(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