Why is the list of the twelve tribes missing two names? There may be clues as to the re-bibliography of the tribes in Revelation, and those clues are found in this week’s seeds of prophecy in Shelach Lekha.
This Torah portion provides some of the primary texts from which the idea of two messiahs arose in Jewish tradition: Messiah bar Ephraim (Hoshea/Joshua) and Messiah bar David (Caleb):
Numbers 13:1-16; 14:1-10; 14:36-38
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This week we cover Torah portion Behaalotkha which is titled “Just Kill Me: The Anatomy of Despair” and uncovers the two sides of Moses we see in scripture.
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This week Dr Hollisa Alewine teaches on Torah Portion, Naso (I Warned You Pt 1) and uncovers the intricate nature of trespass and Nazirite offerings, and how they share a theme with the trial of the accused woman. This podcast was taken from 2020.
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Join in today’s study as Dr Alewine starts in the Book of Number and teaches on “Bamidbar.” This Torah portion is always timed to fall around the moed of Shavuot. The opening verse of the text associates it with Sinai in the wilderness, the place where the Torah was given.
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The issue of slavery is a difficult one for the modern mind, especially in America where its negative effects didn’t cease with the end of the Civil War. In Torah study, the many English translations of the Hebrew word eved into “slave” can confuse even the wisest of readers. “Slave” rips the economic position of the eved out of its Hebrew cultural and Biblical context and leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.
Join in today’s study as Dr Alewine unpack this week’s double Portion with a more in-depth study on the citizenship of the servants and how they are spoken of in Yeshua’s parable of the vineyard.
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