Footsteps of the Messiah

Shalom chevrei! This episode reflects on the Hebrew month of Av, exploring its spiritual significance and rituals. The month is marked by both mourning, due to the destruction of the Temples on the 9th of Av, and hope for redemption, symbolized by the 15th of Av, a day of joy and love. The month of Menachem Av is associated with themes of destruction and rebuilding, with the letter Tet and the tri...

Welcome friends to this PENULTIMATE episode of the Footsteps of The Messiah, 5784 edition of A YEAR OF MONTHS! We cover all things Tammuz this month and will explain where the name comes from, why and what it means. Also we share all the dates of importance and the season that Tammuz includes and how it prophesies about the future! Tammuz is strongly connected to the destruction of the Beit HaMikd...

Welcome to the third to last of this year's episodes of a year of months! This year we have been delving into each of the months one at a time. Before Rosh Hashanah, our goal is to finish the year strong and complete the cycle! This month covers SIVAN and new insights, ideas and deeper understandings of the month as well as the major holiday that occurs! Join us for this episode just under one hou...

The month of Iyar in Judaism is the second month of the Hebrew calendar, counting from the calendar order established in Exodus ch 12. It falls between Nisan and Sivan and typically corresponds to April-May in the Gregorian calendar. Some of the observances we cover are...The Counting of the Omer! The most prominent observance during Iyar is the counting of the Omer, which begins on the second nig...

It is NISAN 5784! We finally made it to the first of the year! Our quest is to do one podcast about the month, its mazal, its tribe and all the things that make it unique plus bring you a new insight or practice that is particular to the month, called "chodesh" in Hebrew. So this month we will also cover the idea of "The Nasi". We will look into the concept of tribalism within...

Adar Alef, Bet: Pisces & Purim! This is a leap year or also called a SHANA ME'UBERET, a pregnant year. The Biblical calendar rotates through a cycle of 19 years and seven of these years in the 19 yr cycle has an ADDITIONAL month and it is called Adar Sheni! We will discuss the "mazal" of the month along with all six of the major characteristics that every Hebrew or Biblical month...

So happy new year as we have almost finished the cycle of 5783 and this very short parashah this week is bumping the schedule of the normally scheduled program of Ha'azinu to next week. Welcome to this High Holiday and New Year addition of Footsteps of the Messiah! It is approaching! Tishri 1 is near...I am recording this in the week leading up to Sept 15/16, Friday-Sat, which is the first day...

The month of Shevat is the 11th month in the Biblical calendar counting from Nisan, or the religious calendar, as opposed to the civil calendar. According to Sefaria.org, "the New Year for Trees is described in the Mishnah in tractate Rosh Hashanah, located in Seder Moed (“The Order of Festivals”) opens with the statement that there are four days of the calendar, each of which is a New Year for it...

Welcome to the TEVET episode of our cycle of monthly insights on the Biblical months this year 2023-24 or the Biblical month of 5784! Tevet spelled differently means in Hebrew GOOD THINGS so how do we draw light out of our darkness? Well, we look in to the winter month of Tevet and learn from the events that occurred as well as the MAZAL or Zodiac sign of the month. Take a look with us at all 12 m...

Shalom Chevre and welcome to this months' episode of Footsteps of the Messiah! We are bringing you a special monthly edition this year and our hope is to release it the week of ROSH CHODESH KISLEV! This way you can enjoy an absorb and listen again if you wish to capture the whole SHEFA of the month. Shefa means flow and can also mean ABUNDANCE. So let's talk about Kislev 5784. Kislev is th...

Welcome Chevre to this 4th installment of Footsteps of the Messiah in this new year or 5784. We'll be talking about all the parashot briefly that fall in Cheshvan as well as the important dates that occur in this month, the lack of holidays and the place of Cheshvan in the Zodiac, as well as what tribe it connects to. And we also look at all of the names of this month, which is unique, as most...

Shalom chevre and welcome to this special end of one year, 5783 and beginning of the NEW YEAR 5784 edition of Footsteps of the Messiah. This episode truly represents an end of another cycle and beginning of a new one for our Podcast. We did a Sukkot edition last year on the first two days of Sukkot but we left off the Haftarot portions for the Shabbat Chol HaMoed, meaning the Shabbat that falls du...

Shalom friends and welcome to a double special edition of this week's podcast! Shabbat Shuva and Yom Kippur are connected so join us as we cover an overview briefly of the Torah portions for Shabbat Shuvah and Yom Kippur and then delve into the HAFTAROT for both special days! We cover their connections to the time and season as well as insights and connections to why the book of Yonah is read...

Parashat Matot Ma-asei is set for this Shabbat of the week of July 14-15, 2023, or Tammuz 26 5783. The parasha is a double parasha and the last one for the book of Numbers/Bamidbar. Matot means Tribes and is in Numbers 30:2. The name of the second parasha is Ma-sei meaning Journeys, & appears in Numbers 33:1. The haftarah this week is the second in a series of three haftarot that pertain to th...

The week of Elul 17-23, and Sept 3-9, we read parashat Nitzavim and Vayalech. This covers from Devarim 29:9 to 31:30, a shorter parasha of only 70 verses [the average parasha I believe is about 105 verses]. The haftarah is very interesting so we will do a brief brief recap of the Torah, a short overview and move in to the last Haftarah of the year. Of course it is from Isaiah, as the last 9 have b...

Welcome to this weeks episode of FOOTSTEPS OF THE MESSIAH, for the week of Elul 10 to 16, with Shabbat falling of course on the 16th, just three full weeks from the beginning of this week or two more Shabbats away from ....any guesses...I'm sure you know by know...ROSH HASHANAH! So this week we will be reading parashat Ki Tavo. This parasha is 122 verses going from Devarim 26:1 to chapter 29:...

Parashat Ki Tetze is read this week of August 20, 2023 and on the Biblical calendar, it is Elul 9, on Shabbat. In Ki Tetze is containted the highest # of mitzvot out of all 54 Torah parshiyot of the whole entire year! There are 74 Mitzvot. Some of the highlights are the Shtei Nashim, rules for two wives, The Ben Sorer, the stubborn/rebellious son, the hanging of a man on a tree, and the prohibitio...

Welcome Chevre to another episode of the Footsteps of The Messiah Podcast! This week is the week of August 13-20, 2023 and it is the week of Rosh Chodesh ELUL. Shabbos falls this week on Elul Bet, or the 2nd as we enter into parashat Shoftim. It is the only parasha to coincide with an actual BOOK of the Bible with the same name. Sefer Shoftim is found right after the book of Yehoshua. We are exact...

Parashat Re'eh is the 47th parasha of the Torah and this year is read the week of August 6th through the 12th and on Shabbat of Av 25. This will also be the last Shabbat where the monthly blessing is recited as we do NOT recite it in the month of Elul to make the approaching holiday of Rosh HaShana, and maybe it is because Tishri has its own pomp and circumstance and majesty! Re'eh means S...

This week on Footsteps of the Messiah we will cover the haftarah and it's relation to the season. We are in the homestretch of a few things this week, the week of July 23-29, 2023. This portion is usually if not always read the same week that Tisha B'av occurs. So why do I say the homestretch? Well the three weeks of negativity or also called Bein HaMetzarim end on Thursday, Av 9. On Shabb...

Yishayahu, or Isaiah in English is the book we read from on this special Shabbat, called Shabbat Chazon, because of the first word from Isaiah 1:1. Chazon means "VISION" or "REVELATION". I don't speak about it in the episode but we used the graphic to connect to the BOOK OF REVELATION, when Yeshua returns. So, the parsha itself, Parashat Devarim is read the week of Rosh Cho...

Parashat Pinchas this year 5783 or 2023 on the Gregorian calendar is the first shabbat of the three weeks of admonition. Also called Bein HaM'tzarim, between the straits is the literal translation. In this Parashah, it picks up with an incident that actually happened in Last week's parasha, in Numbers 25, where Pinchas skewered two people copulating in the open, a disgusting wanton brazen...

Micah, HaNavi (the prophet) is the star of this week's haftarah. Parashat Chukat Balak lands on the 2nd week of Tammuz 5783 and we enter into another double portion! It also is one of the six unique Torah portions named after a character. Interestingly enough, it is another pagan non-Israeli character, or Israelite. So Chukat and Balak are read together both in Non Leap years and leap years. A...

This year Parashat Korach is read the week of Tammuz 5 5783 or June 24 2023. The parasha takes place from Num 16:1-18: 32. The haftarah is from 1 Samuel 11:14 to 12:22. The overview is that Shmuel who is descended from Korah brings Am Israel together for the coronation of Shaul over Israel as King. There are the Hebrew connections that the Chazal found, the Sages linked the Torah parshiyot to the...

PARASHAT SHELACH 5783: This year parashat Shelach also happens to be the announcement of Rosh Chodesh Tamuz and we find ourselves in the 13th chapter of Numbers, just having left Sinai in last week's parasha, Be'ha'alotcha. Parashat Shelach spans from Numbers 13:1 to Numbers 15:41. The 12 Shli'chim or emissaries or "apostles" also called scouts, go to explore the Aretz HaKodesh. They return with e...