Don't Forget to
This Parashah covers the hospitality that Abraham showed to his visitors, the saving of Lot, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the promise of a child to Abraham, the birth of Isaac, and the binding of Isaac.
It's also about how the Memra of YAH revealing himself to Abraham and how Abraham interceded on behalf of Lot. The Binding of Isaac is one of the most important readings in Judaism they read it over 367 times during the whole year, every day during the morning prayers also during the feast of Yom Teruah is second reading of the feast. This torah portion is important because it points to Messiah and how Yeshua would carry the wood like Isaac did.
The above portions focus in some of the following topics:
In the Torah Nugget we will be focusing in on Genesis 18 and what it meant for Abraham and his descendants to "do righteousness and justice". This motif carries on throughout the Torah and failure to perform it was the major reason why Israel was sent into exile. It was also prophesied to be what Yeshua would/will do, establish justice and righteousness.
In the 2015 Portion our focus will continue with presenting the Concept of Honor and Shame. The chapters in this portion cover almost all the aspects attached to this topic.
-Ascribed Honor
-Acquired Honor
-Challenge and Riposte
-Maintaining of Honor by means of an Oath
In the Brit Portion, we will revisit the concept of righteousness and justice that is a theme found throughout Scripture and will connect it with the injustice and unrighteousness of Sodom which is a theme connected later to Israel's lack of righteousness and justice and how Yeshua is the one who came to restore righteousness and justice!
This page includes Torah Portions from multiple years covered by Wisdom in Torah. Each year we covered the Torah from a different perspective so you can explore each Parashah from a different perspective and focus.
- 2010 Portions: Focus on Messianic connections in the Parashah
- ANET Portions: Focus on the ancient Near Eastern cultural context of the Parashah
- Mitzvot Portions: Focus on explaining and exploring the commandments found in the Parashah (in progress)
- 2015 Portions: Revisiting the Parashah looking at the ancient cultural context more in depth with additional areas that have been researched
- Brit Portions: Focus on connecting the Brit Hadashah (New Testament) to the Parashah
Oops, this is members-only content
This page requires at least a basic level membership to access the teaching.
Audio
Oops, this is members-only content
Resources
The following is a list of recommended resources for this teaching:
- Social Justice in Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East by Moshe Weinfeld (Amazon Link)
- Vayera Torah Portion Honor Shame
Categories
44 thoughts on “Parashah VaYera Complete”
Leave a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Shalom! I am happy to have joined & have already been greatly blessed by part 1 of the Torah portion. I really appreciate great teachings from Rico. Looking forward to diving deeper. Blessings!
I am getting this error when trying to download the 2014-2015 portion (and it is deducting from my total available as well, 3 so far):
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
NoSuchKeyThe specified key does not exist.
video-zips/2014-15_Vayera_Video.zip
BECB112E28863D7E
CnaYua8g4Z82EXfkhdn6b27Cuc889oJ9Z4hayMifCxutYS4q90F1ws48Jy4kALFO
I tried a different browser and am still getting the error. Thanks!
The download did not work for this Torah portion, but it deducted from our 5 downloads. Please assist
Why would Yehova require Abraham to do something illegal? Will Yehovah as me to do something illegal?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
You talked about 2 ADONAIS from Exodus 34 but did not come back to explain it. Can you explain the two.
Thank you
Todah Rabah Rico!
I sure appreciate the way you incorporate many resources into your teachings, especially for someone like me that cannot afford to purchase them all 😀
I also loved the prayer at the end where יהוה Yehôvâh gives the nation Israel HIS heart <3 Any chance you could share this in written form?!?
Blessings!
Shalom Rico, I am really enjoying the Torah teaching. I seem to be going through hurdle after hurdle but the joy of the L-RD is my strength! Can you please tell me how to get full secreen of your teachings? I could before but not now. Thank you.
2015 Torah Teachers;
just want to say again how much I appreciate the rich pictures you have on your site with the different lessons. Really, is very complementary to the excelance of your teachings.
Todah
Thanks Daniel for constantly reminding and teaching us about His honor!
Ryan’s teaching today contained golden nuggets. Thanks for the depth! Shalom,
Daniel, I had to listen to your teaching more than once to BEGIN to understand this concept of honor and shame. The notes were a BIG help as I followed along.
May I suggest that you all have notes or better yet a transcript for us who need it.
I am learning more each year to honor HIM because of you.
Thank you.
Linda, I am glad the notes were a help!
May I suggest going though any of my, Rico’s or Ryan’s full series on just honor and shame. This will help as you go through the separate portions where we touch on certain aspects within the portions.
Daniel.