Renewed moon last night at Double Peak Park in San Marcos. It is truly a blessing for brethren to dwell together in unity. 

Shalom everyone, here are some pictures from a few of our groups celebrating the day of shouting! We are now in the days of awe leading up to Yom HaKippurim and Sukkot is right around the corner. Praise Yah!

       Bitterness is characterized in the Scriptures as a root—a deep growing reality, difficult to see or dig out, but always bringing forth its destructive fruit. The writer to the Messianic Jews says it this way:

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the LORD.
15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness spring-
ing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; 16 that there be no immoral or Godless
person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. 17 For you know that even
afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place
for repentance, though he sought for it with tears. (Heb 12:14)

In our Torah section for this Shabbat we have very similar words:

Moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and
gold, which they had with them); lest there shall be among you a man or woman, or fam-
ily or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Adonai our God, to go and serve the gods
of those nations; lest there shall be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and worm-
wood. (Deut 29:17–18)

In both texts the idea of a “root” is found, and the “bitterness” specified by the Apostolic writer is no doubt a reference
to the “poisonous fruit and wormwood” used as a metaphor by Moses. A sure “litmus test” for poisonous fruit is that it is bitter, and worm wood is, apparently, a leaf or seed (pod) that tastes very bitter

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by Ken Rank

The Hebrew Roots Movement might very well stand as one of the greatest examples to date of how man can take something intended as a blessing from God and turn it into a destructive force.

The Bible offers many contrasts through which God is able to declare His will for His people. This dichotomy is one way that God can give cause for man to turn from his fleshly desires toward living a more righteous life that is pleasing to his Creator. One of the more obvious examples is found in Deuteronomy 30:19 which states: “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.” (NKJV) Polar opposites placed before us from which we are able to choose between a path that leads to God’s blessing, or a path that leads away from it.
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Christianity as an entity has been quite dichotomous throughout its history. I remember during one of the very first sermons I attended before my adult baptism that the pastor seemed concerned about those Christians who “were saints on Sunday and lived liked hell the rest of the week.” But traits like hypocrisy are easy enough to spot and hypocrisy is certainly not confined to Christianity. Throughout the gospels we read Yeshua’s rebukes toward certain Pharisees who honored God with their lips but denied Him with their actions. Or even others who told the laypeople to do one thing while they themselves went and did another. As one who studies people and how they interact with their surroundings, I sadly conclude that hypocrisy is a trait that all of humanity, for one reason or another, is constantly in battle with. Consider Yeshua’s words in Matthew 7:5, “Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” I don’t know of one saint who hasn’t, at some point, forgotten to remove a plank from their own eye before trying to correct another.

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Shalom people of the most high Elohim. Today is the first day of the 6th biblical month Elul. It is traditional to spend this entire month reflecting on our lives and the habits that are holding us back from the kingdom and true repentance.

In the interest of "spreading the love" so to speak I thought I would share an article from eliyah.com about loving our brothers in Messiah. With the cares of this life and Hasatan's world constantly batting for our attention, we need to focus on the important issues: love for the Father and his Son and love for our brothers and sisters of faith. It is easy to love our heavenly Father, he always does what is right and never lets us down, he is perfect in all his ways. What about our fellow believers? Unfortunately we are not perfect, we stumble, make wrong choices, say the wrong things, and generally show off the weakness of the flesh. But we are called to love none-the-less.

​Let us put this calling at the forefront of our minds and examine ourselves as to how we can better love one another and truly serve in the kingdom of YHVH.

Article here. 

All praise and glory to the most high Elohim and his son Yeshua the Messiah. We had a wonderful day of fellowship and teachings. We read through the Torah portion Korah and has a couple of talks on loving the brethren. Yah graciously provided us with spiritual healing and we are grateful for that. Thank you for everyone who was able to make it out and for everyone who couldn't make it but was with us in their thoughts and prayers. Have a blessed day!

Praise to the most high for the fellowship of his people. We had a wonderful time this past Shabbat and I want to thank everyone who came. May the Father bless this meeting and grow it. Amen. 

We are meeting at 1523 E Main Street, El Cajon, CA 92019 starting at 10:30am on 5/19/2018.

​*One thing that is VERY important to keep in mind is that this facility serves the needs of many people in the program in the center to the north of the building. Most of the people in the program were addicts and that being the case we ask that for the blessing of the bread and the wine we bring grape juice and not alcohol. We do not wish to stumble the children.  

James 5:13b "If you are happy, sing psalms."

Shalom all, I found this group that is attempting to put all the psalms to music.

I've been listening to these psalms and I absolutely love them and thought I needed to share them. How great is it to have the psalms set to music? The best part is that once you get one of them stuck in your head, you have a psalm stuck in your head! I love to sing these to myself during the day. 

Enjoy!

Here is a good teaching on Passover basics for any who are interested. If you don't have the time to listen to the whole 45 minute presentation Chaim Goldman breaks the video down into individual questions and has a short video answering each one, just click the link below and you will find them. Enjoy.

http://www.repairingthebreach.global/passover

Shalom. Thank you to everyone who was able to come out to our meeting, we had a great day of fellowship and study. Praise Yah  for allowing us to gather together in his name. Yah willing we will see you all next month. Have a great month!

*One thing that is VERY important to keep in mind is that this facility serves the needs of many people in the program in the center to the north of the building. Most of the people in the program were addicts and that being the case we ask that for the blessing of the bread and the wine  we bring grape juice and not alcohol. We do not wish to stumble the children.  

Here are the photos from our last meeting: Click here.

What a great day we had celebrating Purim today. We had lots of fun booing Haman and cheering Mordecai during our reading of Esther. Thank you for everyone who was able to make it.

Shalom everyone, here is some pictures from last Shabbat for the North County group. We had a great discussion and lots of fellowship. See you next time!

We just had our monthly San Diego Shabbat Fellowship meeting and boy we had a great time. There is nothing like fellowship with other like minded believers. This meeting happened to line up with the sighting of the new moon, so we were able to welcome in the new month together as well. Thank you to all our speakers and everyone who came; everyone who could not make it, we hope to see you next time.  Praise Yah!

Check out this cool psalm. I can’t vouch for everything made by Chris Tomlin but he nailed this one. Shalom.

Shalom children of the Most High. Our sister  in the faith Marti posted a link to this series of Torah studies for each parasha and I just had to post them. They put you into the camp with the Israelites and give you a glimpse of what it was like to be there at Mount Sinai. He goes by the moniker "Rabbi's Son" referring to our Master Yeshua as the Rabbi. It is a refreshing take on the Torah portions. I haven't been through them all, but what I read I really liked.

Here is a sample of what the studies are like: Mishpatim (Monday's Study)

Here are the archives so you can see all the studies for each week and day: Archives
And here is the homepage. 

Have fun reading. 

Thank you to everyone who came and thank you Kevin and Jasmine for hosting at the last minute. What a wonderful day of fellowship. We read the Torah portion ‘Yitro’ and had a great discussion. See y’all next time.

Another great meeting together with the brothers and sisters of Yah. Praise to the most high for bringing us all together and for opening our eyes to see marvelous things from your Torah. I want to thank everyone who came and thank all our wonderful speakers we had this week. I feel so blessed that I can be a part of this group. Have a blessed week. 

What a beautiful day for a mikvah. Awesome day gathering with the brothers and sisters of the faith to do what we are called to do. Thank you to everyone who came. We had a great time together reading the Torah portion, reasoning together, and the food was great too. I feel so blessed to be a part of this group. Shalom.

Hanukkah Teaching by Chaim Goldman [Repairing the Breach]​

1 Maccabees 1:41-49
​41 Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people, 42 and that all should give up their particular customs. 43 All the Gentiles accepted the command of the king. Many even from Israel gladly adopted his religion; they sacrificed to idols and profaned the Sabbath. 44 And the king sent letters by messengers to Jerusalem and the towns of Judah; he directed them to follow customs strange to the land, 45 to forbid burnt offerings and sacrifices and drink offerings in the sanctuary, to profane Sabbaths and festivals, 46 to defile the sanctuary and the priests, 47 to build altars and sacred precincts and shrines for idols, to sacrifice swine and other unclean animals, 48 and to leave their sons uncircumcised. They were to make themselves abominable by everything unclean and profane, 49 so that they would forget the law and change all the ordinances. 50 He added, “And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die.”

We can see from the above passage what was targeted to erase the faith of Yah:

1) Forbid sacrifices to Yah
2) Profane Sabbaths and festivals
3) Defile the sanctuary and priests
4) Build idols
5) Sacrifice swine & unclean animals
6) Leave their sons uncircumcised
7) Eat unclean animals 
8) Forget the Torah

Little did Antiochus Epiphanes know that hundreds of years later the Catholic church would accomplish all the above. If you look at this list you can see that this is basically the main doctrine of that church and her daughters. In main line Christianity the Sabbath and the festivals are all but forgotten, Catholic "priests" are taken from just anyone out of the land instead of the sons of Aaron, idol building is rampant, swine and unclean animals are the center of religious holiday feasts, circumcision is ignored, and the Torah is ridiculed if it is even acknowledged at all. 

We know that the Father blesses us for obedience (Deuteronomy 28). We must continue on the path of life that the Father has laid out for us, but it is so easy to want to slip back into conformity with Satan's world, to take the easy way out, to compromise our integrity. When we feel the pressure to abandon the ways of the most high, be it from our work or our family or our friends. Do we have the resolve within ourselves to say "no", to tell this world that we will not be like it, we are going to follow our Master. What a great example of faith we have from the Maccabees. May all of us who follow the commandments of Elohim and the testimony of Yeshua  have such faith and determination.