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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 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 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]
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]
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 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 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]
How to Make Challah Bread - Step by Step
A Step By Step Tutorial on how to bake Challah Bread. This video is a companion to the Challah Dimensions and Setting Shabbat Apart article above, and utilizes the same recipe in the article.
How to make Hamantaschen Cookies for Purim
This video accompanies "A Guide for Purim," and demonstrates the process of making Hamantaschen cookies!
Ideas for Counting the Omer with Children
How to Make Homemade Matzah (Unleavened Bread)
A Step By Step Tutorial on how to bake Homemade Unleavened Bread. This video is a companion to the Guide to Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread article above, and utilizes the Homemade Matzah Recipe #2.
What is Leaven (Chametz)?
We look at what to get rid of from our kitchens as we prepare for Passover.
Passover... Just the Beginning (Women's Torah Study)
We will look at Passover and how it is just the beginning. Topics will include subjects that are relevant to Hebrew Women in particular. We will be looking at Physical redemption, Spiritual redemption, and Agriculture in this lesson. PDF of Powerpoint Presentation located here.
"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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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:
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]
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]
Sacrifice. A mother will ALWAYS sacrifice for her children.
I spoke to a young mother recently. She had to make a decision. Follow her dreams, or sacrifice her dreams for the sake of her children. The choice was a hard one for her to come to terms with… But she made the right decision.
We as humans are selfish individuals. Most moms have nine months of nurturing a child, then the labor process of bringing forth a new life. All of these precursors give us a tenderness towards the child that we hold in our arms for their first precious moments of life earthside. The bond between a mother and her child is one that has no comparison.
It might be difficult to imagine the sacrifice the mother who went before Solomon was willing to make unless you are a mother. She was willing to allow this lady who LIED in her testimony to have her child. She was willing to allow this woman to nurse her child. She was willing to allow this woman to love and raise her child…. Because she loved her child. That’s sacrifice. She was willing to lose her child, take this “L”, take this hurt, because she loved her child...[Read More]
Central to our Faith as Israel is the existence of the ONE True and Living Elohim, the belief that before Him there was nothing, and that everything was created and is sustained by Him. The Shema is six words from the Torah that embodies this core point of our faith:
Sh’ma Yisrael YHWH Eloheinu, YHWH Echad
Hear Oh Israel, YHWH our Elohim, YHWH is One! (Deuteronomy 6:4)
The next words in the Torah are what we call the “V’ahavtah”, and they are our response to how we relate to YHWH because He is the One true Elohim…
And you shalt love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. (Deuteronomy 6:5)
Now you may think that I am just trying to make a big deal of these verses. However, all you have to do is continue reading the verses… [Read More]
This short Lesson introduces children to the Torah. At the end, we sing the song: “Torah Tziva Lanu Moshe” in the style of the Putti Singers. [Read More]
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And I will give them one heart, and *one way*, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them. Jeremiah 32:39
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