This section contains Torah (Pentateuch) studies, we offer many commentaries from several years of the Weekly Torah Portion (Parashat HaShavua).
Torah Portion of the Week - English
Book of Genesis | Sefer Bereshit | ספר ברשית
Bereshit / Genesis 1:1-6:8
- Hashem Can Give You A New Heart
- G-d Said, Moshe Wrote, I Believe
- Spiritual and Physical Wars!
- Let Go!
- We Were Created For It
- The Little Foxes, that Spoil the Vines
- Fall is Elementary
- Faith Starts with Bereshit
Noach / Noah 6:9-12:1
- Walk With G-d
- He Is The Hashem Branch
- We Are Still Under The Law
- The Wolf And The Lamb Shall Feed Together
- The Advantages to Being Righteous / Tzadik
- The Torah Speaks
- Natural Selection & Divine Selection
- Noach’s Ark
- Grace and Law Coexisting
- As the days of Noah were
Lech Lecha / Go for yourself 12-17
- Leave It All
- Being Used By G-d
- Do As Hashem Says
- You Know Who’s Asking, So Just Do It!
- Wisdom, Insight and Knowledge
- Avraham the father of many nations
- Whose goings forth are from of old from everlasting
- The Bat Kol & You
- Died to Self
- Which way will you pitch your tent?
VaYeira / And he appeared 17-22
- Proper Perspective Matters
- Learning To Put Others First
- Why Be Like Lot
- Nothing Is To Hard For Hashem
- A Tale of Two Tzaddikim
- Hizzuk Emunah / Faith Strengthened
- For as he thinks in his heart, so is he
- Abraham and Mashiach
- Stop Looking Back
- Lot the Righteous man
Chayei Sara / Lives of Sarah 23:1-25:19
- The Case For Cremation
- Never Make The Same Mistake Again
- Not By Outward Appearances
- Walk Righteously
- Torah Ethics and Values
- A Woman Of Valour Who Can Find?
- The Groom and the Bride
- Sign – Oht
- A Bride for Yitzchak
- Yitzchak a type of Yeshua
Toledot / Generation 25:16 - 28:19
Vayeitzei / And he came out 28:10-32:3
- You Are Only Hurting Yourself
- Divine Confirmation
- Rivalry
- Gauge Your Love
- All Things Work Together For Good
- HaShem is the same yesterday, today and forever
- Humble yourselves before HaShem and He will exalt you
- I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life
- Not who you are but what you will be
- The Love of G-d
- Our bridge between earth and heaven
Vayishlach / And he sent 32:4-36:43
- Jumping To Conclusions
- Favouritism And The Family
- Humble Yourself
- You Can’t Buy Total Submission To Ad-nai
- Striving with G-d and with man
- Nachalat Ya’acov (Ya’acov’s Inheritance)
- G-d has Promised
- For You shall do what is right in the sight of HaShem
- Hashivenu Avinu – Return us O L-rd
- Use this cracked vessel for your glory
Vayeshev / And he settled 37-40
- Dreams
- Who Can Stand Up To Jealousy
- You Are Only Hurting Yourself
- The Guiding Hand of HaShem
- The Director’s cut (Dakaru)
- Justice, Justice you will Follow
- Nothing but G-d
- Having Emuna (Faith)
- The Other Side of Eternity
Miketz / At the end 41:1-44:17
- Rain: G-d’s Blessing Or Punishment
- Bring Along The Solution
- Meaning Or Rambling
- Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out
- You are somebody before G-d!
- Yisrael & the Nations – For the sake of His Kingdom
- There is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed
- Dream Interpretations
- The occult
- All Things Work Together For Good
Vayigash / And he approached 44:18-47:24
- For Your Ultimate Good
- Accomplishing Another Great Move
- Extend Our Love
- You Can Be Confident
- The Power of Confession
- Mashiach’s Reflection… Yosef ben Ya’acov
- Be sure your sin will find you out
- … that your days may be long in the land
- We’re the containers
- Reflecting Scripture
Vayechi / And he lived 47:28-50:26
Book of Exodus | Sefer Shemot | ספר שמות
Shemot / Names 1:1-6:1
- Left Few In Number
- In The Process Of Time
- The G-d Who Brought You Out Of…
- Receive HIM
- HaShem is Preparing all the Circumstances
- Proclaiming Yeshuah (Salvation)
- Redemption, Moshe and Mashiach
- Going through the Fire
- Kavod – Honour
Va'eira / And he appeared 6:2-9:35
- So Ready
- What Will Hasatan Do To Try To Thwart G-d
- G-d Is Accessable To Us
- He Will Deliver Them
- Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived
- HaShem brings HaGoel (The Redeemer)
- Only take heed in your heart, least it becomes proud
- We are in Galut (exile)
- The battle belongs to the L-rd
- Trust, Obey, Stand Still
- Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand
Bo / Come 10:1 - 13:16
- It’s Easy To Do
- A Hardened Heart
- Offering Up
- G-d, Pharaoh And Us
- May our eyes behold Your return to Zion in mercy
- Do all roads lead to G-d?
- And you shall teach them diligently to your children
- Are you an idolater?
- A Life Above Reproach
- Troubles Easily Be Avoided
- Are we like Pharaoh?
Beshalach / When he sent 13:17-18:1
- ID – Identity
- Stop Being Comfortable With Your Demons
- Hashem Has Them Well Under His Control
- In A Vulnerable Position
- G-d Foreknew
- HaShem is Master of War, HaShem is His Name
- From Salvation / Redemption to Sanctification
- And I will get honour over Pharaoh, and over all his host
- The same yesterday, today and forever
- The Way He Leads
- See the salvation of HaSHEM
Yithro / Jethro 18:1-20:23
- Welcome To My World Ya’acov
- Looking At What Is To Happen
- He Can Bear You Up
- Not By Human Hands
- Train up a child in the way he should go
- My own possession from among all peoples
- Lo Tirtzach / You shall not murder
- Good Intentions
- Conformed to His Likeness
- Get to Know Your G-d
- Go Forth
Mishpatim / Rules 21-24
Terumah / Contribution 25:1-27:19
- He Provides Us A Way
- Giving Freely
- In The Details
- Details, Details
- A Remnant of Israel
- Mashiach’s true Talmidim (Disciples)
- And be Kadosh; for I am Kadosh
- Giving is a Form of Worship
- Mashiach and the Mishkan
- Every Detail Of His Commandments
Tetzaveh / You shall order 25:20-30:10
- The Mitzbe’ach And The Korbanot
- What Does ‘forever’ Mean?
- Inner Glory And Beauty
- The Cloths Make The Man
- Commit your works unto HaShem
- HaShem’s Torah (Instructions) are very sure
- The Blood of the Korban
- Chokma – Wisdom
- Serving G-d in Purity
- Acceptable Before G-d
- Purity of Heart
Ki Tissa / When you take 30:11-34:35
- How Hashem Adds And Subtracts
- The Shining Face
- G-dly Leaders Have Righteous Indignation
- Don’t Let It Breakout
- Moshe – the first mediator between man and G-d
- Active Emunah (Faith) means serving G-d
- Freedom To Do What Is Right
- How many gentiles crossed the Jordan River with Yehoshua?
- Half a Shekel
- Follow The Word & Not Your Feelings
Vayekhel / And he assembled 35:1-38:20
- With G-d And A Willing Heart
- Honouring The Shabbat
- Whatever It May Be
- G-d Enters In
- Keep And Remember the Holy Shabbat
- Serve HaShem with Gladness
- The Gifts of the Ruach (Spirit)
- Mashiach and the Mishkan
- G-d is detail oriented
- Impatient with G-d
Pekudei / Accounts 38:21-40:38
Book of Leviticus | Sefer Vayikra | ספר ויקרא
Vayikra / Leviticus 1-5
- Do Not Hold My Sins Against Them
- Yeshua Will Do For You What He Did For Me
- Hear, Smell And See Yeshua
- The Best Part Is G-d’s
- Guarding our Speech
- The Consequences of Sin
- But He was Pierced for our Transgressions
- The sacrificial system
- Yeshua did not Abolish the Sacrificial System
- G-d has Instructed us to be Transparent
- Offering up our time and skills
Tzav / Command 6-8
- Our Once And For All Korban
- The Calls Of Ministry
- The Residue
- Thank G-d For Yeshua
- We All Need A Korban, We All Need To ‘Draw Near’
- Your Word have I laid up in my heart
- For had you believed Moshe, you would have believed Me
- His Law of sin and death
- Let the fire burn
- For Moshe of old time
- Back to Training Wheels
Shemini / Eight 9:1-11:47
- It’s Not An Excuse
- Is G-d Shouting ’strange Fire’ To You?
- The Eighth Day
- G-d Is Relationship
- If you love me, you will keep my commandments
- The Meaning of the Eighth Day
- Mashiach: Our Strength
- When religious practices contradict Scripture
- Who are you going to believe?
- Eating right, and be Holy
Tazia / Conceives 12:1-13:59
- Is Cleanliness Next To G-dliness
- Respect To Protocol
- Show Your Appreciation
- You become Kadosh as I am kadosh
- Tahor (ritual purity) and Tamei (ritual impurity)
- The Connection of Brit-Milah (Circumcision)
- Our Own Worst Enemy
- Going Back to the Garden
- To Your Own Perversions
- Yeshua as a Torah Observant Jew
- Not spot or wrinkle
Metzora / Leper 14:1-15:33
Acharei Mot / After the death 16:1-20:27
- Depicting Of The Olam Haba
- Be Kadosh When Judgement Is All Around
- Dignified Treatment
- Who’s Listening
- The way of life and the way of death
- Know Before Whom You Are Standing
- Sacrificing to the god of self
- Kosher a requirement for non-Jewish believers?
- Baby Sacrifice / Abortion
- If it feels good do it? no, do it my way
Kedoshim / Holy 19:1-20:27
- Depicting Of The Olam Haba
- Be Kadosh When Judgement Is All Around
- Dignified Treatment
- Those In Authority
- The way of life and the way of death
- Fear HaShem, and Depart from Evil
- Sacrificing to the god of self
- LaShon Ha-Ra – The Evil Tongue
- Baby Sacrifice / Abortion
- If it feels good do it? no, do it my way
Emor / Say 21-24
- Be Acceptable To Hashem
- Eliminated Laws
- Meditate On Becoming ‘overcomers’
- Let Him Bring The LORD’s Contribution
- Holiness (K’dushah) & Righteousness (Tzedek)
- Blaspheming the Name of G-d
- Salvation then Obedience
- Not to Curse G-d and your Parents
- Not to Blaspheme G-d
Behar / On Mount 25:1-26:2
- The Consequences, Then And Now
- Donation Loopholes
- Fear Your G-d
- G-d’s Kehila
- The Spirit Brings Life
- Sabbath Day – Sabbath Year – Jubilee
- Following HaShem’s Torah
- Not To Make a Graven Image
- Not To Make a Graven Image
- The land of Israel belongs to Israel
- Obedience and Holiness is Rewarded
- Shabbat, Yovel & Mashiach
Bechukotai / In my Statutes 26:3-27:34
Book of Numbers | Sefer Bamidbar | ספר במדבר
Bamidbar / In the Desert 1:1-4:21
- Numbering For War And Miracles
- Be Sure Of Your Final Destination
- Significant To Him
- Why Were They Allowed?
- Trust In The L-RD
- All flesh will come to worship before Me, says HaShem
- You plus the L-rd are a majority
- Good Vs. Evil
- It is time for WAR
- A G-d of Order
- The Road Map, Mashiach’s way
Naso / Take a Census 4:21-8:1
- The Gift Of Restitution
- Zigzagging
- Olam Haba Rewards And Judgements
- Tzara’at And Tikkun Olam
- L-rd, Teach Us To Pray
- Listen to Our Prayer
- Don’t be drunken with wine, but be filled with the Spirit
- Commitment and Maturity
- The Seriousness Of Infidelity
- Unity and Harmony
- Listen to Our Prayer
Behahalotecha / When you raise up 9-12
- Inviting The Ger
- Burdens And Abilities Of Leadership
- How Blessed Are We
- Why Were They Shaven
- Our G-d Is A G-d Of Order
- A person’s DNA
- The Cleansing of a Sinner
- Mashiach the Prophet like Moshe
- Glorifying G-d
- Called and Qualified by G-d
Shelach lecha / Send for your self 13-15
- Make Life Simpler
- Who Did G-d Bless
- Faith With Actions To Back It Up
- G-d Is An Optimist!
- Don’t Be Afraid Of The ‘Giants In The Land’
- The Tefillah of a Tzaddik is Powerful and Effective
- Testing Your Words
- Tzitzit / Fringes-The Original WWJD
- One Torah for the Jew and Ger (Sojourner)
- Victorious through Yeshua HaMashiach
Korach / Korah 13-15
- The Weight Of The Position
- Carnal Sins That Plague Our Lives
- See The Good And Not The Bad In Leaders
- Stay Away
- The Devistating Effects Of Pride
- The Emissaries: His Representatives Here on Earth
- Lo Tachmod / You shall not Covet
- By their fruit you shall know them
- For I know your Rebellion
- G-d who Places People in Power
Chukat / Decree 19:1-22:1
- They Have Failed Their Test
- Continual Sprinkling
- Not So Important ? Think Again!
- A Divine Picture
- A Believer’s Sin Is Insanity
- There is only One we should fear
- Happy are they that are upright in the way
- Accepting Your Responsibility
- Moving Toward the Goal
- Mashiach and Striking the Rock
- His mercy and His grace
Balak 22:2-25:9
- Avoid Being Cursed
- Continual Sprinkling
- Never Do Anything Without Prayer
- A Believer’s Sin Is Insanity
- There is only One we should fear
- The Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Darkness
- Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak
- Moving Toward the Goal
- Mashiach and Striking the Rock
- Not my will be done but Yours
Pinchas / Phinehas 25:10-30:1
- A Divine Picture
- Do Not Take Revenge
- Spiritual Wars
- What Is G-d
- A true Eshet Chayil (Woman of valor)
- B’riti Shalom / My Covenant of Peace
- Torah and Revelation = Emunah (Faith)
- The Making of a Leader
- Melech Yisrael / King of Israel
- Serving G-d in Truth
Matot / Tribes 30:2-32:42
- The Bonds Of Brotherhood
- Divine Revelation And Purpose
- Re-educate Ourselves
- G-d Will Carry You Through
- Am Echad v’Lev Echad / One People and One Heart
- Do not to forsake our own assembling together
- Melech Mashiach’s Genealogy
- And you shall teach your sons
- Vows and the Land of Israel
Masei / Journeys 33:1-36:13
Book of Deuteronomy | Sefer Devarim | ספר דברים
Devarim / Words 1:1-3:22
- Learn It Or Repeat It
- The Faults We See In Others
- Not Every Battle Is To Be Fought
- Will He Give You The Land?
- HaShem: The Leader Maker
- HaShem’s Timing
- Stranger and Sojourner
- Go in and possess the land
- Taking the Direct Route
- Learn It Or Repeat It
Vaetchanan / And I pleaded 3:28-7:11
- Dwell In The Land And Defeat G-d’s Enemies
- A sojourner has its privileges
- Through Us
- Speak No More
- I Will Continue
- The Torah is Timeless
- Passing the Torch
- Is G-d L-rd Of Your Life?
- Moshe the First Redeemer
- We’re no longer under the Law?
- The Time to be Obedient
Ekev / As the result 7:12-11:25
- Focused On And Fulfilling The Mitzvot
- Boiled Down To The Basics
- Phonies Will Be Exposed
- Be Obedient To G-d’s Commandments
- What Mashiach can do for you!
- One with Israel
- By His Stripes we are Healed
- Stuff happens
- You shall not bring an abomination into your house
Reeh / See 11:26-16:17
- They Can, But We Can’t
- Prodding From HaShem
- The Proud And The Humble
- Every Answer Is In His Word
- Do not eat HaSatan
- HaShem Echad / One
- Visible Reminders
- Needy With Us
- Blessings and Curses
Shoftim / Judges 16:18-21:9
Ki Tetze / When you come out 21:10-25:19
- Among The Captives
- Yeshua Upholds The Requirements Of Torah
- By Our Love And Acceptance
- He Is The Redeemer Of Israel
- A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a Man
- Mashiach’s Torah and the Lawless One
- Results of Past and Present Disobedience
- Echad le’basar (One flesh)
- Think you’re someone special?
- Co-laborers with Him
- Cut it Off!
Ki Tavo / When you come 26:20-29:8
- Pray That They Would Be Saved
- Is Yisrael Right In G-d
- True Following
- He Is The G-d Of The Whole Earth
- Giving is a Representation of your Faithfulness
- Kadosh (holy) unto the L-rd
- Work out your own Salvation with fear and Trembling
- Walls of protection
- Disobedience is in the Spiritual Realm
- The Benefits of Being Obedient
Nitzavim / Standing 29:9-30:10
- Dwell In The Land And Defeat G-d’s Enemies
- They Had To Know
- Enter Through Saving Faith
- Torah – Aiming Towards Wisdom
- Obedience to His Mitzvot / Commandments
- Psychoanalyzing G-d
- A sojourner has its privileges
- Repentance that leads to Observance
- Relevancy of Torah in the life of a New Covenant believer
- O how love I your Torah
Vayelech / And he went 31:1-30
- Accepting Rebuke
- Enter Through Saving Faith
- The Revival of Israel, Life from the dead!
- Obedience to His Mitzvot / Commandments
- Psychoanalyzing G-d
- Repentance that leads to Observance
- Choices and Receive
- O how love I your Torah
Ha'azinu / Give Ear 32:1-52
- You Can Trust Your Life To Him
- Serve And Praise Him; He Will Prosper You
- Israel Return to G-d
- The Making of an Idol
- Love of Money or Love of Mashiach?
- Torah Observance is a Result of Salvation
- Teaching our children
- Listening to Torah
V'zot HaBracha / This is the Blessing 33:1-34:12
Jewish Holidays | חגים ומועדים
Shabbat / Sabbath
- Honour the Shabbat
- Resting in Him
- Special Shabbatot
- For Moshe of old time
- Honouring The Shabbat
- Keep And Remember the Holy Shabbat
- Six Days Then Shabbat
Rosh Chodesh / New Hebrew Month
- Approaching Elul
- Rosh Chodesh – The New Moon
- The New Moon & Birchat HaChodesh?
- "ראש חודש – Rosh Chodesh
Rosh Hashanah / Yom Teruah
- Rosh Hashana a reason to celebrate
- What Is There To Eat?
- Plant Yourself
- Win Souls For The Kingdom
- Hear my voice in accordance with your lovingkindness
- Between promise and fulfillment is up to G-d
- The Tanach and Abortion
- Rosh Hashanah: Reason to Celebrate
Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement
- A little about Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement
- Hablemos un poco sobre Yom Kippur
- Being Cleansed By Yeshua HaMashiach
- Alone in the Wilderness
- Yom Kippur 5764
- Let us follow our High Priest
Sukkot / Tabernacles
- Leftovers
- Giving Back to the G-d of Yisrael
- Chatan V
- Need a testimony?
- Remembering our Wilderness Experience
- Can you hear Him now?
Shemini Atzeret / Eighth [day] of Assembly
Simchat Torah / Joy of the Torah
- The Season of the Giving of Our Torah
- Simchat Torah – Rejoicing in the Torah
- Persisting and Serving HaShem
- Non-Jewish believers No Longer Gentiles
Channukah / Feast of Dedication
Tu B'shvat / New Year of the Trees
Purim / Festival of Purim
Pesach / Passover
- Out with the Old
- It has been 49 days since Pesach
- Indistinguishable
- Living With Or Without The Presence Of G-d
- Are You Different
- From Slavery to Freedom
- From Galut (Exile) to Geula (Redemption)
- And you have chosen us from among every People and Tongue
- Passover: Redemption and Salvation
- The leaven of Legalism
- G-d and His beloved Israel
Shavout / Pentacost
- Meat And Veggies
- You Shall Fear Your G-d
- From Pesach to Shavout
- Yeshua came to properly interpret the Law
- Historical Understanding of Pentecost (Shavuot)
- Shavuot / Pentecost
Tishah B'av /Ninth of Av
Yom HaShoah /Holocaust Day
Yom Hazikaron / Memorial Day
Yom Haatzmaut / Independence Day










