She Concieves - Tazria

Happy Nisan! According to Our Creator's calendar, this is the first Shabbat of the year.

This morning I am praying for the renewed strength of Messianic Rabbi David Stone Jr. who usually leads a very interesting Torah Study on Facebook live from Beaumont, Texas. Unfortunately, he came down with a very nasty stomach bug and will need to stay close to home today.

On the sixth day (Thursday) Rav David posted the following on his Facebook profile:

The name of the Torah portion is "Tazria" which means 'she conceives'.

Torah- Leviticus 12:1-13:59
Haftarah- 2 Kings 4:42-5:19
New Covenant- Luke 7:18-35
We begin our study of Isaiah with chapter 1.

Please pray that he will be right as rain soon again and able to lead the Torah studies with his congregation on Shabbat mornings from 10:30 a.m.- to 12:30 p.m. at Christian Fellowship Church 3950 Pointe Pkwy Beaumont Texas 77706.

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Shabat Studies -

Exploring Torah- Leviticus 12:1-13:5

Leviticus 12:1-13:59 is the section of Hebrew writings that deals with laws about cleanliness - women after giving birth and people who contract skin diseases.

So how could this possibly be of interest to us today?

This section of Torah highlights the importance of reading the whole Jewish Bible. Reading the whole Bible can open our eyes to important significant things we might miss if we only read the Greek and Aramaic writings found in the New Testament. This section about the sacrifice required after a woman gives birth to a boy gives us insight into the birth of Our Saviour, who according to Rabbi Johnathan Kahn would have been born on Nisan 1.

In Luke 2:24, we see that the sacrifice offered to redeem Our Saviour was that of a poor family. Our Saviour was born into poverty.

Similarly, when we read about Our Saviour healing lepers in the New Testament, this section of Torah gives us further insight into what Our Saviour tells the lepers to do after they have been healed.

While exploring this section of Torah I was lead to a very interesting website - Open Siddur. This has colour-coded English Translations of the ancient Hebrew texts to help people create their own personal prayer books.

Messianic Children's Ministry Teaching Resources About Leviticus 12:1-13:59

Hmm... how would you teach about this section of Leviticus?

Young Messianic Torah Observant Israelite website offers a story with printable colouring pictures for this section of Torah called Clean - Unclean. They also offer other useful resources . See the Clean/Unclean lesson from YMTOI here.

Exploring Haftarah- 2 Kings 4:42-5:19

This reading from the prophets (haftarah) in 2 Kings 4:42 starts with an amazing loaves miracle.Wow! I have read the Bible many times, and I cannot believe I have totally missed this amazing multiplication miracle that was done way back in the days of Elisha!

Knowing that Our Saviour was not the only one to have such miracles of provision of a meagre supply expanding to feed as many as needed and have some left can give us hope for the days of famine that are foretold that will come in these last days. Have you ever experienced a miracle of multiplication of loaves like this?

I have had two people share with me that they personally have had the opportunity to see food miraculously provided.

The section following the miracle of the loaves has many important teachings in it. This is the record of Naaman the leper and how he is healed.

Messianic Children's Ministry Teaching Resources About Haftarah- 2 Kings 4:42-5:19

There are quite a few resources about the healing of Naman, but I am still strugging for find a resources about Elisha and the Bread miracle. Any suggestions?

Exploring New Covenant Reading- Luke 7:18-35

In Luke 7:18-35, we find John the Baptist's followers asking Our Messiah if He truly is expected Messiah. Our Saviour replies that they should go and tell John what they have see.

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