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 by Kirk Gliebe, Devar Emet Messianic Synagogue, Skokie, IL
Torah: Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17
HafTorah: Isaiah 54:11-55:5
Brit Chadasha: John 9:24-41
A recent study involving first-year undergraduate students in the United Kingdom found that 50% of British whites and 53.4% of British Asians were myopic.1 Myopia, also called short-sightedness, is a common eye condition in which people can see nearby objects clearly, but distant objects appear blurred. Corrective lenses or surgery are needed in order for people to see distant objects clearly. Many of us struggle with the difficulty of physical myopia, but I wonder how many of us honestly admit to our struggle with spiritual myopia, spiritual short-sightedness? From time to time in our Messianic Jewish walk we find ourselves losing our ability to focus on the big picture. The distractions of olam hazeh, this world, leave us spiritually blurry eyed, incapable of picking out the important spiritual details that God desires for us to see so that we might live out our role as his Holy People. What is the solution for this? We must train ourselves to see our world through God's eyes and not our own.
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by Rebbetzin Malkah Forbes
Beit HaShofar, Seattle
As I drive around to various locations throughout my week, I am stunned and sometimes exasperated by some of the housing prices. What drives some homes to be exceptionally more? Location, location. Want to live by a lake? See the mountains? Live in the perfect suburbia with everything you need? No problem. All you need to do is sign on the dotted line and hand over your salary - you can have it all. As we begin Sefer Devarim, we are witnessing Moshe as the first real estate broker in action for Eretz Yisrael.
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 by Rabbi Russ Resnik
Now when Pinchas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. Numbers 25:7-8
The zeal of Pinchas is a troubling thing, especially in the post 9/11 world. We're suspicious of religious zeal, but in this story, God rewards it: "I grant him My covenant of peace. It shall be for him and his descendants after him a covenant of priesthood for all time, because he was zealous for his God, thus making atonement for the Israelites" (Num. 25:12-13).
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