Creating a mikdash

We should try to make our house a dwelling place, a mikdash for God.

Called ones looking for the good land

You could say that based upon obedience or disobedience to the mitzvot we can be blessed or cursed. In any case, they are a guide to lead us to the land provided and promised by God.

Directions to the Called ones

A Jew would be hard-pressed to try to answer the question “what is God’s law” in a single morning’s service, but it is clear that we only may have One God above all gods, to Him, the God of Abraham belongs all worship.

Looking at or dreaming of that land of honey and milk

We should know that all land belongs to El ʿElyon and shall all be part of that Promised Land of Honey and Milk, when the paradise shall be restored.

Internet and practice of religion

Through the corona crisis internet became introduced by many of our members, giving them the possibility to still join and feel connected with fellow believers.

Jeshua committing his spirit in God’s Hands

Jesus knew that he got his life from Jehovah God and wanted to give it in His Hands, committing his spirit in the knowledge and trust that God would give him life again.

In this time of darkness yearning for God’s presence

Right now, we are in a time of seeking, and there is good reason to yearn for the Qadosh Barukh Hu, El ʿElyon, thirsting for Jehovah the living God, to find our way through the darkness. Those who have tasted the Bore and got that personal relationship with Him, have found that nothing else can satisfy their souls but Him.

Looking forward to Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

Going up to Simchat Torah, the Rejoicing of the Torah, remembering how everything we have is a gift from Hashem, Who has given His Word to guide us through our life.

Our feelings and thoughts when looking at 17 Tammuz, 5782

We look at the observance of Three Weeks,(Hebrew Bein Hametzarim,- Between the Straits) which commemorates the days between the first breaching of the walls of Jerusalem in 586 bce by Babylonian troops under Nebuchadrezzar to the subsequent destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem.

Hidden Presence

“1  Look, a day is coming for ADONAI when your plunder, (Yerushalayim), will be divided right there within you. 2 “For I will gather all the nations against Yerushalayim for war. The city will be taken, the houses will be rifled, the women will be raped, and half the city will go into exile; but [...]

A celebration of harvest, and of thanksgiving for the provision God has given

The fall Feast of Tabernacles is an “ingathering,” a celebration of harvest, and of thanksgiving for the provision God has given. In Israel, families will spend the week of celebration living in, or at least gathering in, temporary dwellings, rejoicing together while remembering the days of old.

The story of Kayin and Hevel 4 – Man must be protected from on high

We find Kayin pleading with God in the hope to receive a less hard punishment or protection so that he would not be killed out of revenge.

The story of Kayin and Hevel 3 – The consequences of Bloodshed

“YHWH said to Kayin: Where is Hevel your brother? He said: I do not know. Am I the watcher of my brother? Now he said: What have you done! A sound—your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground! And now, damned be you from the ground, which opened up its mouth to receive [...]

In times of flooding and other miseries

The summer of 2021 brought an enormous flood over Belgium and several other Western European countries. This weekend, the Torah brings a line of help as Tree of Life or Etz haChayim.

The story of Kayin and Hevel 1 – Intention of action and sin crouching at the doorway

Bereshith 4 shows us what can go wrong when we have no good intentions and when our heart is not pure and honest in our actions.