Messianic Audio Teachings

What's the real relationship between King Solomon and false messiah? That's the question behind this teaching on the haftarah for Chayei Sarah.

A teaching from parashat Bereishit about the merit of the righteous, cleaving to the righteous, and the concept of "Tzaddik Yesod Olam, the Righteous is the Foundation of the World" (Proverbs 10:25).

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.

It's not difficult to get back on the path. The hard thing is staying on the path. Here's some advice for making your resultions stick and winning the fight with yourself.

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

Would it be so wrong if God were to make you wealthy? On Rosh Hashanah, your money for the coming year is determined. Here's a teaching about wealth, poverty, and wisdom based on Parashat Ekev and the words of King Solomon.

Why bother attending synagogue services? Take a look at the spiritual transactions taking place at Beth Immanuel. This discussion about the efficacy of prayer and attendance at a Messianic Jewish synagogue includes a discourse on the rock in the wilderness, the clouds of glory, and the manna as they relate to Miriam, Aaron, and Moses respectively and how these elements foreshadow the Messiah.

In this episode, the guys discuss Shabbos observance in their own lives, at Beth Immanuel, and in the larger Messianic Jewish movement.

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.

What does Messianic outreach look like in a Postmissionary Messianic Jewish congregation? Episode 2 of Beth Immanuel's Am Yisrael podcast discusses some of the implications.

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.

Episode 4 of Am Yisrael Podcast takes a deep dive into the history behind the differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardi tradition and considers how those differences play out in Messianic Judaism. Yisroel, Ami, and Shalom recorded this episode with special guest, Mattai, several weeks before Yisroel departed for the World of Truth.

What is reality? It's not what you think. Or maybe it is what you think--and that's the problem. Here's a discussion on the nature of prophecy and how it relates to getting in touch with Absolute Reality.

In this episode, Yisroel Nachum, Ami Buckles, and Shalom Wilson discuss the difference between Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism while making the argument that an Orthodox expression of Messianic Judaism makes the most sense. This episode was recorded in June 2022, a few weeks before Yisroel Nachum Amic passed into the World of Truth.

In the popular presentation of the gospel, the teachings of Yeshua are irrelevant to the core message of salvation. Whether salvation by sacraments or salvation by faith, the teaching of Yeshua does not figure into the equation. This teaching reexamines the gospel message and reconsiders the weight we apply to Yeshua's teachings.

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 n...

Why does Yeshua identify faithfulness as one of the weighty matters of the Torah, and what does that really mean? Aaron Eby takes a look at the meaning of justice, mercy, and faithfulness by comparing a similar discussion in the Talmud where the sages boil the 613 commandments down to the principle of living by faith. This teaching from the 2022 Shavuot conference takes you through an easy-to-unde...

How should we be preparing for times of economic uncertainty? What does fincanical stewardship look like for disciple of Yeshua? A parable from Rabbi Bachya offers some perspective on Parahsaht Behar.

Yeshua claims that he is the resurrection and the life. What does that mean, and do we really believe it? A teaching from the second day of Passover 2022 discusses the hope of the resurrection and the significance of Yeshua's claims.

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.

More deep thoughts, mystical ideas, quotations from no-longer extant sources, and beautiful Jewish exegesis from Clement of Rome. Lesson 6 in our study of The Holy Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians takes us from 1 Clement 28-34.

What do you think? The Torah says that the burnt offering atoned for the worshipper, but for what sins did it atone? The sages looked for answers in the book of Job. Here's a discussion based on parashat Vayikra about the meaning of the burnt offering in Jewish teaching.

If Moses already had a tent of meeting where God appeared to him and spoke to him face to face, for what did he need to spend forty days on Mount Sinai receiving the instructions for building a tent of meeting? If you’ve already got a tent of meeting, why build another one?

A word to Beth Immanuel members and community members in anticipation of First Fruits of Zion's Malchut 2022 conference in Dallas, TX and in anticipation of Shavuot 2022 in Hudson, WI. We discuss the significance of being part of the Beth Immanuel community and the privilege of being able to utilize the holy appointed place to meet with God at the holy times.