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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Vayetzi,” Genesis 28:10-32:3) the story of Yakov/Jacob as he journeys to the land of his father’s family, is told first-hand of his birthright and the promises, and acquires his own wives and family.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SSM-11-28-25-Vayetzi-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3Mark’s Sabbath Day midrash probably raises more questions than it answers. Most of which are, at best, ambiguous from what we are told in the story. But these are human beings, of course — flawed people, who make mistakes — and thus more interesting and even relevant to where we find ourselves today. Yakov married daughters of Laban. While certainly not Canaanites, Laban himself is hardly a saint. And why did Raqel/Rachel steal his teraphim, fake gods?
There is a lot of setup here: The man who is forced to leave home to escape his own brother’s wrath soon comes to a place he’s almost certainly HEARD about, but suddenly – He sees first hand and KNOWS about those promises. What was hypothetical is Real. And yet there are still struggles ahead, and the man who asked for, and received, the place of the firstborn is deceived himself, because “it is not done so here,” to put the younger in place of the first-born.
Ultimately, Laban seems to take advantage of his son-in-law. There is animosity. He is, after all is said and done, still a pagan.
And that, too, is just as relevant now as ever.
Vayetzi: ‘Flawed people and Hard Questions: Do you Love Messiah more than Bacon?’
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WT-CooH-11-29-25-Vayetzi-Labanite-xtians-do-you-love-Yahushua-more-than-bacon-podcast-x.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Toldot,” Genesis 25:19-28:9)…
The Erev Shabbat reading – and thus the title of the parsha – begins with “These are to ‘toldot’, or generations, of Isaac…”
…but it is really the beginning of the story of Yakov, or Jacob, and the father of the nations, Israel:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SSM-11-21-25-Toldot-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3Mark’s Sabbath Day midrash is a deeper look at what has been called “enigmatic.” There are certainly elements, of this story in particular, that have been regarded as “problematic,” even, in terms of things done by characters we might be inclined to emulate. For example, why does Rivkah (Rebeccah) decide to deceive her husband? Why does Yiztak/Isaac apparently FALL for it? Or even merit possibly BEING deceived? And, why is Yakov accused to being a ‘supplanter,’ or even “stealing” the birthright?
Some of those questions are certainly easier with the benefit of hindsight.
But there are others that, even in being asked, give us a greater insight into what is REALLY happening than we might otherwise imagine.
“Toldot: What’s With Isaac?
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WT-CooH-11-22-25-Toldot-Whats-with-Isaac-Enigmatic-until-hindsight-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Chayei Sarah,” Genesis 23:1-25:18)…
The Erev Shabbat parsha reading begins with two of the most important precedent stories of original principles that form the very backbone of English Common Law. First, Abraham buys the first plot of land recorded for all time in human history, and outlines the elements of ‘Contract.’ And immediately after that, Scripture show not only what “agency” is, or what it really means to “come in the Name of” a Master, but even what a “good and faithful servant” looks like:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SSM-11-14-25-Chayei-Sarah-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3Mark takes a different approach to the Sabbath Day midrash this time. Since the principles are literally ancient, and so clearly formed the basis for the Common Law in England, and then were understood, likewise, by the Founders in the united States as the basis for the most fundamental elements of the Constitution — why are they no longer even taught? Why do the ~~lawyers~~ liars in the DC Swamp evidently disregard their contracts, their duties as supposed servants of THEIR masters, the American people, and even their oaths?
And that lack of trust – based on failure – now pervades virtually every institution.
We see where it has led.
But there is more to this story, in particular. Abraham, while he was literally blessed in “all things,” and live a long life, ‘full of days,’ and is literally regarded as the Father of our Faith, did not see the fulfillment of the primary promises YHVH gave him. He was told they would spend time in ‘bondage,’ but did not see them multiply as the stars in the heavens. And the only land he actually owned during his own life was that burial ground. And yet he KNEW, and saw – just as clearly as he saw the Son of Promise – that those promises would come to pass.
So do we. But from a different perspective, that of knowing all of this has been reserved, put in place, and, yes, done, for us.
Which gives us an obligation. Because ALL of these fundamental principles that underlie ALL of society, are based on Trust. In ourselves, to obey, in others, to do as they agree, and in Yahuah, to carry out His will, “on earth, as it is in heaven.”
As a world which has failed to honor that promise falls apart, the Remnant MUST keep it.
“Chayei Sarah: It’s ALL about Trust”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WT-CooH-11-15-25-Chayei-Sarah-Ancient-principles-precedents-ALL-involve-Trust-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Vayera,” Genesis chapters 18 through 22) and the central part of the story of the first Patriarch, Abraham, from his storied ‘dickering’ with YHVH Himself concerning the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, to the ‘binding of Isaac,’ known as ‘the Akieda,’ that prefigures another parallel act on that very same spot, many centuries later.
It is perhaps THE “Biblical-level” Act of Faith.
First, the Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SSM-11-7-25-Vayera-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3The Sabbath Day Midrash is about not only that “Act of Faith,” but what it says to BOTH of those two houses, still in exile, who each believe the story prophecies the Messiah Himself, but can’t seem to recognize His character in the process!
“Vayera: ‘Your son, your only son…Who?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WT-CooH-11-8-25-Vayera-Your-son-your-only-Son-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Lech Lecha,” Genesis 12:1-17:27) — which might be considered the original “come out” teaching in Scripture — where the first Patriarch, Abram (later Abraham) is told to “get thee OUT” of your country, leave what you have known, and “go to the land that I will show you.”
It’s a historic, literally “Biblical-level” Act of Faith.
But that is where the story of the life of one of the most important men in Scripture, and the ‘Father of our Faith,” only begins. Here’s the Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SSM-10-31-25-Lech-Lecha-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3This parsha lays out several truly ‘fundamental’ elements. One, referenced often in the Apostolic Writings (aka ‘Old’ Testament) is that the man re-named Abraham in this story “believed YHVH,” and his actions repeatedly made that clear, and He “counted it to him for righteousness.” (Genesis 15:6, referenced by Paul/Shaul in Romans 4.)
Mark begins the Sabbath midrash with what some might consider a surprising understanding, given that is counter to what many may have heard, as he notes, “twisted,” and it lies at the heart of this story:
Galatians has been taught “backwards.” What does Hagar, ‘the Egyptian,’ represent? And if Paul, as he said, wrote to the former pagans in Galatia that he was worried that they were already “turning away” from that faith demonstrated by Abraham to the “weak and beggarly elements” from which they had been delivered, what does that mean?
And, ultimately, just who is the ‘son of the bondwoman’?
Once you see through the lies we have been fed – “inherited from our fathers” (some more literally than others) – it will be unseen.
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“Lech Lecha: Twistings – from THAT ‘sign’ to the Real ‘Son of the Bondwoman'”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/WT-CooH-11-1-25-Lech-Lecha-Who-is-the-real-son-of-the-Egyptian-Bondwoman-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Noach” (Genesis 6:9-11:32) is actually the second, and concluding part of the story of the “days of Noah,” and is the reading that contains the most well-known (and also sometimes LEAST known!) elements of the story of The Flood. But there’s more, too, because it also includes the “Tower of Babel,” and the intro to the first of the Patriarchs.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SSM-10-24-25-Noach-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3Mark begins the Sabbath midrash with the observation that the ‘days of Noah’ spanned not only the time prior to the Flood when “the thoughts of men’s hearts was only evil continually,” but also many years thereafter, and certainly through the time of Nimrod, and up to the story of Babel.
And that is particularly key when it comes to understanding the somewhat enigmatic story of His ‘confounding the language’ to deliberately ensure that mankind is NOT “one people,” and NOT able to ‘work together for the common good.’ The fact that so much of today’s ‘One World’ propaganda pushes exactly that goal should be concerning, at minimum, given that YHVH explained His concern by saying the reason for His actions was that once they learned to work together, and seemingly plot to thwart His potential plans, “THIS is what they begin to do.“
“Noach: Maybe ‘coexist’ is NOT the best motto – then or now”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WT-CooH-10-25-25-Noach-Am-Echad-And-THIS-is-What-they-Begin-to-DO-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Bereshiet” (Genesis 1, through 6:8) is the first reading in the new cycle of the Torah, from “in the Beginning” to the first part of the “days of Noah.”
And as Mark Call, of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, noted last week, it’s just too much to try and cover responsibly in just one week. And since the interesting of reading from the last parsha, at the end of Deuteronomy straight through into the first Book, since we never really finish our study of His Instruction, means we read and studied into the first few chapters of Genesis/Bereshiet last week, Mark did exactly that, and spent some time on the first three chapters then.
So, this week, after a brief recap of the story of the ‘nacash’ and Eve/Chava’s deception in chapter 3, and the “first two lies”, the Erev Shabbat story and reading picks up there:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SSM-10-18-25-Bereshiet-continued-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3Even beyond the First Two Lies, is the one that actually is NOT in Scripture, but does permeate the Whore Church: That “jesus did away with the Law,” “nailed it to the cross,” and somehow did what the Real Messiah promised repeated He would NOT.
The Sabbath Day midrash is all about the EFFECTS of those “Big Lies,” especially in the presence of the level of Evil seen then – “as it was in the Days of Noach” – and again, now.
Are we there yet? What can we now begin to see that looks like? And the repeated and urgent message is “see that you are not deceived!” Mark takes another look at the progression, the prophecy of Matthew 24, and where the Big Lies may lead next. It’s time to not only ‘connect some dots,’ but even extrapolate a bit.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WT-CooH-10-18-25-Bereshiet-pt-2-See-That-You-are-NOT-Deceived-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “V’zot HaBerakhah” (Deuteronomy (chapter 33 through the End of the Book, and the entire Torah) is the final reading in this cycle, and the life of Moses.
The Erev Shabbat reading begins there:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SSM-10-10-25-V-zot-HaBerakhah-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3This Sabbath Day midrash comes during the week of Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles — not only the actual time of the birth of the Messiah, but the heart of the yet-to-be-fulfilled prophecies of the Greater Exodus, the Revelation, and the Wedding Feast. It’s also when the annual Torah cycle readings conclude, and begin again.
V’zot HaBerakhah: This is the Blessing – the Cycle Begins Anew
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WT-CooH-10-11-25-V-zot-HaBerakhah-cycles-into-Bereshiet-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Ha’azinu” (Deuteronomy (chapter 32) is the second-to-last reading in the Torah, and the life of Moses. It is, specifically, the second “Song of Moses,” that he sings, as a “witness against” them, and us, immediately prior to his death.
It’s also a warning that hits as close to home now as it ever has.
The Erev Shabbat reading begins there:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SSM-10-3-25-Ha-azinu-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3This Sabbath Day midrash comes just after the ‘most holy’ day of the year, Yom Kippur, and right before the final, climactic week of the Fall Feasts, the time of Sukkot, aka the Feast of Tabernacles, or booths, or even ‘mangers.’ Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa notes that the confluence of this reading, and the Song of Moses, at this time at the heart of the Fall Feasts should suggest two major admonitions from Scripture: “Know the times and the seasons,” and that, furthermore, “NOW is the time!”
Sukkot is almost certainly the time when the Messiah, Yahushuah, was actually born. But how many of us have heard, “I don’t care – I love Xmas anyway,” and similar excuses for accepting what we “know or should know” is a lie. Is this the year to stand on Truth?
We also know, or should, that the word “jesus” never even existed until about 16 centuries as the Messiah walked the earth after that birth. No one EVER, not once, called Him by that name. And it thus cannot be (Acts 4) the “only name” by which we can be saved. Does that matter? Most of us have again heard, “I don’t care,” or “what difference does it really make?”
So, if His birthday doesn’t really matter, nor does His real Name, what about His Doctrine? Did He “do away with the law,” or is that – as Mark strongly suggests – perhaps the Biggest Lie in all of human history?
Does His Doctrine matter? Did He change it? Did He really change His Instruction about His moedim [appointed times], His Sabbaths, food, money, marriage – and just about anything else men decided they didn’t like from His Word?
Ha’azinu: When Does it Finally START to Matter?
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WT-CooH-10-4-25-Ha-azinu-WHEN-Does-it-Start-to-Matter-podcast-xx-1.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Because host Mark Call and his house will be observing the Biblical High Holy Day of Yom Kippur this week, this edition of the “Come out of her, My People” Show will deal with the ‘WHY’ of that, and especially the “Why NOW?”
Parsha “Vayelekh” (Deuteronomy (chapter 31) is one of the final chapters in the Torah, and the life of Moses. It includes the ‘charge’ given to Yoshua/Joshua as he prepares to take over leadership of the mixed multitude, to “Kazakh!” – or, “Be strong, and of good courage.”
It’s also a poignant warning about the “End of Days” – arguably, now.
The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and also sets the stage for the final “Song of Moses”:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SSM-9-26-25-VaYelek-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa focuses on a prophecy that now seems to be at minimum, ‘in-progress’: “You will do evil in the sight of YHVH, and provoke Him through the work of your hands.”
But it is no coincidence that this portion is read during the time of His Fall Feasts, and we are now – or should be – preparing for the singular moed of His Appointed Times about which He warns so clearly, do it – or else!
Warning: Some will again be offended. They will say His Feasts are ‘old’, and “done away with.” As if He preferred the pagan replacements, and couldn’t manage to say so. YHVH certainly made the reason for His anger, and our continued exile, abundantly clear. And in this case, the warning and importance could not be clearer. Even if we have been lied to about it!
Vayelekh: This is the Year to Make SURE you ‘Know the Season’
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/WT-CooH-9-27-25-VaYelek-The-SEASON-is-Vital-to-Know-and-DO-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Nitzavim” (Deuteronomy (29:9-thru chapter 30) is the parsha that Mark Call almost always says is not only a vital, undeniable, and not-yet-fulfilled, prophecy of our future, but contains the most succinct two-word summary of His Torah in the Bible.
And it begins with that enigmatic introduction, “Nitzavim,” or “you are standing” – all of you, THIS DAY, before YHVH your El…
…and here we are now, THIS DAY (ha yom) doing exactly that – again.
The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and the specifics, to set the stage:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SSM-9-19-25-Nitzavim-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa begins with a theme that has been on many of our minds this last week or two, and the phrase “doctrines of demons,” from Paul’s first letter to Timothy, 4:1.
It is certainly encouraging that Charlie’s execution/martyrdom has encouraged many people to look at his lifetime body of work, and his testimony for faith in the Living Elohim. No doubt many – particularly young and college-aged people – are considering a ‘turn’ toward the teachings of Scripture.
And yet, Mark suggests, the popular reaction of just “go back to church,” is but a pitiful small step in what might be the right direction. After all, many LEFT ‘the church’ because of it’s demonstrated, Scripturally-condemned, failure to “teach my people the difference,” between the holy and profane, clean and unclean. Simply returning to what already failed, and got us here, is not a real solution.
And yet, Deuteronomy 30 gives us both a clear razor for Truth, and a bold promise of why we MUST turn!
Warning: Some will be offended. YHVH certainly made the reason for His anger, and our continued exile, abundantly clear. But so is the Promise.
Nitzavim: BOTH The Blessing AND the Curse
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/WT-CooH-9-20-25-Nitzavim-BOTH-the-Blessing-and-the-Curse-RE-turn-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Ki Tavo” (Deuteronomy (26:1-29:8) is almost certainly the most famous, and foreboding, set of blessings and cursings in the Bible. But, notably, it begins with “when you have come into the land,” and a set of instructions, such as the ‘Bikkurim’ or offerings of First Fruits, that are to take place there.
But we remain in exile, have been “shalach”-ed for cause. So what does that mean about those curses?
The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and the specifics, to set the stage:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SSM-9-12-25-Ki-Tavo-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa addresses exactly that question. But it begins with an observation:
The plagues are certainly – undeniably – “well deserved,” not just by the US, but the world. And many, at least, already seem to be in progress.
Yet we are told, repeatedly, in Scripture, to “have no fellowship,” with the unfruitful works of darkness. To “flee from idolatry.” And not to ‘keep company’ with, or even eat with, the kind of people who commit the kind of perversions we routinely see promoted on CNN. Or taught in the public ‘schools.’
Mark argues that we have been told to “come out of her,” to not participate with those sins, so as to – hopefully – avoid the promised plagues. The prophet Amos tells us that, unless they are agreed, it’s difficult for two people to “walk together.” And we saw this week there are, unquestionably, a large demonic army of people with whom reasoned dialogue, discourse, debate, and now arguably even peaceful coexistence have been demonstrated to be impossible.
So, do those plagues in Deuteronomy 28 still apply? Or not?
Isn’t it relevant that the FIRST three plagues in Egypt hit everyone? But, during the fourth, of flies, YHVH “put a difference,” made a distinction, between the pagan Egyptians and His people?
The promised plagues are here, and we’re already in exile. So what now?
Ki Tavo: The Plagues are OPTIONAL
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/WT-CooH-9-13-25-Ki-Tavo-Plagues-are-OPTIONAL-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Ki Tetzi” (“When you go forth” – to battle) — Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) begins with another VERY ‘politically IN-correct’ prescription. Which tells us, right up front, why this is one worth paying attention to.
Because we’ve been told it “doesn’t matter” any more, is “done away with,” or worse. Lied to about, in other words.
The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and includes what amounts to a great summary of just why that is:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SSM-9-5-25-Ki-Tetzi-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa explains why “miscellaneous mitzvot,” or commandments, are nothing of the sort. They’re certainly not “done away with,” but the fact that so many are SO ‘politically-INcorrect’ speaks volumes about a world jonesin’ fer judgment.
But what really stands out in THIS environment, today, is that they are intended for human beings, created in His image. Not corporations, and not “AI,” or any other creation of mere men.
Ki Tetzi: Miscellaneous Mitzvot – Not ‘PC’ – Not ‘done away with’ – but FOR HUMANS
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/WT-CooH-9-6-25-Ki-Tetzi-Misc-Mitzvot-for-HUMANS-not-corporate-creations-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Shoftim” (Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9) may be the most utterly “timely” commentary on the World Today, and what is so UTTERLY WRONG — given events of the last week — that we could ask for.
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship contends in this week’s reading and midrash that the totality of the major themes in this one — from ‘REAL judges’ as opposed to ‘black-robed priests of Satan,’ to the plague of liars being “perverted witness” (and lying in oaths), to ‘false prophets’, to what it means to “put away the Evil from among you,” and what happens when society not only FAILS to do so, but promotes that evil.
If there was ever a parsha that helps clarify what it must mean to “come out of her,” and why it is now a matter of life and death – this is it!
The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and includes what amounts to a great summary of just why that is:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SSM-8-29-25-Shoftim-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3We have seen in the last few portions the more than one admonition against idolatry, including “don’t even bring the idol into your house.” We have seen why He prescribes a death penalty for idolatry. And this week, both in the news, and in the Bible, we have seen what happens when that Evil among is is not exterminated, but subsidized, taught, and even mandated in the Whore Church and public cesspools.
There are a myriad of important themes in here. But, ultimately, they all relate to just one: ‘They’ HATE YHVH.
Shoftim: “REAL Judges, Real Men, Fake gods, and Extermination of the Evil from Among You”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WT-CooH-8-30-25-Shoftim-Put-away-the-Evil-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Re’eh” (for “See!,”Behold!,” or even “Check it out” — Deuteronomy 11:26-16:18) begins with a blessing, and a curse. And, as Mark points out up front, the fact that even the significance of the distinction there is so often missed is a major indicator of why there is “no power in the [modern] ‘church’.”
The Erev Shabbat reading begins there, and includes what amounts to a great summary of just why that is:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SSM-8-22-25-Re-eh-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3Last week, the parsha told us, “Do not even bring an abomination into your house,” lest you be accursed like it.
This week, the admonition is to utterly destroy anything and everything associated with them. And as for false prophets, who try to get us to serve those fakes? Scripture prescribes — in no uncertain terms — a death penalty.
How is it that a ‘church’ which claims to worship ‘him’ has fallen into exactly that trap?
During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa answers that question, as He does.
And as for —
Re’eh: “Other gods not known to you? “
…now they’re taught in ‘sun-god day’ school. Even though the idolatry is soft-pedaled.
It is a fact that, once seen, cannot be un-seen. But it certainly must not be ignored.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WT-CooH-8-23-25-Re-eh-Other-gods-you-have-not-known-but-They-DO-NOW-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Ekev” (for “Because,” or “it follows,” Deuteronomy 7:11-11:25) is, first, a set of promises that follows BECAUSE, or as a result, of the fact that we are to hear and obey His commandments. And as such, it’s also a contrast with what we see taught today.
The Erev Shabbat reading includes that, and more:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/SSM-8-15-25-Ekev-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3During the Sabbath Day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa muses about the ‘giants’ (Rephaim, Anakim, Zamzuzim, et al) that Moses warned the mixed multitude they would deal with in the land. And HOW, since they were promised to prevail.
They were big and scary, but just how intelligent were they? Arguably, perhaps more so than we might think.
The theme again has idolatry at heart, and His hatred of it. “Do not even bring an abomination into your house,” lest you be accursed like it.
Could it be that He is also talking about the newly created AI gods, made of a different form of stone — silicon? But the lesson is the same, although the threat is greater.
Ekev: “Big Scary Giants – Then and Now…But were they Smart, too?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WT-CooH-8-16-25-Ekev-Big-Scary-Giants-and-ASI-too-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part reading and Sabbath midrash:
Parsha “Nitzavim,” (Devarim or Deuteronomy 29:10 through 30:20) is, according to Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, not only perhaps THE most succinct, two-word summary of the Torah, but the parsha that is also most central to understanding what is arguably THE Biggest Lie since at least Genesis chapter 3.
And the Erev Shabbat reading lays the groundwork for that claim:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SSM-9-27-24-Nitzavim-teaching-podcast-xxxx.mp3But that is again just the beginning.
WARNING: This is yet another reading in the continuing series that you will certainly NOT hear in sun-god-day school.
The Sabbath day midrash is about that Big Lie, and the fact that the refutation is right there in Deuteronomy chapter 30:
“The Law has been done away with…nailed to the cross…it’s OLD Testament…and, besides, NOBODY buy Jesus could POSSIBLY keep ‘the Law.’ It’s TOO HARD for you!”
When, in fact, He says it is NOT too hard for you.
As things come to a head – it is more important than ever that we be able to answer, “in season and out,” from His Word, exactly WHY we need to “come out of” EVERYTHING that is based on the Lie that got us exiled in the first place.
Nitzavim: “Debunking THE Biggest LIE Since Genesis 3 “
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WT-CooH-9-28-24-Nitzavim-Debunking-the-Biggest-LIE-in-History-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Ki Tavo,” (Devarim or Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) is arguably the most well-known, and fearsome, catalog of blessings, and especially, cursings, in all of Scriture.
The Erev Shabbat reading literally lays out the case for the fact that are not only well-deserved, but already “in progress” for a nation which has turned from YHVH, and is in fact “jonesin’ fer judgment.”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SSM-9-20-24-Ki-Tavo-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3But that is just the beginning.
WARNING: This is yet another reading in the continuing series that you will certainly NOT hear in sun-god-day school. And the fact that the curses are so well-deserved, and so lied about, is the reason why we had better be paying attention.
Only this world doesn’t. Not even close. And that is why this reading should be such a jarring “eye-opener.” The promised curses are arguably well-under way, and the rest close at hand,
In the Sabbath day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa literally lays out the case for judgment, based on what the Whore Church as done not only IN SPITE of His Word, but TO it.
The curses outlined are specific to what can happen – and DID – when those who failed to “keep My commandments failed to do so, and were, as promised, kicked out of the land.
But there are other curses, too, for things generally done in secret. At least, they were. Now they are open, and even “proud” of ’em.
And Mark suggests that there is a good case to be made that the curses are still “on the table.” And what we have already seen, and are seeing, makes an even stronger case that there is more to come.
And His people should plan accordingly.
Ki Tavo: “When you have been KICKED OUT of the Land – Do the Curses Still Count?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WT-CooH-9-21-24-Ki-Tavo-When-you-have-been-KICKED-OUT-of-the-Land-what-curses-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Ki Tetzi,” (Devarim or Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) is not only one of the most NOT-PC parashot in the Torah, but the fact that it IS should tell us exactly where things stand, on the Road to Judgment.
For example, the very first segment, often called the ‘war bride,’ sounds like something that ‘modern feminism’ would call barbaric. Until they see the alternative. Perhaps much sooner that they expect. The fact is, His Word does not “oppress” women, it protects them.
The Erev Shabbat reading literally lays out the case for the fact that the lessons here have become to UNPALATABLE to a nation that despises His Word that it is literally “jonesin’ fer judgment.”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SSM-9-13-24-Ki-Tetzi-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3But that is just the beginning.
WARNING: This is yet another reading in the continuing series that you will NOT hear in sun-god-day school. Which is again why what He RREALY says will surprise some. Which in itself is another commentary on the “lies we have inherited from our fathers.”
Only this world doesn’t. Not even close. And that is why this reading should be such a jarring “eye-opener.”
iterally lays out the case for judgment, based on what the Whore Church as done not only IN SPITE of His Word, but TO it.
In the Sabbath day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa literally lays out the case for judgment, based on what the Whore Church as done not only IN SPITE of His Word, but TO it.
In the process, it is illustrative to see just how much of the ‘rhetorical device’ Yahushua used in the Sermon on the Mount, His very first public address, comes right from this parsha. And how, immediately after He warned about teaching that even “the least of” His commandments can be broken, so many translations have done EXACTLY that with His Words.
From marriage, to money, this is one that goes to the very heart of what is wrong with a nation, and a world, which hates His Word.
Ki Tetzi: “Jonesin’ fer Judgment.” Which commandments have we NOT been taught to break?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WT-CooH-9-14-24-Ki-Tetzi-Its-SO-NOT-PC-Jonesin-fer-Judgment-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Shoftim,” (Devarim or Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) begins with the word “judges,” which His people were to appoint in all their towns. So that they could render “righteous” judgment – essentially a tll.
But that is just the beginning.
John the Baptist was asked (John chapter 1) “Are you The Prophet…?” that Moses spoke of; that prophet “like unto Moses.” But the irony is that the real Salvation of Yah, as His Name attests, has been rejecting by both whoring houses! One because He pointed out their hypocrisy, and the other because He WAS the “prophet like unto Moses,” whom they ‘did away with.’
WARNING: This is another reading you will NOT hear in sun-god-day school. So the fact that His Word is so clear is a big part of the reason why.
ruism – in accord with His Word. And, “justice, JUSTICE, you shall pursue!” too.
Only this world doesn’t. Not even close. And that is why this reading should be such a jarring “eye-opener.”
The Erev Shabbat reading literally lays out the case for how “justice” has been turned upside-down:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SSM-9-6-24-Shoftim-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3In the Sabbath day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa lays out some contemporary examples of exactly why “justice, justice” is the antithesis of what is actually being ‘pursued’ in a world, and especially a system of “judges and officers” that not only reject the rule of law, but YHVH in particular.
And He has quite a bit to say about that as we
Shoftim: “Justice, JUSTICE!” But they hate that “prophet like unto Moses,” even more
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SSM-7-Sept-2024-Shoftim-Justice-Justice-inverted-and-That-Prophet-did-NOT-do-away-With-His-Torah-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Re’eh,” (Devarim or Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) begins with the word rendered “See!” – or, BEHOLD!” And what follows is what Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship calls a “Capsule Synopsis why WHY the Whore Church is STILL in Exile.”
The Erev Shabbat reading begins to explain ‘why’:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SSM-8-30-24-Re-eh-teaching-podcast-x.mp3In the Sabbath day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa makes the case that this single parsha is central to understand why it is that BOTH the ‘Whore Church’ and ‘Whore Synagogue’ were sent into exile, and “scattered”, just as YHVH said they would be. Last week, we were told bluntly that men were not to “add to” or “subtract from” His Word; they have made whole religions out of it instead.
This week, that commandment is repeated, and He reminds us of so much more that we have simply been LIED to about.
WARNING: This is what you will NOT hear in sun-god-day school. It has ALWAYS mattered; now more than ever!
“Re’eh: BEHOLD! A Capsule Synopsis of WHY the Whore Church is STILL in Exile!”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/WT-CooH-8-31-24-Re-eh-BEHOLD-A-Capsule-Synopsis-of-the-Whore-Church-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Ekev,” (Devarim or Deuteronomy 7:12 – 11:25) continues the theme of obedience to YHVH, beginning with a promise, that BECAUSE (ekev) you hearken (hear and obey) to these ‘mishpatim’ (ordinance) and keep them and DO them…then…
And it is central to His Instruction (torah) for us, which has not changed.
The Erev Shabbat reading not only makes what that means clear, but should “raise some eyebrows” as well. Because we’ve been lied to about what that means.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SSM-8-23-24-Ekev-teaching-podcast-x.mp3In the Sabbath day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa makes the case that there is FAR more to the instruction here than many of us have been led to believe. Last week, we were told bluntly that men were not to “add to” or “subtract from” His Word; they have made whole religions out of it instead.
This time we take a look at the consequences.
And what He says to do about it.
WARNING: When Scripture uses Strong Language, we do Him a dis-service to soft-pedal that Truth. Mark does not.
“Ekev: He Said He Would Hide His Face!”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/WT-CooH-8-24-24-Ekev-Hiding-His-Face-and-Return-to-Him-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Vaetchanan,” (Devarim or Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11) is, very what might be called the heart of the heart of His Torah, because it includes not only the ‘reiteration’ of the Ten Debarim (Sayings, Words, or ‘commandments’) but also what the Messiah Himself called the “greatest commandment” of all.
First, he Erev Shabbat reading of some of the most central commandments in the Bible:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SSM-8-16-24-Vaetchanan-teaching-podcast-x.mp3In the Sabbath day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa makes the case that there is FAR more to the instruction here than many of us have been led to believe.
It’s a ‘razor’ that is key to understanding how to discern His Truth from the “lies we have inherited from our fathers.” And a ‘church’ that, all too often, attempts to turn his very Word ‘upside down.’
The deception He warned us about is here. But we can ‘see that your are not deceived.’
WARNING: This is another rather blunt message, because time draws short.
“Vaetchanan: The Razor!”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/WT-CooH-8-16-24-Vaetchanan-The-Razor-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
The annual cycle reading for this week begins a new Book, and the final Book, in the Torah, or Books of Moses, and it also marks the final chapter, and month of his life. It is also something of a valedictory, in that it is a speech which is both his last address, as well as a summary of what has come before, and more.
Parsha “Devarim,” (Devarim or Deuteronomy chapters 1 through 3) is, very literally HaDebarim, or The Words, that Moshe spoke to ‘kol Israel,’ as they prepared to enter the land.
The English name for the Book suggests that it is a ‘second reading’ or summary, of the Torah, or Instruction delivered through Moses, but many students of His Word have suggested that the structure of the Book is that of a covenant treaty, between a King and His vassals.
And this parsha lays the groundwork.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SSM-8-9-24-Devarim-teaching-podcast-x.mp3As Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship has often noted, the single Book of Deuteronomy itself is not only recognized as the foundation for the English, later American, Common Law, but is also THE most quoted reference by the Founders and the ‘Committees of Correspondence’ in our founding era.
Is this a Covenant that still applies to His people? His Remnant must understand.
WARNING: This is a blunt message, because time draws short – and strong language.
“Debarim: Are We The ‘Remnant’?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/WT-CooH-8-10-24-Devarim-Covenant-Treaty-BE-the-Remnant-CooH-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
This week, the regular reading cycle includes a “double portion,” Matot/Masei (Numbers 30:2 through the End of the Book)
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The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SSM-8-2-24-Double-parsha-Matot-Masei-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3 “Matot/Masei: Real Authority – the Answer is 42 – and it’s ALL too MUCH!”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/WT-CooH-8-3-24-Double-parsha-Matot-Masei-Its-TOO-Much-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Most people probably remember this story based on the name of the character who talked to YHVH more than the King for whom the parsha [“Balak” (Numbers 22:2-25:9)] is named.
More memorable, still, is “Balaam’s Talking Ass” – who isn’t actually named in story at all – but has registered as one of the most colorful, even humourous, vignettes in Scripture.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/SSM-7-19-24-Balak-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3The Sabbath Day midrash:
“Balak: Was Bilaam (aka ‘Balaam’) the Bill Clinton of his day?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/WT-CooH-7-20-24-Balak-Balak-Bilaam-the-ancient-Bill-Klinton-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Chukat” (Numbers chapters 19 through 22:1) is, in at least one way, the second parsha in a sequence that arguably has to do with “rebellion.” Although in a very different way.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/SSM-7-12-24-Chukat-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath Day midrash —
“Chukat: Meribah – Mara – Contention – and ‘I Blame Moses’ “
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/WT-CooH-7-13-24-Chukat-Meribah-Mara-and-I-Blame-Moses-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Shelach Lekha” (Numbers chapters 13 through 15) begins with a story that is often just called “The Spies,” because that might be sufficient to remind us what happened. Which is true, and because the story is also truly tragic, but – as is usually also true – there’s “more to the story.”
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SSM-6-28-24-Shelach-Lekha-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath Day midrash will probably upset a lot of people. But, of course, so will what’s coming.
“Shelach Lekha: Anointed? Or ‘Elected’? And by Who?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WT-CooH-6-29-24-Shelach-Lekha-Anointed-or-Elected-and-by-Who-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Beha’alotecha” (Numbers chapters 8 through 12) is a reading that spans what seems to be a number of ‘disparate’ stories. Is there a common theme?
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SSM-6-21-24-Beha-alotecha-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath Day midrash is all about ‘prophets’. Moses, elsewhere, writes about a prophet ‘like unto Moses’ that will eventually appear. In this parsha, we get some of the details about what that might look like – and ultimately did.
But there’s more, and it includes the haftorah and Brit Chadasha readings, too. And there are a lot of questions that might help us ‘connect some dots.’
Like, who are Eldad and Medad, and why are those two named, when the other 70 that we to help Moses’ burdens were NOT? And who are those two witnesses in Revelation chapter 11?
And why does Moses self-describe as the most ‘meek’ (or is it something more?) man on the planet?
“Beha’alotecha: Prophets, Witnesses, and Being Teachable”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SSM-6-22-24-Beha-alotecha-On-Prophets-Witnesses-and-Being-Teachable-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Naso” (Numbers 4:21 through chapter 7) continues with the numbers – this time the other sons of Levi, and their assignments, but continues with SO much more. Including what Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship suggests is one of the most central in Scripture, even if is perhaps also one of the most ‘overlooked.’
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SSM-6-14-24-Naso-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath Day midrash begins with an observation about a common thread that connects every aspect of the apparently disparate elements of this parsha, submission, and the Authority to which it is rendered.
But it is the ‘cup of abominations’ that not only ties the pieces together, but should help us understand what it at play today, and coming to a head ‘soon’.
“Naso: Submission and Authority”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WT-CooH-6-15-24-Naso-Submission-and-Authority-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching WILL be here – if the server will ever upload it!
Parsha “Bemidbar” (Numbers 1:1 – 4:20) begins the Book who’s Hebrew name literally means “In the Wilderness.” And that certainly fits.
So, actually, does the English moniker ‘Numbers,’ because it has a lot of those. And this first parsha gives us a major clue as to why that will be so important.
The Erev Shabbat reading begins with another important point: What is commanded is more than a mere ‘census,’ although “headcount” is perhaps a better rendering. But, literally, what Moses is told to do is “lift up the head,” of all of the fighting-age men of Israel. And everything about the process, the description, and what is recorded tells us about His attitude concerning His people.
And that time “in the wilderness” is central to our understanding.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SSM-6-7-24-Bemidbar-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath Day midrash connects the ‘greater Exodus,’ promised by Moses and other prophets, the time “in the wilderness,” and the related prophecy of Hosea, and a look at cycles, and timing. We are told to “come out of her,” and not participate in the myriad, obvious, undeniable sine, wickedness, abomination idolatry, and perversion of a world which hates YHVH and His Word.
Sukkot, obviously symbolic of the coming ‘wedding feast,’ is also a time to remember and even practice to be “in the wilderness.”
Can we not start early?
Bemidbar: Pray to be “B’midbar – in the wilderness“
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WT-CooH-6-8-24-Bemidbar-To-be-Wooed-In-the-Wilderness-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Bechukotai” (Leviticus 26:2 through the end of the Book) contains one of the two most dramatic sets of ‘blessings and cursings,’ but particularly cursings, in all of Scripture. And it is, as Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa demonstrates, utterly relevant now.
First, the Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SSM-5-31-24-Bechukotai-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath Day midrash starts with a reminder: We are NOT in the land; we’re in exile.
But America’s Founding Fathers knew that. In August, 1776, Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were tasked with coming up with a suggested design for the Great Seal of the united States. Both Franklin and Jefferson wanted a depiction of then-Israel from the Exodus. Ben Franklin described a scene from the ‘parting of the Red Sea,’ with the inscription, later adopted, that “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.”
Yet they also clearly understood what was at the heart of the message of Leviticus chapter 26: “IF you will walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments,” you will be blessed. They believed that in this New land, there was a Covenant to be kept.
But now, what is beyond doubt is not merely that it has been broken, but that what He says in verse 15 is true: That this has become a nation, and a world, that rejects His statutes, and has a soul which abhors His laws. And, evidently as a direct result, “those that hate you,” do “rule over you?”
And what, exactly, does it look like when YHVH Himself “appoints terror over you?”
Mark Call, of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, observes that we are about to find out.
But do we consent to that “other master?”
Bechukotai: The Covenant is clearly broken – so Where Are We in Those Curses?“
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WT-CooH-6-1-24-Bechukotai-ITs-WAY-too-Late-Unless-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Emor” (Leviticus 25:1-26:2) is both notable – for one specific English word – and also problematic, because it applies “in the land,” where we’re NOT any more, and arguably because it is even more foreign to our anti-Torah economic and ‘world’ system than almost anything else except the dishonest weight of the Almighty Fiat Dollar itself.
But, ‘Jubilee’ we’ve HEARD of, even if to no real effect.
And, again, what with the world melting down, and at the brink of civil and world war to boot, what would a REAL ‘great reset’ accomplish at this point anyway?
First, the Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SSM-5-24-24-Behar-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3It seems clear from the reading that that one of the primary prerequisites of the ‘shmita’ rest for the land, and then the 50 year ‘yovel’ – or “Jubilee” – was TRUST: that Yahuah would actually do what He promised, so that His people would have sufficient provision for the rest years.
Ultimately, history – and Scripture – shows they did not. We still don’t.
“Proclaim liberty throughout the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof,” is the inscription on the Libery Bell in Philadelphia, and it comes from this parsha, Leviticus 25:10. But that’s just one of the disconnects with Scripture today.
A even bigger one has to do with the entire concept behind that verse. And a world economic system, based on an abomination to YHVH, that will soon demonstrate why His plan was so much better – because a ‘reset’ every 50 years beats societal collapse.
THAT is virtually inevitable now.
And the “Babylonian Exile,” was said to be so that The Land could have its rest. Something that was commanded to be done, that wasn’t. In contrast, much of this next judgment seems to be a function of things that He commanded NOT be done, that are. And are taught in schools, too, as a slap in His face.
Behar: Trust in a Time of Cyclical Churn and Turmoil“
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/WT-CooH-5-25-24-Behar-Trust-amidst-the-Churn-podcast-xx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Emor” (Leviticus chapters 21 through 24) continues the theme of “holiness” – but this time for a group of people that many ‘christians’ would now see as irrelevant. After all, we have new ‘priests’ today, and the sons of Aaron seem to have been displaced centuries ago.
And, besides, with the world melting down, and at the brink of civil and world war to boot, what difference does it make?
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SSM-5-17-24-Emor-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The continuing theme of Kedoshim is to “be set apart.” Emor comes next.
And the kohenim, or priests, were not only to be “set apart” themselves, but to teach what that means, and were held to a “higher standard” as well.
Bitterly ironic, however, and especially now, is that what replaced the priests of YHVH were ultimately a pagan imitation, where mandated marriage to virgins was turned on its head, to mandated celibacy – except for what Yahuah made clear was abomination.
Arguably, what has happened since should be no surprise. But it will still be denied.
Emor: Compare and Contrast! “
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/WT-CooH-5-18-24-Emor-compare-and-contrast-Rightly-Divide-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Acharei Mot” (Leviticus chapters 16 through 18) is the regular reading for this week, following the Feast of Unleavened Bread. But we did take a look at that week, Mark decided to look at some of the ‘common elements,’ including statutes and ordinances that span the gap between chapters 18 and then 19, which begins parsha “Kedoshim.”
The Erev Shabbat reading explains the rationale, and the understanding to ‘be ‘qadosh‘ [set-apart, or ‘holy’] because “I AM” qadosh.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SSM-5-3-24-Acharei-Mot-2-Kedoshim-pt-1-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3It is undeniable, when reading from the end of chapter 28 of Leviticus, and the fact that YHVH says that for committing these ‘abominations’ the land literally “vomited out” those inhabitants. And then He then continues, that “YOU shall be set-apart, For I YHVH am ‘qadosh.’
And looking at the news, and the fact that virtually EVERY SINGLE transgression and outright abomination He outlines is now being subsidized, taught in the cesspools, and even mandated as political correctness – AmeriKa, and most of the West, are due for judgment, if not extreme vomiting out.
What does that say to the rest of us?
into Kedoshim: Things that Matter When Things Come Apart “
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SSM-5-4-24-Acharei-Mot-2-Kedoshim-pt-1-Things-that-Matter-when-Things-Come-Apart-Yahushua-vs-jesus-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Acharei Mot” (Leviticus chapters 16 through 18) is typically read in the timeframe of the Passover, and the week of the ‘Feast of Unleavened Bread,’ or Chag HaMaMatzot, but seems to have more to do with a major element of the Fall Feasts – the Day of Atonement.
The Moed of First Fruits is arguably the day when the Risen Yahushua, as The First Fruit of Adam-kind Himself, made the required offering of Himself for us to Himself, in the place where He has put His Name.
“When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the cohen:
And he shall wave the sheaf before Yahuah, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the cohen shall wave it.
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he Lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto Yahuah….
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.” (Leviticus 23:10-12;14)
?While Rashi disagrees, and the rabbinic tradition thus ends up with a date which does NOT always fall of the First Day of the week, I contend that (as Yahushua obviously did) the ‘morrow after the WEEKLY Sabbath’ is what the verse means. Which is today (28 April). It is also the day which therefore begins the ‘counting of the Omer’ – seven Sabbaths plus one, or 50 days.
And, perhaps dramatically, if not also ironically, THIS year the ‘sighted new moon’ that marked a “beginning of months” for us (Exodus 12:2) was observed directly by literally millions of witnesses!
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SSM-4-26-24-Acharei-Mot-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3This year there is quite a bit of variance between calendar understandings. Not to mention the fact that the ‘sighted’ new moon this year was a bit more spectacular than usual as well. So Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship has decided to depart from the ‘suggested’ annual Torah cycle reading schedule, and make some observations based on a confluence of events, and teachings.
By now, perhaps it should not surprise us that His Word, and His warnings, are ever-more-important.
Acharei Mot: Blood, Iniquity Complete, and Pervasive ‘Chametz’ “
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WT-CooH-4-27-24-Acharei-Mot-Pervasive-Chametz-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Metzora” (Leviticus chapters 14 through 15) is almost like “part two” of something many people might tend to skip over anyway.
But don’!
After all, this malady hasn’t been seen in – at least! – many centuries. So how could it possibly be SO relevant to exactly what is happening now?
Start with this question:
How is it that so many people could be duped into injecting something into their bodies that turned out to modify their DNA and destroy their immune system? And many of them even believe two men can have a baby, or that someone who cuts off their genitalia can be magically transformed into some other ‘gender’.
Yet they laugh at people for suggesting that some ancient ritual involving two birds might have something to do with cleansing a skin problem?
You can’t see a ‘virus’, any more than a radio wave. Or a demon. Or a DNA double-helix.
How do we know what is ‘technology,’ and what is ‘magic?’ Or superstition.
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship suggests that the more something in the Bible — especially where there is SO much detail about it! — that doesn’t seem at ALL relevant now, just might end up being vital. Especially when we figure out just what we’re up against.
The Erev Shabbat reading is again about the details:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SSM-4-19-24-Metzora-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath teaching and midrash lays out the key question. And the conundrum.
Metzora: How can we believe in ‘magic’ but not Scripture?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WT-CooH-4-20-24-Metzora-ANY-suffieciently-AdTech-is-Indistinguishable-from-Magic-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Here’s another one of those paraschot that just seems to be SO “old testament,” and that has perhaps even been used as a poster child for “done away with.” After all, it’s a ‘disease’ that hasn’t been seen for centuries, except in a few Bible movies, and isn’t really “leprosy” at all, anyway. So who cares?
Which is why Mark suggests we ought to!
Parsha “Tazria” (Leviticus chapters 12 through 13) also at least has something to do with the ‘eighth day,’ when an infant male child is to be circumcised. But it also comes from a section that is ‘politically incorrect,’ in a world that so hates His Word, and then introduces a concept that might be even more “out of favor.”
The Erev Shabbat reading lays out all the sordid details:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SSM-4-12-24-Tazria-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The sages suggest that a person being overcome by the malady of ‘tzaraat’ and exiled outside of the camp was a sort of testimony that Elohim Himself was publicly pointing out that individual’s wrongdoing.
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship has suggested in the past that perhaps the “NOT-leprosy” that is described in Scripture, but has not actually been SEEN in centuries might in some ways thus be a type of ‘blessing’ for His people, in that the ‘evil tongue’ might be revealed for what it is, while repentance is still possible.
Such detail about a ‘plague’ that probably hasn’t been seen anywhere on the planet for over a thousand years. And if the ‘evil tongue’ of lashon hora is the proximate cause – you have to wonder why it isn’t more common in today’s world of “calling evil good,” and vice-versa, than ever.
So why no more? And why not – especially – in a time when truly reprobate “leaders” give a whole new understanding to the term “evil tongue,” or lashon hora.. don’t we “unclean, unclean” as bumper music for every fake newscast?
Tazria: Why? They Have NO Shame!”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WT-CooH-4-13-24-Tazria-Why-no-Tzaraat-they-Have-NO-Shame-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Shmini” (Leviticus chapters 9 through 11) appears to be an unusual combination. It begins on the ‘eighth day,’ with the climax of the consecration of the priests, Aaron and his sons, and only appears to end when “there came forth fire from before YHVH.”
Those same words frame the tragedy of the death of his sons Nadab and Abihu when they offer “strange fire,” which – clearly most importantly – He did NOT command.
Why, then, does He talk about food next?
The Erev Shabbat reading sets the stage:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SSM-4-5-24-Shmini-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3And the confluence of those events set up the questions. What does ‘strange fire’ even mean? And why did it merit sudden death?
Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship suggests that the story of Ezekiel chapters 8 and 9 offers some insight: What was it they “knew, or SHOULD have known?”
It is true that, “to whom much is given, much is expected.” And in Ezekiel 9:6, YHVH does tell the destroying angel to “begin at My sanctuary.”
But, wait – we don’t have a temple, or even a mishkan, any more. No priests, either, to hold to a higher standard. And any issues about “ritual purity” and food don’t fit any more, either.
Maybe that’s another indicator. Especially now.
With the ‘next bioweapon release’ seemingly at-hand, not to mention the biggest economic meltdown in history, and an attempted nuclear escalation of mention WW 3, doesn’t it seem far less insane to trust YHVH rather leaders who have demonstrated a desire to serve Death?
And since there are things on the horizon that we cannot control, doesn’t it make sense to obey Him as best we can in the things we can?
Shmini: Knew, or Should Have Known”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WT-CooH-4-6-24-Shmini-Knew-or-SHOULD-Have-Known-WHO-to-Trust-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Tzav” (Leviticus chapters 6 through 8) begins with the word ‘command,’ but this time specifically Aaron and his sons, having to do with some more detail of the offerings that they are going to make.
And, again, there is something for us to learn here, too, but it starts with a realization, and an understanding: Not only does the ‘mishkan,’ or tabernacle there in the wilderness no longer exist, and neither do either of the two later temples, but today, there no ‘kohenim’ to make those offerings, either.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SSM-3-29-24-Tzav-teaching-podcast-x.mp3This is a year where “calendar variants’ loom large. Variants of the roman church are talking about ‘easter’ this weekend, while some of the more ‘equinox-oriented’ calendar variants among those seeking to return to Torah have Pesach in this same timeframe, while others, including those waiting for’abiv’ barley, and most rabbinic Jewish reckonings, based on the Hillel calendar, will observe Pesach closer to the end of April.
So there is almost a one-month spread this year, and – perhaps ironically – the Big Total Solar Eclipse on April 8th falls right in between.
Mark Call looks at a number of ‘indicators’ that are either “signs” that judgment is at hand, or of a nation gone insane.
Or all of the above.
But he noted up front that he is, “no longer surprised how many times,” over recent years, we’ve heard reports that another Red Heifer ‘candidate’ has been found, and is being examined in Israel. Including, it seems, now. Usually with a reminder that procedures are being put in place to dedicate an altar, and resume some sort of “temple operations,” which turns out to be a source of excitement, anxiety, and certainly great division among those who fancy themselves ‘Bible believers.’
Is this a “good thing,” or a “bad thing?” And what about the ‘third temple’ prophecies?
Almost always, too, the claims from some version of the Book of Hebrews that those “silly jews don’t know that ‘jesus christ’ DID AWAY WITH all of that!’ And the ‘red heifer’ is now nothing but superstition, because that’s the ‘whole point of EASTER.’
Which is, of course, the reason why it’s important to understand what Scripture actually says about all of the ‘controversy,’ and in what ‘sacrifices’ He says, “I do NOT delight.”
Tzav: Red Heifer or Chocolate Bunny?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WT-CooH-3-30-24-Tzav-Red-Heiffer-or-Chocolate-Bunny-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
This week marks the first parsha in the Book of Vayikra, or Leviticus (Lev. chapters 1 through 5), where the reading beings with descriptions of several different types of offerings, and how they are to be done.
Many here are probably already aware that there is a difference between “sacrifice” (tzebach) and “offering” (korbon) and that Shaul/Paul actually supported and performed those associated with the end of the Nazerite vow (Acts 21:23-26). But that is only part of what is at best “incomplete” about the significance of His plan as taught in ‘sun-day school’.
Because what is perhaps most interesting, however, and certainly overlooked, is the fact that these are specifically for what amounts to “UN-intentional” sin. Leaving a major ‘gap in the picture.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SSM-3-22-24-Vayikra-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3Which is where the Sabbath Day midrash begins. Because if there is SO much discussion of the kind of ‘sin’ that might be accomplished by different people by mistake, or in ignorance, and what should then be done, what does that say about intentional, deliberate REBELLION to him; intentional sin?
The answer is – not much. Well, explicitly anyway. Almost as if His Instruction paints a complete picture, by drawing an outline all around, and leaving something for us to figure out. As if it should be obvious.
What could be the nature of a ‘sacrifice’ for deliberate, knowing rebellion to YHVH Himself?
And if these “sacrifices” have been “done away with,” anyway, what do they have to tell us now?
Perhaps most ‘ironic’ is the misunderstanding of what is referenced in Hebrews chapter 10. No wonder it’s so easy to twist a letter written by a Hebrew to other Hebrews if people don’t understand the basics.
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa for an examination of the specifics of vital distinctions that speak volumes – especially when they are ignored! Starting with Hebrews 10:26. Which may be one of the most clear warnings to the “Clergy Response Team” in Scripture!
Vayikra: ‘It’s What You DON’T Say’ – Vital Distinctions – Omitted or Ignored?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WT-CooH-3-23-24-Vaykira-Its-What-You-DONT-Say-distinctions-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha ‘Pekudei,’ (Exodus 38:21 through the end of the Book) where the story of the Exodus essentially comes to a middle, but the Book of that name draws to a close.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SSM-3-15-24-Pekudei-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3which really sets up more questions than answers. What’s different about the mishkan, or “tabernacle in the wilderness,” than the one later built by Solomon, and then the one rebuilt during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah?
And what does that tell us about where He might choose to ‘put His Name,’ subsequently?
Pekudei: ‘As YHVH Commanded Moshe’ and what that tells us about temples”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WT-CooH-3-16-24-Pekudei-as-YHVH-Commanded-Moshe-so-DID-he-they-which-3x6-temples-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha ‘Vayakhel,’ (Exodus 35:1 through chapter 38:20) is named for the root word which means “assembled,” and this is the second time we see that word appear in Scripture. The first was in the last parsha, where ‘the people assembled,’ and it turned out to be against Aaron, to demand the infamous ‘golden calf.’ This time is different.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SSM-3-8-24-Vayakhel-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3The Torah portion this week is almost a ‘jumping-off point’ for the situation we see in the world today. Immediately following one of the most tragic, and arguably destructive, events in history, Moses “assembles the children of Israel together,” to hear what comes next.
First, a reminder about His sabbaths. Then, what it will be that they will be able to BUILD together. All those with “willing hearts,” and “wise hearts.”
Isn’t that an amazing contrast to today? When the focus is on destroying – putting to ruin not only what has been built, but making a mockery of even the idea that He might be able to “dwell among us.”
It is that contrast that reveals so much of the lie now. It is a far cry between a “cheerful giver” of dishonest fiat, and a “willing heart,” to do the WORK that He has for us!
Vayakhel: Willing Hearts, or Cheerful Givers?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WT-CooH-3-9-24-Vayakhel-Willing-Hearts-vs-Cheerful-fiat-givers-podcast-xx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
The Torah parsha titled ‘Ki Tisa,’ (Exodus 30:11 through chapter 34) is not only ‘feature-packed,’ but includes one of the most important, and tragic, turning points in all of Scripture.
And it also includes one of the most notable chiasms in the Bible, too (although Mark prefers the more descriptive Hebrew term, ‘atbash.’) And, again, the ‘flashing red tag’ emphasizes the importance of something that has been ignored, but fits the pattern – and the point – of the story.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SSM-3-1-24-Ki-Tisa-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3There are a number of vital questions raised in this week’s parsha, but one that should perhaps resonate the MOST with us today is, “Why did Aaron go ALONG?” After all, Scripture indicates he was culpable, because he made the golden calf.
Today we have different high priests of an even more transparently fake god trying to force people to worship something arguably more akin to what comes out of the back end of a different kind of cow. But it’s the same Idolatrous Lie: ‘This is your ‘god’, Oh, AmeriKa!’
Aaron took the gold and crafted an idol. What about us?
Ki Tisa: Why Did Aaron Go Along? How About US? …Knew, or Should Have Known”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WT-CooH-3-2-24-Ki-Tisa-Why-Did-Aaron-Go-Along-Knew-or-Should-Have-Known-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look this week at Torah parsha, Tetzaveh, (Exodus 27:20-30:10) which, among other things, describes in some detail the special clothing to be made and worn by the cohenim, or priests, when they serve the people and YHVH in the mishkan.
Again, the Bible gives us an amazing amount of detail. And explains that these garments are to be “for spendor and for beauty.” Why? And why is it important now, especially?
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SSM-2-23-24-Tetzaveh-teaching-podcast-x.mp3How important are clothes, really? Do we place to much emphasis on “looking the part?” This section of Scripture certainly indicates that when it comes to the cohenim who serve Him in the ‘set apart place,’ the answer is ‘very‘.
But, this year in particular, given the events that are building to what looks like a ‘Biblical-level climax’ of almost unbelievable Evil…there is something else to observe.
The Sabbath day midrash is thus all about ‘contrast’ —
Tetzaveh: Splendor and Beauty? Or – for Squalor and Ugly…”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SSM-2-24-24-Tetzaveh-Inversion-and-Evil-Garments-for-Squalor-and-for-Ugly-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
From the story of the “Exodus” itself, this week’s Torah parsha, Terumah, (Exodus 25:1-27:19) takes a bit of a turn, and embarks on a description of the building and furnishing of the mishkan, or ‘tabernacle in the wilderness.’
But what is most noteworthy, perhaps even confusing, is the level of detail. Why? And why is it important now, especially?
If nothing else, it tends to inspire people to try to ‘spriitualize’ the description. But that might just be a bit of a ‘cop-out,’ because there seems to be much more.
The Erev Shabbat reading:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/WT-CooH-2-10-24-Mishpatim-Not-PC-and-Beyond-Bondservice-to-Demonocracy-Cruel-Bondage-and-Slavery-edited-xxx.mp3In the Sabbath day midrash, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship explores what that might be.
And it seems to bear directly, and in direct contrast, to what we see happening so universally today.
Terumah: Spiritualizing the Mishkan – To Destroy, or to Build?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/WT-CooH-2-17-24-Terumah-Spiritualizing-the-un-Holy-Build-vs-Destroy-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha Nitzavim [“you are standing THIS Day…” from Deuteronomy 29:9 through chapter 30] contains what I contend is one of the most graphic and undeniable refutations of some of THE Biggest Lies in all xtianity…things that are NOT in the Real Book, but get taught in sun-god-day skool as if they actually were.
It also contains THE singular Two Word Summary of not only His Instruction, but how to “rightly divide the Word,” if it even appears to the ‘uneducated and untaught’ as if there is some conflict.
The Erev Shabbat reading makes it clear:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SSM-9-8-23-Nitzavim-Deut-30-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3The Sabbath midrash explores the depth of the Big Lie that most of us were taught – wrongly – in a church which first tried to claim “the Law” was “done away with,” and then followed up with the caveat, that, well, ‘NOBODY but jesus could possibly KEEP it anyway!’
Worse, is that both of them try to claim the Creator and Author of Scripture Himself is a liar for so clearly saying otherwise!
But ALL of that comes to a head in this parsha, where the lessons of this season’s Fall Feasts combine with a ‘greater Exodus,’ still to come, to show WHY those lies are so devastating.
“Nitzavim: Debunking the Big Lie that’s NOT in The Book – with His RIGHTEOUSNESS”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/WT-CooH-Nitzavim-Chose-HaYom-His-RIGHTEOUSNESS-Tzadekah-podcast-xxxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Ki Tavo” (Deuteronomy 26:1 thru 29:8) is the most well-known collection of “blessings and cursings” in the Bible.
There is, of course, much more. But this year, there’s an additional twist as well. Having taught this for a number of years at this point, and noting just how relevant – and DESERVED – those curses are, it time for a different take. After all, if it’s not obvious by now how and why those curses apply, it’s fair to ask: Just what is it gonna take?
The Erev Shabbat overview begins with something that might seem quite different from how this one ends…what does ‘first fruits,’ and things that have to with His appointed times, have to do with blessings and cursings?
But it’s no coincidence this parsha coincides with the coming of the Fall Feasts, and all they represent.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SSM-9-1-23-Ki-Tavo-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3The Sabbath midrash is a look at the question that should especially resonate this year: The reasons for the curses should be obvious, but will not be to far too many. And Deuteronomy 27:26 is why! Doesn’t it tell those who deny His Word exactly what the consequences are?
The curses are deserved, arguably even overdue; but YHVH is patient, to give all who will a chance to ‘return’ to Him. The question for those with eyes to see then becomes, what do we do now? And Mark Call, of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, suggests the answer is in there, repeatedly.
It starts with “fear not!” – but it turns out that there is more than one Hebrew word for “fear,” and the difference is vital to the second part of the answer, especially for the time of Sukkot: REJOICE!
“Ki Tavo: So – the Well-Deserved Curses are Here…NOW What?”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/WT-CooH-9-2-23-Ki-Tavo-The-Curses-are-at-hand-so-NOW-what-podcast-xxx.mp3The combined two-part teaching is here:
Parsha “Ki Tetzi” (Deuteronomy 21:10 thru chapter 25) is unique in a number of ways. Not only is it “maximally politically INcorrect” – which itself speaks volumes – but it contains more ‘statutes, judgments, and commandments’ than just about any other parsha in the Torah, with the possible exception of Mishaptim itself. But, as Mark […]
Parsha “Shoftim” (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) begins with the word which means “judges,” and proceeds to describe a set of instruction having to do with the “rule of law,” and ‘justice,’ and concepts of what an honest, trustworthy judiciary looks like that is so foreign to us today it’s no WONDER the Whore Church is happy that […]
Parsha “Re’eh” (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) begins with the single word “Behold!” Or, more simply, in the modern English, just “See.” Which is what most of xtianity has refused to do for at least 1700 years now. And it’s pretty easy to actually read this one, and see why. The Erev Shabbat reading and commentary of the […]
Sometimes the Torah portion reading almost seems like it could have come from today’s news. Other times, we know the message applies, but we have to search a bit to make what later often turn out to be obvious connections. This week, it’s a bit of both. Parsha Ekev (Deuteronomy/Debarim 7:12-11:25) begins with a promise. […]
Parsha “Vaetchanan” (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11) might be considered one of the ‘most important’ in the entire Torah: it includes not only the ‘second reading’ of the Ten Debaraim/Words/Sayings/Commandments, but also what the Messiah called the Greatest Commandment of all. So, it’s certainly “feature packed.” The overview and reading from Erev Shabbat: But, as Mark Call of […]
This week the regular annual cycle followed another double-parsha, but Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa wanted to spend more time on Matot, and instead decided to combine the last parsha of Numbers/Bemidbar into this week, where the “stages” seem to fit better with Moshe’s “introduction” besides. So, Masei (Numbers 33 through the end of […]
Parsha Matot (Numbers 30:2 through chapter 32) begins with the topic, and what “YHVH has commanded,” concerning vows. And, as Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship has suggested literally every time it’s taught, it is in his opinion one of the most vital foundations for understanding marriage. As well what has been done to […]
Parsha Pinchas (Numbers 25:10 – 30:1) is in fact “the rest of the story,” and more, from last week, and the end of ‘Balak,’ where the daughters of Midian began to seduce the men of the mixed multitude into pagan practices. And, again, no question, it is one of the most “problematic,” and no doubt […]
Ask most people who have even just a bit of knowledge of the Bible who “Korah,” was, and you’ll hear the response: rebellion. And what happened to him is almost as well-known: he was taken alive ‘into the pit’ as the earth opened up. This parsha (Korach, Numbers chapters 16 through 18), and the associated […]
Most people know of the story of ‘the spies.’ Most who have heard Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa before have probably even heard him refer to it as the ‘first recorded VOTE in history,’ too. And the wrong side won. THIS year, though, the story has a “special resonance.” It hits even closer to […]
What is the “Two House” understanding of Scripture, history, and prophecy?
How do we explain to those who ‘just don’t get it’ why it is SO vital to understand the ‘the law’ has NOT been ‘done away with’?
And how can people ostensibly read the same Bible and come to diametrically opposite conclusions about, well, EVERYTHING?
This is a special two-part teaching that Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa has put together as an “overview” of just exactly why Paul so specifically warned against “another jesus whom we have NOT preached.”
“From the Sermon on the Mount to Jeremiah 16:19: Big Lies Inherited from the Whore Church Fathers”
Part 1:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SSM-6-2-23-Wild-Card-Session-Food-Marriage-MotB-and-the-SotM-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3Part 2:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WT-CooH-6-3-23-Pt-2-Big-Lies-Inherited-from-Whore-Church-FATHERS-edited-xxx.mp3The combined full two-part teaching is here:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SSM-2-3-June-2023-Wild-Card-Session-2-part-Food-Mrrg-MotB-Big-Lies-Inherited-from-the-Whore-Church-Fathers-combined-podcast-xxx.mp3
Parsha Naso (Numbers 4:21 through all of chapter 7) is on the agenda for this week’s Torah portion, but after the Sabbath this week is the 50th day of the counting of the Omer, and thus the day of Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks.
The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha begins with the last part of the first “head count”, of the families of the Levites, but continues with some elements that are not widely studied by much of ‘mainstream Christianity.’
The Erev Shabbat reading helps explain why:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SSM-5-26-23-Naso-teaching-podcast-x-then-.mp3There are any number of places in the Torah, and in the prophets, where specific sequences of words seem to be used to “set off” a particular story, or make an emphasis, and often to connect elements in the text that might otherwise seem separated.
But there are other ways the Author uses His Word to draw our attention to connections. Imagery is one.
And this parsha demonstrates more than one of them.
The process for determining the guilt or innocence of the ‘sota’ or woman who’s husband SUSPECTS adultery is one such. The image of the ‘cup’ which contains the “water of bitterness that causes the curse” may be one of the most dramatic images in Scripture. It arguably appeared at the giving of the Torah – at this very time of year – and WILL appear at the climax in Revelation 18. But, most importantly, it was the cup which Messiah drank for us. Even though the identity of the guilty was not in question.
Which is why Mark Twain may have been right about prophecy and imagery in Scripture, too. It may not repeat precisely, but ‘rhymes’.
“Naso – and Shavuot: Rhymes in Scripture”
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WT-CooH-5-27-23-Naso-the-Sota-Nazerite-Imagery-and-Rhymes-in-Scripture-podcast-xx.mp3
The combined two-part podcast is here:
This was either the week where average Americans began to awaken to the fact that what was once their country has been successfully invaded, or that it was in fact, conquered long ago. And it is also the week where the regular Torah portion gives us a stunning revelation of WHY.
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at a double parsha “Behar/Bechukotai” (Leviticus/Vayikra chapters 25 through 27), and what marks the end of one of the most “unpopular” Books in the whole Bible. Perhaps the fact that it is both so prescient, AND so ignored gives us a major clue.
The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha begins where the narrative does “B’har” or ‘in the mount’ of Sinai, and covers everything from the sabbaths of the land, in the land, to the Yovel, or Jubilee, year, through obedience to His statutes and ordinances and the SECOND most famous set of curses for rebellion in His Torah, to things that are ‘devoted’ – and to Who.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SSM-5-12-23-Behar-Bechukotai-teaching-podcast-x.mp3The inscription on the Liberty Bell, which begins, “Proclaim Liberty throughout the land,” comes from this week’s Torah portion. And so do some of the curses which are so clearly playing out now in place of the liberty.
In the Sabbath day teaching this week, Mark connects the warning to “those who walk contrary to Me,” in an escalating series of curses, to things that were once unthinkable, but now undeniable: like “those who hate you shall rule over you,” but, sadly, that is only the beginning.
It is the invasion across the extinguished southern border which began to sound SO much like the ‘curse of the week,’ however. And it comes from the set in Deuteronomy chapter 28, which led Mark to suggest some comparison between those warnings. And a connection which is also an explanation.
“Behar/Bechukotai: Comparing Curses – or – did jesus Do Away With the LAW?”
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at double parsha “Emor” (Leviticus/Vayikra chapters 21through 24). And this time the parsha contains references to a lot of things that don’t even exist any more, which – as we will see – make it all the MORE relevant.
The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha is again first; ‘command’ (emor) Aaron, it says, about things that have to do with his priesthood. Not only does that line no longer exist (at least, as such) – but much of the strictures are ‘insensitive’ and “NOT-PC” on top of it. Which certainly should tell us SOMETHING.
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SSM-5-5-23-Emor-teaching-only-bad-recording-x.mp3One of the interesting aspects of this parsha is how much has to do with things we can NOT do, either because most of us are not of the line of cohenim, and may be lost anyway, or are things we’ve been LIED to about, and told don’t matter any more – like His ‘appointed times.’
But in fact, the opposite is probably true, and for reasons that might not have even been conceivable only even a few months ago.
So in the Sabbath day midrash, Mark suggests an entirely different approach to the lessons here.
“Emor: Dueling ‘Priesthoods’ – Melek-Tzadik or AI”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at double parsha “Acharei Mot/Kedoshim” (Leviticus/Vayikra chapters 16 through 20) — and another of those portions that is not only filled with a variety of interesting instructions and commandments, but so many that are now so “politically incorrect” as well.
The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha is first, from the “Azazel” and the Day of Atonement, to forbidden relationships, to a number of other ALMOST as equally ignored strictures, there are plenty of reminders in here about why so much is wrong with a world which ignores His Word:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSM-4-28-23-Acharei-Mot-Kedoshim-teaching-podcast-x.mp3And this time around, the focus for the Sabbath Day is on those OTHER ignored elements. In Matthew 7:13-14, Yahushua tells us that the “way which leads to destruction is broad,” while “narrow is the gate, and difficult the way which leads to life,” which is why “few that be who find it.”
Which is decidedly NOT the message most hear from a church that declared so many of those not-PC commandments “done away with,” anyway. No wonder most choose to ignore His warning.
This parsha includes what He called to second most important commandment, too: “love your neighbor as yourself.” But it’s the CONTEXT there that, by omission, is just as vital to our understanding. Time for some tough, but vital, questions.
“Acharei Mot / Kedoshim: the Narrow Path”
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Tazria” (Leviticus/Vayikra chapters 12 through 13) — and several lessons that are dramatic, not only because they are now so “politically incorrect,” but so at odds with what we have seen in the world – for centuries even – that the contrast is almost stunning.
Still though, there’s something strangely ‘familiar’ in the detail here, even if much of it may have been “turned on its head.”
The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha is first:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSM-4-21-23-Tazria-teaching-podcast-x.mp3In Torah cycles past, Mark has suggested that since the plague in this parsha, tzaraat (NOT ‘leprosy,’ which is quite different) for literally centuries, and certainly seems to be a physical skin condition resulting from a spiritual isse, we might ask the question, ‘Why?’ Or, why NOT?
And, since, “those He loves, He chastens,” doesn’t that say something negative about a world where even shame no longer seems to modify truly insane actions?
So, this time around, it’s a different question that sets the stage: Do we think that even if YHVH was to bring a massive plague of tzaraat on those who Evil Tongues are SO evil, that it would even make a difference?
But then again, here’s food for thought: Maybe we DID have just such a ‘plague’. Consider, The Adversary, HaSatan, is not very original. When we had real ‘cohenim,’ they were to look at the detailed description of the plague in this parsha, and then determine, literally DECLARE, that it was, or was not, ‘tzaraat’. Then the ‘metzora’ who was afflicted was to go outside the camp, maintain separation, and warn people away by saying, “unclean, unclean,” to anyone who approached.
With the Gain-of-Function Wuhan Plague, which we now know was developed on the US taxpayer’s dime, it was the High Priest of the Great God Science, Tony Fauci, who declared who and what was “unclean.” They had to put on the Mask of Shame, and maintain Social Distance, and even engage in ritual injections.
But the “Evil Speech” part was certainly familiar!
There is SO much in this portion…once the ‘dots connect,’ you can’t UN-see it.
“Tazria – Replacing Circumcision on the 8th Day with Castration in the 8th Year…and More”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Shmini” (Leviticus/Vayikra chapters 9 through 11) — and perhaps some insight as well into why what he refers to, especially now, as the ‘whore church’ would prefer to ignore it.
This one includes the death of the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, for offering “strange fire” before Yahuah, which “He had not commanded.”
But there’s much more to it than that.
The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha is first:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSM-4-14-23-Shmini-teaching-podcast-x.mp3This midrash, too, begins with a question: What were they THINKING? But the answer may sound even a bit TOO familiar.
And one of the biggest indicators is another ‘atbash,’ which Mark suggests is a bit similar to what we might now see as a Biblical Hebrew equivalent of an HTML tag, like a text equivalent of a flashing red sign.
And that setup, the warning, the event, and everything that follows seem to emphasize why we are to understand the “difference…between the unclean and the clean,” and the “holy” as opposed to the profane.
Again, the emphasis is that the “sharp, two-edged sword” of His Word TEACHES us to divide things.
“Shmini – Kadosh to YHVH – and NOT Profane Fire”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
This week, by most reckonings of the Biblical Feast calendar (no, certainly not all) begins the week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which includes the Passover seder or meal.
Not surprisingly, there are a number of choices for readings during His true Holy Days, including those passages which describe them. It’s also a season where the ‘regular’ sequence of Torah readings may get a bit “out-of-sync” – especially when calendar issues come into play. So Mark chose to do the look at parsha Tzav (Leviticus chapters 6 through 8) on Erev Shabbat, and then go a bit ‘further afield’ for the Sabbath day midrash.
The Erev Shabbat reading of the parsha Tzav:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSM-4-7-23-Tzav-teaching-only-podcast-x.mp3No question about it: the Pesach (Passover) timeframe, and the week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that follows it, is one of the most important in all of history. Whether people who disagree on how and why understand that how and why, or not.
But, at least it helps to explain why there is so much ‘division,’ and perhaps even why He said He came “not to bring peace, but a sword,” and warned that many would be “offended” by Him.
Just as Mark suggests again, and with no shortage of proof, that He is “offended” (or worse) by having the Most Important Event Human History re-named after a (and this fits today!) trans-sexual pagan fertility goddess and celebrated in ways YHVH repeatedly calls “abomination.”
But there is a far bigger question. WHY does all of that matter? And what should those who seek to “follow Him,” DO, when we see the Truth?
But the “pieces ALL fit.” From the “olah” offering – which “goes up” to heaven, to “unleavened bread” – to the only, singular sign that He gave to an “evil and adulterous generation” (hmm…was He talking THEN, or NOW, or maybe almost continually?)
– and the answer is the same now, as it was when the FIRST Judas sold out to “the Adversary.” But it was hardly the only time.
This teaching is one to share. Because the “sharp, two-edged sword” of His Word tends to divide things.
“Pesach – and His REAL Holy Week”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
Parsha “Vayikra” (Leviticus chapters 1 through 5) — because it’s the first in the Book — thus shares the name, and is certainly one of those challenges that, let’s fact it, much of “xtianity” would prefer to ignore. And it starts of with a bunch of ‘sacrifices,’ besides. Which, as Mark Call points out in this two-part look, isn’t even the right Hebrew word; these are offerings (korban) rather than the root word ‘tzebach.’
But why does that matter? Because how can people who don’t even understand “Torah 101” about that difference then grasp the real significance of what Yahushua actually DID…much less why it has never been more important to us?
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha :
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SSM-3-31-23-Vaykira-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3Another warning for the Sabbath teaching this week. Those who prefer the paganism associated with spring fertility rites, and “bunnies and eggs” to His Truth will no doubt take offense at this one, in particular. Just as He also warned.
But there is a bigger warning here as well. Most of the ‘boring sacrifice stuff’ that we’ve been lied to about has another characteristic that the Whore Church likes to overlook: it’s all about “unintentional sin.” But the claim that “I didn’t KNOW any better,” only works once. When people KEEP doing that which He says NOT to do, the claim that it was done in ignorance wears thin.
“Vayikra: How Many Times Can IGNORANCE Be an Excuse?”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
Parsah “Pekudei” (Exodus 38:21 through the End of the Book) is the last Torah portion in the Book of Exodus. It does sound quite a bit like something we’ve heard before, not even that long ago (and there’s no doubt a point there…) and seems to have some OTHER ‘redundancy’ as well (OK, arguably for a similar point.)
Most of us have probably heard the claim that, especially since this is all “old” testament, and now everyone is the ‘temple of God’ anyway, none of this matters. Besides, it’s not “salvific.” Scripture ‘as Written’ says something very different. And this parsha is a pretty good proof of it.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha :
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SSM-3-24-23-Pekudei-teaching-podcast-x.mp3The Sabbath day teaching this week – as it probably must – picks up where He left off. We do see the completion of all the things He has laid out for them, and commanded to be done, via Moshe. And vitally, it seems- because He repeats the phrase no less than EIGHTEEN times in this Torah portion alone! – they finished the mishkan (tabernacle) “according to ALL that YHVH commanded Moshe, so did they,” and then also erected it “as YHVH commanded Moses.”
But it’s some of the connections in this parsha, both to others that precede, and prophecies that follow, and to very current events, that will prove most…thought provoking.
Some will find this discussion refreshingly blunt, some will be offended. (But on that score, we have been warned: Matthew 11:6, 13:57, 15:12, 24…and many others.)
It appears that the Book of Exodus ends with another ‘atbash,’ an “open and close” set of verses which dramatically underscores whatever is nested withing. But this one is particularly poignant NOW, ‘for such a time as this.’ In so many ways.
“Pekudei: A Great Big ATBASH aroundd ‘El Kanah’ – Why?”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
This Torah portion begins, and is named for, the SECOND use of the word “Vayakhel” in Scripture. Except, this time it’s Moses that “gathers together” ALL of the assembly, not as a mob, but to hear, and do, what Yahuah commands.
Parsha Vayakhel (Exodus 35:1-38:20) returns to the topic of what those who have just escaped death should build together. And there seems to be a lot of emphasis in the text on their ‘heart condition’.
Perhaps we should take note of what a ‘near death experience’ can do for our perspective, especially if we end up with wise and willing hearts.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha :
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SSM-3-17-23-Vayakhel-teaching-podcast-x-1.mp3The Sabbath day teaching this week beings right where He does. And where Mark suggests (again, because He does!) we should focus today, even though it might not ‘sit well’ with our sun-god-day neighbors: His Sabbath. There’s a reason He set it off with the ‘torah-tag’ equivalent of bright bold flashing text in the last parsha, and starts right there again after Moshe gathers them together THIS time for the right reason.
But it’s the repeated references to the ‘wise-hearted’ that should set the context. Is this society, too, on the brink of death – economic, spiritual, medical/bio-weapon, and perhaps of even the fiery, nuclear form? True, most who have been dumbed-down into slavish complacency are oblivious to what is coming, but that doesn’t mean WE shouldn’t be ready for the time when THEY will panic.
“Vayakhel: In THIS God We Trust”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
After a couple portions that might be called “setup,” for the upcoming construction of the mishkan, or tabernacle, this week parsha Ki Tisa (Exodus/Shemot 30:111 through chapter 34) returns to the story of what happens while, and after Moshe returns from his first trip up Mount Sinai.
And it’s not pretty.
In fact, it is perhaps one of the most painful and tragic stories in the whole Book. All the more so because it keeps repeating.
But, again, it’s the ‘What?’ AND the ‘WHY’ that are key to our understanding.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha :
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SSM-3-10-23-Ki-Tisa-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath day teaching this week certainly has to address what Mark suggests is one of THE most succinct stories out there to address the question, “what is Torah-obedience?”
Even if part of the story has undeniably ‘negative connotations.’
The ‘golden calf’ is probably the most well-known example in the entire Bible of what has become a synonym for idolatry. And the irony is that its fame is well-deserved as well, because it is so PERSISTENT. Which is the problem.
Because virtually everything about the story fits as well now as it ever has.
“Ki Tisa: Worship Him AS He SAYS”
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The Torah portion this week, parsha Tetzaveh, (Exodus/Shemot 27:20-30:10) is another departure from the narrative of Moshe and the sons of Israel, or mixed multitude now in the wilderness near Mount Sinai, to continue the exposition of something that will play a major role in events that will play out next.
This is the second installment of instructions that have to do with the upcoming construction of the mishkan, or tabernacle, in the wilderness; in this case, it begins with oil for the lamp, and then describes in some detail the ‘set apart’ garments for the Cohen Gadol, or Aaron, and then his sons.
But it’s the ‘WHY’ that is arguably key to our understanding.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha :
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SSM-3-3-23-Tetzaveh-teaching-podcast-x.mp3The Sabbath day teaching this week certainly has to address something that all of us have heard, probably too much: This is all OLD stuff, and even if we now know it might not be “done away with,” there’s still no cohenim, no mishkan, and no place where we’d ever see these garments anyway, so what’s the point?
But that is part of the irony where we need to start. YHVH says these garments for Aaron and his sons are for “splendor and for beauty.” They even seem to be specific signs of their Authority from Him.
Like it or not, we still seem to apply the idea, be it real or just perceived, to certain clothing. A white lab coat comes to mind, certainly for a different priesthood…
So, there’s something here that bears a bit more examination.kadosh
“Tetzaveh: Signs of Authority”
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The Torah portion this week, parsha Terumah, (Exodus/Shemot 25:1-27:19) takes a departure from the narrative of Moshe and the sons of Israel, or mixed multitude now in the wilderness near Mount Sinai, to begin the exposition of something that will play a major role in events that will play out next.
This is the first installment of instructions that begin with “take an offering” (terumah) from every man whose heart makes him willing, to begin the construction of the mishkan, or tabernacle.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha :
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SSM-2-24-23-Terumah-teaching-podcast-x.mp3The Sabbath day teaching this week begins with the concept of the ‘pattern’ that YHVH says He would show Moses. Many who have studied this portion share a similar sentiment, that without being shown, even though the text description is detailed, to actually BUILD the mishkan seems like an almost impossible task.
And the same might be true for dealing with the challenges we face today. Which leads to a common question:
“Terumah: Have We Been Shown the Pattern?”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
Parsha Mishpatim (Exodus/Shemot chapters 22 through 24) is said to contain over 11.5% of all the Mishpatim, or commandments, in the Torah. And it’s now just about the most “politically-INcorrect” of all, too. Which says even more about a society that so hates His Word.
This is the first set of instruction that follows the giving of the ‘Ten Commandments,’ and appears to continue a theme; YHVH brought them – and all of us – out of bondage, and then explains how to build a society, and live in His freedom.
This next installment then follows with a caution about the alternative.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha :
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SSM-2-17-23-Mistpatim-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3There is a warning associated with the Sabbath day ‘deeper look’. Yahushua told us that, evidently speaking of such a time as this, many would be offended, and hate one another (especially for His sake, and Truth), and the love of many would grow cold.
Lately, it almost seems as if that might even be an understatement.
Which turns out to be the point.
“Mishpatim: Through which all the Dots Connect…”
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
This week Parsha Yitro (Exodus/Shemot chapters 18 through 20) begins with the arrival of Yitro (aka ‘Jethro’) at the camp of the ‘mixed multitude’, along with Moshe’s wife Zipporah and his two sons, but it’s certainly true that the part of the story for which is most famous happens at Mount Sinai.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha tells us about Yitro’s arrival, his understanding of the Real Elohim that follows, some excellent advice for his son-in-law, and of course the lead-up and giving of the “Ten Debarim,” (words, sayings, commandments):
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SSM-2-10-23-Yitro-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3Mark again asks a couple of question to set up the Sabbath day midrash:
What belongs to US? What is His? And what ever happened to these ‘Ten Commandments’?
And the answer, for reasons that will be made clear, has to do with exactly where we are today, spiritually, and prophetically.
“Yitro: Permitted Reach – and Beyond, Biden and Ahab”
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After the completion of the plagues of Egypt, the ‘Exodus’ itself of the ‘mixed multitude’ continues with Parsha B’shalach (Exodus/Shemot 13:17-17:16), from Pharoah, and his ‘tyranny’.
And, without question, this parsha contains the seeds of so many elements that highlight the rest of Scripture.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SSM-2-3-23-Bshalach-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3Mark again has to ask a question to set up the Sabbath day midrash:
We’ve heard the ‘central command’ of Moses phrased this way a thousand times, “Let my people GO!”
So, why is the title of this parsha, and the better translation of what REALLY happened, that what came to pass was not just when Pharaoh had done merely that, but had SENT THEM OUT, “shalach-ed’ ’em”? And, THEN, just to make sure they didn’t decide to head right back INTO Egypt and bondage, He brought ’em the long way around, instead of the obvious shortcut?
Certainly, the central theme of the story is so we – all – will know, “ki ani YHVH” – that “I AM Yahuah”. But the word used here for what happened is not simply “let’em go,” but that he SENT them out. And YHVH was very clear, even in the setup, about what must occur.
Here, too, the lesson not only echoes through the centuries, but should strike us, today, particularly, with just how important that distinction is.
“B’Shalach: Deep Fakes, Deception, and Demons”
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The story of the plagues of Egypt and the Exodus continues with Parsha Bo (Exodus/Shemot 10:1 – 13:16).
Much of the story is familiar, but this week the final ‘set of three’ plagues concludes, setting up the finale, with the ‘Death of the Firstborn,’ and more importantly, the Passover event that we are to remember, and teach our children, forever.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha tells us WHY, more than once, this is so important:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SSM-1-27-23-Bo-teacing-podcast-xx.mp3Mark has to ask a question to set up the Sabbath day midrash: With the whole world poised on the brink of nuclear conflagration – arguably at a more dangerous point than any of us have EVER seen in any of our lives – why are we talking about an event, and a feast to commemorate it, that happened so many thousands of years ago?
And the answer, for reasons that will be clear, but may sound a bit familiar anyway, is that understanding His “signs,” and the reasons for them – not just then, but ESPECIALLY now, have never been more vital.
The judgments on the fake gods of modern Egypt are just as real, but His point hasn’t changed, and neither has He.
He “put a difference” between those who were His that first time. But those who became the ‘mixed multitude’ had to make a choice to do so.
“Bo: Signs Memorials and Circumcision “
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The combined two-part podcast is here:
This week’s regular Torah portion or parsha is “Vayera” (Shemot/Exodus 6:2 through 9:35) and it not only continues the story of the life of Moses/Moshe but begins the first of the “Plagues of Egypt.”
And, again, much of the story is familiar, but it’s the details and PATTERNS that are not only fascinating, but vital to our understanding…especially if we expect that they may be about to repeat, one way or another.
First, the Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SSM-1-20-23-Vayera-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath Day teaching suggests that some of the same confusion people confront today concerning the pending judgment of the US, and the world, is probably more similar to what might have confronted people in ancient Egypt than we might expect. But the themes of this parsha help make that clear:
The One, True REAL Elohim – vs the fakes. Just some of the names have changed.
But NOT the One that really matters!
And just when along the path did people start to come to The Realization? Remember, when we read “Pharaoh’s heart was hardened,” that’s a poor translation. Because there are TWO separate words in the Hebrew.
Are people’s heart’s today “strong” and “courageous” – or just plain stubborn? It clearly makes a difference.
Maybe it even begs a question that helps to frame where we are now, in a sequence that will probably, eventually repeat:
Did Pharaoh have his own “fact checkers” for the ancient version of Twitter, to manage “disinformation” about just who was causing the problems?
EVENTUALLY, Yah “put a difference” between His people, and those that turned out to be “vessels…prepared for destruction.” Can we begin to see what that might look like?
“Vayera: Patterns — in Themes, Plagues, and Hearts”
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at parsha Shemot (Exodus 1:1 through 6:1) — the first installment in the story of the life of Moshe (Moses) and the beginning of The Exodus.
We all almost certainly know much of the story: a Pharoah arose who “knew not Joseph,” wanted to kill of the boy Hebrew babies, and how Moses was put in an ark in the Nile, and rescued by – among others! – Pharoah’s daughter.
But, as we’ve also come to understand, there is FAR more…
First, the Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SSM-1-13-23-Shemot-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3The Sabbath Day teaching is about tackling what is, perhaps never more so than now, a “matter of life and death.” And that really is THE central theme of this new Book as well.
Mark has suggested for several years during the studies of the Exodus that “ki ani Yahuah” is one of the most fundamental descriptions for the ‘moral of the story’:
that ‘kol Israel’ – all of ’em – will know that “I AM Yahuah.”
that Pharoah will know that “ki ani Yahuah.” That all Egypt will know, that we will know, that, ultimately, all the world will know “ki ani Yahuah.”
But there’s also something more ‘subtle,’ and yet also more insidious, and, yes, ‘satanic’ at issue, too. Why does this story make such a clear point – up front – about the midwives who obviously didn’t hear the sun-god-day school lesson about Romans 13 (arguably, “as twisted”.)
Is there a difference after all between Power and Authority? And even Who’s we’re talking about?
“Shemot: ‘Power’ != [ is NOT Equal To! ] ‘Authority’ “
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Students of torah have seen for years that there are (at least) two “types and shadows,” or harbingers of the Messiah, the first of which, Mashiach ben Yosef, aka ‘the Suffering Servant,’ and the final installment of the story of his life, is described in this parsha, Yayechi (Genesis 47:28 through the End of the Book.)
First, the Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SSM-1-6-23-Vayechi-teaching-podcast-x.mp3Since this parsha completes the Book of Genesis, it’s understandable that there would be a number of elements, like the ‘death bed actions’ of the patriarch Yakov, that set up so much that is to follow.
But in the Sabbath midrash, Mark suggests that Joseph’s reaction to his brothers’ request to ‘forgive them’ – AGAIN – is one that should strike us as particularly poignant today. After all, he already did. And so did He.
“Vayechi: Already forgiven? Or a ‘Double-dog Dare’ What’s it gonna take?”
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at parsha Vayigash, Genesis 44:18 through 47:27, and the conclusion of the story of Yosef’s testing of his brothers, and what Mark refers to as Yehuda’s time to ‘Man Up.’
This week’s story is about what happens when the Plan Comes Together.
And the blessings that follow.
The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SSM-12-30-22-Vayigash-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3And not only does Yosef’s plan pay off, but even better than he expected. This Sabbath teaching explores the implications of that, and what can happen when we in such obedience that we ‘leave room’ for Yah to bless us beyond our own expectations.
It’s also almost certainly true that every single one of us, who will hear this podcast, have been put here, now, “in such a time as this,” for His purposes.
And, given the times and the seasons, that’s quite a statement.
There’s something else in the mix this week, too, in the haftorah portion, from Ezekiel chapter 37. It ends up being both a severe warning, and a great promise.
“Vayigash: Two kingdoms/houses/wives and sticks – and the Opportunity for Surprise”
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship for a two-part look at parsha Miketz, Genesis chapters 40:1 through 44:17, and the story of Yosef’s meeting with Pharoah concerning his dreams, and his elevation to a place where his own dreams so many years before will play out with his brothers.
The ‘Plan of Yah,’ continues to play out, and this week we see how SO much testing begins to bear fruit.
This is the “in-between” part of the story; the climax evidently comes next week. But – isn’t that true today for us? We’re ‘in-between’, waiting to see what’s next…
And first, the Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha:
https://hebrewnationonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SSM-12-23-22-Miketz-teaching-podcast-x.mp3This Sabbath teaching is another of those where Mark realizes it’s time to wax a bit ‘nerdy’. Is it just possible that literally ALL of what we see, learn, and are challenged with, is a form of “filtering”?
Which, hopefully, helps to explain a LOT. Both then, and now.
“Miketz: Filtering – and What That Means to His People”
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This week Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship takes a two-part look at the parsha which essentially covers the life of Yitzak/Isaac, and introduces his two sons Esau and Yaakov. That alone makes it vital to our understanding, but – no surprise, of course – there’s far more here. It’s also one of the […]
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at the final parsha specific to the life of Abraham, parsha “Chayei Sarah” (Genesis chapter 23 through 25:`8). It’s also what Mark calls THE “Common Law” parsha, because it details some of the singularly most fundamental concepts – by means of stories – […]
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look, among other important things, perhaps the most significant event in the life of both Abraham, and his son Yitzak (Isaac) – also known as the Akieda, or ‘binding of Isaac’…parsha Veyeira (Genesis chapters 18 through 22) The sequence again begins with the Erev […]
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at the first parsha to examine the details of the life of Abram, later Abraham, the “first of the patriarchs” in Scripture. Parsha Lekh Lekhah (Gen. 12:1 – 17:27) begins with the words which begin his journey of obedience and blessing: “Come out” […]
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The parsha for this week, Noach (Gen. 6:9 through 11:32) tells us more about what “as it was in the days of Noach” could mean. But there is, interestingly, a WHOLE lot of “ambiguity” in some parts of the story as well. The sequence again begins with the Erev Shabbat reading: This week it’s time […]
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At the conclusion of His Fall Feasts, it’s time to turn back again to the Beginning, and the Book of Genesis, aka “Bereshiet” and the first Book AND Torah parsha in the Torah. The parsha for this week — IN the Beginning, Bereshiet (Gen. 1:1 through 6:8) is arguably one of the most FUNDAMENTAL of […]
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The Torah parsha for this week is the final installment in both the Book of Deuteronomy, thus the entire Torah, and the life of Moses: V’zot HaBrakah (Deuteronomy chapter 33 through the End of the Book.) The sequence again begins with the Erev Shabbat reading: The Sabbath Day teaching this week — for reasons that […]
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This week, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship takes a two-part look at parsha “Ha’azinu” (Deuteronomy chapter 32) and the end of the week that includes Yom Kippur, and the second-to-last portion in the Book, and thus the Torah. The sequence agains begins with the Erev Shabbat reading, in the context of the Fall […]
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Vayelekh” (Deuteronomy chapter 31 alone) which does perhaps seem a bit ‘short’ for a parsha, but is nevertheless still not at all short of “meaty”. The sequence begins with the Erev Shabbat reading and the certainly helps to “set up” that […]
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As the annual Torah cycle begins to come to conclusion, the parsha this week (Nitzavim, Deuteronomy 29:10 through chapter 30) is the one that Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship suggests — especially given season and confluence of global events at literally Biblical levels — is perhaps the most vital of all. It’s certainly […]
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Ki Tavo” (Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8) which is again not only ‘meaty’ but downright SCARY to those who don’t like what it says. Which makes it again one of the most important – especially NOW. The sequence begins with the Erev Shabbat reading, […]
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha “Ki Tetze” (Deuteronomy 21:10-25:19) which he describes as one of the ‘meatiest’ in the Torah when it comes to ‘instruction and commandments,’ and also one of the most NOT ‘politically-correct.’ Which makes it therefore one of the most important – especially […]
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The Torah parsha reading for this week is “Shoftim” (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) — and it begins, “Judges [shoftim] and officers you shall make in all your gates…” …which, if you thing about it, tells us right off the top why we’ve gone so far “off the rails.” But there’s FAR more. Among other things, this week, […]
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Parsha “Re’eh,” (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17) may just be THE “go-to” Torah portion for those that have friends or relatives that ask questions like, “Just what is it that’s DIFFERENT about a First Century understanding of ‘the Messiah,’ or “the Way,” or maybe “Hebrew Roots,” than what we have been taught in ‘sun-dog-day school? Among other things, […]
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part study of parsha “Ekev,” (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25) and ultimately, a look at “love” – what it was, what passes for it now, and why the difference is even more than just a matter of ‘life and death’. This one,too, includes more than one vitally-important command, […]
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Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part study of parsha “Vaetchanan,” (Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11) and which includes not only the ‘reprise’ of the most famous Ten Debarim (or ‘Words’) in the Book, but also THE ‘commandment’ (literally singular) which the Messiah Himself says is “most important.” And, as Mark points […]
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This week the annual Torah cycle means we begin the study of the final Book in the Torah: Devarim, or, literally, “the WORDS” that Moshhe spoke to the ‘sons of Israel” during the final days of his life. … why it is that this nation and world are utterly collapsing as men and institutions built […]
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This week the double-parsha of Matot-Masei (from Numbers 30:2 on) completes the Book of Numbers. But it is the very first chapter of the set that Mark has long suggested is among the most vital in all of Scripture when it comes to understanding Yah-ordained authority in marriage and the family, and, especially today, why […]
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