Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Rosh HaShanah - Beginning of the Year - this week’s Torah reading


Prophecy 41, 76, 82;
Genesis 21:1-22:24; Numbers 29:1-6;
Jeremiah 31:1-19; Matthew 24:29-36;
1 Thess 4:13-18; 1 Cor 15:51-54;



Genesis 21:1-22:24;

1 And YAHUVEH visited Sarah as He had said. And YAHUVEH did to Sarah as He had promised.
2 And Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time, that which Elohim had spoken with him.
3 And Abraham called the name of the son who was born to him, whom Sarah had borne to him, Isaac.
4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, a son of eight days, as Elohim had commanded him.
5 And Abraham was a son of a hundred years when his son Isaac was born to him.
6 And Sarah said, Elohim has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh with me.
7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Will Sarah suckle sons? For I have borne a son to his old age.
8 And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
10 And she said to Abraham, Drive away this slave-girl and her son, for the son of this slave-girl shall not inherit with my son, with Isaac. (Gal 4:22-26)
11 And the thing was very evil in the eyes of Abraham, on account of his son.
12 And Elohim said to Abraham, Let it not be evil in your eyes because of the boy, and on account of your slave-girl. All that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice, for in Isaac your Seed shall be called.
13 And also I will make a nation of the son of the slave-girl, for he is your seed.
14 And Abraham started up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-Sheva.
15 And the water from the skin was finished, and she put the boy under one of the shrubs.
16 And she went and sat down opposite him, about a bow shot away. For she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat opposite and raised her voice and wept.
17 And Elohim heard the voice of the young boy. And the Messenger of Elohim called to Hagar out of the heavens. And He said to her, What ails you, Hagar? Do not fear, for Elohim has heard the voice of the boy, there where he is.
18 Rise up, lift up the boy and make your hand strong on him, for I will make of him a great nation.
19 And Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water, and gave drink to the young boy.
20 And Elohim was with the boy. And he grew up. And he lived in the wilderness and became a great archer.
21 And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
22 And it happened at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, Elohim is with you in all that you do.
23 And now swear to me here by Elohim, that you will not lie to me, and to my son, and to my heir, according to the kindness which I have sworn to you. Do to me and to the land in which you have lived in.
24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech on account of a well of water which the slaves of Abimelech had seized.
26 And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; and also you have not told me; even I have not heard, except today.
27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave to Abimelech, and both of them cut a covenant.
28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What are these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?
30 And he said, You shall take the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may become for me a witness that I dug this well.
31 On account of this that place is called Beer Sheva, because the two of them swore there.
32 And they cut a covenant in BeerSheva. And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, rose up; and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-Sheva, and there he called on the name of YAHUVEH El Olam (Everlasting).
34 And Abraham lived in the land of the Philistines many days.

*~Genesis Chapter 22 ~*


1 And it happened after these things, The Elohim, testing Abraham said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold I am here.
2 And He said, Now take your son, Isaac, your only one whom you love, and go into the land of Moriyah. And there offer him for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will say to you. (2 Chron 3:1)
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he took two of his youths with him, and his son Isaac. And he split wood for a burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place which Elohim had said to him.
4 And on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
5 And Abraham said to his young men, You stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there that we may worship and may return to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac, his son; and he took the fire and the knife in his hand. And the two went together.
7 And Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, My father. And he said, Behold I am here. And he said, see, the fire and the wood! But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, Elohim will see for Himself, the lamb for a burnt offering. And the two of them went together.
9 And they came to the place which Elohim had said to him. And Abraham built there the altar, and arranged the wood. And he bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 And the Messenger of YAHUVEH called to him from the heavens and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, I am here.
12 And He said, Do not lay your hand on the boy, nor do anything to him. For now I know that you fear Elohim and you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold! A ram behind him was entangled in a thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it for a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place YAHUVEH Yireh; so that it is said until this day, In the mount of YAHUVEH it will be seen.
15 And the Messenger of YAHUVEH called to Abraham out of the heavens a second time.
16 And He said, I have sworn by Myself, declares YAHUVEH, that on account of this thing you have done, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17 that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the lip of the sea. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies. (Ex 32:13, Gen 26:5)
18 And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have listened to My voice. (Gen 12:2-3)
19 And Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-Sheva. And Abraham lived at Beer-Sheva.
20 And it happened after these things it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold! Milcah, she also has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21 Uz, his first-born, Buz, and his brother Kemuel, the father of Aram,
22 and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
23 And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, the brother of Abraham.
24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Numbers 29:1-6;


1 And in the seventh month, on the first of the month you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service. It shall be a day of blowing the trumpets to you.
2 And you shall prepare a burnt offering for a soothing fragrance to YAHUVEH: one bull, a son of the herd, one ram, seven lambs, sons of a year, without blemish;
3 and their food offering, flour mixed with oil, three tenths parts for the bull, two tenths parts for the ram,
4 and one tenth part for each of the seven lambs;
5 and one kid of the goats, a sin offering to atone for you;
6 besides the burnt offering of the month, and its food offering, and the continual burnt offering, and its food offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance for soothing fragrance, a fire offering to YAHUVEH.