Lucky to belong to Am Segullah

Through the sacrificial act of Christ Jesus, the opportunity has been created for several people to be part of the Chosen People of God.

Not always so easy to keep to the sabbath

We always should remember that Shabbat is not just about not doing certain things, or the other way round, just doing special things, or having special food or bringing sacrifices.

3 Signs of Being a Glory Addict – Struggle of struggles

3 Signs of Being a Glory Addict Paul Tripp It really is the struggle of struggles. It’s what we were made for, it’s what we crave, and it’s what we manage to mess up in some way almost every day. What’s the struggle? The struggle for glory. I’ve said many times that I believe the most…

Considerations from Creation

When God spoke to Job, He gave him some considerations from creation that everyone should ponder about

Jews have the Ultimate Support System

Bnei Yisroel as Am kadosh shall always be the most favoured or set-apart people of God, no matter that the Elohim provided now a means of others also to have their relationship with Him restored, by the ransom offering of the mashiach.

14-22 Nisan gives us time to read about how the HaShem took care of His People and provided also a solution for the goyim. All should come to recognise the Bore as their Father of fathers and God above all gods, making them pure and clean to come close to Him as His children.

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To remember

how Ethan Katz looks on tefillah

• With so many different mitzvos for us to be cognizant of + so many aveiros available for us to do = impossible to actively keep all of Hashem’s mitzvos without stumbling a few times
• view aveiros as “stumbling” > instead believing that we’ve “fallen.”
• we say same two words during Shemoneh Esrei > someich noflim => someich, “He supports,” noflim, “those who are (currently) falling.”
• Satisfied, I continued my davening keeping this new way of thinking in mind.
• a machlokes in the gemara in Kiddushin 36a on the pshat of the beginning of the pasuk in Devarim (14:1) “Banim atem l’Hashem Elokeichem,” (you are sons to Hashem, your God).
• no matter what, bein kach ubein kach, we are always Hashem’s children!

Yirmiyahu (4:22)= “foolish sons.”

Devarim (32:20) “faithless sons.”

Yeshayahu (1:4)  “the seed of evildoers, destructive sons.”

Hoshea (2:1), pasuk > “instead of being told (by Hashem) “you are not My nation,” Hashem will call them b’nei Kel-Chai (sons of Living-God).”

• gemara explains: granted when Jews are foolish = despite all shortcomings > still sons > not faithless > even when there is no faithfullness => faithless Jews = still called sons
• pasuk > banim mashchisim = destructive sons

in our spiritual lives, in our lives striving to keep Hashem’s Torah + mitzvos, THERE IS NO BOTTOM.

Hashem never lets us hit the bottom because we are His children eternally

=> forever child of Hakadosh Boruch Hu.

Hashem brought geulah to the Jews in Mitzrayim because a parent is always there for his children

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Preceding

Troubles testing your faith and giving you patience and good prospects

A night different from all other nights and days to remember

The offspring from a tortured generation finding the Word of God again

Ambassadors showing hope and a world of peace

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Additional reading

1. A Tool to shed light over the qualities in our life 2 Jews for a Messiah
2. A Tool to shed light over the qualities in our life 3 Menorah and 7 basic emotions
3. No insurmountable obstacles to come to know God
4. A God between many gods
5. Necessary to be known all over the earth
6. God as Father
7. Out of the seed of Eve
8. The Love of God
9. Back from gone #2 Aim of godly people
10. Back from gone #3 Giving worries to God and believing in His promises
11. Patriarch Abraham, Muslims, Christians and the son of God
12. Moshe Rabbenu and Torat Moshe
13. Memorizing wonderfully 7 Exodus
14. Last Events of Old Testament – Right of Wrong?
15. Seeing or not seeing and willingness to find God
16. People Seeking for God 5 Bread of life
17. Religions and Mainliners
18. Added commentary to the posting A Progressive Call to Arms
19. Silencing Women – Of God or Men ?
20. Reactions against those of the other sex
21. Christians remaining hidden not sharing the gospel
22. 100-Day Identity Makeover: Day 56
23. The Immeasurable Grace bestowed on humanity
24. Born of the Father
25. Behold, My mother and My brothers!
26. Jesus, A way given to find the right way to God
27. Marriage of Jesus 10 Old and New Covenant
28. Are Christians prepared to Rejoice in the Lord
29. Avoiding friction and distraction in the body of Christ
30. One Mind, One Accord
31. Fellowship over meals
32. Nazarene Commentary Matthew 4:1-4 A Wilderness Temptation
33. Matthew 13:36-43 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Parable of the Zizania in the Field Explained
34. Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26
35. We Are The Children Of God
36. The God of hope filling us with all joy and peace
37. The Rise of Anti-Seminism

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Further reading

1. We are Daughters and Sons of God
2. What Kind of Parent Is God?
3. God’s Love is Not Platonic
4. Adopted by God
5. Children In His Arms
6. The Children of God vs. The Children of the Devil: 1st John 3:10
7. #WeAre
8. “In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself”
9. “Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” — Galatians 3:26
10. Bible verses on Children of God
11. A Story of Adoption
12. A Solemn Truth: John 8:31-34
13. Worthless?
14. Why did Jesus say to share the gospel with all creation?
15. “Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts.” ~Apostle Paul
16. Coming in Clouds With Great Power
17. Day 6: Come Unto Me
18. Groanings, Pt 2 – Waiting for Our Adoption – Romans 8:23-25
19. Phone Calls to a Father
20. Daily Scripture, 4-10-19
21. Day 10: He Ate with Publicans and Sinners
22. Day 11: Go and Do Likewise
23. Prayer: Our Home is in You (Genesis 17)
24. You dont have to try to be children of God [1064]
25. You dont have to try to be children of God [1064a]
26. Ancient Easter Joy is for the Kids
27. We are NOT sinners! Stop saying that.
28. Love One Another

Tefillah Melodies

Before I start discussing my thoughts on tefillah, I want to quickly say that although I hope to consistently post, since these ideas are actual thoughts I have when davening that help me with my kavannah and not me being mamshich through tefillah as a limud, I will be posting ideas at random, with no real seder. Having said that, I hope one day I can really go through the siddur and learn it like a mentsch. Now on to my first official post.

“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”

This quote, taken from a Life Alert commercial, reflects how many Jews, including myself at times, constantly feel. With so many different mitzvos for us to be cognizant of and so many aveiros available for us to do, it is impossible to actively keep all of Hashem’s mitzvos without stumbling a few times. The problem many of us face…

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A night different from all other nights and days to remember

Bondage may come to an end, but requires action from each individual. We may count on it that the Elohim shall redeem the oppressed advancing His agenda of oneness.

The figure of Eve

After having looked at Adam we cannot pass his helper Eve. It was she who brought the man to follow her idea and to ignore God's Wish not to eat from the Tree of moral, with as consequence that they got knowledge of good and evil and came to learn pain and death.

Starting from a point in time when two elements existed

Looking at traditional general rendering and some older Jewish rendering of the possible mistranslation of the first verses of the Book of Genesis and foundation concept of religious thinking. Of course, in our age, this subject is commonly tied up with scientific cosmogony, of how things did in fact originate, and here the questions cease to be religious since, first, very few believers are qualified to have an opinion on the latest scientific ideas of how the universe and life on earth began, and, secondly, no one can be sure that scientific conclusions will not change in the future.

An openingschapter explaining why things are like they are and why we may have hope for better things

Worldly books in no way can give such a clear picture to man what caused everything to come into being and how there may be a solution to the wrong steps taken by the first human beings. For this, man needs to understand clearly what caused this troublesome world. The Bereshith tells the story of the origin of life and death.