This week we are watching the hostage negotiations that have come up in the news as we draw closer to the 1335 day for our 2nd and 3rd abomination counts.
I am also going to explain what I am seeing coming out of the University pro-Hamas protests. I have been wondering how some of these things would take shape. how they are going to come about. Now it is becoming clearer. We will only know after the fact, but I believe I am looking in the right direction. These student protests are intentionally very dangerous for us around the world.
And at the same time the Abraham Accord is once again in the news. I have had to refresh my understanding of an Eye to Eye teaching by Bill Koenig. May this Newsletter be a blessing to you and yours.
Torah Portion
Torah Portions
We read through the entire Torah along with the Prophets and the New Testament, once over the course of 3 1/2 years. Or according to the Sabbatical Cycle which means we read it all twice over a 7-year period. This allows us to cover more in-depth rather than being rushed to cover as much as is covered on an annual basis. We allow all to comment and take part in the discussions.
Septennial Torah Portion
If you go to Torah Portion at our archived section, you can then go to the 7th year which is the 7th year of the Sabbatical Cycle, the one we are in now, as we state at the top of every News Letter. There you can scroll down to the proper date, and see that this Shabbat we could very well be midrashing about:
Genesis 12
Judges 3-4
Psalm 26-28
Matthew 16-17:2
We are in the 1st Sabbatical Cycle in 2024-2023. We go through the entire bible twice in a 7 year cycle. This means we cover the entire bible once every 3 1/2 years. It gives us more time to debate and discuss each portion we read.
If you missed last week’s exciting discoveries as we studied that section, you can go and watch past Shabbats on our media section.
Join Our Sabbath Meetings
Join Our Sabbath Meetings
There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on the Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our YouTube channel.
What are we doing and why do we teach this way?
We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.
The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.
Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are Wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and I and you are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.
Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.
Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.
We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.
We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as Fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.
Jas 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
We hope you can invite those who want to keep Torah to come and join us by hitting the link below. It is almost like a Torah teaching fellowship talk show with people from around the world taking part and sharing their insights and understandings.
We start off with some music and then some prayers and it’s as though you were sitting around the kitchen back in Newfoundland having a cup of coffee and all of us enjoying each other’s company. I hope you will grace us with your company someday.
Sabbath services begin at 12:30 PM EDT where we will be doing prayers songs and teaching from this hour. Shavuot on Sunday April 20, 2024, we will be meeting at 10 AM Eastern and then again at 1 PM Eastern.
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The Perpetual Calendar
The Perpetual Calendar
We have available from our website a calendar you can use to keep track of the days of the month based on when the Barley is ripe and when the moon is sighted. ALl you have to do is download it. https://sightedmoon.com/perpetual-calendar/
With the new year about to begin, you can learn about the calendar as you record it. This is a great tool to have and it is free to anyone who wants it.
New Moon May 9, 2024
New Moon May 9, 2024
It is going to be a 30-day month for the 3rd month we are now in. This means the start of the fourth month will be Thursday, May 9, after the sun sets.
Andrew Jones Discovered is in Saudi Arabia.
Discovered is in Saudi Arabia.
Someone asked me to post these photos from November 2021 and March 2022 of a large billboard style rock with many petroglyphs carved on them. I was told about this large rock by a French friend who was taken there by his group’s Saudi guide that same month. He sent me the location and so off I went exploring with a tourist who showed up for the adventure. We flew the drone in this valley too where this large rock is located. We found modern semi circular rock formations up on a ridge that later another local friend told me was used by the military to train. Some have mistakenly viewed the rock formations as ancient. I sent photos of this large rock billboard to Ron who also wrote up a paper on it: https://www.academia.edu/104079787/The_Birthing_Billboard
Exodus Inscriptions Response
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Hi Joseph,
The Birthing Billboard
The Birthing Billboard (link)
Ron Van Brenk
Ancient Hebrew, Hebrew Paleography,
The Names of the Lord YHWH in the Paleo-Hebrew Language
An in-depth investigation into a most unusual way of cataloguing a woman's coming of age-in the wilderness of The Exodus
Image courtesy of Steve Parks
THE HEBREW BIRTHING BILLBOARD
ABSTRACT
An in-depth investigation into a most unusual way of cataloguing woman’s coming of age- in the wilderness of The Exodus
Ron Van Brenk
An article written about historical women-
A stone inscribed by heroic women
A stone recounting their massive Journey
But more so, a stone recounting their desperate begetting,
in a dry and dusty land.
Dedicated to my lifetime partner and co-traveller to that dry and dusty land, Paula
The Hebrew Birthing Billboard - Yes, most definitely a Billboard. Most definitely not a Stele- not a Standing Stone. And most definitely a Birthing Billboard, by those that were definitely pro-life. A Billboard only recently discovered (2021?). And only now being translated- by your friendly neighbourhood analyst. That is, if your neighbourhood is Canada. A big and boastful Billboard. Where post-partum women would post their long- awaited Birth Notices. A posting that was all the rage, back in an Age where Facebook and Twitter posts were but a twinkle in a young man’s eye. A Bronze twinkle at that. And most definitely written by Hebrew women. No doubt about that either.
Since men don’t boast about those sorts of things. They boast about other things. And a Hebrew Birthing Billboard as opposed to this Egyptian Birthing Billboard below - A billboard created in Kom Ombo, Egypt- just a little south of Luxor. Created in what they called Upper Egypt- for some odd reason. Sort of like Toronto is alleged be in Upper Canada. Doesn’t make much sense, now does it? An Egyptian Billboard created a ‘few centuries either way of the Common Era’.
Which means ‘either way of B.C. or A.D.’ for secularists- your common ambiguity. A much later Billboard that was likely not written by women. Much too methodical for that. And much too literate for that. A Billboard created in an Age when Egyptian hieroglyphics were in their final days.
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