Posts with the category “rabbis-reflections”

Shalom,Today is designated by the United Nations as Holocaust Remembrance Day.  https://www.ungeneva.org/en/meetings-events/events/observances-special-events/2026/01/holocaust-remembrance-day-27-janua...  Read More

Shalom {{firstName}},Rabbi Trail:  Oops, it happened again!  Most of you will never know if I make an error with my Hebrew lessons but our dear friend and faithful reader, Eitan Shishkoff (hello Eitan...  Read More

Rabbi’s Reflections - Sunday, January 25, 2026Shavuah Tov,Jeremiah 31:34 “No longer will each teach his neighbor or each his brother, saying: ‘Know Adonai,’ for they will all know Me, from the least o...  Read More

Shabbat Shalom,We come into this world with favor upon our lives. We exist, and He sustains us. We’re created to be God’s image, and He loves us. This is divine favor. However, we tend toward insecuri...  Read More

(Early) Shabbat Shalom,Psalm 45:7 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a scepter of justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.God’s “throne” in Hebrew is His “Kisay” which is the Hebrew word for ...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 45:6 Your arrows are sharp. Peoples fall beneath you—into the heart of the king’s enemies.We are moving slowly through these verses so as not to miss the intended Messianic prophecy.  Let...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 45:5 In your majesty ride victoriously, on behalf of truth, meekness and justice. Let your right hand display awesome things.Verse 5 today picks right up where verse 4 left off yesterday....  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 45:4 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and your majesty.Yesterday, as we studied verse 3, we were introduced to a man, “the most handsome of the sons of men.” ...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 45:1 For the music director, according to “Lilies.” Of the sons of Korah, a contemplative song, a love song. 2 My heart is stirred with a good word. I speak my verses to the king. My tong...  Read More

Shabbat Shalom,I think this is one of the most encouraging exhortations in the Bible.Therefore let us draw near to the throne of grace (charis/favor) with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and fi...  Read More

(Early) Shabbat Shalom,Psalm 44:23 But for Your sake we are slain all day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter. 24 Awake! Why do you sleep, my Lord? Wake up! Do not cast us off forever. 25 Why do Yo...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 44:18 All this came upon us, though we did not forget You, nor were we false to Your covenant. 19 Our heart did not turn back, nor did our steps stray from Your path. 20 Yet You crushed u...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 44:14 You made us a taunt for our neighbors, a scorn and ridicule for those around us. 15 You have made us a byword among the nations, head-wagging among the peoples. 16 All day my disgra...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 44:10 Yet You have spurned and humiliated us, and no longer go out with our armies. 11 You make us retreat before the enemy. Those who hate us have plundered us. 12 You gave us to be devo...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 44:6 Through You we push back our foes. Through Your Name we trample those rising up against us. 7 For I do not trust in my bow, nor can my sword save me. 8 For You saved us from our oppr...  Read More

Shavuah Tov,John 16:1 “I (Yeshua) have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away” (ESV).In recent RR’s, I have been sharing on the importance of being a faith-filled people, especiall...  Read More

Shabbat Shalom {{firstName}},The word, “grace” is found four times in John’s Gospel. Take a look. These verses are wonderful. I’ve put grace in small caps to help emphasize it.And the Word became fles...  Read More

(Early) Shabbat Shalom,Psalm 44:1 For the music director, a psalm of the sons of Korah, a contemplative song. 2 We have heard with our ears, O God—our fathers have told us—of a work You did in their d...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 43:5 Why are You downcast, O my soul? Why are you murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance.Here we are at the last verse of Psalm 43.  ...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 43:4 Then I will come to the altar of God, to the God of my exceeding joy, and praise You upon the harp—O God, my God.Follow the progression here… in the previous verse, we are guided by ...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 43:3 Send forth Your light and Your truth—let them guide me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to Your dwelling places.It is easy to be guided by light.  “Send forth Your light ...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 43:2 For You are my God, my stronghold. Why have You spurned me? Why do I go about gloomy because of the oppression of the enemy?After a great opening, “For You are my God of my strength,...  Read More

Shavuah Tov,Psalm 43:1 Vindicate me, O God, and champion my cause against an ungodly nation. From a deceitful and unjust man, deliver me!In (transliterated) Hebrew, let’s focus  the first word and the...  Read More

Shabbat Shalom,From David Harwood: For a musician, it is a gratifying thing to have others listen to their work. I’d love it if you would listen to mine. Here are the links to two songs we’ve recently...  Read More

(Early) Shabbat Shalom,Psalm 42:12 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why are you murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance and my God.King David seems...  Read More

Shalom, Rabbi Trail:  I’m writing this on New Year’s Eve, a holiday that does not exist in Judaism.  In fact, the orthodox rabbis resist it like Christian pastors resist Halloween.  In Israel (like in...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:7(6) My God, my soul is downcast within me! Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and from the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mitzar. 8(7) Deep calls to deep in the roar of You...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:5(4) These things I remember as I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng, walking with them to the House of God, with a voice of joy and praise, a multitude...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:4 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day: “Where is your God?”In the Hebrew, my tears have been my “bread” (Lechem - here translated as food) daily (adv...  Read More

Shavuah Tov,IMPORTANT: If you are a woman who has had an abortion or a man who has impregnated a woman resulting in an abortion, you need not harbor guilt. The Bible is clear: God’s grace and Yeshua’s...  Read More

Shabbat Shalom,Let’s look into the favor (charis/grace) that Miriam, Yeshua’s mother, received.Then in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by Adonai into a town in the Galilee named Natzeret a...  Read More

(Early) Shabbat Shalom,Psalm 41:3 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and appear before God?We pick up today where we left off yesterday.  This same verse anticipates “Judgme...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:3 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and appear before God?Is that a real question?  To “appear before God” is both something to be anticipated as a joyous e...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:1 For the music director, a contemplative song of the sons of Korah. 2 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, O God.Psalm 42, like some others, is labeled, “...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:14 Blessed be Adonai, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and amen!This last verse of Psalm 41 begins in Hebrew (transliterated), “Baruch Adonai(YHVH), Elohay Yisr...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:12 By this I know that You delight in me: that my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.Rabbi Trail: Were you wondering?  I’ve been writing the RR since the end of June 2017, (that’s...  Read More

(Early) Shabbat ShalomPsalm 41:13 You uphold me in my integrity and set me before Your face forever.Today, we begin the conclusion of our study of Psalm 41 with the next to last verse (Part 7).   Thes...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:9 “Something evil was poured into him—he will not get up again from the place where he lies.” 10 Even my own close friend, whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel agai...  Read More

Shavuah Tov,Hebrews 11:32-34a “And what more shall I say? For time would fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets. By faith they conquered kingdo...  Read More

Shalom,Psalm 41:6(5) My enemies speak evil about me: “When will he die and his name perish?” 7(6) And if someone of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely. He stores up evil in his heart, then he goe...  Read More