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Challah Dimensions and Setting Apart Shabbat
A brief look at the commandment to take challah, reasons and ideas about how to make Shabbat special as a family, a Bread recipe, and kiddish guide in English are all included in this guide. [READ IT] .
A Guide to Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
A Guide to Counting the Omer and Shavuot (Pentecost, Feast of Weeks)
A summary of the history and Messianic significance of counting the omer and the Feast of Shavuot, ideas for celebrating it, activities for children, and recipes are all included in this guide! [READ IT]
A Guide to the Fall Feasts
A summary of the Biblical Fall Feasts and ideas for how to celebrate them, activities for children, and a recipe are all included in this guide! [READ IT]
The Ten Days of Awe (Daily Devotions for Hebrew Women)
Ten Devotions to help stay focused on the true meaning of the High Holy Days (Trumpets, the Ten Days of Awe, and the Day of Atonement)! You can use these devotions during the days of awe, or at any time you are going through a period of introspection and repentance! [READ IT]
Tips for Fasting on the Day of Atonement for Hebrew Women
There are many things for women to consider on the Day of Atonement, relating to their health, their children's health, and those they may care for. This article brings balance to the table on how to observe the commandment to afflict your soul, both for healthy individuals, as well as those who have health issues. If you are new to fasting, or have questions about fasting, this is a resource for you! [READ IT]
A YOUTUBE Presentation of this article is available: [WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE]
A Guide to Hanukkah (Chanukah/The Feast of Dedication/The Festival of Lights)
A comprehensive guide to Hanukkah. This guide covers a summary of Hanukkah as well as Biblical and Traditional ideas for celebrating, recipes, and more! [READ IT]
Hanukkah Devotions for Teens and Older Children - 8 Devotions for each night of Chanukah for teens. Devotions focus on being dedicated to Yah and being lights in this world. [READ IT]
Chanukah Themes for Older Children - 8 Themes with Bible Verses for older children to read and meditate on during Chanukah! [READ IT]
A Guide to Purim
A synopsis of the Purim story, ideas for celebrating Purim with children, and Hamantaschen recipes are all included in this simple guide to celebrating Purim! [READ IT]
Wisdom Nuggets
Receiving Wise Counsel
"Without counsel, plans go wrong, But by great counsellors they are established." Pro 15:22
There is a Torah principle that truth is established on the basis of two or three witnesses. Yet many of us make plans and decisions without seeking the counsel of witnesses. Or, probably worse, we only receive witness testimony when what they say aligns with what is already in our hearts to do.
That job that has you working on Shabbat, that handsome and godless man who has a ring for you, that decision to allow your children to celebrate a pagan holiday… Our carnal natures will twist the counsel of even the Torah and the Scriptures into making these things acceptable in our own sight. [Read More]
What Are Your Hands Doing?
YHWH created Eve to be Adam’s help meet. Implicit to the idea of being his help meet is the idea of assistance. She was not created for her own sake, but to assist Adam. Our roles as wives have not changed since Creation. We are created to help our husbands meet their highest potential. We need to make sure that our hands are building them up, supporting them, loving them. If we are using our talents, resources, words, motivations to tear down our husbands and our homes, then quite frankly we are foolish. [Read More]
Unforgiveness and the Evil Tongue
Unforgiveness manifests as a form of lashon hara. The Hebrew term lashon hara (or loshon hora) (Hebrew לשון הרע; "evil tongue") is the halakhic term for derogatory speech about another person. Lashon hara differs from defamation in that its focus is on the use of true speech for a wrongful purpose, rather than falsehood and harm arising. Recollecting the wrongs done to us or observed by us that causes us to regard a person negatively (even if it is indeed a negative action or behavior or intent on their part) holds within us that particular negativity. The thoughts will contaminate us and such contamination prevents the Father from forgiving us because we are willingly holding on to that which separates us from Him. It's like holding a cattle prod in front of us, thoughts and words going forth from us spreading the same negativity about which we are speaking, allowing them to continue doing damage. We hold off a level of intimacy with YHWH and keep Him at that distance. [Read More]
Drash
Thoughts on Baptism in Y'shua for Hebrew Women
Baptism unto salvation is the immersion that a person who decides they are making Y’shua HaMoshiach their Lord and Savior does as an act of obedience and a sign of their belief. It is symbolically burying your carnal self/old man in the water with Y’shua, in order to rise up from that watery grave to live with him in newness of life. [Read More]
Be, Stay, Live BROKEN
I remember long ago disagreeing with some sisters over the concept of the necessity of being broken to be pleasing to the Most High. I felt like you don’t have to be broken, you can be whole. That was in my youth. Now that I’m a little older, and much more mature in my faith, I have come to face the reality that brokenness is required in order for us to draw close and stay close to YHWH. [Read More]
How Deep is Your Bondage?
The key to understanding the Four Expressions of Redemption is to understand that our redemption is not one-dimensional. The redemption of Yisrael went much deeper than YHWH simply freeing them from physical slavery. The children of Yisrael were enslaved for four hundred years. The generation that was delivered never experienced freedom. They also did not KNOW YHWH. The exodus from Egypt was YHWH’s miraculous introduction of Himself to His People... [Read More]
Why be a Servant of YHWH?
A relative once told me that from his perspective, I’m “living to die.” He was saying that I am a believer just for a reward that I will not receive until I die. In his mind, I was giving up “life” today, so that I could live in the hereafter. Another relative said that she sees what I do in following Torah and the Scriptures as being something “unnecessary” and “old fashioned”. That you can believe in God without literally doing everything in the Bible.
What my two family members do not understand is that BECAUSE I literally believe in the God of the Bible as being TRUTH (Emet in Hebrew), I am compelled to obey His commandments. What can be seen on the outside in how I live my life is a reflection of the inner reality of Faith, Trust, and Hope in YHWH. [Read More]
Inspiration
Tefillah Prayer
Talmidah Adorning the Bride 31 Day Prayer Journal
Free PDF 31 Day Prayer Journal, with an introduction on the Hebraic understanding of prayer
A 7 Part Tefillah Prayer series is available on YOUTUBE! Here is the Playlist:
Overcoming Adversity
I think it’s safe to say that everyone wants a perfect life, where the sun is always shining on them and things go their way. I know that I personally don’t like problems, concerns, sicknesses, struggles, enemies, worries… Things going terribly off course, out of my control.
Adversity will come no matter who you are. So you must prepare yourself for the inevitable. If you don’t believe me, King David said:
Many are the afflictions [adversities] of the righteous, but YHWH delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 34:19, NASB
The word for afflictions is רָע֣וֹת, Ra’ot transliterated... [Read More]
The Reset Button
Almost everything in our lives requires maintenance. If you don’t maintain your body, you teeth rot out, you gain weight, and eventually you will get sick. If you don’t maintain your car, it will eventually break down. If you don’t maintain your house, it will become dilapidated, and eventually condemned. If you don’t maintain your relationships with others, you will find that separation inevitably results.
I really believe that there are times in our lives when we must “reset” our Spiritual walk and relationship with YHWH. It is part of the maintenance process. The goal of the Spiritual Reset is to Refocus on YHWH and prioritize our lives, thought processes, and time accordingly. To focus on the mission of our lives – which is to draw so close to YHWH that we lose our identity in the fragrance of the Almighty. To return to the elementary principles of faith, love, and hope. To focus on flowing in YHWH!... [Read More]