Time of Reckoning Has Come
“Who created the universe is a matter of knowledge. Why was it created is a matter of faith. God is knowable through Torah and Mashiach”. Navah
Year 5990!
Are we due for the arrival of the Messiah? According to the reckoning of time of this ministry, this is year 5990 from Creation, which began with Rosh HaShanah (Head of the Year) at the sunset of the 30th day of March 2025 (Gregorian calendar). May we merit seeing the coming of our Mashiach speedily in our days!
“Set-apart to the Eternal!” The High Priest’s head-plate.
Weekly Torah Portion:
Behar-Bechukotai, “On Mount”—”In My Ordinances”: Leviticus 25:1-27:34
Defining the Sabbatical and Jubilee Years (from the book The Reckoning of Time)
Plucking the Grains and the Laws of Men
The Time When the First Sabbatical Year was Observed
When are the Sabbatical and Jubilee years?
Is There Forgiveness Without Repentance?
Textual Criticism of Translations: Alterations and Corruptions
TORM featured articles:
Or Ein Sof, “Light of the Infinite One”: The Primordial Light of Creation
Is the natural phenomenon known as “aurora” a reminiscence of the infinite light of the Creation?
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 10 May 2025: From the creation narrative in the first chapter of the Scripture, we learn that the main source of light on earth is the sun. But the sun and the moon (which reflects the sunlight) were not created until the fourth day. Yet there was light that came into existence on the first day of creation. Hence, we are coming to paradox: Light was created on the first day, but the sun was not created until the fourth day. The obvious question that is forced upon us is: How was that possible? This matter of the primordial light can best be understood in connection with what we commenced to explain in the article How God Created the Universe from Nothing, … Read more.
How God Created the Universe from Nothing
Of all natural phenomena none is more wondrous than the primordial light.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 27 April 2025: Reality is not all that is seen. In the beginning, there was only the Eternal existing in singularity. No one and nothing else existed, and nothing else could exist without compromising His singularity and outside of His singularity. He (Ein Sof) is the absolute existence, and nothing and no one can exist outside of Him. Therefore, in order to create the world, the Creator “contracted” His presence to make space for creation to exist within Himself. Otherwise, nothing can exist outside of Him. So, when the Eternal created the world, He embedded a spark of in every element of His creation which is nothing less than an extension of Himself. Read more.
Can the “New Testament” be Understood Without the Hebrew Scripture?
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 20 April 2025: If one puts a bookmark at the page called “The New Testament” and then compares the volume of “The New Testament” vs. “The Old Testament”, he/she will find the mere disproportionate “new” of “The New Testament”. “The New Testament” writings present about a quarter of the entire Bible, and if we consider the parallel accounts in the synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) this percentage drops down significantly. Therefore, it seems like the average Christian reads a small portion of the Bible at best and therefore believes only a small part of it at best. And even this low percentage drops, because there are verses (like Mat 5:17-20) and chapters (like Romans 11), and even the Book of Revelation excluded from the regular sermons. So, do they understand the Bible?! In the following, we would like to posit another way to look at this issue … Read more.
How Matthew Mistakenly Quoted Jeremiah
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 17 April 2025: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. In the Gospel of Matthew, it appears that the author made a mistake in his account of the betrayal of Yeshua by falsely quoting the prophet Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah). But if Matthew had mistakenly quoted Yirmiyahu, who was the prophet who should have been quoted? And besides, it is quite impossible to suppose that a Levite trained to serve in the Temple would have made such a blunder in the first place. The irony is that the New Testament people do not read the “Old Testament”. It is the object of this work to expose the error found in the Greek text of the Gospel of Matthew and in the KJV translation which questions the credibility of the Greek manuscripts of the Apostolic Writings. Read more.
Did God Allow Man to Eat Any Animal Flesh?
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 15 April 2025: Did God allow us in Gen 9:3 to eat any animal flesh, as we desire? Man has absolute freedom of choice, which is not interfered with, and for this reason he can choose what he desires and can direct his activities to a given purpose. A man is free to choose, but he is not free of the consequences. In the issue of clean vs unclean food, there is a common mistake made when it is asserted that the Creator had changed His mind when in one place, He allows something and in another He forbids it. We will try to show that the question of clean vs unclean food is far from being trivial and hope to provide a clear answer below. It is therefore the object of this work to explain the Hebrew text of Genesis 9:3-4, which is not distinctly explained by some commentators, and expose certain misconceptions that still exist today. Read more.
Hebrew Word: Religion
Constantine the Great wanted one religion, and the Romans accepted right away.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 23 March 2025: Rabbeinu Nissim ben Reuven (Ran) of Gerona was a Spanish rabbi, Talmudic commentator, and philosopher. He said it very well: “The religions of all times promise rewards destined for the soul after its departure from the body, so as to distance the proof of their claims. Because they are not in possession of the truth, they cannot promise an imminent and tangible sign… But our Torah makes promises that can be confirmed in the here and now—something that no other teaching can do”. Agreeing with this statement by Rabbeinu Nissim ben Reuven, in the following, we would like to posit another way to look at this, specifically in reference to religion. If we want to understand what the Hebrew word for “religion” means, we must pay attention to how the Hebrew language and culture defines “religion”. Read more.
How the Scribe Addressed a Delicate Matter Concerning the Man of Elohim
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 14 March 2025: A careful reading of the Hebrew Scripture shows that the Hebrew language has no particular words for matters private in nature. Instead, Hebrew uses euphemisms to only describe them in a figurative language, or to hint at, but never explicitly stated, in order that such things should be avoided when reading. In other words, Hebrew language being set-apart from all other languages has no particular names for the terms of intimate relation between a man and a woman. The use of euphemisms by the Torah is nothing unusual in such cases. Torah highly regards intimacy and carefully choose Hebrew words to describe things in a figurative manner to avoid direct language. This we studied in articles dedicated to how the language of Tanach addresses delicate matters of such nature. In the following, however, we will see how the scribes have delicately intervened in the Hebrew text to avoid its literal reading for the same reasons. Read more.
You Shall Make or You Shall Not Make Carved Images
A replica of the Ark of the Covenant with the two cheruvim on the top of the lid. Courtesy of The Temple Institute, Jerusalem.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 5 March 2025: Idolatry undoubtedly is the most serious violation against the Creator of the universe. To Him and to Him alone, and to the exclusion of everyone else, honor is due. The most pronounced example of the prohibition of idolatry is what is spoken in the Covenant. The Eternal prohibited the making of images of any idol, of what is in heaven, what is in the earth, and what is in the water. Five chapters later, however, He told Mosheh to make two images of pure gold of what is in heaven and place them as a cover for the ark of the Covenant. When Mosheh returned from the mountain with the tablets of stone, on which this prohibition was written, the people made an image of the Eternal, an image of pure gold. For this transgression, they were punished, as about three thousand people died on that day. If the reader is not yet perplexed, the Eternal also told Mosheh to make an image of a snake, which is to be erected on a pole. Now, an obvious question presents itself: … Read more.
When Stone Became Word and Word Became Stone
The tablet contains only nine of the original Ten Commandments. (Courtesy of Sotheby’s).
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 22 February 2025: The whole subject of observing the laws of the Torah can become difficult to understand in detail, when we look only at what has been revealed to us in the Scriptural text. For instance, Torah says to cease labor on Shabbat and rest on the seventh day of the Creator but does not explicitly define what labor and rest are. Likewise with other commands. Mosheh in his last address to the nation asks us to love the Eternal with all we have and do His commands and statues, but Torah does not seem to elaborate on the details as to how to serve Him. Read more.
What is the Real Name of Mosheh?
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 20 February 2025: The Bible is a book of questions, not of answers. Israel uniquely became a nation before it became a state. It had laws before it had a land. Thus, Israel can be counted as the only nation in the world that is an ethno-religious nation. Yet, we do not know her greatest leader’s Hebrew name. Exodus 2 tells us that a Levite married a woman from his tribe, and she conceived and bore a son. Later, Torah will tell us also that the man’s name was Amram, and the woman’s name was Yocheved, but it will not tell us what the name of the baby boy was. This is hinted at in the apparent lack of a name, contrary to how the Hebrew names are formed in the Tanach. Torah thus wants to impress upon the reader that there is a deeper meaning not only in this passage but in the whole story to which we now turn. We will explain the reason for this in due course. Read more.
Hebrew Words: Father, Son, Grandson
What is the purpose of the Hebrew gematria?
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 16 February 2025: The Hebrew alphabet (aleph-bet) has 22 letters. Each of these 22 letters is correlated with a specific number, as there are no “numbers” in Hebrew as we know them today. Gematria is not a Hebrew word but Greek. Basically, gematria is the computation of individual letters of words, or entire phrases and sentences utilizing their numerical equivalence. For instance, the first letter has numerical value of 1, the second letter has 2, etc. The Biblical commentators believe that the words in the Tanach are connected through … Read more.
Trump’s Gaza Plan and the Lesson Learned by the Maccabees
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 9 February 2025: The historical events surrounding the festival of Chanukkah are described in two historical works called Maccabees I and Maccabees II. Both books tell the story of the liberation from the Greek rule of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes over the land of Judea and of the purification of the second Temple from the abominations the Greeks committed in the Temple. Vastly outnumbered, the Jews placed their trust in the Elohim of their fathers, and He gave them a miraculous victory against all odds. The accession of Antiochus Epiphanes, the villain of the Maccabees story … Read more.
Hebrew Word: Jew, Jewish
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 25 January 2025: The term “Jew” or “Jewish” is a Rabbinic misnomer that is supposedly developed from the name “Judah” or “Judea”. But “Jew” or “Jewish” is more than a mere Rabbinic misnomer designated to refer to the ancient Israelites as “Jews”. By substituting the term “Jews” for all Israelites, the Ten Tribes of the northern kingdom are thus erased from the commonwealth of Israel, and the writings concerning them in the Biblical narrative nullified. Thus, in the Rabbinic Judaism all Israel became “Jewish”. The Rabbis went even further to refer to the patriarch Avraham as “the first Jew”, the calendar and all holidays of the Creator “Jewish. But this is etymologically inaccurate, as far as the Scripture is concerned. Seeing that the Rabbis and tradition commentators engage in an incorrect usage of these terms, at least in our opinion, … Read more.
How “Let the Dead Bury Their Dead” Was Misconstrued
Ossuary. Israel Antiquities Authority.
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 22 January 2025: There is a passage in Matthew 8 that always perplexes a sensitive reader who tends to read the Scripture carefully. Moreover, it is extremely confusing, when we look only at what has been revealed to us in the narration. We need to resort to the Torah to make better sense of this short episode in the Apostolic Writings. It is the object of this work, therefore, to explain what is not satisfactorily explained by the commentators and expose certain misconceptions that still exist. We read from King James’ version of the Bible thus, … Read more.
The Daughter of Pharaoh Called to Receive a New Name Through Adoption
Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM) 19 January 2025: In the following, we would like to posit a new reading of the Scroll of Shemot, specifically in reference to one person whom the Eternal called to receive a new name through adoption. Although the traditional commentators have already treated the subject of slavery in Egypt exhaustively, yet there is some room left for our comments. We will try to show that the subject is far from being exhausted and hope to provide a new understanding and answers to the questions we will raise below. For the purpose of this study and considering the unique standing of the subject we will focus more particularly on Exodus 2 and 1 Chronicles 4. It all began with the first chapter of Exodus to which we now turn. Read more.
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How to work out your own salvation (Ph 2:12)
If you believe you are blessed with the teachings of Time of Reckoning Ministry (TORM), you may want to bless the unfortunate in fulfillment of the Torah to take care of the needy, the poor, the widows, and the orphans, to love our fellows as Yeshua has loved us.
Watchmen on the walls of Jerusalem:
The voice of your watchmen! They shall lift up their voices, together they shout for joy, because eye to eye they see the return of Yehovah to Tsiyon. (Isa 52:8)