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NewsletteR Welcome to the Shalom Bridge Family! Shalom and welcome to Shalom Bridge, a community where Jews and Gentiles come together to rediscover our shared roots in G‑D’s promises to Israel and to live out the transforming life we have in Messiah together. This summer, help grow Shalom Bridge. For just 5 dollars a week—less than a cup of coffee—or 25 dollars a month, you can help us build understanding, offer teaching, and deepen connection between Jews, Gentiles, and

Parashah Shoftim (sho-FEEM)—“Judges”—calls us to remember that justice is not merely a civic ideal; it is an expression of the holy character of G-D. In Deuteronomy 16:18–21:9, Moses instructs Israel to appoint judges, reject corruption and idolatry, seek the Lord’s direction, and live under righteous leadership. At the heart of the portion is one piercing command: “Justice, justice you shall pursue, so that you may live and inherit the land that Adonai your GOD is giving

NewsletteR Welcome to the Shalom Bridge Family! Shalom, and welcome to Shalom Bridge—a community where Jews and Gentiles come together to reclaim our shared inheritance in G‑D's promises to Israel, and to journey side by side in the renewed life we find through Messiah. News Shiloh Campus Update: The Goat Situation The goats have officially moved in, and thanks to some wonderfully generous donors, they've taken on the sacred duty of demolishing every blade of grass, b

Parashat Re'eh: Set Before You a Blessing Parashah: Re'eh (רְאֵה) — "See" or "Behold" Torah Reading: Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17 Introduction Parashat Re'eh opens with a command that is easy to read past and impossible to obey halfway: “See, I set before you today a blessing and a curse” (Deuteronomy 11:26). Moshe does not ask Israel merely to listen. He commands them to see — to perceive with spiritual clarity that the covenant is not background scenery but a daily, concrete c

NewsletteR Welcome to the Shalom Bridge Family! Shalom and welcome to Shalom Bridge—a community where Jews and Gentiles unite to rediscover our shared heritage in G‑D’s promises to Israel and to walk together in the renewed life found in Messiah. News Shiloh Campus Update: Answered Prayer After weeks with no water in the house, we're praising God—water is flowing again! What started as a hopeful fix turned into an upgrade: the spring isn't just working, she's roaring

NewsletteR Welcome to the Shalom Bridge Family! Shalom and welcome to Shalom Bridge—a community where Jews and Gentiles unite to rediscover our shared heritage in G‑D’s promises to Israel and to walk together in the renewed life found in Messiah. This summer, help grow Shalom Bridge. For just $5 a week—less than a cup of coffee—or $25 a month, you can help us foster understanding, provide teaching, and strengthen connections among Jews, Gentiles, and all who need to hear

Hearing with the intention of obeying remembering as a solid foundation

NewsletteR Welcome to the Shalom Bridge Family! Shalom and welcome to Shalom Bridge, a community where Jews and Gentiles come together to rediscover our shared roots in G‑D’s promises to Israel and to live out the transforming life we have in Messiah together This summer, help grow Shalom Bridge. For just 5 dollars a week—less than a cup of coffee—or 25 dollars a month, you can help us build understanding, offer teaching, and deepen connection between Jews, Gentiles, and

Parashah: D’varim (Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22) Introduction The opening portion of Deuteronomy begins not with a new event, but with a holy retelling. Moshe stands before Israel on the plains of Moab and speaks words that are meant to shape memory, renew covenant consciousness, and prepare the people to enter the Land with humility and faith. For Messianic Jewish readers, Parashah D’varim is more than historical review. It is a call to hear the past correctly so that the future can

NewsletteR Welcome to the Shalom Bridge Family! Shalom and welcome to Shalom Bridge, a community where Jews and Gentiles come together to rediscover our shared roots in G‑D’s promises to Israel and to live out the transforming life we have in Messiah together This summer, help grow Shalom Bridge. For just 5 dollars a week—less than a cup of coffee—or 25 dollars a month, you can help us build understanding, offer teaching, and deepen connection between Jews, Gentiles, and

NewsletteR Welcome to the Shalom Bridge Family! Shalom and welcome to Shalom Bridge, a community where Jews and Gentiles come together to rediscover our shared roots in G‑D’s promises to Israel and to live out the transforming life we have in Messiah together This summer, help grow Shalom Bridge. For just 5 dollars (less than the price of a coffee) a week or 25 dollars a month, you can help us keep building understanding, teaching, and meaningful connection between Jews,

NewsletteR Welcome to the Shalom Bridge Family! Shalom and welcome to Shalom Bridge, a community of Jews and Gentiles discovering our shared roots in G‑D’s promise to Israel and the transforming life we share in Messiah. This summer, help grow Shalom Bridge. For just $5 a week or $25 a month, you can help us continue building understanding, teaching, and connection between Jews, Gentiles and those needing to hear the message of Yeshua. If you are already supporting this

Numbers 19–25 presents one of the most paradoxical stretches in the Torah: a mysterious purification law, the collapse of Israel’s first-generation leadership, military victories, and an enemy prophet whose curses turn to blessings. Chukat–Balak invites us to ask how G‑D shapes a holy people through both desert hardships and hidden protection. The Paradox of the Red Heifer Parashat Chukat opens with the chok of the parah adumah (the red heifer), a law that defies straightforw

Blog Parashah Beha'alotcha (בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ) — "When You Raise" Numbers 8:1–12:16 | Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14–4:7 Introduction Synagogues and Messianic Jewish congregations around the world will read and teach Parashah Beha'alotcha (בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ), meaning "When You Raise" or "When You Ascend," in the book of Bamidbar, meaning "In the Wilderness" (known in the Christian Bible as "Numbers," from the Greek Septuagint), covering Numbers 8:1–12:16. The name of the parashah is drawn

Shalom Bridge Ministry | Shavuot 5786 | May 21–23, 2026 From Sinai to the Upper Room — One Unbroken Thread Shavuot begins at sundown tonight, May 21, 2026 — the 50th day after Passover, the conclusion of the Counting of the Omer, and one of the three great Pilgrimage Feasts of the Hebrew calendar. On this day roughly 3,500 years ago, the thunder rolled on Mount Sinai, and the voice of the Almighty split the air. The Torah — G-D's living Word, His covenant charter — was given

— “The land shall keep a Shabbat to Adonai.”Leviticus 25:2 There is something deeply beautiful in Parashat Behar-Bechukotai. G-D does not only command people to rest. HE commands the land to rest. This reminds us that Shabbat is not merely a personal spiritual discipline. It is woven into creation, community, economy, justice, and covenant life. Israel was called to live in such a way that even the soil testified that the earth belongs to Adonai. Behar opens with the Shemitah

Parashat Emor (Leviticus 21:1–24:23) is a pivotal text in the Torah’s Holiness Code. It addresses priestly conduct, sacred festivals, sanctuary symbolism, and the punishment of blasphemy, thereby linking holiness to embodied practice, calendrical order, and reverent speech. Introduction Emor opens with instructions directed to the priests, especially concerning mourning, marriage, and ritual fitness, before moving to the appointed times of the L-RD in Leviticus 23 and conclud

TORAH PORTION · VAYIKRA / LEVITICUS · IYAR 5786 Acharei Mot–Kedoshim Leviticus 16:1–20:27 · Parashat HaShavua Torah Commentary · Messianic Perspective · Academic Study The double portion of Acharei Mot–Kedoshim stands as one of the theological summits of the entire Torah. Its two constituent parashiyot (portions) are not merely juxtaposed by editorial accident; they form a deliberate theological argument. Death precedes holiness — and holiness is the answer to de

A Double Portion: Tazria–Metzora | Leviticus 12–15 פָּרָשַׁת תַּזְרִיעַ–מְצֹרָע There are weeks in the Torah's calendar when two parashot are bound together — not because the rabbis ran short on time, but because the texts themselves call out to one another. Tazria and Metzora are such a pair. They share a single subject, a single vocabulary, and a single unsettling question that echoes across both portions: what does it mean when the body itself becomes a text? For the moder

“For Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed.” — 1 Corinthians 5:7 The Question at the Heart of Passover Why Does This Night Matter? Every year, at Passover Seders around the world, the youngest child at the table asks the Mah Nishtanah — the Four Questions — beginning with: “Why is this night different from all other nights?” It is one of the most ancient questions in human religious practice. And the answer, for Messianic believers, runs deeper than Egypt, deeper than