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How do we get our lives unstuck? Is belief alone the thing that gets our lives moving and producing the kind of fruit we & God desire? How do we actualize the idealized version of ourselves?

In this series, we are seeking to answer the question Yeshua asked His disciples in John 1:38, "What do you want?". Not only are we going to find out what we truly desire, but also some proven ways to become the image-bearing people we were created to be.

News and commentary for Tuesday, 5 March, 2024.

And "Super Tuesday" is just the beginning. But some of the SIGNALS tell the real story.

News and commentary for Monday, 4 March, 2024.

The faith/belief/trust we as humans profess in something that is greater than ourselves ultimately boils down to relationship. This relationship is being one with our Creator, our Father and our Messiah, in the context of or vehicle known as “covenant.” For this reason, to learn about this covenant is critical to the health of the relationship both vertical (with the Creator) and horizontal (with each other).

In this episode Rabbi Steve Berkson lays out more to learn from Proverbs chapter 5 as it pertains to wisdom, understanding and knowledge in keeping covenant with our Creator.

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Are you planning Passover?

Passover is a celebration that requires significant planning whether you are celebrating in your own home with your family or with a group. In Temple times, people would “register” for a lamb in groups of about fifty people.

Since sacrificial animals all turn a year older on Elul 1 Rosh Hodesh Elul, the new moon festival of the month of Elul marks the opening of the time window when one-year-old lambs qualified for the Pesach will be born. Elul 1 is ma’aser behema, or the counting of domesticated animals. During the time of the Temple, this day was the new year to determine the start date of animal tithes. The lambs would therefore be a year old even though technically aged about six months or less.

Since only a kazayit (the size of an olive) of the lamb had to be eaten to meet the requirement of sharing the Pesach, one lamb sufficed for many people. They simply needed to share in its suffering, not make the main meal from it. The celebratory meal of the chag (joyous festival) was the main course to fill the belly. During Second Temple times, if you did not register ahead of time to share in a lamb, then you were not permitted to eat from it! Yikes.

Such delay in planning one’s worship was considered a severe spiritual lapse. We might compare this to someone who has many opportunities to accept Yeshua as savior, yet refuses or delays repeatedly. When the Day comes, it is too late. Practically speaking, a person could make a last-minute purchase and bring his own lamb by procuring one himself, but that’s a lot of meat for one person to eat before midnight!

Passover is a type and shadow of salvation, but it is also predictive of how we acquire an identity with the holy community of Israel. From smaller family and friends gatherings, we grow together and eventually stand as one people at Shavuot and the fall feasts of Yom Teruah and Yom HaKippurim.

A chag is a “memorial,” so while you’re planning, why not plan to make it memorable? Since an essential element of Pesach is teaching children, the part of the seder that is telling the story of the Exodus can ALWAYS be made memorable to children. For instance, one year, I dressed up in Egyptian costume as “The Plague Lady.” It required a few months of planning! I don't have any photos from that seder because I was too busy plaguing people, but I looked pretty scary.

Here's what I did:

1. Water turning to blood: I purchased small (dead) baitfish and a whole big fish from the market and submersed the big fish in a pitcher of red Kool-Aid. When the leader announced the plague, I came in and offered to serve the kids’ table drinks from the pitcher. Yes, they screamed. I then threw some of the dried fish onto their table. Be careful with that one. One of the kids tried to eat one.

2. Frogs: Over a month before the seder, I purchased a frog pinata and three packages of catfish stinkbait. I opened the stinkbait, inserted it into the pinata, then wrapped the frog in a big Hefty bag and left it in the garage until Passover. I unwrapped it just after the dead fish Kool-Aid, unplugged the pinata, and then I walked through the room swinging the pinata around. Yes, it was horrible. I also bought some frog legs from the market and threw some onto the kids’ table. I don’t think anyone tried to eat those. We were all nauseated from the stinkbait frog. It smelled so bad you could taste it.

3. Lice: Easy-peasy. Lice-rice, baby, but go easy. Clean-up is a mess.

4. Flies: Cheap party favors, a dollar a bag. Pass them out to parents ahead of time so they can throw them at the kids. You won’t have to worry about clean-up.

The Torah parsha titled 'Ki Tisa,' (Exodus 30:11 through chapter 34) is not only 'feature-packed,' but includes one of the most important, and tragic, turning points in all of Scripture.

And it also includes one of the most notable chiasms in the Bible, too (although Mark prefers the more descriptive Hebrew term, 'atbash.') And, again, the 'flashing red tag' emphasizes the importance of something that has been ignored, but fits the pattern - and the point - of the story.

The Erev Shabbat reading:

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There are a number of vital questions raised in this week's parsha, but one that should perhaps resonate the MOST with us today is, "Why did Aaron go ALONG?" After all, Scripture indicates he was culpable, because he made the golden calf.

Today we have different high priests of an even more transparently fake god trying to force people to worship something arguably more akin to what comes out of the back end of a different kind of cow. But it's the same Idolatrous Lie: 'This is your 'god', Oh, AmeriKa!'

Aaron took the gold and crafted an idol. What about us?

Ki Tisa: Why Did Aaron Go Along? How About US? ...Knew, or Should Have Known"

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The combined two-part teaching is here:

The word "sacrifice" does not usually send warm fuzzy feelings through us. We seem to avoid any mention of sacrifice in our normal daily lives. However, sacrifice does have positive connotations as well, and maybe even more so. In the Psalms, David speaks often of making a sacrifice and it seems to be frequently involved with enriching his relationship with his Heavenly Father. The Hebrew understanding is to "see the fixing of the authority that brings life." That has a much more positive revelation to the way that sacrifice enriches our relationship with our Heavenly Father.

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News, commentary and a bit of recap of the week ending Friday, 1 March, 2024.

I had the privilege to have a sit-down, face-to-face conversation about Biblical Law and Teaching ("Torah") versus American Jurisprudence with California Attorney Iver Bye. Attorney Iver Bye has specialized in courtroom criminal law since graduating from law school in the late 1970s. If you perhaps find an interest in learning about Divine Wisdom, Teaching (Torah), and Law and how it relates to American and Common Law, then stay with us for this hour-long program.

Attorney Iver Bye grew up in Spokane, Washington. After some 45 years in the legal profession, Attorney Iver Bye continues with his law practice in the area of Victorville, which is located in the high desert of Southern California in the USA. Join us for this Part One episode in addressing Biblical Law and Teaching (Torah) and American Jurisprudence. This is Real Israel Talk Radio Episode 145.

This week the Torah teachers explore the prophecies of Isaiah/YesheYahu chapter 26.

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