Episode 1727: January 25, 2025: Va'era (I appeared)

Download Notes here:https://esm.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/01.25.25-Congregation-TM-Notes.pdf----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Torah Portion:פָּרָּ שַׁ ת וָּאֵ רָּ אVa’era“And I Appeared”Exodus 6:2-9:35Ezekiel 28:25-29:21Luke 11:14-22Exodus 4:2,3 The LORD said to him, What is that in your hand? Hesaid, A staff. And he said, Throw it on the ground. So he threw it onthe ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.Genesis 12:7,8 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, Toyour seed will I give this land: And there built he an altar unto theLORD, who appeared to him. And he removed from there to amountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel onthe west, and Hai on the east: And there he built an altar to theLORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. Tu B’shevat New year of the treesLeviticus 19:23-25 And when you have come into the land, and haveput in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not hadcircumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering tothe Lord. But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increaseof it for your food: I am the Lord your God.The seven species are wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates,olives, and dates.