Hey all!! We are the Bears! We are located in Southern Indiana and have a mini homestead. Kevin is a chiropractor, and I am a stay at home mom and wife with a couple side business I do in my spare time.

We love community and LOVE meeting new people. We have 5 blessings that grow and stretch us everyday ;).

We've been in this walk for about 5 years. We love HIS word and His shabbat.

Blessings and shalom!

By Annie patterns: Backseat Babysitter, Road Trip and Stash & Dash...all made with Moda Grunge fabrics. Tate is too young for them, but his siblings aren't.

And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,
Luke 4:17

On the surface, Isaiah 42 and 61 are literally about releasing prisoners and healing the blind, but are also about releasing spiritual prisoners and healing the spiritually blind. See Luke 4:16-30. "Physician, heal yourself" v23 should be understood to mean "Why are you out healing people all over the land instead of right here in your hometown?" But where there is no fear of God, there can be no healing. Until we learn to fear God, we will never see the full power of God.

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Happy Hanukkah, and enjoy!!

#Hanukkah #Yah

November 27, 2021
TORAH PORTION: "AND HE SETTLED"
PARASHAH: “VAYESHEV” וישב
Genesis 37:1 -- 40:23
HAFTORAH PORTION
Amos 2:6-3:8
BRIT HADASHAH PORTION
Matthew 1:1-6, 16-25

Joseph thrown in the pit, image courtesy of https://www.crossroadsinitiati....ve.com/wp-content/up

All other images, paintings by James Tissot

Standing up to read in the synagogue like #yeshua did in Luke 4:16-17 probably wasn't something anybody could do whenever they felt like it. There is generally a strict order to these things. That the synagogue rulers cooperated with him, shows that he had some recognition as a teacher or dignitary of some kind. In v18, he quoted from Isaiah 61:7, 42:7, and 49:8. He probably read more than what is reported, but these were the relevant excerpts. His commentary is really what blew the listeners away. I suspect he said more than is recorded in v21. As with the preceding reading from Isaiah, his commentary is likely also summarized by Luke.