It's the faith magazine - Compassion - Shabbat issue April 3 2021

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"YOU MAY NOT CONTROL ALL THE EVENTS THAT HAPPEN TO YOU,
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Be kind and compassionate to one another,
forgiving each other, just as in
YAH forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32
Because of the YAH's great love we are not consumed,
for HIS compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic,
love one another, be compassionate and humble.
1 Peter 3:8
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SHEVI'I SHEL PESACH
SEVENTH DAY OF PASSOVER
שביעי של פסח
TORAH PORTION FOR TODAY
EXODUS 13:17–15:26
17 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN
PHARAOH HAD LET THE PEOPLE GO,
THAT ELOHIM LED THEM NOT THROUGH
THE DERECH OF THE ERETZ OF THE
PELISHTIM (PHILISTINES), ALTHOUGH
THAT WAS NEAR; FOR ELOHIM SAID,
LEST PERHAPS THE PEOPLE CHANGE
THEIR MIND WHEN THEY SEE
MILCHAMAH, AND THEY RETURN TO
MITZRAYIM;
18 SO ELOHIM LED HAAM ABOUT,
THROUGH THE DERECH OF THE MIDBAR
OF THE YAM SUF; AND THE BNEI
YISROEL WENT UP OUT OF ERETZ
MITZRAYIM READY FOR BATTLE.
19 AND MOSHE TOOK THE ATZMOT
YOSEF WITH HIM; FOR YOSEF HAD
MADE THE BNEI YISROEL SWEAR
UNCONDITIONALLY, SAYING, ELOHIM
WILL SURELY VISIT YOU; AND YE SHALL
CARRY UP MY ATZMOT AWAY FROM
HERE WITH YOU.
20 AND THEY TOOK THEIR JOURNEY
FROM SUKKOT, AND ENCAMPED IN
ETAM, AT THE EDGE OF THE MIDBAR.
21 AND HASHEM WENT BEFORE THEM
BY DAY IN AN AMMUD ANAN, TO GUIDE
THEM HADERECH; AND BY LAILAH IN AN
AMMUD EISH, TO GIVE THEM OHR; SO
THEY COULD TRAVEL YOMAM VALAILAH
(DAY OR NIGHT);
22 HE TOOK NOT AWAY THE AMUD
HEANAN BY DAY, NOR THE AMMUD
HAEISH BY NIGHT, FROM BEFORE
HAAM.
14
1 THEN HASHEM SPOKE UNTO MOSHE,
SAYING,
2 SPEAK UNTO THE BNEI YISROEL, THAT
THEY TURN BACK AND ENCAMP BEFORE
PI-HACHIROT, BETWEEN MIGDOL AND
THE YAM, IN FRONT OF BAAL ZEPHON;
OPPOSITE IT SHALL YE ENCAMP BY THE
YAM.
3 FOR PHARAOH WILL THINK OF THE
BNEI YISROEL, THEY ARE ENTANGLED
IN THE LAND [WANDERING IN
CONFUSION], THE MIDBAR HATH SHUT
THEM IN [FROM MAKING THEIR
EXODUS].
4 AND I WILL HARDEN LEV PHARAOH,
THAT HE SHALL PURSUE AFTER THEM;
AND I WILL BE GLORIFIED OVER
PHARAOH, AND UPON ALL HIS ARMY;
SO THAT THE EGYPTIANS MAY HAVE
DA’AS THAT I AM HASHEM. AND THEY
DID ACCORDINGLY.
5 AND IT WAS TOLD THE MELECH
MITZRAYIM THAT HAAM HAD FLED;
AND THE LEV PHARAOH AND OF HIS
AVADIM WAS TURNED AGAINST HAAM,
AND THEY SAID, WHY HAVE WE DONE
THIS, THAT WE HAVE LET YISROEL GO
FROM SLAVING FOR US?
6 AND HE MADE READY HIS MERKAVAH,
AND TOOK HIS ARMY WITH HIM;
7 AND HE TOOK SIX HUNDRED SELECT
CHARIOTS, AND ALL THE CHARIOTS OF
MITZRAYIM, AND COMMANDERS OVER
EVERY ONE OF THEM.
8 AND HASHEM HARDENED THE LEV
PHARAOH MELECH MITZRAYIM, SO
THAT HE PURSUED AFTER THE BNEI
YISROEL; AND THE BNEI YISROEL WENT
OUT WITH A HIGH HAND
[DELIBERATELY WITH ASSURANCE].
9 BUT THE MITZRAYIM PURSUED AFTER
THEM, ALL THE SUSIM AND CHARIOTS
OF PHARAOH, AND HIS PARASH, AND
HIS ARMY, AND OVERTOOK THEM
ENCAMPING BY THE YAM, BY PI-
HACHIROT, IN FRONT OF BAAL ZEPHON.
10 AND WHEN PHARAOH DREW NEAR,
THE BNEI YISROEL LIFTED UP THEIR
EYES, AND, HINEI, THE EGYPTIANS
MARCHED AFTER THEM; AND THEY
WERE VERY TERRIFIED; AND THE BNEI
YISROEL CRIED OUT UNTO HASHEM.
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EXODUS 13:17–15:26
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11 AND THEY SAID UNTO MOSHE,
BECAUSE THERE WERE NO KEVARIM IN
MITZRAYIM, HAST THOU TAKEN US
AWAY TO DIE IN THE MIDBAR? WHAT
HAST THOU DONE TO US, IN BRINGING
US FORTH OUT OF MITZRAYIM?
12 IS NOT THIS THE VERY THING THAT
WE DID TELL THEE IN MITZRAYIM,
SAYING, LET US ALONE, THAT WE MAY
SLAVE FOR THE EGYPTIANS? FOR IT
HAD BEEN BETTER FOR US TO SLAVE
FOR THE EGYPTIANS, THAN THAT WE
SHOULD DIE IN THE MIDBAR.
13 AND MOSHE SAID UNTO HAAM, FEAR
YE NOT, STAND STILL, AND SEE THE
YESHUAT HASHEM, WHICH HE WILL
BRING TO YOU TODAY; FOR THE
EGYPTIANS WHOM YE HAVE SEEN
TODAY, YE SHALL SEE THEM AGAIN NO
MORE AD OLAM.
14 HASHEM SHALL FIGHT FOR YOU, AND
YE SHALL KEEP STILL.
15 AND HASHEM SAID UNTO MOSHE,
WHY CRIEST THOU UNTO ME? SPEAK
UNTO THE BNEI YISROEL, SO THAT
THEY MOVE ON;
16 BUT LIFT THOU UP THY STAFF, AND
STRETCH OUT THINE YAD OVER THE
YAM, AND DIVIDE IT; AND THE BNEI
YISROEL SHALL GO ON YABASHAH (DRY
LAND [SEE GENESIS 1:9]) THROUGH THE
MIDST OF THE YAM.
17 AND I, HINENI, I WILL HARDEN THE
LEV MITZRAYIM, AND THEY SHALL GO
AFTER THEM; AND I WILL GET ME
GLORY OVER PHARAOH, AND OVER ALL
HIS ARMY, OVER HIS CHARIOTS, AND
UPON HIS PARASH (HORSEMEN).
18 AND THE EGYPTIANS SHALL KNOW
THAT I AM HASHEM, WHEN I HAVE
GOTTEN ME GLORY OVER PHARAOH,
OVER HIS CHARIOTS, AND OVER HIS
PARASH.
19 AND THE MALACH HAELOHIM,
WHICH GOES IN FRONT OF THE
MACHANEH YISROEL, MOVED AND
WENT BEHIND THEM; AND THE PILLAR
OF CLOUD MOVED FROM BEFORE THEIR
FACE, AND STOOD BEHIND THEM;
20 AND IT CAME BETWEEN THE
MACHANEH MITZRAYIM AND THE
MACHANEH YISROEL; THERE WAS THE
ANAN BRINGING CHOSHECH TO THE
EGYPTIANS, BUT BRINGING LIGHT BY
NIGHT TO YISROEL; SO THAT NONE
CAME NEAR THE OTHER, KOL HALAILAH.
21 THEN MOSHE STRETCHED OUT HIS
YAD OVER THE YAM; AND HASHEM
CAUSED THE YAM TO GO BACK BY A
STRONG EAST WIND ALL THAT NIGHT,
SO THAT THE YAM WAS MADE DRY
LAND, AND THE MAYIM WERE DIVIDED.
22 AND THE BNEI YISROEL THEN WENT
INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE YAM UPON
THE YABASHAH (DRY LAND); AND THE
MAYIM WERE A CHOMAH (WALL) UNTO
THEM ON THEIR RIGHT, AND ON THEIR
LEFT.
23 AND THE EGYPTIANS PURSUED, AND
WENT IN AFTER THEM INTO THE
MIDDLE OF THE YAM, EVEN KOL SUS
PHARAOH, HIS CHARIOTS, AND HIS
PARASH.
24 SO IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN
CAME THE WATCH OF THE BOKER,
HASHEM LOOKED DOWN ON THE
MACHANEH MITZRAYIM THROUGH THE
AMMUD EISH (PILLAR OF FIRE) AND OF
THE ANAN, AND CAUSED CONFUSION
OVER THE MACHANEH MITZRAYIM,
25 AND TURNED AWRY THEIR CHARIOT
WHEELS, THAT THEY DROVE THEM
WITH DIFFICULTY; SO THAT THE
EGYPTIANS SAID, LET US FLEE FROM
THE PRESENCE OF YISROEL; BECAUSE
HASHEM FIGHTETH FOR THEM AGAINST
THE EGYPTIANS.
26 AND HASHEM SAID UNTO MOSHE,
STRETCH OUT THINE YAD OVER THE
YAM, THAT THE MAYIM MAY COME
AGAIN UPON THE EGYPTIANS, UPON
THEIR CHARIOTS, AND UPON THEIR
PARASH.
27 AND MOSHE STRETCHED FORTH HIS
YAD OVER THE YAM, AND THE YAM
RUSHED BACK TO ITS PLACE AS DAWN
OF THE BOKER APPEARED; AND THE
EGYPTIANS TRIED TO FLEE AWAY FROM
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TORAH PORTION FOR TODAY
EXODUS 13:17–15:26
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MEETING IT; BUT HASHEM SWEPT THE
EGYPTIANS INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE
YAM.
28 AND THE MAYIM RUSHED BACK, AND
COVERED THE CHARIOTS, AND THE
PARASHIM, AND ALL THE ARMY OF
PHARAOH THAT CAME INTO THE YAM
AFTER THEM; THERE REMAINED AS
SURVIVORS NOT SO MUCH AS ONE OF
THEM.
29 BUT THE BNEI YISROEL WALKED
UPON YABASHAH THROUGH THE YAM;
AND THE MAYIM WERE A CHOMAH
UNTO THEM ON THEIR RIGHT, AND ON
THEIR LEFT.
30 THUS HASHEM SAVED YISROEL YOM
HAHU OUT OF THE HAND OF
MITZRAYIM; AND YISROEL SAW THE
EGYPTIANS DEAD UPON THE
SEASHORE.
31 AND YISROEL SAW THE YAD
HAGEDOLAH WHICH HASHEM DID UPON
THE EGYPTIANS; AND HAAM FEARED
HASHEM, AND PUT THEIR TRUST IN
HASHEM, AND IN HIS EVED MOSHE.
15
1 THEN SANG MOSHE AND THE BNEI
YISROEL THIS SHIRAH (SONG) TO
HASHEM, AND SPOKE, SAYING, I WILL
SING UNTO HASHEM, FOR HE HATH
TRIUMPHED GLORIOUSLY: THE SUS AND
ITS RIDER HATH HE CAST INTO THE
YAM.
2 HASHEM IS MY OZ AND ZIMRAH
(SONG OF PRAISE), AND HE IS BECOME
TO ME YESHUAH (SALVATION); HE IS ELI
(MY G-D), AND I WILL PRAISE HIM;
ELOHEI AVI, AND I WILL EXALT HIM.
3 HASHEM IS AN ISH MILCHAMAH;
HASHEM SHMO.
4 MARKEVOT PHARAOH AND HIS ARMY
HATH HE CAST INTO THE YAM; HIS
SELECT COMMANDERS ALSO ARE
DROWNED IN YAM SUF.
5 THE TEHOMOT (DEPTHS) HAVE
COVERED THEM; THEY SANK INTO THE
BOTTOM LIKE AN EVEN (STONE).
24 SO THE PEOPLE MURMURED
AGAINST MOSHE, SAYING, MAH
NISHTEH (WHAT SHALL WE DRINK)?
25 AND HE CRIED UNTO HASHEM; AND
HASHEM SHOWED HIM AN ETZ (TREE)
WHICH WHEN HE HAD CAST INTO THE
MAYIM, THE WATERS WERE MADE
SWEET (I.E., POTABLE, FIT FOR
DRINKING); AT THAT PLACE HE MADE
FOR THEM A CHOK (STATUTE,
REQUIREMENT, OBLIGATION) AND A
MISHPAT (DIVINE JUDGMENT), AND
THERE HE TESTED THEM,
26 AND SAID, IF THOU WILT DILIGENTLY
PAY HEED TO THE VOICE OF HASHEM
ELOHEICHA, AND WILL DO THAT WHICH
IS YASHAR IN HIS SIGHT, AND WILL GIVE
EAR TO DO HIS MITZVOT, AND BE
SHOMER OVER ALL HIS CHOK, I WILL
PUT NONE OF THESE MACHALAH
(DISEASES) UPON THEE, WHICH I PUT
UPON THE EGYPTIANS; FOR ANI ADONOI
ROFECHA (I AM HASHEM THAT
HEALETH THEE). [2KGS15:5;AMOS 4:10]
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Is lamenting the loss of her husband,
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prayers.
Allie Jo
Continue praying for the health of
her father.
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Prayer for strength during this
moment of grief.
Pray for Albertos healing, and
restoration of body after his
recent surgery.
Jay Jonah
We pray for you and your family
at this time of grief.
Carcello Lordbaine Burks
Total and complete healing.
Janet J.
Healing of her family and speedy
recovery from covid.
We pray for all those who need healing, lost a loved one,
in need of food, shelter, clothing, the widow, and anything
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I was born in 1957 in the pre-Beatles rock n
roll era. All three of my older brothers
could play either piano or guitar and my
earliest memories include one or the other
of them playing trumpet, trombone and an
accordion as well. We were the grandsons
of a well-known musician in our town of
Fresno, California. I can remember when I
was twelve and my mom had taken me to
the music store to get my first guitar.The
manager heard she was Johnny's
daughter and started talking about what a
great player he was. I remember thinking
right then, "Yeah?..Well, I'm his grandson!
Just give me a few years..."
I had been writing songs on the piano
since I was ten but I wanted to be a guitar
player as well. Artists who were writers
and singers and who played both piano
and guitar became my biggest
inspirations...artists like Paul McCartney,
Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell
and Cat Stevens. I was also inspired and
stretched to achieve by keyboard players
like Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson.
When I was fifteen in '73, I was introduced
to the growing genre of Christian Rock.
Now my new inspirations included artists
like Keith Green, Michael Omartian, Phil
Keaggy,
Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill. In
the later '70's and into the '80's, artists like
Dan Fogelberg, Don Henley and Michael
Hedges were great influences for me. To a
certain degree, I'm a product of this
collective mix of artists who inspired me,
but I now stand as an artist in my own
right and am best known so far for songs
with a cutting message. Songs with titles
like "Reverend Twistruth Blues" and
"Neatly Tied Religion" are two of my
releases with videos that have received
the most views on YouTube to date. Since I
love so many styles of music, my
compositions will range from a variety of
genres from rock to neo-classical to
jazz/fusion and then some.
My wife Nava (musical partner and best
friend), and I, currently reside in the
Ozark hills of south east Missouri.
Together, with ten others, we share a
small farm we call "Goshen." We are also
the co-founders of Congregation Beth
Menuchah (The House of Restoration) in
Piedmont, MO and have been officiating
Sabbath services since 2001.
This ninth project, "KINGDOM COME" is
the current focus for us. It should contain
about 12 songs...most of which were
written over the course of the last 20 some
years. Four tunes were freshly written
post COVID-19. It's a collection of songs
relevant to our current times, with a
prophetic focus on the greater world
coming, and a number of congregational
worship songs.
Visit his website.
Check out his weekly show called "
Rhyme & Reason" on
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