Weekly Torah Commentaries

By UMJC - Union Of Messianic Jewish Congregations

Reflections on the weekly Torah portions from a diverse group of Messianic Jewish rabbis, scholars, and lay people. Our contributors bring fresh insights to familiar texts, drawing connections to even... more

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Weekly Torah Commentaries episodes:

February 24, 2023 A Willing Heart and the Willing Creator
This is a characteristic of the Almighty. Present everywhere, he yet deigns
to make his Presence known in our time and space. Whereas we cannot reach,
and certainly cannot comprehend, his exalted mind, his infinite space, his
timeless space, he has chosen to enter ours.
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10min
February 16, 2023 What the World Needs Now is Hope
We need hope today more than ever. But in what do we hope? Some think of
our hope as going to “heaven" when we die. But this is not the biblical
hope. The biblical hope, in short, is the future establishment of God’s
Dwelling Place, God’s “tent,” on earth, on his holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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11min
February 07, 2023 The Upside-down Tent
Then that night, something crazy happened. The campsite was on a hill. My
fellow campers and I had placed our tent on that hill, and we figured it
was okay not to put our tent stakes in the ground because we were going to
be inside it.
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6min
February 01, 2023 Faith on a Stretcher
Healing is a deep and universal human need, and praying for the sick and
afflicted has always been part of my ministry as a rabbi and teacher—never
more so than in recent years, with the Covid pandemic and a good number of
friends and colleagues beginning to decline in health and vitality.
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11min
January 26, 2023 Where is Your Heart?
On May 14, 1948, before signing Israel’s Declaration of Independence, David
Ben Gurion looked back over 2000 years of our history and declared how the
Jewish people had returned in a second exodus, “undaunted by difficulties,
restrictions and dangers.”
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9min
January 19, 2023 Accepting Our Heritage
The life of Moses can be seen as three distinct movements, forty years
each. First, Moses spends forty years thinking he is somebody. In the
second act he discovers that he is nobody. But in the third forty years
Moses discovers what Hashem can do with somebody who accepts he is nobody.
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6min
January 12, 2023 Yogi Berra, Making the Pitch, and Telling Stories
The Prophet Yogi Berra told us, “You can observe a lot by just watching.”
Such sage advice! But it is true that we can learn a lot for our own lives
by watching how our ancestors lived theirs.
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11min
January 04, 2023 God Already Knows, but He’s Waiting to Hear from Us
God knows all things, but he has assigned to human beings, and therefore to
us, a priestly responsibility. Even though our ancestors were groaning
under heavy bondage, they still represented God and had the authority to
call upon him to intervene.
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9min
December 28, 2022 Hope Can Set You Free
Who among us hasn’t contemplated revenge? Who hasn’t caught themselves
musing at length about toppling an enemy from their pedestal, wanting them
to feel for a moment the same pain that they inflicted? When Yosef was
hauled off to prison at the whim of Potiphar’s wife, who do you think he
blamed?
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8min
December 21, 2022 Light over Might
Let’s make no mistake; the Maccabees did not fight for religious freedom,
but to cleanse the land for the worship of the one true God of Israel.
While they fought to end the Greek cultic practices imposed through the
tyranny of Antiochus, they also fought to end the long-felt effects of
assimilation.
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9min

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How many episodes does Weekly Torah Commentaries have?

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