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  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty-Four.

    Dr Clifford Denton. B’Midbar: Numbers 1:1-4:20. 8th June 2024/2 Sivan. Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually. (Numbers 1:2) Picture by Helen McNeill From time-to-time God instructed Moses to take a census. This was more…

  • Torah portion from Jerusalem.

    7th June 2024. By Joseph Shulam. We are starting the Torah reading this Shabbat with the Book of Numbers. The names of the books of the Bible are very different in the Hebrew Bible than in the translations to other languages. Usually, the Hebrew names are taken from the Book’s first words. Genesis is Bereshit,…

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty-Three.

    Dr Clifford Denton. B’chukotai: Leviticus 26:3-27:34. 1st June 2024/24 Iyyar. If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. (Leviticus 26:3-4) Picture by Helen McNeill Chapter 26…

  • B’har/B’chukotai from Netivjah.

    by Yehuda Bachana. With this double Torah portion we conclude the book of Leviticus. Leviticus starts with the description of different offerings and sacrifices. Then it continues with the order of the priestly service in the sanctuary. Later, in the land of Israel during the rule of the kings, this sacrificial system shifted to the…

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty-Two.

    Dr Clifford Denton. B’har: Leviticus 25:1-26:2. 25th May 2024/17 Iyyar. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement, you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. (Leviticus 25:9) Picture by Helen McNeill             What an awesome pattern for the life…

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty-One.

    Dr Clifford Denton. Emor: Leviticus 21:1-24:23. 18th May 2024/10 Iyyar. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. (Leviticus 23:40) Picture by Helen McNeill             The Feasts of…

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Thirty.

    Dr Clifford Denton. K’doshim: Leviticus 19:1-20:27. 11th May 2024/3 Iyyar. “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel and say to them: ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. (Leviticus 19:2) Picture by Helen McNeill (an adulteress is brought before Yeshua for righteous interpretation of Torah) This Torah Portion contains many references to…

  • BAY OF BLESSING.

    It’s safer to take David’s side in a battle with Goliath. by Charles Gardner. Even on a short break in England’s stunning Lake District, I have been reminded once more of the ancient truth that if you bless the seed of Abraham, a blessing will return on your own heads (Genesis 12:3). In effect, it…

  • UK Christians march for Israel.

    ‘Medieval antisemitic lies regurgitated by our brightest students’. by Charles Gardner. After so much focus on Hamas hatred from pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London, it was encouraging to see between 1,500 and 2,000 people take to the city’s streets for a ‘March for Life’ on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Photo by Moira Dare-Edwards Part of…

  • Developing the Theme of Family through the Torah Portions. Number Twenty-Nine.

    Dr Clifford Denton. Acharei Mot: Leviticus 16:1-18:30. 4th May 2024/26 Nisan. Thus Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with the blood of a young bull as a sin offering, and of a ram as a burnt offering. (Leviticus 16:3) Picture by Helen McNeill Holiness is an ongoing topic in Leviticus. God made it perfectly clear what the Children of Israel must…