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Feeding the Multitude
Recorded 11/14/2018 • Posted 11/15/2018
Number 4 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

How did feeding a multitude with five loaves and two fish meet important Jewish messianic expectations, making it a perfect sign of Messiah? Learn how this event dramatized the Psalm the sages refer to as "the Messiah chapter" and discover the "two fish" hiding in plain sight in the Torah.

The Spirits in Prison
Recorded 10/13/2018 • Posted 11/08/2018
Number 1 in the series The World of Souls

Who are the “spirits in prison” who “formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah" (1 Peter 3:19-20)? A cryptic passage in 1 Peter seems to allude to some larger apocalyptic concept from behind the veil with a glimpse into the world of souls. Here's a quick discussion of a fascinating topic that opens the larger question of what really happens to us after death.

The Pool of Bethesda
Recorded 11/07/2018 • Posted 11/08/2018
Number 3 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

Why is the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda a sign, and why did Yeshua tell the man to break the Shabbat by carrying his mat? Take a trip to first century Jerusalem in the text of John 5. 

Long-distance Healing
Recorded 10/31/2018 • Posted 11/01/2018
Number 2 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

Why is the story of the healing of an official's son in Capernaum considered to be the second sign? Here's a close-up look at an important but often unnoticed story in the Gospel of John and similar stories from the Synoptic Gospels and the Talmud.

Water to Wine at Cana
Recorded 10/25/2018 • Posted 10/25/2018
Number 1 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

What's the significance of the miracle Yeshua performed at the wedding at Cana? The Gospel of John refers to it as the first of his signs. What were the other signs and why is this one so significant? 

Look Down at the Stars
Recorded 10/21/2018 • Posted 10/21/2018

Avram had a unique perspective on the world that made him receptive to God's calling. Learn how this perspective on creation relates to the strange monthly blessing known as Kiddush Levanah.

Lightsome
Recorded 09/08/2018 • Posted 09/20/2018
Number 7 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Are you carrying a heavy burden? It might not be just sin and guilt. This teaching speaks about the need to train the animal side of the human being and bring it into subjection. Part two of the Choose Life teaching and the conclusion to the Train Yourself for Godliness series, just on time for the high holidays. 

Choose Life
Recorded 09/01/2018 • Posted 09/20/2018
Number 6 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

If Yeshua came to die for our sins, then why did he pray that the cup of suffering might be taken away from him? This teaching on Parashat Ki Tavo's curses and blessings reaches into the kingdom to obtain some help for our physical condition in the world today. 

The Glutton and the Drunkard
Recorded 08/25/2018 • Posted 09/20/2018
Number 5 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Why was Yeshua called "a glutton and a drunkard"? Discover the meaning behind the cryptic passage, "We played a flute for you, but you did not dance; we sang a dirge, but you did not mourn," and learn about the path of meseret nefesh, asceticism, and self-control.

Cleansing the Bodily Temple
Recorded 08/18/2018 • Posted 09/20/2018
Number 4 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Have you ever heard of the "Hudson Twenty"? Beth Immanuel's new associate pastor, Toby Janicki, speaks about some of the "weighty matters" of Torah in this teaching from Parashat Shoftim, encouraging us to lighten up.

Love of God
Recorded 08/29/2018 • Posted 09/17/2018
Number 4 in the series Mussar of Mashiach

Loving God seems like should be easy. Unlike humans, he is perfect. There is also no doubt that he is worthy of our love. But there are serious challenges with carrying out the important commandment of loving God. In this class we learn how to overcome these challenges and what it takes to love our Creator.

Endurance and Perseverance
Recorded 07/25/2018 • Posted 08/16/2018
Number 3 in the series Mussar of Mashiach

One mussar theme pervades Yeshua's teachings, but it defies the typical categories of middot (traits) taught by the mussar masters. This instruction for life is the defining theme of Yeshua's message to Israel: Endurance and Perseverance for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Sarah, Hagar, Isaac, and Ishmael
Recorded 05/29/2010 • Posted 08/14/2018
Number 23 in the series Galatians

Does Hagar represent the Jews in slavery under the law while Sarah represents the Christians in freedom under grace? That's the conventional interpretation of Paul's parable in Galatians 4:22, but this teaching turns over that common interpretation by revealing the Jewish background to the story.

All Things To All People
Recorded 05/22/2010 • Posted 08/13/2018
Number 22 in the series Galatians

Was Paul in disguise? Paul says, "I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some." Did he adopt hypocritical pretenses in order to win people with the Gospel, acting like Jew around Jews and like a Gentile around Gentiles? This teaching on Galatians 4:12-20 considers Paul's evangelism strategies and the real meaning behind 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.

Messianic Jewish "Lent"
Recorded 08/07/2010 • Posted 08/10/2018
Number 3 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Forty days in the wilderness! The season of repentance is often referred to as the Jewish version of Lent, but which came first? This teaching from 2010 makes the case that the Christian season of Lent was originally based on the Jewish season of Teshuvah. This teaching calls upon us to employ asceticism and meseret nefesh in a forty-day face-off with the devil as we train for Yom Kippur.

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Recorded 08/09/2018 • Posted 08/09/2018
Number 1 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Your soul's purpose in this world is to serve God. That's why it was given a body. This purpose implies that there is a foundational commandment in the Torah that many of us may be neglecting. The soul is like an astronaut in a spacesuit. Is an astronaut concerned with maintaining his spacesuit?

In the interest of proper credit, some inspiration for this teaching came from this page. Beth Immanuel does not necessarily endorse everything on that site (which appears to be from a Breslov perspective).

Not by Bread Alone: The Power of Fasting
Recorded 08/04/2018 • Posted 08/03/2018
Number 2 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Enhance your prayer life, enhance your spiritual growth, develop self-discipline, and improve your health, all at the same time! This teaching about fasting gears us up for the Forty Days of Repentance. Based on a text in parashat Ekev, we take a look at fasting not only as a spiritual discipline but also at as a source of physical benefits for health and longevity. 

Here are some useful links about the health benfits of Intermittent Fasting and OMAD (One Meal a Day).

Enslaved to the Gods
Recorded 07/17/2009 • Posted 07/23/2018
Number 21 in the series Galatians

Does Paul rebuke Gentiles for observing the biblical calendar? If not, how do we understand Galatians 4:9-10?

"How can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years!" (Galatians 4:9).

Abba! Father!
Recorded 05/01/2010 • Posted 07/20/2018
Number 20 in the series Galatians

The Spirit of Messiah cries out from within the inner being of the believer, "Abba! Father!" Both Jewish and Gentile believers have received the adoption as sons, not just sons of Abraham, but as the sons of God. In this teaching from Galatians, Paul warns the God-fearers not to be enslaved again by the pagan elementary principles of the world thorugh observing days, months, season, and years. 

Save Yourself from this Generation
Recorded 07/29/2017 • Posted 07/19/2018

"Every generation in which the Temple is not rebuilt, is considered guilty of its destruction." Our Master knew that baseless hatred was the sin which was going to cause his generation to forfeit the redemption and go into exile. Therefore he called upon his generation to repent, and by repent, he meant, "Love God," and "Love one another." Love is at the center of his Gospel message.

Why was the second Temple destroyed at a time when people occupied themselves with the study of Torah, the observance of the commandments, and the practice of charity? Because baseless hatred prevailed within them. (b.Yoma 9b)

 

 

 

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