19. Terumah.Indd
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
We pray every week for the leaders of the Jewish Ministry,Shabbat Shalom Newsletter Shabbat - Trumah Resources: • Website: https://jewishadventist-org.gcnetadventist.org A must website. To subscribe to our newsletter. To download some resources (Hebrew Sabbath School, 668 hDm…wrV;t and other documents). To order the book “Comfort, Comfort my people…” and many other things. 13 February / 4 Adar I 2016 / 5776 • Shalom Adventure Magazine online: www.ShalomAdventure.com If you would like to read articles, watch videos, learn things about Judaism and Israel, this website is just for you. • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WJAFC: If you would like to share with people, this Weekly This issue forum on facebook is a good place for that. News P.1 Professional Urban • Photos on Google+: http://picasaweb.google.com/jewishadventist: Jewish-Adventist We have posted a lot Parasha’s comments P.2-4 Development: of pictures on Internet during the last years. Don’t hesitate to look at them. Journal of Information Haftara P.4-5 The WJAFC provides: • WebRadio: www.shema-israel-radio.com If you would like to listen Jewish or Messianic songs. If you want to be used to ear modern Hebrew of the Apostolic Writings P.5 - Professional Urban Apostolic Writings, it is the right radio to listen on the web. Stories P.6 training for Jewish • Adventist Mission Website: http://wjafc.adventistmission.org/ We pray every Ministry Th is website is the new Inspirational Corner P.6,7 resource provided by the Offi ce of Adventist Mission of the General Conference of the Seventh-day - Teaching for Adventists. week for lead- Color Sheet for Kids P.7 theological students / • Russian Website: http://www.boruh.info Th is website is in Russian, many articles and the - Help to plant new parasha are posted on it every week. ers of the congregations. Jewish Ministry, - Support for Adventist- WJAFC Jewish dialogue with Paris According NEWS scholars and rabbis A weekly Journal of information and training published by the to our list of the government to do more about the refu- World Jewish Adventist Friendship Center ❁ Holocaust Memorial Th e Jewish ministry is very active in Lon- gee’s crisis facing Europe. We were urged to Under the umbrella of the recognize hate crimes in the various forms prayer for 2016, don, they fi rst share their experience almost General Conference —O ce of Adventist Mission and ‘don’t stand by and do nothing’. Lam- every day through Whatsapp (an app on I suggest that beth has set up a unit to handle hate crime.” smartphone), they are active attending Jew- 2016 / 4 Adar I 5776 Attending Jewish events is very important Journal of Information and Training — Issue 668 — 13 February ish events in order to understand the Jewish our partners for our ministry everywhere to demonstrate community in London and to make friends. our support to the Jewish people, sympathiz- pray from Recently the Jewish people held Holocaust ing with their suff erings and also to make Memorials all over the world, and the Jewish friends. I would be happy that more people February 14 to community in London organized this me- from the World Jewish ministry would at- 20, 2016, for morial event in Lambeth, at the Kia Oval tend meetings like this one on the next years. cricket grounds. Some of the members of Paula Sanders, this group went to this Holocaust memorial ❁ Adar I and II and Marcia posted on Whatsapp here im- Everyone who is attentive to the Jewish who is the lead- pressions, she said: Jael Wells Cuellar Carlos Muniz calendar would learn that from time to time er of the Jewish “We were four of us going with my Jewish the Jewish people have two months of Adar, English Edition: friend, to attend the Holocaust Memorial on Adar I and Adar II. It would be as if the Richard-Amram Elofer Emails: ministry in January 24. Th e theme was: “Don’t Stand western calendar would have two consecutive Russian Edition: English: [email protected] Alexandra Obrevko By”. It was a very moving experience as well Richard Amram Elofer Alexandra Obrevko months of December. Since G-d designated French Edition: Russian: [email protected] North Carolina as relevant. It focused on genocide in the the month of Nissan (month of Passover) to past and how it is being allowed to happen Sabine Baris French: [email protected] be the fi rst month of the year (Exodus 12:1), Spanish Edition: and run a small even today. Th ey showed a fi lm highlight- the month of Adar is the last month of the re- Spanish: [email protected] Jael Wells Cuellar congregation in ing genocide done by the Nazis, and also in ligious year. However, let’s remember that the Portuguese Edition: Portuguese: [email protected] Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia. Th e Ho- lunar Jewish calendar is shorter than the so- Carlos Muniz locaust was linked to issues relating to dis- lar calendar for about 11 days a year. To keep Dutch Edition: Dutch: [email protected] Fletcher (NC), Hubert Paulleta placement of refugees, especially with refer- Passover in the spring time, they have to cor- ence to the crisis of unaccompanied children rect their calendar approximately once every Credit photos: Let’s pray for Richard Elofer, Alexandra Obrevko, Jael Wells Cuellar seeking asylum in Britain. School children, third or fourth year, by adding a 13th month Hubert Paulleta, Laurent Baris and Advent Digital Media her ministries. Christians, Muslims and Jews gave items right before the month of Nissan and after the Hubert Paulleta for more information: contact us at www.jewishadventist.org Sabine Baris and the keynote speaker was Lord Alfred month of Adar. Th us on that year, they have 8 Dubs, who is instrumental in lobbying for two months of Adar, such as this year. Par asha for “And let them make me a sanc- Parasha Overview: tuary, that I may dwell in their this Week midst. Exactly as I show you Trumah concerning the pattern of the Trumah tabernacle, and of all its furniture, -d com- so you shall make it.” (Exodus mands hDm…wrV;t 25:8–9) Moshe to build a Mishkan Exodus 25: 1 - 27:19 G in the Gan Eden, that is why ary and to understand the L-rd your G-d, who brought - The innermost (Sanctuary) and G-d said to Moses that no meaning of the symbols used you out of the land of Egypt, chamber, the Holy supplies him with Are we ready to give as the people. In fact we discover human being can “see” Him in it. that you should not be their Uplifted Donation and remain alive. Thus the building of the slaves. And I have broken the of Holies, may be detailed instruc- he Torah states: “And people of Israel gave?” When in history that G-d wanted The mystery of the mish- Tabernacle (Sanctuary) which tions. The Children the L-rd spoke to we continue to read the Torah to dwell among his people at bars of your yoke and made entered only by the kan (sanctuary) is part of that begins in this chapter 25 of Moshe saying: ‘Speak we discover that the people of three times. In Gan Eden with you walk erect.” (Leviticus kohen gadol (high of Israel are asked to quest to see Him and to un- Shemot goes to the end of this to the Children of Israel, that Israel brought offerings to the Adam and Eve, in the wilder- 26:3, 11–13). The meaning of priest), and only contribute precious T L-rd for a long time, it is written ness, among the people of Is- derstand how to re-establish book since we have the be- the sentence “I will make my they shall take for Me an of- rael, and at His incarnation as our relationship with our ginning of the dedication of once a year, on Yom metals and stones, fering; of every man whose “And the people continued to dwelling among you” extends Yeshua HaMashiach. Creator. That is why the man- the sanctuary in the chapter fabrics, skins, oil heart makes him willing you bring freewill offerings morn- far beyond the presence of Kippur. Here is the In the Gan Eden there were ner the sanctuary was orga- 40 of Exodus. However lets shall take my offering.” (Exo- ing after morning.” (Ex 36:3.) G-d merely in the Temple. Its Ark that held the and spices. no separation between G-d nized, the material used, the remember that the dedica- dus 25:1-2) This portion of Then in this chapter we have true meaning in the proximity and his creation. He was able daily and annual services, the tion of the Sanctuary is com- Ten Command- Description of the the Torah gives us a great les- a wonderful statement: “The of G-d in our midst, the ful- people are bringing more than to speak with Adam and Eve biblical feasts, the individual pleted by the book Vayikra ments inscribed on Mishkan son of generosity. Today too, fillment of the covenant be- enough for doing the work the as father and children speak sacrifices, all are symbolically (Leviticus) called also Torat- we need from time to time tween Him and His people, the two tablets of 1. in the Mishkan’s L-rd commanded to be done.” together. But by their sin and representing G-d’s love and Cohanim. The timing of the offerings to build a sanctu- which manifest itself in the stone that G-d gave outer courtyard Then Moses gave an order and disobedience Adam and Eve his plan of salvation.