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News and commentary for Thursday, 21 May, 2026.

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Time for some perspective, and a few questions.

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News and commentary for Monday, 18 May, 2026.

Love and Torah – what’s love got to do with it? This study series is based on the “Two Great Commands” – love Yahweh and love your neighbor.

Continuing in the book of James (Ya’akov), Rabbi Steve Berkson breaks down chapter 1…

• Does Elohim ‘entice’ anyone to do something against His commandments? How and why are you enticed to leave the Path?

• Does Yahweh ever change?

• What is the definition of a “remnant”?

• By what term are we who are in covenant with Elohim called?

• When should you not post anything on social media?

• What is the first action you should take after praying when faced with a life issue?

• How are you to be “swift to hear and slow to speak”?

• What is “Failure to Adult,” and why is it an epidemic today?

• A Doer of Work?

Rabbi Berkson once again dissects the words in these passages so that you will have a deeper understanding of what Yah expects of you, enabling you to do it and receive the blessings.

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Parsha “Emor” (Leviticus chapters 21 through 24) begins with the word “Emor,” or “speak,” and it is directed specifically: to Aaron, and his sons, and those who are ‘cohenim,’ or priests, that follow after them. Speak to THEM.

And yet today, the mishkan, and the temple which followed, no longer exists. Neither does that priesthood, so far as a known lineage at least. And so, even though this instruction was given as a commandment “forever,” and “throughout your generations,” and in all your dwellings — even in exile — the things they were charged with doing cannot be done.

How can it still be relevant?

And though most of us have probably been told that it’s “old testament,” and thus NOT relevant, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship suggests (surprise!) otherwise.

For reasons that might even be surprising. And vital.

And in fact, it just might be that the fact we’ve been told to ignore so much of this, and particularly when YHVH says otherwise, that gives us every reason to look deeper.

The Erev Shabbat reading lays out the details of exactly what the cohenim, those who follow the sons of Aaron, were told to do, and how:

But that is just the start. The parsha also includes some other things, like particularly the “appointed times of YHVH,” that “make the case” so dramatically:

If we can’t tell a “real priest,” or cohen, from the fakes that claim to replace them, how can we expect to recognize a fake prophet? Or, more importantly, a fake messiah, or ‘christ.’ After all, Yahushua Himself warned us against exactly that!

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The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:

Host Mark Call reviews the major news for the week ending 16 May, 2026, with appropriate commentary, and even a bit of cynicism when — as it often is — necessary.

Mark Call and David Justice review the major events of the week where President Trump was in China, the war continued, and more and more of the Far Left got exposed.

This is the history of the 12 tribes of Israel. They would settle in Europe. We will cover the entire history.