Messianic Audio Teachings

Some people have the custom of decorating their sukkah with a plaque with the words “Zeker  LeAnanei HaKivod”  -- “A Remembrance of the Clouds of Glory.” This teaching explores the relationship between the Sukkah, the clouds, and the coming of the Messiah. 

Are you ready to hear the Messiah read the Torah? This Sukkot is the festival after the seventh year during which we are to hear the king read the Torah. The mitzvah of Hakhel (Deuteronomy 31:10-13) says that during the festival of Sukkot, at the end of a Shemitah year, everyone is supposed to assemble in Jerusalem to hear the Torah read aloud to the whole assembly by the king of Israel.

Some practical advice for jumpstarting repentance during the forty days of teshuvah that culminate with Yom Kippur. 

Yeshua identifies the weighty matters of the Torah as justice, mercy, and faithfulness. From where does he derive this triad? This teaching focuses in on Micah 6:8, offering context for the saying from the days of Isaiah and Hezekiah. Then we examine what it means "to walk humbly with your God" in light of Yeshua's teachings about the weighty matters of the Torah. 

The pilot episode of Am Yisrael, the new Beth Immanuel podcast, features a conversation between Yisroel Nachum Amic, Shalom Wilson, and Ami Buckles discussing the recent Beth Immanuel Shavuot conference and reflecting on their own personal experiences in synagogues and churches before finding their way to Beth Immanuel. 

Clement, the disciple of Peter, lays out the hierarchy of authority in the assembly of Messiah and lodges his complaint against those subverting that authority in Corinth. This fascinating time capsule takes a look at the inner workings of the early church and the apostolic tradition that undergirded its offices. Includes apostolic midrash on parashat Korach and a lost saying of Yeshua. Download the original handout from the 2013 class below.

Yeshua says that the weighty matters of the Torah are "justice, mercy, and faithfulness." Does this mean that the details of Jewish law are irrelevant? This teaching, the first of a series of teachings for the Shavuot 2022 at Beth Immanuel, opens the discussion on the "weightier provisins of the Law." 

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! (Matthew 23:23-24)

A short discussion on a few of the mystical implications of the Bible's ritual purity laws in Leviticus 12-15 (Tazria Metzora) and their significance in view of the journey of the soul and the resurrection of the dead.

Why doesn't God appear to us? Why can't we see God? Take a headlong dive into some deep Torah thoughts on parashat Shemini where the Glory of the LORD appears to Israel on the eighth day.