Messianic Torah Observant Israel

Have you maintained a faithful, straight walk in Torah? Or, have you gotten “off the path” a little or a lot? Do you sense a call to return to the path, to Yahweh?

As Rabbi Steve Berkson finishes this teaching series, he begins his text in Joel 2:12 where we see Elohim giving His people instruction for how to return to Him. As Rabbi Berkson points out, Yahweh expects those who are returning to Him to be serious about repairing the breach in the relationship.

• What is tearing your garments? Why does Elohim want a tearing of the heart instead?
• What does Elohim do to get your attention so that you return to the path?

In Jeremiah 32:37-42, Yahweh says that as much as He brought evil to His people for their turning away from Him, so He will just as much bring good to those who return.

• When Elohim says, “I shall give them one heart…”, is He just going to hand out new hearts to everybody?
• Ephesians chapter 2 talks to us about the opportunity given to us to become what?

Moving to Isaiah 1:16-20, Rabbi Berkson points out that with a holistic understanding of scripture, it’s not possible to get the message that Elohim just gives us everything. He also points out that the scriptures can also be used by many to make conclusions for erroneous agendas.

• What is a ‘holistic’ approach to the Scriptures?
• How could someone prove from Scripture that their chicken was the Messiah?
• What is evil? How does Yahweh define evil?
• When Elohim says, “Come let us reason together…” (Isaiah 1:18), does that mean Yahweh wants your input?

Going forward to Isaiah chapter 58, Rabbi Steve clarifies the understanding that to truly be in covenant with our Creator, there are two things that have to work together.

• Is this chapter only referring to Yom Kippur?
• Doesn’t Elohim always responding to fasting and afflicting ourselves?
• What are the two things it takes to please Elohim?
• How does Rabbi Berkson interpret ‘speaking your own words’?

Verse-by-verse and step-by-step Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us on the journey of discovery as we learn how to covenant with our Creator and Father, which, from time to time requires us to turn around and return (Shuva) to His Word so that we can have a sure entrance into His Kingdom.

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Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Some of the topics covered are;
• It’s not your job
• The journey from the World to Christianity to Torah
• Keeping from growing weary while running the marathon
• Yahweh has no pleasure in the death of…
• Individually walking in Torah, but in a community setting
• How do we recognize a “watchman”
• What was Adam’s bigger sin?
• Am I responsible for my children “getting” Torah observance?
• It’s not fair…
• Who’s being warned here?
• An Easter basket in one hand and a pork chop in the other…
• Am I not listening?

… and much more!

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Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Have you maintained a faithful, straight walk in Torah? Or, have you gotten “off the path” a little or a lot? Do you sense a call to return to the path, to Yahweh?

Continuing from the last episode, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us from Ezekiel chapter 18 to chapter 33. In the first part of the chapter, Yahweh appoints the prophet Ezekiel to be a “watchman” who would warn the people of that time of the judgment coming upon them. Yahweh also gave clear instructions for how this appointment should be performed, with a warning to the prophet of the consequences should he not perform his duties.

• Can anyone take away from this passage that they too are a “watchman”?
• What is the danger in claiming to be someone appointed by Yahweh?
• How did Rabbi Steve define ‘crookedness’?
• What is the difference between your righteousness and Elohim’s righteousness?
• What is your part in getting into the Kingdom of Elohim?
• What will you be doing in the Millennium?
• What is the real test of your pursuing Torah?
• When is an apology not an apology?
• What is the difference between a ‘won’t and a ‘can’t’?
• Are your sins truly forgotten?
• What is the one “salvation issue”?

Verse-by-verse and step-by-step Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us on the journey of discovery as we learn how to covenant with our Creator and Father, which, from time to time requires us to turn around and return (Shuva) to His Word so that we can have a sure entrance into His Kingdom.

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We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website, https://mtoi.org, email us at [email protected] or call us at 423-250-3020. 

Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Some of the topics covered are;
• Generational curses?
• How to walk free and delivered…
• Of course I’m getting in…
• What you need to do…
• Prepping you for the Covenant?
• The new has to line up with the old… 
• Accountability 
• The fullness of the intent
• When the cards are against you…
• Repetition
• Not uncomfortable enough yet…
• So you think you’ve arrived?
• Affirmations?
• How do I “get” discipline?

… and much more!

Afterburn: also known in the world of fitness as the “afterburn effect”, simply put; The more intense the exercise, the more oxygen your body consumes afterward. 

The same could be true as you build up your spiritual self. After an intense teaching session, you need answers as more thoughts and questions consume you in your spiritual growth.

Rabbi Steve Berkson, director of MTOI, provides an opportunity for the Afterburn to take place by additional thoughts and insight about what he just taught as well as answering questions from the local congregation and those watching the live stream.
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We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website, https://mtoi.org, email us at [email protected] or call us at 423-250-3020. 

Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Have you maintained a faithful, straight walk in Torah? Or, have you gotten “off the path” a little or a lot? Do you sense a call to return to the path, to Yahweh?

After a quick review of the last two episodes, Rabbi Steve Berkson shows us from Jeremiah 33:7-8 how Yahweh promised to, “turn back (Shuva) the captivity of Judah and Israel and build them as at the first.”

In this passage, why does Yahweh mention both Judah and Israel?
• When was “at the first”? (Exodus 6:6) How can you relate to this concept today?
• How can you “return” if you were not born and raised as an Israeli?
• What is the first step of ‘returning’?
• What is the ‘Egypt’ that is over you today?
• What are the two levels of redemption that Messiah Yeshua provided for us?
• For what is the Land (of Israel) a metaphor?
• What is the 2-step process of “return” promised in Jeremiah 33:8?

From there, Rabbi Berkson takes us to Ezekiel chapter 18. In this chapter we see how we individually will be held accountable for our behavior and the importance of “owning” our choices.

• Why are the words, “Thus said Yahweh” important?
• What is a ‘nephesh’ and how has it been improperly defined?
• Is a son held accountable for the father’s unrighteousness, or visa-versa?
• Is there such a thing as “generational curses”?
• Do you really reap what you sow?
• How can I make a new heart and spirit?

Verse-by-verse and step-by-step Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us on the journey of discovery as we learn how to covenant with our Creator and Father, which, from time to time requires us to turn around and return (Shuva) to His Word so that we can have a sure entrance into His Kingdom.

Don't miss out on new teachings every week. Please click on the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing to you.

For more information about MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel), visit our website, https://mtoi.org.

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We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website, https://mtoi.org, email us at [email protected] or call us at 423-250-3020. 

Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Some of the topics covered are;
• Afraid to give up control… 
• Wrong to explain yourself to another?
• More thoughts on ‘rebellion’… 
• Reaping what you sow… 
• How should we submit to secular authorities, governments, etc. that we disagree with?
• The least and the greatest?
• Three points of confusion clarified – Why we need a teacher... 
• To be successful at living in reality, realize the limited control and influence you have over it… 
• How can I help someone through a personal tragedy emotionally and mentally? Rabbi Steve shares a personal story... 

… and much more!

Afterburn: also known in the world of fitness as the “afterburn effect”, simply put; The more intense the exercise, the more oxygen your body consumes afterward. 

The same could be true as you build up your spiritual self. After an intense teaching session, you need answers as more thoughts and questions consume you in your spiritual growth.

Rabbi Steve Berkson, director of MTOI, provides an opportunity for the Afterburn to take place by additional thoughts and insight about what he just taught as well as answering questions from the local congregation and those watching the live stream.

Don't miss out on new teachings every week. Please click on the "LIKE" button if this video has been a blessing to you.

For more information about MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel), visit our website, https://mtoi.org.

Join us on Social media!  
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtoiworldwide/
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We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website, https://mtoi.org, email us at [email protected] or call us at 423-250-3020. 

Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Have you maintained a faithful, straight walk in Torah? Or, have you gotten “off the path” a little or a lot? Do you sense a call to return to the path, to Yahweh?

Taking us to Jeremiah 29:12 Rabbi Steve Berkson points out Yahweh’s pattern of behavior towards His people. When He needs to correct covenant behavior He starts with small subtle nudges and then uses more severe measures to get our attention. Then at some point if He determines we are not listening or responding, we will be turned loose to “play with the pigs” and hopefully come to ourselves and return to Him and the Covenant.

• What’s the first thing one should do when returning to Yahweh?
• What is “hedging an apology”?
• What is not seeking Yahweh with all your heart?

In Isaiah 55:6 two things are mentioned – seeking Yahweh while He can still be found, and calling on Him while He is near.

• What causes Him to not be near? What separates and causes distance between you and Him?
• Why do we not fully understand and accept His ways?
• What are 3 things that will forever be in the Kingdom of Elohim?

From there, Rabbi Berkson takes us to Lamentations chapters 3 and 5 where we see the formula for a prayer of repentance.

• Have you ever been contrary to the Covenant out of rebellion?
• What does this mean, “renew our days as of old”?

Then we hop back to Jeremiah 6:8-17 where we see how Torah is much more than just “The Law”, but it is for our instruction. Yahweh wants us to be ‘instructed’ by Him.

• How can our ears be “uncircumcised”?
• Why does Yahweh want to see us walk out His instructions?
• What is “greedy for gain”?

Verse-by-verse and step-by-step Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us on the journey of discovery and learning how to covenant with our Creator and Father which from time to time requires us to turn around and return to His Word so that we can have a sure entrance into His Kingdom.

Don't miss out on new teachings every week. Please click on the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing to you.

For more information about MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel), visit our website, https://mtoi.org.

Join us on Social media!  
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtoiworldwide/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtoiworldwide

We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website, https://mtoi.org, email us at [email protected] or call us at 423-250-3020. 

Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Some of the topics covered are;
• Discipleship today vs. 2,000 years ago… 
• Explaining the importance and meaning behind the Promised Land… 
• Why the blessings and curses in Leviticus 26?
• How do I process mentally, emotionally and spiritually an experience when in a Christian church I received a “word” that was specifically directed at me? 
• Leviticus 26:19, “your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze” – what does this mean? 
• More about the “Good News”… 
• Yahweh had a problem with the sacrificial system and priesthood… 
• Be very cautious about making an issue of genealogy… 
• Is cannibalism being talked about in Leviticus 26:29?

… and much more!

Afterburn: also known in the world of fitness as the “afterburn effect”, simply put; The more intense the exercise, the more oxygen your body consumes afterward. 

The same could be true as you build up your spiritual self. After an intense teaching session, you need answers as more thoughts and questions consume you in your spiritual growth.

Rabbi Steve Berkson, director of MTOI, provides an opportunity for the Afterburn to take place by additional thoughts and insight about what he just taught as well as answering questions from the local congregation and those watching the live stream.

Don't miss out on new teachings every week. Please click on the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing to you.

For more information about MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel), visit our website, https://mtoi.org.

Join us on Social media!  
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtoiworldwide/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtoiworldwide

We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website, https://mtoi.org, email us at [email protected] or call us at 423-250-3020. 

Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Seldom does Rabbi Steve Berkson do a “timing teaching”, but it seems the Ruach put this one in front of him (at the behest of Rabbi Tom) to bring to you today. This teaching series is based on a tradition called “Shabbat Shuva” or the “Shabbat of Return” which by tradition falls between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (Day of Trumpets and Day of Atonement). The text for this tradition is Hoshea (Hosea) chapter 14 and begins with, “O Yisra’el, return to Yahweh your Elohim…”

So, after having gone through the Spring Feasts – Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Shavuot, which are types and shadows of the Hebrew's exodus from Egypt and journey to Mt. Sinai, have you maintained a faithful, straight walk in Torah? Or, have you gotten “off the path” a little or a lot? Do you sense a call to return to the path, to Yahweh?

• What is meant by “crookedness”? What does crookedness cause you to do?
• Regarding the call to return – return to what?

From there, Rabbi Berkson takes us into Leviticus chapter 26 to look at the reasons to return to the Covenant. In Leviticus chapter 26 the blessings and the curses associated with Yahweh’s Covenant with His people are listed.

• How is it that you will be able to walk in Covenant with the Creator?

From Leviticus, we go to Deuteronomy 4:25 where we can see that Yahweh has an issue with His people and their idol worship. How can we today relate to them in that time regarding ‘idol worship’?

Rabbi Berkson then takes us to Deuteronomy chapter 30 to show us one of the final exhortations of Moses to the people as they are about to cross over into the Promised Land. Interestingly, Yahweh through Moses told the people that in their future they would stray from the path they were supposed to walk and be taken from the Land by their enemies, but as they were living in a foreign land, their hearts would turn back to Yahweh and they would return once again to possess and live in their Promised Land.

• In this chapter we see the phrase, “circumcise your heart” – what does that mean? Isn't that just a "New Testament" concept? What is it doing left of Matthew?

And then we are taken to Romans chapter 10 where Rabbi Berkson points out that the apostle Paul is clearly writing about Torah observance, and indeed substitutes the word ‘Messiah’ for the word ‘Torah’ as he quotes Moses in the section from Deuteronomy chapter 30.

• What does Romans 10:4 really mean?
• What is “the righteousness of belief”?
• What is “the good news of the good”? 
• Was there “Good News” before the New Testament?

Verse-by-verse and step-by-step Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us on the journey of discovery and learning how to covenant with our Creator and Father which from time to time requires us to turn around and return to His Word so that we can have a sure entrance into His Kingdom.

Don't miss out on new teachings every week. Please click on the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing to you.

For more information about MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel), visit our website, https://mtoi.org.

Join us on Social media!  
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide
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We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website, https://mtoi.org, email us at [email protected] or call us at 423-250-3020. 

Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).

Some of the topics covered are:
• Thoughts from Steve Waffle… 
• Oaths, promises and making swears (James 5:12)
• Saying, “if God wills…” (James 4:15)
• If I am “rich” but righteous in Yahweh, are bad things going to happen to me? (James 5:1-3)
• Should we have fellowship with those of other faiths?
• Will we be “perfected” when Messiah returns?

… and much more!

Afterburn: also known in the world of fitness as the “afterburn effect”, simply put; The more intense the exercise, the more oxygen your body consumes afterward. 

The same could be true as you build up your spiritual self. After an intense teaching session, you need answers as more thoughts and questions consume you in your spiritual growth.

Rabbi Steve Berkson, director of MTOI, provides an opportunity for the Afterburn to take place by additional thoughts and insight about what he just taught as well as answering questions from the local congregation and those watching the live stream.

Don't miss out on new teachings every week. Please click on the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing to you.

For more information about MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel), visit our website, https://mtoi.org.

Join us on Social media!  
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwide
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtoiworldwide/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtoiworldwide

We are located in Cleveland TN. If you would like to know more about us, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to visit us on our website, https://mtoi.org, email us at [email protected] or call us at 423-250-3020. 

Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE Streamed on our Main YouTube Channel every Saturday at 1:15 pm (EST) and every Tuesday for Torah Study Live Stream at 6:30 pm (EST).