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Friday, August 28, 2015

Shabbat Shalom ✡ "The Grapes of Your Vineyard"

When you pick the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean after you: it shall be for the stranger, the orphan and the widow.

DEUTERONOMY (24:21)
 

כִּי תִבְצֹר כַּרְמְךָ לֹא תְעוֹלֵל אַחֲרֶיךָ לַגֵּר לַיָּתוֹם וְלָאַלְמָנָה יִהְיֶה

דִּבְרֵים כד:כא

kee tiv-tzar kar-m'-kha lo t'-o-layl a-kha-re-kha la-gayr la-ya-tom v'-la-al-ma-na yi-h'-ye

Shabbat Inspiration

This week's Torah portion (Deut. 21:10-25:19) tells of the lush grape vineyards indigenous to the Land of Israel. In fact, grapes play a prominent role in Judaism for we begin our Shabbat meals and other rituals with a blessing over a cup of wine. The honored fruit can also teach us a vital life lesson answering an age old dilemma faced by religious thinkers, of how bad things can happen to good people. Just like grapes must be totally crushed in order to produce quality wine, it is through our trials and tribulations that we can reach our highest potential. Get more insight into the Bible with The Israel Bible: The Five Books of Moses, which collects the first five books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
 

Hanggliders Announce Shabbat in Tel Aviv!

Rabbis in Tel Aviv have come up with an ingenious way to promote celebrating the Sabbath.

Scary Divine Connections Between Gush Katif and Hurricane Katrina Revealed on 10-Year Anniversary

It's been 10 years since the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip and Hurricane Katrina. On a surface level, both events seem to have no relation to one another. However, deeper exploration reveals a startling Divine connection.

Ram's Horn Shofar

The significance of the shofar dates back to the dawn of Jewish history, and its call still echoes today in synagogues and temples all over the world. Playing an important role in the Bible, the shofar is a key part of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur, when it is played to mark the end of fasting. Shofars are also used to welcome Shabbat, and to announce the new year and the new moon. Only Shofarot Israel offers the skills and expertise of fifteen generations, dating back to 14th century Spain, and now adapted to the modern technology and requirements of present-day Israel and the international market.

Today's Israel Photo

llan Rosen's photograph of grape clusters in the Upper Galilee. Grapes are one of the Seven Species of the Land of Israel described in the Bible. The others are wheat, barley, figs, pomegranate, olive oil and dates.
 

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Martyr Jim Elliot's Widow Elisabeth Dies at 88

Martyr Jim Elliot's Widow Elisabeth Dies at 88


Elisabeth and Jim Elliot.
Elisabeth and Jim Elliot. Elisabeth has died at age 88. (YouTube)
Elisabeth Elliot, widow of martyred Jim Elliot and author of Through the Gates of Splendor, has died, according to the Gospel Coalition.
Born in 1926 to missionaries in Belgium, Elliot spent her life pursuing God into the deepest and darkest of jungles. 
She married Jim Elliot, who was later martyred while trying to reach the Quichua Indians of Ecuador. 
Elisabeth was known for her service and submitting to God's will, even when she didn't understand.
"I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done," she wrote in Passion and Purity
Please lift the Elliot family up in prayer during this time. 

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Ahava Love Letter - "Don't Stop"

                    

             “Don’t Stop”
“…yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest
by her continual coming she weary me.'" (Luke 18:5 NKJV)

Dear family of friends,

Day in and day out. Same old same old. Been there, done that. Cliches’ we have heard, or said, often. They can become tiring sayings, and yet may represent our present situation in life.

Our daily prayers may end up being the same ones we have petitioned for the last several months, or longer. We can grow weary of coming to the Lord and repeating what we presented yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. Do our prayers we give by rote have little effect? Is it time being wasted, to share our heart each day with the One Who said we would have the abundant life? Read on.

“Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, saying: "There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, 'Get justice for me from my adversary.' 

And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, 'Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.'" 

Then the Lord said, "Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:1-8 NKJV)

The ungodly judge said he was getting weary of the widow continually coming to him, and so just to stop it, he avenged her (definition: to exact satisfaction for (a wrong) by punishing the wrongdoer.) In the above parable, Jesus goes on to say, in comparison, that God hears His own elect, who pray to Him day and night, and tells us to keep in faith, for He will speedily respond. That encourages me.
Though we often grow weary from pressing on, as we seek Him for His chosen path and planned purposes, He Himself encourages us to keep going. It doesn’t seem like He gets tired of hearing from us. Rather, the Word says that He Himself is bearing long with us, and promises that He will answer quickly. (Even if His “quickly” seems like eternity to us!) By pressing on, we are expressing faith in Him as we await His answer. He expects nothing short of us – to maintain ongoing faith in Him.
Don’t stop going forward. Your faith will be rewarded. That we can be sure of.
Ahava to my family of friends,

Steve Martin
Founder/President


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Ahava Love Letter #42   Date: Feb. 24 in the year of our Lord 2012