynasty and the beginning of a new one. Sarah and Abraham […]
Then Yah Opened Her Eyes…. “This is an example of him intentionally not seeing you, of intentionally not seeing a woman.” This quote was from a work conversation but reminded me of this week’s Torah portion. When I was in seminary I learned that African-American women theologians who started Womanist […]