In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why he sits on a bar stool to teach, and reviews the custom of sitting to teach in the Bible and Jewish history and tradition.

Teaching on Genesis 12-17 and 1 Peter 1-2 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Humorous laws including Going Down to Egypt. Avram the first Emergent. Homeostasis as mortal enemy. Receiving your true name. Running from versus going to. The paranoia of the anti-church orientation. Concept of praise as causing to shine. Olam in the hermeneutical law of first mention. Bread and wine as ancient tradition. Tithing as deed of Abraham. Abraham as shrewd businessman and example to entrepreneurs today. Challenge to men to develop their spiritual sensitivity. Drama of piling coats on wife. Prophetic call to body of Messiah to return to Appointed Times and Calendar of Israel. Tackling One Law hypocrisy. Avram the immigrant. Non-quantifiable but highly qualifiable children of Abraham. Replacement, Supersessionist, and Inclusionist Israelology. Spirit of Mashiach then and now. Behavioral holiness and Torah as standard. Yeshua the Mashgiach Ruchani.

Teaching on Genesis 18-22 and 1 Peter 3-5 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Humorous comments on how North American, French, Japanese, German, British, Russian, Swiss, Hindu, Chinese, and Israeli Agri-Corporations handle cattle. Why the Bible says women shouldn't wear dresses. Hyperliteralism versus spiritual halacha. Role of the external and internal. Becoming daughters of Sarah. Hebraic understanding of the weak vessel. Action points for husbands. Church and FFOZ bashing. Word study on Gentiles. Using your gift in the Messianic community. Communicatory gifts of preaching and teaching. Privelege and abuse of midrash. Messianic angst about Greek terms. Glorifying God as a Christian. Gospel that demands obedience. How to handle a faith crisis or depression. The deeds of Abraham, including hospitality, meat and dairy, intercession, listening to your wife, teaching your children, observing moadim, circumcision, and weaning parties. Drunk people do stupid things they regret. Testing and going to the next level. E.W. Bullinger and the 134 emendations of the soferim. Our wild, transcendent, and mysterious God who cannot be boxed and must be known. Theological quandaries of this parasha.

Simon Peter as Shimon Kefa the Jewish Emissary. Defining Godliness as Devotion and Chasidut according to Delitzsch and Strongs Concordance. Lovingkindness and truth as covenant terms for committed devotion and fiercy loyalty. Love story of Isaac and Rebecca. Practical tips for young men and women preparing for marriage. Letting God write your love story. How to bless your descendants to be aggresively missional, outreach minded, and leaders in the civic, economic, and governmental spheres of society. The Biblical genre prefaced by a warning. Whole Bible eschatology. The one thing not to be ignorant of. Quote from Babylonian Talmud regarding timing of the coming of Mashiach. Quote from Barnabbas on early Christian echatology.

In this "Lama (Hebrew for 'Why?') Talk With Izzy", Izzy explains why we started reading the second half of the Apostolic Scriptures with the book of James instead of the Pauline Epistles and does an expose on the Hieronymic Order of the New Testament, starting with the Pauline epistles with Gentile overtones, as innovated by Jerome and the Roman Catholic church versus the original order of the New Testament, starting with the Universal epistles with Jewish overtones.

Teaching on Genesis 25-28 and 1 John 1-4 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Way to heart through stomach. How to sell your birthright by denying Yeshua, losing a new covenant orientation, forgetting the gospel, and becoming an exclusivist Jewish club and lose influence and leadership. Community clout. Inheriting the Gaza Strip. Setting Johannine terminology including life, fellowship, light, truth, commandments, word, walking as he walked, antimessiah, sin, love, and hatred, in their original Hebraic context.

Teaching on Genesis 28-32 and Jude from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Our gallant God who wants to prove himself to us. Aramaic in Torah. Dynamics of exile and return to Israel. Practical discussion on dreams. Cutting ten percent to the Almighty. Protestant inconsistency in abolishing Torah and retaining tithing. Meaning of Christ as King. How to love the Jewish people. Mitzvot as standing with Israel. Practical points from Jude.

Teaching on Genesis 32-36 and Romans 1-3 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Exchanging our glory for cheap trinkets. Masculine strength and feminine beauty. To the Jew first on the three levels of the focus of Messiah, the strategy of Paul, and the heart of God. Kiddush as a picture of training for the Apostolic mantle. Warning to congregations that spend much time in midrash and little time in prayer. Analysis of human degeneration and warning against pride and judgementalism. Hebrew concepts in Pauline Epistles, Ruach haKodesh and Echad. Suppressing the truth through unbiblical practices including Christmas and Easter. Defining circumcision as legal Jewish status. Torahless Jews and Observant Gentiles. The value of the Jewish heart. Respecting Judaism. The universal Torah. The faith that upholds the Torah. Connections between the Return of Israel, the Great Tribulation, and Yom Kippur. Finding your true identity in God.

Teaching on Genesis 37-40 and Romans 4-6 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Our forefather Abraham. The unholy trinity of works, pride, and boasting. Favour versus entitlement. Inheriting the cosmos. Defining legalism. Practical points for setting goals and seeing promises materialize. Shalom as a relational term. Grace by which we stand. Tangible salvation from global catastrophe and population decimation. Practical ramifications of union with Mashiach. Meaning of immersion into Yeshua. Quote from Pirkei Avot in Artscroll Siddur. A mitzvah leads to a mitzvah. The cord of Judah. Drivers licenses, birth certificates, and major credit cards in the ancient Middle East.

Teaching on Genesis 41-44 and Romans 7-8 from a Messianic Jewish Perspective. Connection between dreams and egg whites in Hebrew. Connection between the end and awakening from a dream in Hebrew. Yeshua and Peter as interpreters of dreams and history. Spiritual gifts in the Old Testament. Middle name of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Pauline nomology. Equating the Spirit filled and Spirit led life with the Torah observant life. Practical instruction in prayer. The Hebrew term Abba and the Hebrew speaking Spirit in you.