Welcome Chevre to another episode of the Footsteps of The Messiah Podcast! This week is the week of August 13-20, 2023 and it is the week of Rosh Chodesh ELUL. Shabbos falls this week on Elul Bet, or the 2nd as we enter into parashat Shoftim. It is the only parasha to coincide with an actual BOOK of the Bible with the same name. Sefer Shoftim is found right after the book of Yehoshua.
We are exactly four weeks away from Rosh HaShana come Friday or Yom Shishi. This week, Thursday & Friday was Rosh Chodesh Elul. Technically Rosh Chodesh begins with Av 30 on Thursday and the forty days of Teshuvah have to begin on Av 30 to have the full forty days as Elul is only 29 days long on our modern calendar. It coincides this year with the 4th week of consolation. The haftarah is from Isaiah 51:12 to 52:12, haha, easy to remember. And all we'll be seeing and reading from the rest of the year will be ISAIAH in terms of the haftarah. It won't be until RHS that we move to another book for the haftarah. In the parasha, Devarim 16:18-21:9, there are three mitzvot that Israel have to do upon coming into the land. According to Talmud Sanhedrin 20a, they are to appoint a king, they have to wipe out the memory of Amalek and they have to build the Bet HaMikdash. We go over even more of the parashah as well. I forgot to mention...we see a famous line from the first few lines of the parasha, TZEDEK, TZEDEK TIRDOF...Justice Justice you will pursue. That's also in this week's parasha.
We then go into the Haftarah and see many portents and images of G-d and His Messiah Yeshua and even some famous liturgy that appears in the passage and we say in our Kabbalat Shabbat service. Plus we see a great deal about the Heavenly and Earthly Yerushalayim & take a look at what Rav Shaul has to say about it. Lots of Hebrew this week and jumping all around the Tanakh and New Testament so watch out, it's going to be a bumpy ride! We invite you to write to us at [email protected]. Let us know how we can improve and stir up more interesting topics and ideas and bring them to you our people, our chevre, our friends! SHALOM!

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