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What does “work” mean to you? Does it mean earning a paycheck? Breaking a sweat? As most of us know, the Torah prohibits work on the Sabbath -- but the word means different things to different people. Can you run a marathon on the Sabbath? What if it doesn’t feel like “work”? The Talmud answers these questions in detail, listing fully thirty-nine different categories of work, along with all of their sub-categories and sub-sub-categories. The Sages identify hundreds of laws that govern the observance of the Sabbath: laws about how to cut and heat your food, about what and where to carry, and about how to tie your shoes. And where do they look to formulate these laws? The Sages say that the basis for understanding what “work” is comes from this week’s parsha, Parshat Vayakhel. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

In this week's parsha we read of the catastrophic debacle involving the generation that left Egypt - the episode of the golden calf. In the midst of Moshe's pleas to God to forgive the nation, we find a personal and intimate tone entering the dialogue. Alongside Moshe's request, "If now You will forgive their sin..." (referring to the nation's sin) we also find another, personal request of Moshe: "Show me Your way, that I may know You... Show me Your glory." This request is problematic; clearly a mortal human cannot perceive God, as God Himself immediately emphasizes in response: "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live." And so God and Moshe reach a sort of compromise: "You shall see My back, but My face will not be seen." This personal discussion, which seems to concern Moshe only as a private individual and is completely unrelated to the problem of the sin and the forgiveness of the nation, a problem rendered acute by the impending threat of destruction by God, certainly requires some explanation. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

La shekhinah es la transliteración en inglés de una palabra hebrea que significa "morada" o "establecimiento" y denota la morada o asentamiento de la presencia divina de Dios. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

The shekhinah is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the dwelling or settling of the divine presence of God. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

The shekhinah is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the dwelling or settling of the divine presence of God. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

In this week’s portion, Tetzaveh, (EX. 27:20) The Creator tells Moses to command the children of Israel to PROVIDE pure olive oil to feed the "EVERLASTING FLAME" of the menorah. Is during this week’s portion also that the Creator explain to Moses the principles of the priestly garments, worn by the Kohanim (priests) while serving in the Sanctuary. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

La construcción del Mishkán ("Tabernáculo") es uno de los puntos máximos espirituales de los hijos de Israel. Pero los detalles de esa construcción, como la Torá los transmite, no son exactamente conmovedores. Cuando lees los versos de la Torá aquí, sobre los colores de las cortinas de Mishkán, las dimensiones de su altar y los detalles de los anillos de su mesa, difícilmente se te puede culpar si tus ojos comienzan a brillar. Pero si se esfuerza en sintonizar las palabras, puede notar un detalle en particular que se destaca, un aspecto de la decoración del Mishkán que parece insinuar algo mucho más profundo que un simple plano para un edificio físico. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

If there is something that we can learn in this weeks Torah portion, is the importance of doing the work when it comes to believing. That’s right! Faith requires work. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

Are you aware that the body that we have today is a body in the process of decaying? Do you know why? Because of sin. We are all in need of a new body. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

The job of the holy priest in the Mishkan (tabernacle) it was not only to mediate for man, but to represent the highest form of holiness, just how Adam was at the beginning. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

Were Yeshuas’ Apostles Confused? Did you know that the entire dispensationalist futurist view of eschatology, the end times, is dependent on the claim that Yeshuas’ apostles were a collective group of confused and ignorant men? In Matthew 24:2 Yeshua predicted the impending destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. The apostles – as almost all commentators claim – conflated that event with the end of the Christian age. But, they were confused, we are told. In their confusion they asked: “Tell us, when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?” The great question is: Were the apostles as confused as the commentators claim? How is it that we can trust the apostles with every other doctrine, but prophecy? I believe that they new and understood prophecy better than you and I. Join me, Sunday November 14, at 2 PM as we discuss the PAROUSIA concept in details using the whole counsel of scripture. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support

¿Cuantos de nosotros hemos disfrutado la compañía y el amor de ese “Tío” Alcahueta? La porción de esta semana nos ayuda a entender un poco las razones por la cual Abraham confronta al Creador haciendo la famosa pregunta, “matarás al injusto con el justo”? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ely-hernandez/support