Teaching on Leviticus 21-24 and Luke 18-20 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Too easy to focus on others instead of ourselves in spiritual growth and Torah observance. Pharisaic practice of fasting twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. Looking up to heaven in prayer. Quotes from Siddur and Didache. Tradition of smiting the chest. Bringing babies. Which mitzvah the Master left out and why. Yeshua's question, 'What do you want?' Value of desire and setting quantifiable goals. What the term Ben Avraham, Son of Abraham, meant to Mashiach. Cities responding to Yeshua and disastrous consequences of rejection of Yeshua and Yochanan the Immerser. Celebration of the festival commandments contributes to greatness in the kingdom. Feasts bad translation of moa'dim. Whose are the appointed times. Proclaim with a loud voice and cry out the truth of the holy convocations. Breakdown of Hebrew verbal root qara, to call or cry out, as calling on the name of Yahweh in prayer, publicly reading the Scriptures, preaching, and inviting others to join us. Sabbath first of the feasts of the Lord. Also a mitzvah to work from Sunday to Friday. Quote from Brian Tracy. We're commanded to have holy gatherings, not just rest. Journal entries and warm fuzzies. Matzot, Bikkurim, Omer/Sheaf counting. Kindness to the disadvantaged. Spring Festivals partially fulfilled in first coming of Mashiach. Yomei Teruah and Kippur and Sukkot. Offerings by fire. Vignette from early church history, the quartodeciman controversy. Tertullian and the Sabbatati.