The Weekly eDrash Archive

—

Acharei Mot

• What 'Holiness' looks like
• A People Set Apart
• Working for Success
• A Personal Day of Atonement
• Atonement

Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

• Face to Face

B'reisheet

• Do You Have Two Souls?
• The Life-giving Spirit
• Seven Days and Seven Millenia
• Voice of the Prophets
• The Way
• Where Are You?
• Seed of the Woman

Balak

• The Error of Balaam
• Never Argue with a Donkey
• A Talking Donkey!
• Balaam's Evil Plan
• Life's Little Interruptions
• Shout of the King
• Balaam and the LORD

Bamidbar

• The Hosts Above and the Hosts Below
• These Things Happened as Examples
• Reverence in the Face of the Sacred
• Journey through the Wilderness
• The World Was Created for Me
• House of the Father

Bechukotai

• Study to Learn; Learn to Do
• The Curse of the Torah
• Shalom in the Land
• Sabbath Rest for the Land

Beha'alotcha

• Malcontents
• The Punishment of Abundance
• The Greatness of Moses
• The Shortened Arm
• Nostalgia for the Familiar
• Why Wasn't Aaron Punished?
• Trumpets and Clouds

Behar

• Study to Learn; Learn to Do
• The Torah that Gives Freedom
• Shalom in the Land
• Sabbath Rest for the Land
• The Jubilee Year
• The Year of Freedom

Behar-Bechukotai

• Calculating the End

Beshalach

• Believe in God, Believe also in Me
• Nachshon's Leap
• The Great Salvation
• No Shortcuts
• Manna and Materialism
• Messianic and Davidic Dance

Bo

• The Two Remembrances
• The Bread of Affliction
• These Signs of Mine
• The Passover Lamb
• Darkness
• No Uncircumcised Person

Chayei Sarah

• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Love and Marriage
• Rebekah's Blessing
• Hidden Person of the Heart
• Good Things of His Master's Hand
• Bashert: The Real Soul Mate
• The Canaanites
• The Desire of the Father

Chol HaMo'ed Pesach

• Shabbat Chol haMo'ed Pesach

Chukat

• Lifted on a Miracle
• The Purity Paradox
• Aaron the Peacemaker
• Balaam's Evil Plan
• Snake Bite
• Baptized for the Dead
• Parah Adamah: The Red Heifer

Devarim

• Fear Not
• These are the Words
• God Hates Me
• The Necessary Death of Moses
• Two Wrongs Don't Make Repentance
• Like the Stars of Heaven
• Expounding the Torah

Ekev

• What We Were Created For
• Cling to God
• Circumcise Your Hearts
• Forty Years of Preparation
• Blessing God at Meals
• Self-Righteousness
• Bread Alone

Emor

• Keeping the Festivals
• God's Day Planner
• Sanctifying the Name of God
• Count-Off to Pentecost
• Laws for Priests
• The LORD's Appointed Times

Ha'azinu

• The Song of Moses and of the Lamb
• Watering our Souls
• Shuvah Yisrael
• Spiritually Flabby
• Heaven and Earth; Rain and Dew
• The Song of the Lamb
• Rejecting the Son

Kedoshim

• What 'Holiness' looks like
• Sanctified by His Commandments
• Working for Success
• The Holy One of God

Ki Tavo

• A Heart to Know
• Imitating God
• Good Karma
• God's First Fruits
• A Question to Ponder
• End of the Curse
• The Righteous will Live by Faith

Ki Tetze

• The Escaped Slave and Philemon
• Case of the Rebellious Son
• The Least of the Commandments
• Stoning Rebellious Children
• Love and War
• Accursed of God
• A Glutton and a Drunkard

Ki Tisa

• A Sign Between Us
• Unchecked Spiritual Impulses
• Oil of Gladness
• The Word Made Stone
• Tabernacle vs. Golden Calf

Korach

• Korach's Rebellion
• Guarding the Sanctuary
• How to Split a Congregation
• Who Is the Boss?
• The Two Wives
• Three Offices of Messiah
• The Priest on the Throne

Lech Lecha

• Melchizedek's Banquet
• All Things Created for Him
• The Greatness of the Fathers
• Deeds of the Fathers
• The Fifth Test
• The Famine
• The Quarrel with Lot

Massei

• Levites for Messiah
• The Land of Israel

Mattot

• The Sin of Triangulation
• Patriarchal Authority

Mattot-Massei

• Vows and Oaths
• Blushing Like Fire
• Promise Keepers
• Messiah the Avenger
• First Glimmer of Redemption

Metzorah

• Baptisma
• The Leper Messiah
• The Haughty Spirit
• A House of Leprosy

Miketz

• Messiah and Israel
• This too is for the good
• Exaltation of Messiah
• Relinquishing Worries
• Preparing for the Lean Years
• Joseph in Disguise

Mishpatim

• Torah — God in Human Terms
• Righteousness and Justice
• Standard of Righteousness
• Slavery Laws in the Bible
• Tough-Love with Torah
• Grace vs. Law

Nasso

• Confession, Repentance, Restitution
• The Priestly Blessing
• Confession and Repentance
• Erasing God's Name
• Nazirism and Messiah

Nitzavim

• The Secret Things
• Never Will I Leave You
• Circumcise Your Heart
• United We Stand
• The Greatness of Repentance
• Choose Life
• Circumcision of Messiah
• They Forsook the Torah

Noach

• Safe on the Ark
• One Language
• The Righteous Cannibal
• Fixing a Broken World
• Noah and Messiah
• The Righteous Man
• Left Behind

Pekudei

• The 'Church' at Mount Sinai
• The Glory and the Tabernacle
• Torah with an Occupation
• The Lost Ark

Pesach

• Nachshon's Leap
• Spiritual Matzah
• Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Blood on the Doorposts
• A Memorial
• Slaves No More

Pinchas

• Appointed Times
• Who Needs Religious Fundamentalists?
• The Man over the Congregation
• Moses' Uncertainty
• The Man for the Job
• Shabbat: The Sabbath

Re'eh

• Is Jesus A False Prophet?
• Invest in Heaven
• The Blessed Life
• Tithing
• Invitation to God’s House
• Leaving Egypt in Haste
• The Mitzvah of Charity

Rosh Hashanah

• Head of the Year
• Rosh Hashanah
• At the Appointed Time

Shavuot

• Redemption and Torah
• The Giving of the Torah

Shelach

• A Sabbath Rest for God's People
• Even if I am being poured out...
• The Complainer and the Atheist
• A Different Spirit
• The Law and the Gentiles
• Thread of Blue
• The Sabbath, the Land and the World to Come

Shemini

• Don't Drink and Serve
• Straining Gnats and Swallowing Camels
• Seek, Seek—Darosh, Darash
• Aaron's Grief
• Clean and Unclean Animals
• Spiritual Fire

Shemot

• God of the Fathers
• The Good Shepherd
• The Redeemer
• The Death of a Dream
• The Golden Handcuffs
• Ordinary Life

Shoftim

• The King's Copy and the Rule of Law
• Testing for a False Prophet
• Clear Boundaries
• Prophets
• The Mysterious Prophet
• King of the Jews
• The Prophet Like Moses

Sukkot

• Tribute to King Messiah
• Sukkot: Camping Out with God
• A Tabernacle of Glory over Jerusalem
• Grace Negotiations

Tazria

• Baptisma
• Leprosy in the Gospels
• The Haughty Spirit
• A House of Leprosy
• The Sin of Childbirth
• Clean and Unclean

Tazria-Metzorah

• Wellspring of Evil

Terumah

• The Tabernacle of Yeshua
• Inside the Ark
• The Twelve Loaves
• The Little Sanctuary
• The Cheerful Giver
• The Veil

Tetzaveh

• A Special Anointing
• The Daily Continual Burnt Offering
• To Whom Shall We Go?
• Garments for Honor
• Kohens
• A Story from the Talmud (b.Shabbat 31a)

Toldot

• A Conniving Woman?
• Red, Red Stuff
• Tithing Straw
• Philistine Apologies
• Abraham's Wells
• Abraham's Torah
• Isaac Prays for Rebekah

Tzav

• The Thanksgiving Offering
• The Imperishable
• Fire on the Altar
• Peace with God
• In Jars of Clay
• Keep the Fire Burning

Va'era

• To Proclaim My Name
• Pharaoh the Strong Man
• A Matter of Reputation
• What's His Name?
• Don't Get Your Hopes Up
• Deliverance from Bondage

Va'etchanan

• Tefillin
• The Greatest Commandment
• Honor Your Father and Mother
• He who Seeks Finds
• Answer to Prayer
• Upon Your Heart
• The Commandment of Loving God

Vayakhel

• Making the Tabernacle
• The 'Church' at Mount Sinai
• And Moses Assembled
• Torah with an Occupation
• The Lost Ark

Vayechi

• Resurrection in the Torah
• Waiting for Salvation
• The Lion
• Like Ephraim and Manasseh
• Preparing for Life After Death
• Messiah's Donkey

Vayelech

• Moses and Gethsemane
• Never Will I Leave You
• Circumcise Your Heart
• United We Stand

Vayera

• Marital Advice from Sarah and Abraham
• Abraham's Great Test
• The Outcry Against Sodom
• Remember Lot's Wife
• Hungry Angels
• Abraham's Prayer
• Son of the Free Woman

Vayeshev

• Leaping Joseph
• Joseph and Messiah
• Signet, Cord and Staff
• Perez and Zerah
• A Successful Man
• The Temptation of Joseph

Vayetze

• What You See Is What You Are
• The Dispersion and Return
• The Sun Had Set
• Rachel and Leah
• Anointing from Heaven
• The Ideal Family

Vayigash

• Life's Hardships
• Man of Sorrows
• Preserving the Remnant
• Jacob's Hardships
• The Revelation of Joseph
• What Pharaoh Heard

Vayikra

• Salt of the Covenant
• Messiah and the Sacrifices
• Sacrifices are Pure
• A Soothing Aroma
• Sacrificing the Self
• Obedience and Sacrifice

Vayishlach

• Raised up and Rebuilt
• A Life-Changing Encounter
• The Overcomers
• Birth Pains of Messiah
• Jacob the Wrestler
• Dinah's Folly

Vezot Habracha

• Simchat Torah
• The Alef and the Tav
• The End of the Torah

Yitro

• The Signs of Pentecost
• The Wedding Gift from God
• Friend of the Bridegroom
• The Impassioned God
• Fundamentals of Faith
• The Special Treasure

Yom Kippur

• Holiest Day of the Year
• "Fall Cleaning"