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Recorded 12/24/2018 • Posted 12/24/2018
Number 5 in the series The World of Souls

People on their deathbeds often report seeing angelic beings or even the presence of deceased family members. Are these merely hallucinations created by a dying brain, or are they glimpses into the World of Souls. This teaching from Shabbat Vayechi explores the meaning behind the biblical euphemism of being gathered to one's people.

When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people (Genesis 49:33)

Recorded 12/08/2018 • Posted 12/24/2018
Number 4 in the series The World of Souls

Are reports of Near Death Experiences (NDE) credible? People resuscitated from clinical brain-death sometimes report out-of-body experiences in the World of Souls. Does that correlate with the Bible? Do these reports have anything to teach us about the state of the dead before the resurrection? This teaching explores the NDE in light of traditional Jewish teaching and New Testament expectation.

Recorded 11/24/2018 • Posted 12/10/2018
Number 3 in the series The World of Souls

What if you had memories from before your conception? Does the undying soul pre-exist human conception and birth? Here's a crash course on the anatomy of the soul, including children's soulish memories of heaven from before conception and birth. 

Recorded 10/27/2018 • Posted 12/02/2018
Number 2 in the series The World of Souls

What happens when you die? This teaching, the second in the series "The World of Souls,"  begins the journey into the unseen world behind the one that we consider to be reality. Take a step into "The World of Truth."

Who knows whether the Spirit of Man goes upward and the Spirit of the beast goes down into the  earth? (Ecclesiastes 3:21) 

Recorded 11/28/2018 • Posted 11/29/2018
Number 5 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

There's more than meets the eye to the story of the man born blind. This fifth of the seven signs of the Messiah is the only miracle of Yeshua to be reviewed in a court of law. Get the story behind the story. 

Recorded 11/14/2018 • Posted 11/15/2018
Number 4 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

How did feeding a multitude with five loaves and two fish meet important Jewish messianic expectations, making it a perfect sign of Messiah? Learn how this event dramatized the Psalm the sages refer to as "the Messiah chapter" and discover the "two fish" hiding in plain sight in the Torah.

Recorded 10/13/2018 • Posted 11/08/2018
Number 1 in the series The World of Souls

Who are the “spirits in prison” who “formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah" (1 Peter 3:19-20)? A cryptic passage in 1 Peter seems to allude to some larger apocalyptic concept from behind the veil with a glimpse into the world of souls. Here's a quick discussion of a fascinating topic that opens the larger question of what really happens to us after death.

Recorded 11/07/2018 • Posted 11/08/2018
Number 3 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

Why is the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda a sign, and why did Yeshua tell the man to break the Shabbat by carrying his mat? Take a trip to first century Jerusalem in the text of John 5. 

Recorded 10/31/2018 • Posted 11/01/2018
Number 2 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

Why is the story of the healing of an official's son in Capernaum considered to be the second sign? Here's a close-up look at an important but often unnoticed story in the Gospel of John and similar stories from the Synoptic Gospels and the Talmud.

Recorded 10/25/2018 • Posted 10/25/2018
Number 1 in the series Seven Signs of Messiah

What's the significance of the miracle Yeshua performed at the wedding at Cana? The Gospel of John refers to it as the first of his signs. What were the other signs and why is this one so significant? 

Recorded 10/21/2018 • Posted 10/21/2018

Avram had a unique perspective on the world that made him receptive to God's calling. Learn how this perspective on creation relates to the strange monthly blessing known as Kiddush Levanah.

Recorded 09/08/2018 • Posted 09/20/2018
Number 7 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Are you carrying a heavy burden? It might not be just sin and guilt. This teaching speaks about the need to train the animal side of the human being and bring it into subjection. Part two of the Choose Life teaching and the conclusion to the Train Yourself for Godliness series, just on time for the high holidays. 

Recorded 09/01/2018 • Posted 09/20/2018
Number 6 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

If Yeshua came to die for our sins, then why did he pray that the cup of suffering might be taken away from him? This teaching on Parashat Ki Tavo's curses and blessings reaches into the kingdom to obtain some help for our physical condition in the world today. 

Recorded 08/25/2018 • Posted 09/20/2018
Number 5 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Why was Yeshua called "a glutton and a drunkard"? Discover the meaning behind the cryptic passage, "We played a flute for you, but you did not dance; we sang a dirge, but you did not mourn," and learn about the path of meseret nefesh, asceticism, and self-control.

Recorded 08/18/2018 • Posted 09/20/2018
Number 4 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Have you ever heard of the "Hudson Twenty"? Beth Immanuel's new associate pastor, Toby Janicki, speaks about some of the "weighty matters" of Torah in this teaching from Parashat Shoftim, encouraging us to lighten up.

Recorded 08/29/2018 • Posted 09/17/2018
Number 4 in the series Mussar of Mashiach

Loving God seems like should be easy. Unlike humans, he is perfect. There is also no doubt that he is worthy of our love. But there are serious challenges with carrying out the important commandment of loving God. In this class we learn how to overcome these challenges and what it takes to love our Creator.

Recorded 07/25/2018 • Posted 08/16/2018
Number 3 in the series Mussar of Mashiach

One mussar theme pervades Yeshua's teachings, but it defies the typical categories of middot (traits) taught by the mussar masters. This instruction for life is the defining theme of Yeshua's message to Israel: Endurance and Perseverance for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Recorded 05/29/2010 • Posted 08/14/2018
Number 23 in the series Galatians

Does Hagar represent the Jews in slavery under the law while Sarah represents the Christians in freedom under grace? That's the conventional interpretation of Paul's parable in Galatians 4:22, but this teaching turns over that common interpretation by revealing the Jewish background to the story.

Recorded 05/22/2010 • Posted 08/13/2018
Number 22 in the series Galatians

Was Paul in disguise? Paul says, "I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some." Did he adopt hypocritical pretenses in order to win people with the Gospel, acting like Jew around Jews and like a Gentile around Gentiles? This teaching on Galatians 4:12-20 considers Paul's evangelism strategies and the real meaning behind 1 Corinthians 9:19-23.

Recorded 08/07/2010 • Posted 08/10/2018
Number 3 in the series Train Yourself for Godliness

Forty days in the wilderness! The season of repentance is often referred to as the Jewish version of Lent, but which came first? This teaching from 2010 makes the case that the Christian season of Lent was originally based on the Jewish season of Teshuvah. This teaching calls upon us to employ asceticism and meseret nefesh in a forty-day face-off with the devil as we train for Yom Kippur.

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