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Dr Clifford Denton. Beha’Alotcha: Numbers 8:1-12:16. 22nd June 2024/16 Sivan. Speak to Aaron, and say to him, ‘When you arrange the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.’ (Numbers 8:2) Picture by Helen McNeill This week’s portion reveals how far the earthly life of God’s people sometimes is from the perfection of […]

The big question for the general election: What think ye of God’s elect? by Charles Gardner. The pledge to recognise a Palestinian state from the likely next British Prime Minister is clearly in appeasement to the not insubstantial Muslim vote. But it is merely a continuation of the meek deference to Islamic sensibilities that has […]

Dr Clifford Denton. Nasso: Numbers 4:21-7:89. 15th June 2024/9 Sivan. Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you shall bless the children of Israel….’ (Numbers 6:23) Picture by Helen McNeill God gave many detailed instructions to the Children of Israel through Moses. A number of them are found in this week’s […]

Tyranny rears its ugly head once more. by Charles Gardner. In a profoundly moving ceremony in honour of those who fought for our freedom from tyranny, we were reminded of the immense cost incurred by those who engaged in the D-Day landings at Normandy 80 years ago. It was a royal occasion befitting the 22,000 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]