The rituals the Jewish people were doing during the Last Supper and the Crucifixion are unbelievably graphic and beautiful pictures of why Yeshua died. Also, did you know that Paul and his guys celebrated Unleavened Bread, and that the early Christians celebrated Passover until the mid-100s? And do you know why they stopped? This is a takeaway from our newest Mishnah Snapshots study. Watch the full lesson and check out this ongoing series by clicking through this episode or by going to holylanguage.com > learn > mishnah snapshots.

Read through the parables of Yeshua in the Gospel of Matthew. Eighth section reading through Mishlei, Proverbs. Fourth section learning the titles of Mashiach in the writings of the prophets of Israel and the Apostles of the early Yeshua movement.

It's neat to read about the relationship that disciples had with their rabbis in ancient Judaism because it's a picture of the relationship that we have with our Rabbi from Nazareth. Here's an example. This is a takeaway from my newest Mishnah Snapshots study. We also talked about why Abraham's bosom is the Hebrew emblem of the afterlife, the real Hillel sandwich which was two Gamliels between three Shimons, an instance where the Jewish religious leaders followed Rabbi Yeshua's teachings, the difference between judging and perceiving mode, and the Paternitas and Mandorla in Christian iconography. Watch the full lesson and check out this ongoing series by clicking through this episode or by going to holylanguage.com > learn > mishnah snapshots.

Read about radical devotion to God expressed in the mitzvah of tzitzit, or fringes in Numbers 15. Tenth section reading through Mishlei, Proverbs. Sixth and final section learning the titles of Mashiach in the writings of the prophets of Israel and the Apostles of the early Yeshua movement.

Why are the Hebrew words for "neck" and "commandment" related? Because just as the neck connects the body to the head, God's traditions are opportunities to connect with him. You might not be "Torah-observant", but how could you allow this principle to rekindle the love in your relationship with God? What if you just whispered "I love you" every time you…? This is a takeaway from my newest Mishnah Snapshots study. We also talked about these questions: ~Fights about the calendar are nothing new, so what did the sages do? ~A beautiful story about the relationship between rabbi and disciple ~Why does the Hebrew word for Torah-observance also means Exodus? ~"Our Father who art in Heaven", is that a Christian or a Jewish prayer? ~How much of the synagogue service is from Yeshua's time and WWJD? Watch the full lesson and check out this ongoing series by clicking through this episode or by going to holylanguage.com > Learn > Mishnah Snapshots.

In this introduction to our Hebrew Sketches series, we talk about the differences between Hebrew and English, and the problem that creates with Bible translations. Watch this ongoing series by clicking through this episode, or going to holylanguage.com > learn > hebrew sketches.

The New Testament was written by Jews. Here's an example of how discovering the Jewish backdrop of the Gospels can bring the old stories to life like never before. This is a takeaway from my newest Mishnah Snapshots study. We also talked why Jared Kushner's bouquet didn't have any flowers, the gorgeous Hebraic Bible commentary of Reformed Baptist preacher Dr. John Gill, one of the GOOD "takanot of the Rabbis" which kept people from losing an eye, and how the commandments are the seeds of Kingdom culture and just how positive that is! Watch the full lesson and check out this ongoing series by clicking through this episode or by going to holylanguage.com > learn > mishnah snapshots.

Jesus didn't make up discipleship. There were lots of rabbis and disciples. What he did do was invite people into a rabbi-disciple relationship with himself, and he's still doing it! What if learning about the Jewish way of discipleship could help you understand that relationship better? This is a takeaway from my newest Mishnah Snapshots study. We also talked about what a Sukkah is and isn't, why Shammai the sage tore a hole in his in-law's roof, if Yeshua was the only Hebrew guru who told parables, and the Jewish holiday when they shake it...like shake the lulav. Watch the full lesson and check out this ongoing series by clicking through this episode or by going to holylanguage.com > learn > mishnah snapshots.

Paul taught that just as Yeshua fulfilled the Torah, when we walk according to his Spirit we too will fulfill the Torah. He also said that an unspiritual mindset will automatically reject the Torah. Let's unpack that. This is a takeaway from my newest Hebrew Verses study. We also talked about why we say Yeshua instead of "Yay"shua even though that's how it's vowel-pointed, why everyone has roughly the same idea of a perfect world, how goofy your body "guf" is (and some other fun memory pegs), and how to understand those mysterious abbreviations in the footnotes. Watch the full lesson and check out this ongoing series by clicking through this episode or by going to holylanguage.com > learn > hebrew verses.

The Mishnah and the New Testament are two Jewish writings from the same Jewish world. An example is how King Agrippa shows up in both. The Mishnah give us further information about this man who spoke with the Apostle Paul and was almost persuaded to become a Christian. Izzy also talks about the terms "Christian" and "Messianic" - how one comes from Western Graeco-Roman Christianity, and the other comes from Eastern Hebrew-Aramaic Christianity, and how neither term was how we primarily self-identified anyway. This is a takeaway from our newest Mishnah Snapshots study. Watch the full lesson and check out this ongoing series by clicking through this episode or by going to holylanguage.com > learn > mishnah snapshots.