๐๐๐ฒ๐๐ญ๐ณ๐ ๐๐:๐๐-๐๐:๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐ญ๐ณ๐ ืึทืึตึผืฆึตืโโ Hebrew for “and he left,” the first word in the parashah) is the seventh weekly Torah portion (ืคึธึผืจึธืฉึธืืโ, parashah) in the annual cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 28:10โ32:3. The parashah tells of Jacob’s travels to, life in, and return from Haran. The parashah recounts […]
๐๐ฎ๐ค๐ค๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ ๐๐ฑ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐:๐๐โ๐๐:๐๐ Sukkot Shabbat Chol HaMoed (Hebrew: ืืื ืืืืขื), a Hebrew phrase meaning “mundane of the festival”, refers to the intermediate days of Passover and Sukkot. As the name implies, these days mix features of “chol” (mundane) and “moed” (festival). On Sukkot, Chol HaMoed consists of […]
Mattot-Massei Tribes-Journeys โ ืืืืช-ืืกืขื Mattot-Massei Tribes-Journeys โ ืืืืช-ืืกืขื Masei, Mas’ei, or Masse (ืึทืกึฐืขึตืโ โ Hebrew for “journeys,” the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 43rd weekly Torah portion (ืคึธึผืจึธืฉึธืืโ, parashah) in the annualcycle of Torah reading and the 10th and last in the Book […]
Pinchas ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐: Pinechas, Pinchas, Pinhas, or Pin’has (ืคึดึผืื ึฐืึธืกโโHebrew for “Phinehas,” a name, the sixth word and the first distinctive word in the parashah) is the 41st weekly Torah portion (ืคึธึผืจึธืฉึธืืโ, parashah) in the annual cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Numbers. It tells of […]
๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ which was officially founded after a workshop series at Trinity Wall Street Church on The Black Presence in the Bible, though I had been teaching and posting about this information since about 2011/2012. I did not […]
Except from Prophetic Whirlwind: Uncovering The Black Biblical Destiny On April 11, 2017, I was invited to give the opening reflection for the Lab Shul Freedom Feast Passover Seder. For the Seder Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie assigned me a passage from Exodus, which when read in Hebrew shows that the Hebrew […]
When we read this weekโs 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 […]