Aaron`s Blossoming Rod Challah ~ Re-visited!

 

TODAY!

 

TODAY!

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The next day, Moses entered the Tent of Testimony and behold, Aaron’s staff, from the house of Levi, had sprouted, blossomed, and produced almonds!

^{Numbers 17:8}

 

^{Dear Friends!}

^{Shabbat Shalom!}

^{This is Shayndel, coming in to say Hello and Shabbat Shalom after a long while!!}

^{The funny thing is, this is a draft of a post that I started last year at this time!!}

^{I am amazed to see how `today` on this Shabbat, I have made this very same challah and  that it is so similar to the one on our Shabbat table at this very time of Parsha Korah year!!} 

 

^{I love something about that, and so it made it easy to do a post, I actually kept the post as it was  !!!} 

 

^{And just added the 2 pictures that say SHABBAT SHALOM from `TODAY` and this intro.} 

 

^{How are you? I missed you and hope you are all well! Much love from `TODAY`!!}

^Love,

^Shayndel

 

^{(Post below is drafted one year ago on this same Shabbat of Korach!}  

^{New edits or words I added when re-posting are in Red, just for historical accuracy:).)}

^{~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~} 

If you come to my home for Shabbat, on certain Parsha you will find certain things at our Shabbat table!

For example, in Parsha Shelach, we will always try to have Big Grapes!  Because of the big cluster of grapes that the 12  brought back from the Land of Israel when they went to spy the land, we are reminded of the bounty that the LORD provides and the fruitfulness in the Land of Israel.  On Parsha Toldot (oops! I had written Vayigash in the original draft!), be ready for red stew! You-know-why that is! (If you don`t, please see HERE.....)!

Those are just a few examples, and if you come for Parsha Korach, which was last (This) week for us,

You will find a special Challah, Aaron`s blossoming rod challah!

I am beginning to feel more and more the presence of angels in our home when we welcome the Shabbat, and that Heaven is pleased to look down and see the table set in an expression of the word we are reading!!  There are actually in the Bible those whose  job was to set out the bread of the presence weekly in the holy place.  As I return to the blog this week after a long absence, I wonder if that this is one of my callings.  I hadn`t written for a while on the  blog, but was encouraged by a dear blogger friend, so I decided to come back and explore it further, and return here to my challah blog and to share the blessings of Shabbat and invite you to the Table together as we partake of the bread and the vine!!

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I selected you so that you would go and produce fruit, and your fruit would remain. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.

John 15:16 

 Shabbat Shalom to all! Happy to `see` you again!

Love,❤️

Shayndel

 For how to make the Blossoming Rod Challah, and for more about the story of Aaron`s blossoming rod and parsha Korach, please visit HERE, HERE, and HERE to start!

Please find a prayer sheets to pray for your loved ones corresponding to the parsha HERE Korah, and all parsha HERE on AHAVA Prayer and Movement! Also please sign up for my weekly Parsha newsletter and Prayer sheet, either there or here!

 
 

PS  adding this trailer, hope its timeless!! And that we can keep making this challah year after year on the Shabbat of Parsha Korach, and make all our special challah for everyone at the banquet when Messiah returns to restore all things❤️

Shanah Tovah! Yom Teruah Sameach!

 L`Shanah Tovah U`metukah!

Happy and sweet new year 5784 to you and your loved ones, and to all Israel!

Chag Yom Teruah Sameach!

Happy Feast of Trumpets!

Love ,

❤️

Shayndel

 

 

Shabbat Flowers ~ and an Elul Story

I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.
    He browses among the lilies. 

Song of Songs 6:3

Chodesh Tov!

Blessings in the new month of Elul! （though already as I am posting this we are already well into the month and almost the full moon!!)  

The sixth month on the Hebrew calendar is a time of repentance and return to God, a time of preparation to meet our Messiah and crown Him as King, in anticipation of the Fall Feasts of Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur,  culminating with tabernacling with Him,  as One with each other at the Feast of Sukkot! 

Also in this month it is said to be a time of drawing near to the beloved and a time when `the King is in the Fields`.  The verse above from Song of Songs is also associated with Elul. *

* The 4 letters from the first letter of each word of the  verse,  spell out the word ELUL in the Hebrew! 

 I find that in this month the LORD speaks to me in intimate ways and even shows how He is hearing my heart and bringing things to pass in a way that is very .... Elul!

That`s the only way I can describe it! So let me give it a go with the Elul Story about the Shabbat Flowers!

Since I returned to celebrating the Shabbat, here in Japan, I always love to buy flowers on Friday afternoons to welcome the Shabbat. The joy of walking home with flowers through the city is a great delight.  I experience it as a wonderful time,  bathed in His love, like a child excited to give flowers to her Daddy or a wife to her husband on their special day.  Yeshua says keep My commandments, abide in My love, and make my joy complete!

So on with the story, 

When I  buy flowers on Friday afternoons,  I also try to  picture how it must be in Israel, the women scurrying to do their shopping and greeting one another with their bouquets on their way to their homes for Shabbat.  This picture of the city filled with joy for Shabbat and for honoring the beloved Yeshua, the LORD of Shabbat, bubbles up in my heart with joy!!   I have longed for my city that we would honor God`s Shabbat and the women would be out on the streets like that on Friday afternoon, doing their shopping to make a special meal for the family, and in the flower shop greeting each other with, Shabbat Shalom! In Japanese,

 シャバット・シャローム！

I have been going to the same flower shop that is close to where I live, and have developed a friendly relationship with them.  Over the years have shared a little about Shabbat with he staff since they always see me on Friday,  a few have asked about that!

Recently God has opened a door and answered a prayer to share about Shabbat in the local church.  They are a small congregation who loves Israel and has become interested in returning to do the things of God and connecting to our Jewish root in the faith, as `one new man` in Messiah.

We had our first Shabbat last month, and already the second one this past Shabbat which was also the beginning of the month of Elul.

This church is right down the street from the flower shop where I buy flowers, so I was excited both times to order a `delivery` of Shabbat flowers to the church to have for our Shabbat to honor the LORD  and make a beautiful table for our celebration.

The first time when I placed the order I asked if they could write `Shabbat Shalom` in Japanese on the card. And they did.

Then when I came again the next time I once again asked if they could write the same message.

When I came into the flower shop later that afternoon, I saw the arrangement was in the glass case, and the words `Shabbat Shalom` on the message card filled my heart with joy!!

It was like a first `drop` from Heaven of the glimmer of the vision of the Shabbat being honored in Japan! ( I shared a little about this vision of Shabbat in Japan in an early post HERE).   And more than that, it is the LORD of Shabbat, Yeshua,  being honored in Japan when we observe Shabbat we say clearly that we are giving honor and praise and glory to the God of the Bible, the God of Creation, the God of Israel who invites us all to be a part of His glorious Kingdom through Messiah Yeshua!!

Glory to His Name!!  Oh LORD how we pray for all the nations to know you, the Holy One, and the Maker of Heaven and Earth, Saviour of all the world..., maybe it will be one Shabbat bouquet at a time!!

Hence I call it an Elul story, as it takes place in this month of repentance and return! A month when `the King is in the fields` and where we seek the face of the beloved from the `fields` where we are and may He meet us here!

With love to all and to all be God`s Love!!❤️

Love, Shayndel

He has brought me to the banquet house
    and his banner over me is love.

Song of Songs 2:4 

pS i just found the post where I first had the prayer/vision about Shabbat in Japan, amazingly it was 6 years ago!! Thank you LORD for hearing my prayer and bringing such encouragement in this Elul!! I pray for multiplication and seeing it come about more and more by the power of Your Ruach Ha Chodesh, even to be a revival of the Shabbat Shalom ・Teshuvah kind!!

Quoting from the post, this line below: 

I am so excited for when the people of Japan will know ADONAI and will celebrate the Shabbat, and on Friday afternoons people will greet each other in the town with シャバット・シャローム ,
 Shabbat Shalom! As they scurry to buy food and flowers and prepare for Shabbat!

 

Psalm 91 & Parsha Ekev ! Behold Yeshua

 

Can you see the number on the scale? It is `91`! which led me to Psalm 91 for the `Word` in Challah!

Raah, Behold!

Yeshua

Man cannot live by bread alone! But from every word from the mouth of God!

“Because he has devoted his love to Me,
    I will deliver him.
I will set him securely on high,
    because he knows My Name. When he calls on Me, I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble, rescue him, and honor him. 

With long life will I satisfy him
and show him My salvation.”

 

Psalm 91:14~16

 

Dear Beloved blog friends, Shabbat Shalom! Sorry I haven`t written for sooooo long!  I hope you are all well.  

 

This Shabbat I was moved by the verse in our Torah portion,

 

"Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God"

 

To come back to make a post!

Because

it is the parsha EKEV which means `because`

and because

this verse is a theme verse at Challah and Cherry Blossoms.

Because  bread (challah), and the word of God and bringing them together, are the topics of my blog!!

 

So I asked the Holy Spirit for a word to make in Challah, to share with you, and He led me to 

 

`Behold Yeshua`!!

 In Hebrew, the root words are

RA`AH רָאָה 

which means to See, or Behold,

and Yeshua, יְשׁוּעָה

which means Salvation and is the name of Yeshua

 

You can see the verse in Psalm 91 above, where these two words are found, literally `show him My Salvation`,

 

With long life will I satisfy him
and show him My salvation.”

אֹרֶךְ יָמִים, אַשְׂבִּיעֵהוּ;    וְאַרְאֵהוּ, בִּישׁוּעָתִי

 

I hope you were able to follow that! One more piece is that the word actually came about as I was measuring the challah dough to divide it in strands.  At that time I still didn`t know what word I would make in challah, but when I broke off a piece of dough to measure it, the scale said `91`! and the Holy Spirit spoke to me!!

 

I usually divide the pieces in either 100 grams each for 12 strands which generally works out well, as the dough generally comes to about 1200 grams.  Or sometimes I do 80 grams each for several smaller challah.

 

So when I saw 91, it stood out and I thought right away of Psalm 91!!! 

 I read through the Psalm asking the Holy Spirit to Highlight a verse or a word(s), and when I got to the last verse I saw it all came together in `Yeshua`, and even `MY Salvation!`.

 

As the Parsha is all about God`s LOVE and the `conditional` aspect, of `Because` or `IF` we show our loving devotion to God, He will do all these things and show us His Salvation.   

 

It just seemed so perfect as remember the verse we started from was `Man does not live by bread alone but by everything that comes from the mouth of God` (Deuteronomy 8:3).  That "everything" includes every decree, every statute, every word, every declaration.  So here it was,

 

With long life I will satisfy those who LOVE me and Devote their LOVE to Me!!

That is exactly what our Parsha Ekev and all of the Torah is about! IF you love me, you will obey and guard my commandments and statutes.

 

Don`t you just love that, and above you can see the Shabbat Table and how it came out!

 

Another interesting thing is that the verse that I was led to has `Because` in it twice.  Even though the Hebrew is not the same as `EKEV`, the meaning is similar, as it is "as a result of , a reward for, because of," our devotion to  Him that He gives us this wonderful promise of a long life and His Salvation!

 

Thank you for coming this far.  As we partake of the words of Life` the bread of Life , and drink the cup of Salvation  let us say together.  

Le chay-im! To LIFE!!

 

Good to see you all again!

Hope to be back sooner rather than later this time.

To Life and Salvation in Yeshua! 

Much Love,❤️

Shayndel

“Then it will happen, as a result of your listening to these ordinances, when you keep and do them, that Adonai your God will keep with you the covenant kindness that He swore to your fathers.

He will love you, bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your soil, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you. 

Deuteronomy  7:12~13 (first lines of Parsha EKEV)　

PS　You may have noticed if you are following the weekly Torah portions, that RE`EH , the word I spelled out in Challah, is the name of next week`s Parsha!

 

AHAVA NOTE. 

Please feel free to find my AHAVA prayer sheets which give a family friendly summary of the weekly Torah portions as well as verses to pray for your loved ones, communities, and Israel each week to go with the parsha! 

AHAVA Parsha Ekev Prayer Sheet HERE(this week)

AHAVE Parsha Re`eh Prayer Sheet HERE  (coming week)

Reading this week in EKEV, the Torah is A love letter from Abba 💌 

❤️

 

Just as the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you. 

Abide in My love!

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be full. 

John 15:9~11

Unleavened!

 

Draw me after you, let us run!
The king has brought me into his chambers.

(Chorus: Daughters of Zion)

Let us rejoice and be glad in you;
    let us extol your love more than wine.
Rightly do they love you!

Song of Songs 1:4, Let us sing it together!

Dear Friends,

 Happy to see you again, and to return after another unplanned blog break, this time with a new and `unleavened` header!! I hope you are all well.

The holiday of Pesach, or Passover, is approaching.   It`s time to change the header of my blog from leavened to un-leavened bread!  

Praise the L-RD we have entered into His first month of Springtime, the first month on His Biblical Calendar.  In the bible whenever you see a verse that references the first month, if it is after the Exodus from Egypt, it is referring to this very month we are in now!!

We give thanks as we enter into the month of AVIV, also known as the month of Springtime, also known as Nisan.  It is the month of Redemption,  Renewal, of Passover, of Freedom!!  

Chodesh Tov! We pray a time of new beginnings for you and your family and for all that G-d is calling you to!!

This month will mark the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you.

Exodus 12:2

More to follow ~~ I hope to get back to posting again in this favorite season here at Challah and Cherry Blossoms, as the Cherry blossoms have just started to open announcing the glory of  G-d and the expectation for new life in Yeshua as we align in His first month of Springtime and prepare our hearts...and homes... for the coming Passover!

Therefore let us celebrate the feast not with old hametz, the hametz of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread—the matzah of sincerity and truth.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Blessings and Love,

Shayndel 

❤️

Note about the pictue, for the record:  I just received a delivery of matzah!! I am rejoicing because on my calendar I have marked `order Matzah` on tomorrow`s plan, and already I have received it!! Praise God, and may He always go ahead of us!  May His shalom and AHAVA Love be multiplied to you!

 

 

 

(Save for Cherry Blossoms Challah post)

 (save this space for a Cherry Blossoms challah post, be sure to post before Passover!)

(Save for Purim post (Hamentashen))

 (in progress ~~ Save this space for Purim post, be sure to post before Passover!)

Torah and Tatami, Challah and Blossoms

 O how I love Your Torah!
It is my meditation all day.

Psalm 119:97

Shavu`a Tov! Have a blessed week!

Love, 💛 Shayndel

 

Please find my AHAVA prayer sheet from this week`s Parsha Yitro to pray for your families and nations and Israel HERE:

AHAVA Prayer Sheet Yitro

 

Ahava Prayer and Movement

Praying from the Parsha, Moving onto God`s Kingdom Calendar
 

 

 

 

 

Happy Tu B`Shevat!

 In days to come Jacob will take root,
    Israel will bud and blossom
    and fill all the world with fruit.

Isaiah 27:6

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Yes! The grapefruits are Jaffa Sweetie from Israel.  At Tu B`Shevat we were able to find them in our local supermarket in a small city in the South of Japan! Baruch HaShem! The prophetic verse is already coming to pass as Israel sends her delicious fruit out into the world.   I am so thankful to receive them here.  I remember the very first time I saw an Israel fruit in our local supermarket in Japan (HERE!), it was also Tu B`Shevat!! Once we open our hearts to love and pray for Israel, Heaven hears and God sends fruit!  The land of Israel becomes closer and closer, and we too get closer to our return.

But you, mountains of Israel, you will shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit for My people Israel; for their return is near. 

Ezekiel 36:8

Taste and see how good the LORD is.  

 15 Shevat, 5783

Happy Tu B`Shevat!

Love, 

Shayndel

 PS adding a verse with `my word` this year, inheritance, and how beautiful to go with the fruit of Tu B`shevat in all its prophetic splendour, and there will be a `sowing of Shalom`! Thank you LORD! We speak it forward on this very Tu B`Shevat today as the sap courses through the trees and they awaken in spring, and your Ruach courses through the spirit of your people to return to our inheritance in You!

For there will be a sowing of shalom: the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.   

Zechariah 8:12

כִּי-זֶרַע הַשָּׁלוֹם, הַגֶּפֶן תִּתֵּן פִּרְיָהּ וְהָאָרֶץ תִּתֵּן אֶת-יְבוּלָהּ, וְהַשָּׁמַיִם, יִתְּנוּ טַלָּם; וְהִנְחַלְתִּי, אֶת-שְׁאֵרִית הָעָם הַזֶּה--אֶת-כָּל-אֵלֶּה

 

Shabbat Shalom ~ Sing to the LORD!

 

I will Sing to the LORD for He is Highly Exalted!

The Horse and rider He has thrown into the sea!!

Exodus 15:1

This Shabbat is called Shabbat Shirah, the Shabbat of Song! Because in this week`s parsha  (Torah Portion) we read of how God split the sea for the Children of Israel to go through on dry land and bring about their Deliverance in the Exodus from Egypt.  They sing the powerful and victorious song of the Sea! 

We also read the song of Deborah in the Haftarah portion, and the Song of the Lamb in the book of Revelation!

God inhabits the Praises of His People!

Sing to Yeshua! 

This Shabbat let us join our voices and hearts with all Israel and all who are singing this song, and let be united in our Praise as one with the Jewish people, and join our voices with the Heavenly Host who are most certainly singing this song today! 

LORD we know that you put Your Name on Jerusalem, and your Heavenly throne is above the Great City of the KIng!  As we sing, facing Jerusalem, may you hear us from Heaven and send your Ruach to breakthrough the enemy plan and bring Victory that YOUR Salvation, Your Yeshua! be known and Your Name be Glorified in Israel and all the world, even on this Shabbat Shirah!!♪💕🎶

HalleluYah!!

"Great and wonderful are Your deeds,

ADONAI Elohei-Tzva`ot!

Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!"

          ~from the Song of the Lamb,   Revelation 15:3

🎶💕🎶

 Song of Moses and Miriam

Then Moses and Bnei-Yisrael sang this song to Adonai: I will sing to Adonai, for He is highly exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea.

Adonai is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will glorify Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.

Adonai is a warrior—Adonai is His Name! 

 

Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has hurled into the sea, and his chosen captains have sunk into the Sea of Reeds.

The deeps cover them. They sank to the depths like a stone.

Your right hand, Adonai, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Adonai, dashes the enemy to pieces. 

 

In the greatness of Your excellency You overthrow those who resist You. You send forth Your wrath— it consumes them as stubble.

With the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps became firm ground in the heart of the sea.

The enemy said, “I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My lust shall gorge on them! I will draw my sword— my hand will destroy them.” 

 

You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

 

Who is like You, Adonai, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, awesome in praises, doing wonders?

 

You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them. 

 

You in Your loving-kindness led the people You have redeemed. You guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation.

When the peoples hear, they will tremble—anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

Then the chiefs of Edom are terrified. Trembling grips Moab’s mighty men. All of Canaan’s inhabitants will melt away. 

 

Terror and dread will fall on them. By the greatness of Your arm they become still as a stone, till Your people cross over, Adonai, till the people whom You purchased cross over.

 

You bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance*, the place, Adonai, that You have made for Yourself to dwell in— the Sanctuary, Adonai, which Your hands have prepared. 

 

Adonai will reign forever and ever! 

 

For Pharaoh’s horses with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, but Adonai brought the waters of the sea back over them. Yet Bnei-Yisrael walked in the midst of the sea on dry ground. 

 

Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing,

as Miriam sang to them: Sing to Adonai, for He is highly exalted! The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!

Exodus 15:1~21

Copyright © 2014 - Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society

Shabbat Shalom! Love、💛 Shayndel

🎶Listen to Jonathan Settel, Song of Moses HERE!! 

https://youtu.be/HVPWClhdLoQ

Mi Kamocha! Ein Kamocha! 

There is none like You!

HalleluYAH!!

Great!

Great and Marvelous! Are your works, LORD God Almighty....

And they sing... 🎶

 

 *note: for my records, this verse, Exodus 15:17 in Song of the Sea,  is another verse with my word of the year, inheritance!