Shalom, friends,
We invite you to join us live on Zoom and YouTube at 4pm Central Standard Time on this Sabbath afternoon, 09/21/2024, for scripture study and prayers. The lesson for the day is titled:
Physiological Facts about Lashon Hara and Rechiluth
This week's study is one you won't want to miss, as this is continuing the series concerning Shemirath Halashon: Guarding the Tongue. Did You Know that Gossiping and Evil Speech release a drug-like substance called endorphins into your body, giving you a short-term sense of well-being and a stronger sense of belonging? Join us and find out more about why this wicked practice is so prevalent and affects us all.
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https://youtube.com/live/_iZJbKhFYFE
From this week’s parashah
In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.
And the earth came to be formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim was moving on the face of the waters.
And Elohim said, “Y’hy Or” and light came to be.
And Elohim saw the light, that it was excellent. And Elohim separated the light from the darkness.
And Elohim called the light ‘day’ and the darkness He called ‘night.’ And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, one day.
This week's #torah reading is called Nitzavim, which means "standing". Here are some apostolic passages for #biblestudy alongside this Parsha (#deuteronomy 29:10-30:20), plus links to related commentary and video: https://www.americantorah.com/....2021/03/21/parsha-ni
Boggles the mind doesn’t it?
In “Alice’s Adventures in a Wonderland” we can’t help but note how staggering the similarities are between our former Christian tradition and the mad world or wonders Alice encounters. We can’t help but notice the oddities of her outlook compared to ours:
“She was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.”
There we were in Christendom whiling away the days “sleepy and stupid” and pondering nonsense so much so that when nonsense ran past us on full display, we missed it fully.
To hear a talking hare was “nothing so very remarkable” to us. It was only thinking it over after that we realized we aught to have wondered at this.
“But at the time it all seemed quite natural.”
What started us is exactly what started Alice.
She saw that the talking rabbit wore a wastecoat and carried a pocket watch.
What nonsense!
What spectacular audacity!
She could accept a talking rabbit, sure but a talking rabbit all dressed up and checking the time on a chronometer?!
That was just way too much nonsense to take in….“Burning with curiosity” off she went to investigate.
And did we not encounter such oddities in our travels down that strange Christian track?
Blessedly for us we happened upon much too much of the bazaar all at once to simply let it be any longer. That burning curiosity got the better of us. And off we went to look into the strangeness of it all.
Question Everything
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When I learned to be a speaker, I would give a studies to a group of people who had been in the church of God for decades. They were very knowledgeable and it was kind of silly for me to be teaching them. I did everything I could to try and get the group to discuss during Bible study time rather than just listening to me. We had microphones to pass around and it was totally set up for them to contribute, but they would never ever say a peep. They just sat there stoic. You couldn’t even tell if what you were saying was being received well or not.
Until I said something wrong. Then the hands would pop up and everybody would start talking.
So, I started purposely saying things wrong to get them talking.
Now I’m looking at my Twitter feed and seeing wrong reporting and ridiculous conspiracies getting incredible engagement. It appears that I’m not the only one who has figured this out.
Downside in the next comment.
Leviticus 23:3, “There are six days for you to work. But the seventh day will be a special day of rest. It is a day for a holy meeting. You must not do any work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your homes.” The feasts outlined in Leviticus begin with the weekly Sabbath, then the spring feasts and then end with the fall feasts. These times are appointed by our Creator, they are not some divination of mankind.
"He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted to him as a curse."
Pr 27
"He was made the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him" Heb 5
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