Dr Hollisa Alewine – Footsteps of Messiah Part 137 (It’s Not Christmas! Part 2)

12/23/24 • 55 min

Hebrew Nation Online

The Story of Hanukkah...continued

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Mark Call – Parsha “Vayashev” teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa

This week’s reading from the Torah, parsha Vayazhev (Genesis/Bereshiet chapters 37 through 40) shifts the story of the line of the patriarchs to Yosef/Joseph, the first-born son of Rachel.

The Bible tells us there was favoritism, and that is just part of the reason his brothers resented him.

The Erev Shabbat reading covers that beginning, and his sale into slavery in Egypt, the house of Potiphar, and then prison. There is far more, too:

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There are a number of major themes in the study of Joseph this week, from what he teaches us about dreams, to that issue of favoritism and jealousy, and the results, to a larger question about ‘adversity’, and how it figures in our lives, and His plan.

But in the middle of all that is one of the most notable “chiasms,” (Mark prefers the Hebrew term ‘atbash’ – for “alef-tav, beit-shin” because the first and last, and second and second-to-last name is so descriptive of the Biblical equivalent of an HTML tag)) in the Bible: about Judah and Tamar.

That theme, of what happens “in-between” resonates.

Because we, today, are there too:

Vayashev: The Time ‘In-Between’

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The combined two-part teaching is here:

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Now Is The Time w/Rabbi Steve Berkson | Darkness & Light | Part 14

“One thing that is vital, but missing in a lot of the teachings that you’ve learned from all of your life, is the strength of context.” –Rabbi Steve Berkson

The topic of this episode of Darkness & Light is, “being called out of darkness, into His marvelous light.” (1 Peter 2:9), one of the few real status changes–coming into Light beyond human comprehension.

• How does one come out of darkness? How does one know if he/she is in the light?

Beginning his text in 1 Peter 1:2, Rabbi Berkson stops to point out to whom the writer was addressing this letter, “those who are...set-apart (Holy) by the Spirit unto obedience...” Obedient to what?

• If the Torah became no longer relevant at the time Yeshua Messiah was killed on a cross, as certain majority faith groups teach, then what is to be obeyed?

Once again, redefining our lexicon, terms and words, Rabbi Berkson makes us look at the term ‘born again’ as the writer uses it to describe those who are walking toward the Kingdom with a “living expectation.”

• What is Peter talking about when he uses the term ‘born again’? (1 Peter 1:3) Does he mean it in the same way as Yeshua did in His conversation with Nicodemus? (John 3)

• What is the “living expectation”? (1 Peter 1:3)

• What is the “inheritance incorruptible”? (1 Peter 1:4)

• What is the condition that applies to the “protection of Elohim”? (1 Peter 1:5)

• If I am living as a set-apart one, why am I “grieved by manifold trials”? (1 Peter 1:6-7)

• Why would you receive praise, respect and honor from Messiah Yeshua? (1 Peter 1:7)

• What if this life is all there is?

You need to hear Rabbi Berkson as he uses his Gym Membership as an analogy to illustrate real belief.

• Did he really say, salvation is nothing?

• How does one set themselves apart in their behavior?

Once again, Rabbi Steve Berkson delves deeper into scripture to uncover even more dimensions of Darkness and Light.

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