Genesis 3:14-15: “And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. (15) And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus, shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.”   Hebrew and Greek are the two Biblical languages that have a numerical...

The Impossible Alliance                               By: Shira Schechter The seventh plague struck Egypt with terrible force. Hailstones fell from heaven, devastating the land. But these were no ordinary hailstones. The Torah describes the scene: ‘ The hail was very heavy — fire flashing in the midst of the hail — such as had not fallen on the land of Egypt since it had become a nation’ (Exodus 9:24) Rashi, the great eleventh-century commentator, explains that this constituted “a miracle...

A Memorial Meal Passover is a day of remembrance of the exodus from Egypt for Jews, but disciples of Yeshua have another important aspect of Passover to remember. Fourteen hundred years after the exodus from Egypt, Yeshua went to Jerusalem with His disciples to keep the appointed time of Passover. He and His disciples had been to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover many times, but this time, as they neared Jerusalem, Yeshua said, “My time is near; I am to keep the Passover” (Matthew 26:18). He...