Category: Klug’s Korner

Bo / Enter, Go! Shemot (Exodus) 10:1 – 13:16 Haftorah: YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) 46:13–28 Brit Hadashah: Luke 22:7-30; I Cor 11:20-34 “What goes around comes around,” so they say.  Some call it karma.  Yah calls it reaping what we sow. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will…

Torah Shemot – Names Shemot (Exodus) 1:1 – 6:1 Haftorah – YeshaYahu (Isaiah) 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22-23; YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) 1:1 – 2:3 B’rit Hadashah – Acts 7:17-36 Have you ever attended a social gathering where everyone wore clothes that looked the same and even their mannerisms were similar?  How did you feel among those people?…

Emmanuel, God With Us Torah Vayechi – “And he lived,” B’resheet (Genesis) 47:28 – 50:26; 1 Kings 2:1-12; 1 Peter 1:1-9 His mother had named him ‘Ya’aqov’ meaning ‘heel holder.’  Ever since the day he came out of the womb, Jacob found himself holding an enemy off his head from destroying him.  Esau, Laban, men…

Readings for Vayigash, And he drew near Torah: B’resheet (Genesis)  44:18 – 47:27Haftorah: Yechezkel (Ezekiel) 37:15-28Brit Chadashah: Luke 6:9-16; 9:11-26 Sometimes staying put is not an option.  We either move forward and face our problems, or we retreat and look for a way out, just to find out that that would be disastrous! Who can…

Miketz (At the End Of) B’resheet (Gen.) 41:1 – 44:17 Melakim Alef (I Kings) 3:15 – 4:1; 7:40-51 I Corinthians 2:1-5 What did you dream about when you were young?  Have your dreams come true? When I was a boy growing up in rural Wisconsin, I dreamed about being a mountain man in the wild…

Vayeshev, And he dwelt: B’resheet (Genesis) 37:1 – 40:23; Amos 2:6 – 3:8; ZecharYah 2:10 – 4:7 Acts 7:9-16 “I’m not buying your dream.”  When I was a boy, this is what my brothers and I would say to each other when one of us would come up with a hair-brained idea.  We’d hardly ever…

VaYishlach, And He Sent B’resheet (Genesis, In Beginning) 32:4 – 36:43 ObadYah (Obadiah, servant of Yah) 1:1-21 Hoshea (Hosea, salvation) 11:7 – 12:12 MattitYahu (Matthew, gift of Yah) 26:36-46 His time was running out.  He was about to face off with his big bad brother and his 400 tough guys.  It was CRUNCHTIME! Nothing had…

VaYetze And He Went Out B’reshiyt (Genesis) 28:10 – 32:3 Hoshea (Hosea) 12:13 – 14:9 Yochanan (John) 1:43-51 Have you ever wondered what it will take to put the fear of God in someone who seems to have no regard for how they mistreat you?  What will it take for an oppressor to stop oppressing…

. Tol’dot, Generations: B’reshiyt (Gen) 25:19 – 28:9 Malachi 1:1 – 2:7 Romans 9:6-13 Both pig and sheep can show you cloven hooves.  Looks good!  But considering how and what they eat, that’s a different story.  A pig can show you cloven hooves, looking good so far.  But what they eat, how they mow it…

Torah portion: Chayay Sarah – The Life of Sarah B’reshiyt (Genesis) 23:1 – 25:18 Melekim Alef (I Kings) 1:1-31        I Corinthians 15:50-58 Why is this portion called ‘The Life of Sarah’ when it starts with her death?   The only remembrance we have of her life in her death is the number of years she lived. …