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Contents: How many of you have been in a Messianic religious setting as of late where you have heard someone use the words God, or Lord, or even Jesus Christ—and then someone gets up and publicly chastises the person? How many of you have been told that if you do not use Hebraic names and terms for the Father and the Son that your prayers will neither be heard nor
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There are those who might say that it really does not matter who wrote the Torah, as long as we believe it and follow it. Why, they say, should we get involved in such intellectual pursuits when all that really counts is that we be “careful to observe all the words of this Torah which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the Lord your
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Image by Robert Williams: dubyadesigns365.blogspot.com TorahResource Institute | 2010 Part 1: Hearing & Receiving Part 2: A Tale of Two Proclivities Part 3: The Soul Proprietor Part 4: God and Mammon Part 5: Unity in Messiah Yeshua Part 6: “Do” Diligence Part 7: Speaking of Talking [C]ertainly all of us relish the story in Mark 12 of the scribe who approaches Yeshua, asking for the “first commandment in the Torah.”
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There is so much division over the name of God within Christianity, and especially within the Hebrew Roots movement. There, folks have been awakening to the more Hebraic aspects of the faith. They are keeping the Feasts, the Sabbath, eating clean, and even wearing tzitzyot (fringes); but doing these more Hebraic things does not mean we are “thinking Hebraically.” In English, when we see the words “in the name of
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The ancient Jewish sages believed that the alephbet (Hebrew alphabet) was the building blocks of life. In other words, those twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are what all of life is built on. In the book of Ivrim (Hebrews), chapter 11, verse 3, it says that the worlds were framed by the word of YHVH. When you read B e re’shiyt (Genesis) chapter one, you see ‘Elohiym saying, “
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An ancient controversy has surfaced once again in our times. It revolves around the text of Psalm 22:16 (verse 17 in the Hebrew). In the Hebrew Masoretic text, the verse reads: “For dogs have encircled me, an evil congregation surrounded me; like a lion my hands and my feet.” The Lxx translation, however, did not read the Hebrew word ‘כאר, ka’ari, “like a lion” but rather כארו, ka’aru, “they dug,”
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Faith, in my humble opinion, is second only to law as the most misused word in the scriptures. In many ways it has developed a meaning that incorporates almost every concept from religion to sports. Many people are now named “Faith”. The word has become an every day part of our vernacular. “Keep the faith, baby!” “Ya gotta have faith.” “Don’t you have any faith?” “Where is your faith, man?”
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Pancho grew up on the outskirts of Mexico City, the biggest city in all the world. He was a poor peasant boy who lived with his mother Maria and his father Cisco. From about the age of six years old, Pancho took care of the burro for his father and milked their milk goat. His father rode his burro into Mexico City once a week to sell their extra eggs
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