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That’s a lot of water

admin — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:56:21 +0000

Today Rabbi Commentary and Sermon were about Rebecca, Isaacs’s wife. I have not realized that when Sarah died that things stop happening as they did when she was a live and then when Rebecca came they started happening again. The first time we hear of Rebecca is when Abrahams servant asks G-d to send him a sign of the girl who waters him and his camels will be the one for Isaac. Now camels need a lot of water, but they can go for quite a while without drinking so when they do drink they drink about 30 gallons of water in about 10 minutes. The servant came with how many camels 10, so Rebecca would have carried about 300 gallons of water to them camels without saying anything. I could not imagine doing that for someone, now giving him water and getting others to help me water the camels would have been my method but then again I am a
door knob sometimes.
When her parents wanted her to wait 10 days then go she choice to go right away with Abraham father. 10 is a number of judgment which we know this because of Yom kippur. I just found it interesting that she had to water that many gallons of water, she must have had a lot of strength.

What we take

admin — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:59:41 +0000

There are many lessons in the Torah and it depends on us what we take from it and learn from it. My husband pointed out something to me that I didn’t realize. He had pointed out in his commentary this past week that Noah was a man of the vine after the flood, which meant Noah pretty much became a drunk. He had shared with me something that happened to him this weekend, and wanted some advice. Now I didn’t think of Noah as a drunk because I always remember him being righteous man of his time. I have noticed that the Torah shows the good qualities of our forefather along with their faults or sins. In many religions when a hero is talked about in myths it never shows them as being people who also struggle with doing the right thing sometimes, however, the bible does show.
I believe if we as believer can take lessons from those in the stories then maybe we could make our walk with our faith easier. I know it is hard to do what G-d wants sometimes but it’s harder not to obey Him when you believe and trust in Him.
My husband wasn’t saying drinking was wrong, but was saying if you abuse it, that would be wrong. Just like if you know a person has a gambling problem to bring them to a casino to gamble with you would be wrong. I wouldn’t want them to have to take out a
payday loans because they spent money they needed for bills.
My husband last night brought up a good point as we progress in time things that would not have been okay are now becoming okay. People will look for excuses for things to be right that G-d has already said not to do. So the question is if G-d says he doesn’t change why do we think he changed his mind on his commandments.

What is attractive

admin — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:17:46 +0000

Today Torah commentary was about Sarah and Abraham, and how Abraham was told to leave by G-d from his parent land. G-d had told Abraham he was going to lead him to a land, for his children. Everything G-d told Abraham, Abraham was faithful to do. Even though Abraham had great faith he feared death because he wife was attractive and lied to Pharaoh that she was his sister. Abraham and Sarah where both in their 70’s so I started to think, what makes them attractive, because no 70 year old are very physically attractive. Not trying to be mean but I think about what is being said, just like I would think about hoodia before making a decision. So tonight I asked my husband, how could Sarah be attractive at 75. My husband and I talked about sometimes physical looks are not the attractive thing but the way a person carries themselves. A person behavior can make them attractive or unattractive. Now at first sight with people if we look at them we might not be attracted to them right away. I was not to my husband when I first met him but fall in love with him after getting to know him. His personality is what attracted to me, and now his personality sometimes drives me nuts. Now I still love my husband.
One thought my husband had is Sarah and Abraham where not many generations form the flood, and their life span was longer than ours. Maybe their 70’s were more like our 30’s. Now when Sarah had her son she was past childbearing age. Yet when G-d told them they have a child Abraham believed. Sarah laughed, I can understand her laughing at G-d because having a child when your time is up in some ways isn’t going to happen without G-d intervention.
The thing I have noticed with the people who G-d said had great faith is sometimes those people don’t always act like people with great faith. Sometimes they do things trying to help G-d and like Abraham G-d has to deal with all parties involved. If I was Pharaoh I might have wanted to serious punish Abraham for bring G-d punishment to my house for lying to me. I am pretty sure G-d preventing Pharaohs heart from hardening against Abraham.

Interesting take

admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:15:58 +0000

Today Rabbi did both commentary and sermon. I like it when Rabbi does both some weeks. Rabbi was talking about the sin in the garden the original one. He pointed out that Adam and Eve both did not own up to their sin, they place the blame on someone else. Adam blamed Eve and pretty much G-d too, by telling G-d it was the woman you put here. Eve blamed the serpent, but in a way I wonder if her answer was more truthful. See Adam was there with Eve when she ate the fruit, so he should have spoken up and stop his wife, he should have protected her from sinning. G-d told him Not to eat from that Tree and he told Eve. It was his responsibility to remind her what G-d said to them. Now this being said that’s still blaming the other for the actions of the other. Eve answer was the serpent confused me. Rabbi question was what would have happened if Adam and Eve both admitted to their sin and not place blame on someone else. Well I wouldn’t need any acne cream probably if they owned their own sin. As humans and believers, we often want to blame other for our actions and not take responsibility for what we have done, or how we have behaved. I am someone who hardly ever say sorry. When I do say sorry it’s when I feel I have been wrong and need to change that when I will apologize other wise to me apologies are empty and mean nothing. Having a heart after G-d means admitting to faults and sin committed like David did and well frankly he was fair from perfect. What can we learn from Adam and Eve and others of our Faith the things that pleased G-d and why it pleased him.

This week Commentary

admin — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:57:03 +0000

Considering I can’t remember what the reading was but I do know my hubby taught mostly out of chapter 12 of Deuteronomy. It when G-d is instructing his people what to do, when they take possession of the Land of Isreal. My husband brought up something about Ba’al worship I never knew, I knew some stuff not very much. I understand why G-d would want us to take down all of their idols and not be worshipped in the same way as the people of where ever they where worship their gods. Something I always wondered was why would G-d instruct his people to kill the inhabitance of the land they took. While my hubby was talking today it became clear. Israel would have had a very difficult time getting those people to turn form their gods and their worship. It would be hard for Israel not to worship G-d in the same manner as the people they took over.
My husband compared Ba’al to being in a adult bookstore, which probably would have been like that. I wonder what the people thought. It would have been a challenge to clean it up and to take things out that G-d did not want. I mean it not like they had
promo keychains services to clean up what the other people had in their lives that would have been unclean.
My husband said something to us today about maybe not trying to figure out why G-d said to do something and just to do it.

Passover almost here

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:44:41 +0000

Its that time of year again, passover time to have more wheat then is good for me. That my biggest complaint about this holiday because I eat so much matzah this year I am going to try to make different foods and see if I can keep the wheat intake down. My asthma and allergies this year have not been good so I do not want to add wheat to a thing my system needs to try to figure out. During passover I never have starved although dad feels like he does, because we celebrate it. It not like this is the best weight loss supplement because I never lose weight during this holiday I always sustain pretty well.
This year hubby and I are going to visit a friend and do a demonstration, I am hoping we can show him and his Wife Yeshua in Passover. Since all the feast and festivals are a fore shadowing of what is to come. Passover is one of my favorite holidays, why because G-d provide a way to protect the first born of Israel. They had to use the blood of the lamb on the door so that the death angel would passover there homes. This shows G-d compassion for his People and that he loves them, because anyone who put that blood on the door was passover by the angel of death. I honestly have to say I feel bad for the angel of death, I think that would be a very hard job to kill or take away G-ds creation. I don’t know why I just thought of that but consider it as a stray thought.
Pass over is a remembrance of leaving slavery for freedom. Grant it Egypt came after them and they where against the sea and G-d spread that, open. Often people say G-d isn’t the same in the old testament as he is in the New Testament, well that hog wash. G-d showed compassion countless time, he told his people what he wanted from them. Much like we are today, they decided they wanted a mediator to intercede for them and this caused Moshe to need to be there for them between man and G-d. G-d saw this wasn’t G-d and promised Yeshua to us. He promised to send us him. Passover reminds me of what Yeshua went through and I do not think I need to repeat it all because I have it in earlier post.
So this passover it a time to remove the yeast out of our lives and ask G-d what we need to change.

It’s not even Thanksgiving yet

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:19:39 +0000

Everyone who reads my website by now knows I will never have a artificial christmas tree because I do not celebrate it. Today on the radio they already had a young man talking about how to talk to Santa Clause. Okay, Santa isn’t even a live and he gets more attention they Yeshua (Jesus) it is amazing that Santa gets more recognition they our savior. I believe Christmas is not one of G-d appointed time and he clearly tells use what to celebrate and those are his appointed times in the Old Testament.
The holiday I will be celebrate this year is Hanukkah because in John 10:22 Yeshua was at the temple. This would show us that Hanukkah was celebrated by the Jews of that time.
I observe Hanukkah because it reminds me of G-ds Faithfulness and his mercies. Yes sometimes we need to struggle for a time, we need to fight for a time, but G-d is faithful and will remain by us guiding us if we will let him. G-d has showed me so much while celebrating his feast and festivals and I am glad we have them.

Where was Adam

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:42:48 +0000

This week Torah portion dealt with Adam, and Eve, and not eating the fruit. Something a lot of people do not notice is Eve added to the comandment, she said the fruit could not be touched, when G-d had told Adam not to eat from the Tree of Life. I find it interesting how when we change the words G-d has spoken it open us to sin. If Adam added it to keep Eve from eating from the tree, he added to what G-d said. After Eve, touch the tree she saw she didn’t die, so this could have caused her to have doubt. When something doesn’t happen that you expect it does cause doubt. The comand was not to eat the fruit, it wasn’t that it couldn’t be touched.
The other thing I have noticed is that people try to make Adam as a innocent part-taker of the fruit, when in reality he was with Eve his wife. The story doesn’t tell us he told Eve to stop, or don’t do it. He got decieved by the enemy much the same way we do when we do not want to listen to G-d or G-dly wisedom.
As humans we try so hard to reley on what man has done, but often we don’t really go to G-d with our problems. He can heal us if we ask him and believe not like a Medifast coupons

I really didn’t read

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:42:53 +0000

I guess I got bored to quickly, this week for the Torah reading. Had I continued on reading I would have got to the Blessing given after service every week but I honestly I am not one who likes to read about numbers of each person and who being counted. I know this sounds bad because you’d think I would like it. This week my husband focused a little on the blessing for his commentary. I will say I am proud of my husband because he has taken some boring things and made them interesting.
I have noticed my husband has grown a lot since given the comentaries at our congregation. I wonder how good he do if he talking about best HGH.

Reading Numbers

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:02:00 +0000

The Torah Portion this week is in Numbers, this week I have the Torah reading. It’s amazing how much counting there seems to be in the Bible. Last week all the men military age was counted this week seems to be the ones who work in the temple between 30 and 50 years old. 50 seems like a young cutoff age, most men I know who are 50 are still fairly strong and able body. Maybe back then 50 wasn’t like our fifty that we are used to, I can’t remember what the life expectancy was back then.
The only time in history recorded in the bible that counting the people was a good idea, was when G-d order them to do so, other wise it wasn’t pleasant at all and many innocent people died.
One thing I have always wondered is why count the people, because if G-d knows the number of hairs on our head he has to know the amount of people. I wonder if it was more for man that G-d did some of these things then for his ownself. I doubt he was trying to check his math because he wouldn’t need to that would be like running treadmills expecting to run to the beach it would make little sense. Now don’t get me wrong treadmills are great as long as you expect to get no where but burning calories.
I have admit the book of Numbers I have always found to be boring, and hard to read. The only reason why I been reading it is because I have too. I understand some of the Hebrew I am reading but I like to see how much I understand. Numbers I am not good at in the Hebrew language.
This portion seems to do more with the people who work in the temple, I am not exactly sure if they where priest or not or if they were simple people who worked to do some of the tasks, like cleaning, and organizing things.