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If you were to ask most ‘sun-day christians’ what one of the most boring, and irrelevant, sections of the whole Book is – even if they never hear it read anyway – many might point to the part about what they call “leprosy.”

Which is a good reason to at least SUSPECT that there’s more to it.

But Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship suggests this week that there is a WHOLE LOT more to it: Not only is the section NOT at all about “leprosy,” or what we know as Hansen’s Disease, there’s a good case to be made, as he does, for the “why!”

The Erev Shabbat (Friday evening) of the two-part Double-parsha “Tazria,” then “Metzorah,” Leviticus chapters 12 through 15.reading again begins with what happens on eighth day — but this time it as after a woman “bears” a male child — and one more thing that just isn’t talked about much either:

Once again, and as seems to be so often the case, the Torah portion story this week has a relevance to current events that demonstrates the timelessness of the message, EVEN if it has to do with a malady that hasn’t been seen for well over a thousand years.

But if the “Evil Tongue,” (‘lashon hora‘ in the Hebrew) has something to do with the plague, Mark has suggested in the past that there may be a reason.

A fairly-standard warning about “gossip” [at least a subset of ‘lashon hora’] is that it kills three people: the one who speaks it, the one who listens, and the one about whom it is spoken.” And most discussion of the actual plague, called “tzaraat” in Hebrew, and there is no actual translation, tends to not only spiritualize, but personalize, the warning: ‘Don’t do it.’

But could the reason we don’t see that Divine Discipline manifested with people being marked as “unclean, unclean,” be an aspect of something much bigger?

And when did what has been referred to as “Supernatural Spiritual Discipline” actually come to an end? Or did it?

The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:

The Torah teachers, Ray Harrison, Mark Pitrone, and Mark Call, continue their look at the Second Letter to the Corinthians, from chapter 3 through 4 and into chapter 5.

And there is more to the examination than just a refutation of “replacement theology,” and some of the elements that Kefa, aka Peter, refers to as “twistings” of Paul, but some things that can, or have, been read “two ways.”

And the way many of us have been taught arguably inverts the entire meaning of the text. Which is what can be shown.

Mark Call reviews the major events, actual news stories, and outright lies being revealed, for yet another incredible week, ending Saturday, 3 May, 2025.

David Justice and Mark Call discuss the events of the week, and the latest ‘conspiracy theories’ which again turn out to be massive cover-ups and acts of treason.

Some people may be tempted to “breathe a sigh of relief” that America didn’t seem to go over the election cliff like Canada seems to have. And, no doubt about it, what may have been an imminent collapse seems to have at least been delayed by an election that didn’t manage – this time – to be stolen.

But, as Mark’s special guest this week, Torah teacher and author, Pete Rambo, points out, there are still things in progress, from “Real ID” and related potential control mechanisms, to the threat of AI, which prove that this is no time for complacency: we have been given more time, but not a reprieve from what Scripture says IS coming.

There are things in progress, now, that we must understand are pre-cursors to a choice that we must ‘come out of’ before it is too late.

“Marriage licenses, permissions from ‘another master,’ and the Coming Mark — with Pete Rambo”

Pete Rambo’s YouTube channel: @PeterGRambo

Pete’s “Kingdom Restoration Conference” will be held June 19th through the 22nd in Rock Hill, SC (just south of Charlotte)

Contact him for more information or reservations.

News and commentary for Thursday, 1 May, 2025.

News and commentary for Wednesday, 30 April, 2025.

News and commentary for Tuesday, 29 April, 2025.

News and commentary for Monday, 28 April, 2025.

Does “all” always mean “all”? What is the default reaction to being afraid of something? What intimidates you?

Beginning this teaching in Numbers/Bemidbar chapter 14, Rabbi Steve Berkson explains some of the aspects of human behavior when confronted with the unknown or the perception of something terrifying. This is the event of the leaders of Israel spying on the promised land, and then the slanderous report brought back by ten of those leaders.

From there Rabbi Berkson goes to Romans chapter 8 to help us understand the meaning of the difference between the Spirit and flesh, and the law of sin and death. Without this understanding the chapter will be interpreted incorrectly.

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