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Song for Chukat

We have learned what ‘leaven’ is and looked at the examples of hypocrisy, blindness and foolishness in the 23rd chapter of Matthew–now Rabbi Steve Berkson wants us to examine ourselves. Could we be like the Pharisees and scribes who say, and do not do? Are you following Yeshua from a distance like Peter did when Yeshua was arrested? Would there be enough “evidence” to convict you of being a Torah...

Song for Korach

Matthew 23:13 gives an account of Yeshua calling the scribes and Pharisees, leaders of the people, on the carpet. He exposed them as hypocritical, blind guides that abused the people for their own greed and power. Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us step-by-step, verse-by-verse to help us understand what Yeshua was saying about them in order for us to examine ourselves and get rid of this “leaven” that c...

Song for Shelach

Most of us know what ‘leaven’ is when it comes to baking bread, etc., but what about the spiritual meaning? Rabbi Steve Berkson takes you through the scriptures that show where the significance of leaven started, how it relates to the sacrifices and examples of how it ruined a whole system of leadership. Rabbi Steve also takes some time in this teaching to address the ‘call no man Rabbi’ issue tha...

Song for Beha'alotcha

In part 10, the final part of Discovering Your Identity, Rabbi Steve Berkson moves us from Isaiah chapter 11 to Romans chapter 11 traversing between the TaNaK and the Brit Chadasha. You will learn through the writings of the apostles that they knew and understood the restoration of the two houses. Is favor, or grace, merited or unmerited, since it’s not by works? If it’s merited, by whom? What is...

Song for Nasso

Song for Shavuot

How well do know and understand the parable of the Prodigal Son? You probably have never heard an explanation of this parable like Rabbi Steve Berkson brings it in this teaching. In Discovering Your Identity, part 9, there are more connecting of the dots as Rabbi Steve again traverses the TaNaK (Old Testament) and the Brit Chadasha (New Testament), from Isaiah to Luke to Ephesians to Deuteronomy,...

Song for Bamidbar

Rabbi Tom Mitchell leads us through the examples of Biblical characters who left their comfort zones to follow the Word of Yahweh to teach us how we should learn from how they followed whole heartedly regardless of how uncomfortable it may have seemed at that time. Don't miss out on new teachings every week. You are welcome to post your comments and please click on the "LIKE" button if this teachi...

What is the “righteousness revealed” of which the prophet Isaiah spoke? (Isa 56). Who is the foreigner who has attached himself to Yahweh? What is the “eunuch” who calls himself a dry tree? Can you fully understand the writings of the Apostles (New Testament) without understanding the Tanak (Old Testament)? If the Jewish people have been rejected and replaced, why did Yeshua say, “deliverance is o...

Song for Emor

Rabbi Steve Berkson continues leading us onward to discovering our identity as the people of Yahweh through the writings of the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Zechariah. Did you know Yeshua the Messiah was hidden in the Torah? That He was to come from the womb of a woman at precisely the right time for a specific purpose? What was that purpose? What does it have to do with your identity? W...

Song for Acharei Mot-Kedoshim

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a prophet? Consider the prophet Hoshea (Hosea). He was told to marry a promiscuous woman, Gomer, so that Yahweh could make a visual point to his people. Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us through the Book of Hosea to show us that even though His people did shamefully by pursuing their own pleasures by adapting themselves to other deities He would still not forge...

Song for Tazria-Metzora

When the people of the tribe of Judah began to return from the exile in Babylon they were discouraged from rebuilding the temple of Yahweh by the taunts and threats of their surrounding opponents. Instead they worked on their own houses, being concerned with their own affairs and neglecting the worship that was due their Elohim. Then comes the word of Elohim through the prophet Haggai letting them...

In Rabbi Steve Berkson’s last teaching we learned that the inheritance, of which the larger portion would normally go to the “first-born”, was split between two of the sons of Ya’akov, his adopted son Ephrayim and his son Yehuda. Yehuda would receive the authority aspect of the inheritance and Ephrayim would receive the rest. Because of this split of the inheritance we see the birth of the Two Hou...

Song for Shemini

Song for Passover

In the last teaching, Rabbi Steve Berkson showed us the man called Avraham (or Abraham) who was chosen by Yahweh to enter into a covenant which included certain admonishments and promises. In this lesson we will see this covenant handed down to Avraham’s children, Isaac and Jacob (Genesis 22); and ultimately to all who join themselves to the Creator of all, through Messiah Yeshua, then becoming se...