Friday, May 7, 2021

CHUCK KOLB 05/07/2021

 Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Behar-Bechukotai - Living in the Blessings !!!


Mother's Day is on Sunday, May 9, 2021 ...

Rosh Chodesh Sivan is on Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Shavuot is on Monday, May 17, 2021


Previously posted ...
Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Emor - Sanctifying His Name With Holy Lives !!!
http://conpats.blogspot.com/2021/05/chuck-kolb-04302021.html
Life GUARANTEED
http://conpats.blogspot.com/2021/05/sermon-life-guaranteed.html

EXCELLENT > URGENT - CLAIMED REVERSAL OF CV-19 POISON
http://conpats.blogspot.com/2021/05/chuck-kolb-05072021.html

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world
ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33
The war against Truth has been raging ever since
evil was expulsed from the realm of Heaven. 
God instructed Pharaoh, "Let my people go."
God instructs us, "Let my people know."
Shema Y'israel - Maranatha !
Na'aseh V'nishma
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  כבוד שם יהוה Baruch Hashem Adonai  
#ShabbatShalom - Welcome to this week’s Torah study, בהר־בחקתי  Behar-Bechukotai (On the Mount-By My Decrees), two Torah readings that are combined to accommodate the number of Sabbaths in this calendar year. Please read along with us, and enrich your understanding of the Bible by discovering Torah truths in this portion of Scripture that will be read in synagogues around the world this Shabbat (Saturday).
We know you will be blessed!

Last week, in Parasha Emor, God called the Kohen (priests) to live lives that expressed a greater measure of holiness. 
It also described seven essential festivals that are fundamental to Israel’s walk with the LORD. In this week’s Torah portion,
God gives to Moses the laws concerning the Shemitah or Sabbatical year.

You can view this Parasha on our website complete with embedded links ...
Behar-Bechukotai: Blessed Is the One Who Trusts in the Lord
https://free.messianicbible.com/parasha/behar-bechukotai-blessed-is-the-one-who-trusts-in-the-lord-2/

Are You a Jew? The Answer Might Surprise You

https://free.messianicbible.com/feature/are-you-a-jew-fname-the-answer-might-surprise-you/

Revelation and Na'aseh V'nishma
https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/11880
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/do-first-understand-later/
We will do and we will listen to all that God has declared. Exodus 24:7


When to Celebrate Yeshua HaMashiach's birthday ...
The Joy of Tabernacles when Jesus was Born
http://conpats.blogspot.com/2019/10/chuck-kolb-10142019.html
How Yeshua was born on the Feast of Tabernacles by Rabbi Isaac

http://www.calledoutbelievers.org/how-yeshua-was-born-on-the-feast-of-tabernacles/

English to Hebrew to English lookup
https://context.reverso.net/translation/hebrew-english/
https://www.doitinhebrew.com/Translate/default.aspx
https://yiddishkeit101.wordpress.com/category/hebrew-word-of-the-day
The Best Jewish Words You Need To Know: A Yiddish and Hebrew Glossary
https://www.joyofkosher.com/from-jamie/the-best-jewish-words-you-need-to-know/
https://hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Hebrew_Glossary_-_Sh/hebrew_glossary_-_sh.html
A Living Library of Jewish Texts in Hebrew and English translation.
https://www.sefaria.org/


Torah Teasers Parashas Behar-Bechukotai by Moshe Erlbaum
https://www.aish.com/tp/i/teasers/Torah-Teasers-Parshat-Behar.html
https://www.aish.com/tp/i/teasers/205127151.html

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Ralph Messer ...
Simchat Torah Beit Midrash - Joy of God’s Teaching and Instruction

What Does It Mean to Choose Life? Every decision you make can be made in a way that you are “choosing life.” The Torah is God’s constitution; it is His teaching and instruction; it is eternal and it is life. His Spirit is pure Light, abundant with untouchable, supreme, sovereign power.
God is the Source of all life.

Tonight count 41
Counting the Omer - ספירת העומר Sefirat HaOmer counting the sheaves
Daily Omer Reflections - Simchat Torah Beit Midrash

https://stbm.org/daily-omer-reflections/
https://stbm.org/study-home/

This week, the double portion of Behar-Bechukotai is read.  Behar means “on the mountain,” and bechukotai means “in My decrees.” Behar contains many important laws regarding money and the helping of one’s brother in time of need. In all forms of charity, we must be sensitive in the way we treat others.  The way you treat someone builds up trust within their heart. What do you gain by giving and sharing with someone else?  God’s blessings.  Sensitivity to the needs of others.  A sense of purpose.  A sense of happiness.  Even small acts of goodness and kindness make a big difference—and God sees them all.
https://stbm.org/behar-bechukotai/

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Todah Rabah - Dr. Gary Hedrick ...
Reaching the Jewish people with the Gospel
https://www.cjfm.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/
Charles Halff - What It Costs a Jew to Become a Christian

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Yitzchak ...

https://www.youtube.com/c/AssemblyofCalledOutBelievers/videos
http://www.calledoutbelievers.org/sermon-topic/torah-parashot/
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https://www.facebook.com/CalledOutBelievers/ at 10am PT
The Importance and Beauty of Tzitzit
http://www.calledoutbelievers.org/tzitzit/
The Hidden Beauty of the Holy Name of God - YHVH
vid> https://youtu.be/dbb45zmkli4 (20:59)

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Chaim Richman ...

Weekly Torah Study: with Rav Gedalia Meyer
Positivity & the Holy Temple with Rabbi Abba Horvitz
Temple Talk Radio with Yitzchak Reuven
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https://www.instagram.com/thetempleinstitute/ - https://twitter.com/TempleInstitute
https://www.templeinstitute.org/ w Weekly Newsletter - 34 years

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Chaim Jachter ...
Kol Torah Academy of Bergen County 
Parashat Behar-BeChukotai 5781
https://www.koltorah.org/articles?category=BeHar-BeChukotai
https://www.koltorah.org/by-parashah  https://www.koltorah.org/about-us
Parashat BeHar-BeChukotai 25 Iyar 5781 Issue (4 page pdf)

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a676111d74cffa4d903806e/t/60944fea6575ac43b1bf5a96/1620332522807/Kol

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Parshat Behar-Bechukotai

https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2904/jewish/Behar-Bechukotai-in-a-Nutshell.htm
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/default.asp?tDate=5/8/2021 
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month_cdo/jewish/Jewish-Calendar.htm

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Todah Rabah - beloved Rabbi Naphtali “Tuly” Weisz ...  
https://israel365.com/  https://www.israel365news.com/
https://www.israel365.com/about/

The Portion of Behar-Behukotai

https://theisraelbible.com/2015/05/03/portion-behar/
https://theisraelbible.com/2015/05/10/portion-behukotai/
https://theisraelbible.com/weekly-torah-portion/ 

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Jared and Ivanka Yael Special w Joseph, Arabella and Theodore ...

I got the shot !!!  (file under I can't believe it's real)
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My second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
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Good News From Israel - Achievements and Heartwarming Stories
In the 2nd May 21 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

https://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/2021/05/good-news-newsletter-to-2nd-may-21.html
http://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/ 

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Todah Rabah - beloved Ted Belman writing from Jerusalem, Israel for 19+ years ... 
THERE IS NO DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION 

Obama took  almost a total of a billion dollars in cash from the Iran deal
to finance COMMUNIST revolution in AMERICA
THE SWAMP IS SO DEEP AND SO BROAD THAT OBAMA COULD DO
WHAT HE WANTED NO MATTER HOW TREASONOUS
BREAKING NEWS from Maria Zack & General Tom McInerny 5/5/21
vid> https://dougbillings.us/video/breaking-news-from-maria-zack-general-tom-mcinerny/ (1:00:00)

https://www.israpundit.org/obama-took-almost-a-total-of-a-billion-dollars-in-cash-from-the-iran-deal-to-finance-communist-revolution-in-america/
https://dougbillings.us/our-videos/

Oligarchy, and Remedies
Those who live under oligarchies are not citizens—because oligarchy validates itself, decides for itself,
within itself. It is committed above all to negating a people’s capacity to rule itself.
https://www.israpundit.org/oligarchy-and-remedies/
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/03/oligarchy-and-remedies/

INTO THE FRAY: Something to worry about…
The debilitating deadlock, in which Israel’s political system is mired, is in large measure the result of judicial disregard—or at least distortion—of the law.
https://www.israpundit.org/into-the-fray-something-to-worry-about/

“Biden’s war on merit puts America’s scientific edge at risk.”
Biden picks diversity maven to oversee largest funder of the physical sciences in the U.S.
https://www.israpundit.org/bidens-war-on-merit-puts-americas-scientific-edge-at-risk/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/05/biden_picks_diversity_maven_to_oversee_largest_funder_of_the_physical_sciences_in_the_us.html

>> The Jordan Option, plain and simple
https://www.israpundit.org/the-jordan-option-plain-and-simple/
>> The Jordanian Option is the only game in town

https://www.israpundit.org/my-jordan-option-is-the-only-game-in-town/

Kindly donate to support the work I do
by Ted Belman

https://www.israpundit.org/kindly-donate-to-support-the-work-i-do/
https://www.israpundit.org/my-half-yearly-appeal-for-donations/

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Quest For The Lost Tribes - Full Simcha Jacobovici Documentary

vid> https://youtu.be/S0QCPXnAPNA (1:37:08) Syndicado TV 1998
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Jacobovici

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This week's parasha, a double portion of Behar and Bechukotai

include the many laws and promises of rewards for keeping the commandments. Hashem commands the Jewish people to cease all agricultural activity during the seventh year and allow the produce to be freely available to man and animal and in reward we will have more bountiful harvests. Imagine the level of preparation that must have preceded this year of schmittah. The Jewish people had to prepare enough to ensure they would not starve in the months ahead. I only wish they knew how to can, the modern solution for preservation. When short on time or ripe produce, I turn to canned products to help enliven sauces, stews and soups and this week I turn to Jamie's slow cooker turkey meatloaf covered in a rich tomato sauce.
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/a-slow-cooked-shabbat-menu/

6 Over The Top Mother's Day Recipes
https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/6-mothers-day-recipes/
Lessons I learned from Mom
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/lessons-i-learned-from-mom-giveaway/
Mazel Tov! My Mommy is Married!

https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/mazel-tov-my-mommy-is-married/

Mother's Day Buffet Brunch
https://jamiegeller.com/menus/mothers-day-buffet-brunch/

Mother's Day Gift Guide

https://jamiegeller.com/holidays/mothers-day-gift-guide/

Bring on the heat
vid> https://content.jwplatform.com/players/HDKZvtJz-FSMnt4zj.html (0:25) JG
https://jamiegeller.com/recipes/spicy-harissa-shakshuka/

Skillet Shawarma and Oven Rice Dinner
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Vegan Recipes
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This is Where You Can Find Me Most of the Time
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The answer is, it's made with love from Israel ! 
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/my-jewish-food-memories/
My Love Affair With Jerusalem
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/my-love-affair-with-jerusalem/
Lots of 💕 Jamie - Until next week Shabbat Shalom from Israel ! 



Joy of Aliyah 
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Jamie Geller Welcome's You

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Babies, Books, and a Billion Views: My Decade in Review
https://jamiegeller.com/from-jamie/a-decade-in-review/

Best of the Best w Hubby - Family Heirloom Cholent ...
vid> https://youtu.be/Ae2-lQVFsGw (12:01) 8/11/11 JG classic
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How You Can Make the Future Brighter
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The Influence of the Hebrew Bible on America's Founding Fathers
vid> https://youtu.be/jE6Sqh-kezw (7:15) J-TV
https://www.aish.com/jl/h/h/The-Influence-of-the-Hebrew-Bible-on-Americas-Founding.html
Serpents of Desire: Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. An Introduction
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The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, Speak to the Israelites and tell them, When you enter the land that
I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the LORD. Lev. 25:1-2

If you walk in my statutes (chukkot) and guard my commandments (mitzvot) and do them, then I will give you your
rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Lev 26:3-2



Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Behar-Bechukotai - Living in the Blessings !!!

Jewish men pray and read Scripture at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.
 
Shabbat Shalom
 
Welcome to this week’s Torah study, Behar-Bechukotai (On the Mount-By My Decrees), two Torah readings that are combined to accommodate the number of Sabbaths in this calendar year.
 
Please read along with us, and enrich your understanding of the Bible by discovering Torah truths in this portion of Scripture that will be read in synagogues around the world this Shabbat (Saturday).

Behar-Bechukotai (On the Mount-By My Decrees)
Leviticus 25:1–27:34; Jeremiah 16:19–17:14, 32:6–27; Matthew 21:33–46
 
“The LORD said to Moses at Mount Sinai, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them:”  (Leviticus 25:1–2)
 
Last week, in Parasha Emor, God called the Kohen (priests) to live lives that expressed a greater measure of holiness.  It also described seven essential festivals that are fundamental to Israel’s walk with the LORD.
 
In this week’s Torah portion, God gives to Moses the laws concerning the Shemitah or Sabbatical year.
 

Men reach out to pay respect to the Torah as it is raised at the
Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.  (Photo by opalpeterliu)
 
The Year of the Shemitah
God commands Israel to observe the Shemitah every seventh year, a Sabbath for the land.  According to these laws, crops are not to be planted, tended, or harvested, and all agricultural activity is prohibited, although anyone can eat what the land produced naturally.
 
Israel observes this commandment today; our last Shemitah year ended on September 13, 2015
(the year 5775 on the Hebrew calendar).
 
 
If you had been traveling down the highway from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv during that year, you would have seen signs posted in several overgrown fields along the side of the road saying (in Hebrew), “We observe the Shemitah year here.”
 
Of course, this Shemitah rest parallels God’s rest after creating the universe, as well as the Shabbat.
 
In Judaism, “seven” signifies a completion as well as holiness.  It is considered the “all-encompassing number that celebrates the sacred purpose of a Jew to infuse holiness into the whole of Creation.”  
(Jewish Wisdom in the Numbers)
 

Harvesting pomegranates in Israel

The Land of Israel is to be the Holy Land.  Our behavior toward one another should portray a holy people living in the Holy Land.
 
God warns His people not to cheat, defraud, or take advantage of one another and forbids them to charge interest on money loaned to a fellow Israelite.  God wants us to deal fairly with each other and practice business integrity.
 
“Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God.  I am the LORD your God.”  (Leviticus 25:17)
 
God also makes it clear that He holds the title deed to this land and does not give us the authority to sell it permanently.
 
We are only residents on this land that God has given us to live in as pilgrims and strangers.  That means the leaders of Israel have no right to sell off portions of the Land to the enemy in exchange for false promises of supposed peace.
 
“The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is Mine and you reside in My land as foreigners and strangers.”  (Leviticus 25:23)
 

The Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem
(Israel Photo Gallery by Noam Chen)

The Year of Jubilee
“Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.  It shall be a jubilee [יוֹבֵל Yovel] for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.”  (Leviticus 25:10)
 
After every seven cycles of seven years, in the fiftieth year, the shofar is to sound and the Yovel (יוֹבֵלor Jubilee year is to be celebrated.  Not only is the land to lie fallow, but also all debts are to be cancelled and all indentured servants are to
return to their land and family.
 
We serve a God of kindness and mercy, and His laws are for the good of all—even for the land itself.
 
Although some among the Jewish People might have endured a time of servitude, they were not to permanently remain in that situation.  It is because God brought His people out of slavery in Egypt that no Israelite was to become a permanent slave of another.  In the year of Jubilee, all were to be redeemed and released.
 
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.”  (Leviticus 26:13)
 
In Judaism, 50 is the number of transcendence.  It indicates a return to God and the emergence of a new creation.
 
Under the Brit Chadashah (New Covenant), which was sealed with the giving of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) on Shavuot (Pentecost) 50 days from Passover, Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) became our spiritual Jubilee. 
 
In Him, all debts are cancelled.  He has redeemed us from slavery to any kind of oppression and empowered us to walk in holiness with
our heads held high.  Halleluyah!
 

The Pentecost Sermon, by Gebhard Fugel
 
Living in the Blessings in the Holy Land
In the Bechukotai (In My Statutes) portion of this week’s reading, God promises a blessing upon the people if they obey His commandments in the Torah — but He warns of punishment, persecutions and even exile for disobeying them.  He says:
 
“If you walk in My statutes [Im bechukotay teileichu], I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase.”  (Leviticus 26:3–4)
 
We must keep in mind that God does not willingly afflict or grieve us; He only does so when it is absolutely necessary to get our attention so we can see the error of our ways and, through His mercy, put our feet back on the right path.
 
“For if He causes grief, then He will have compassion according to His abundant lovingkindness.  For He does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.”  (Lamentations 3:32–33)
 
One of the reasons that the Jewish People were sent into exile and the land lay barren was because they failed to keep the Sabbatical years.  
 
Therefore, God forced the people out so the land could finally enjoy its Sabbaths and make up for those it did not have when Israel lived there:
 
“I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you.  Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.  Then the land will enjoy its Sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.  All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the Sabbaths you lived in it.”  (Leviticus 26:33–35)
 

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays at the Western (Wailing) Wall. 
(Photo by opalpeterliu)
 
We, too, must be diligent to keep the Sabbath of the Lord and to rest on every seventh day, lest our bodies wear out and need an extended time out to make up for failing to keep the Sabbath day holy.
 
Despite there being severe consequences to not keeping God’s statutes, He promises to have mercy on the Jewish People even in exile; to remember His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and to remember the Land:
 
“Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking My covenant with them.  I am the LORD their God.  But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God.  I am the LORD.’”  (Leviticus 26:44–45)
 
Twenty-five hundred years after God brought back the Jewish exiles in Babylon to the Land of Israel, He is doing it again.
 
But some claim that the modern state of Israel is a nation made solely by the efforts of the League of Nations and the United Nation and not by the hand of God.
 

A woman holds up the Israeli flag and her new Israel
identification after making Aliyah. 
(Jewish Agency photo by Brian Hendler)

Yet, we know from history that no one can bring God's people out of exile until God makes it so.
 
He brought them out of Egypt despite the hard heart of Pharaoh.  
 
He released the exiles in Babylon through the decree of King Cyrus after a specified time, which were both prophesied
(Isaiah 44:28–45:1; Daniel 9:2).
 
In the 20th century, He brought His people home through the Balfour Declaration and the creation of the State of Israel in one day, which was also prophesied (Isaiah 66:8).
 
 
And God is continuing to enact a modern-day revival of Israel that has included miraculous victories in the 1948 War for independence in 1948, the Six Day War in 1967, and the Yom Kippur war in 1973.
 
Despite anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israelism, Israel is still alive and vibrant.  And it continues to be a blessing to the world despite the social, political, and physical attacks by her neighbors and by the world since her rebirth.
 
When we examine all the "independent" events culminating in the formation of an independent Jewish state, we see that God will never allow the Jewish People to be destroyed completely, nor will He ever break His covenants with them.
 

Crowds gather at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.  Above the
Wall is the Temple Mount.  Just to the left of the Western Wall is the
Muslim Dome of the Rock, which is thought to occupy the spot where
the First and Second Jewish Temples were located.
 
Prophetic Portion: Trust in God Alone for Your Blessings 
The Haftarah (prophetic portion) for this week (Jeremiah 16:19–17:14) continues with the theme of promised blessings for obedience and punishment for disobedience.
 
Because God alone is the One who grants freedom and blessings according to His covenants, the Prophet Jeremiah promises that those who place their trust in man will become desolate and alone:
 
“Cursed is he who trusts in man, who makes mere flesh his strength, and turns his thoughts from the LORD.  He shall be like a bush in the desert.”  (Jeremiah 17:5–6)
 
On the other hand, “blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.  They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.  It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.  It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”  (Jeremiah 17:7–8)
 
lone tree by water with benches on either
                  side.
 
There is a sense of accountability in these blessings and curses; we are accountable for our actions, which have consequences.  We are responsible, and this knowledge informs our choices and helps us move forward in our daily walk with the God of Israel.
 
This Haftarah ends with the beautiful proclamation that God alone is the hope of Israel, the source of life-giving water, our healer, and Savior.  When we rely on and obey God, He will not fail us, and we will walk in the blessings.
 
“LORD, you are the Hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame.  Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water.  Heal me, LORD, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.”  (Jeremiah 17:13–14)
 
 
You can bring the Good News of Yeshua to the Holy Land.
 
"On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity."  (Zechariah 13:1)
 
Shabbat Shalom from the Entire Bibles For Israel Family!

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