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  • They Are Us
  • Divine Aromatherapy
  • Let Him In
  • The Pain of Waiting
  • Mercy Place
  • Justice for the Preborn
  • Assumptions
  • Sing About It!
  • Why So Negative?
  • The Dynamics of Arrogance
  • Enduring Futility
  • Be Not Ashamed
  • Time To Engage
  • Transformed
  • The House of God
  • What’s Going on in There?
  • When It’s Not You
  • God of Wonders
  • God’s Promise Plan
  • Technology
  • We Are Adam
  • God of Marvels
  • God’s Sovereignty
  • God’s Forgiveness
  • God’s Faithfulness
  • Commandment Intolerant
  • It Is Written
  • The Lost Torah
  • When in Rome, Don’t
  • Preventative Measures
  • Environmental Disaster
  • It’s Our Turn
  • Blessed Irony
  • Don’t Lose It!
  • That’s Not Fair!
  • Fully Engaged
  • Full Disclosure
  • Suspicion
  • You Count!
  • Profound Peace
  • Jubilee
  • You Can Count on It!
  • No Leftovers, Revisited
  • Moral Consequences
  • The Bread of Affliction
  • No Bias
  • How Does It Work?
  • Giving Birth Is not a Disease
  • The Centrality of Israel
  • Proud of Yourself?
  • The Dynamics of Sacrifice
  • Filled
  • Inspiration
  • Accidental Covenant
  • Eagles’ Wings
  • Go Forward
  • Call the Midwives
  • The Other Side of the Coin
  • It’s Alright To Cry
  • Hanukkah & the Big Picture
  • God the Stabilizer
  • Holy Discontentment
  • Say the Words
  • Divine Inquiries
  • God’s Particularity
  • Revelatory Reactions
  • Follow Me
  • Noah’s Secret
  • Blessing from Nothing
  • Remember the Wilderness
  • Our Father
  • Technological Idolatry
  • Groovy Misterioso
  • Arise & Shine!
  • False Accusations
  • Just Justice
  • Consumerism
  • The Family Unit
  • Teachability
  • Brand Confusion
  • Facing the Consequences
  • Blind Jealousy
  • The Fear Is Real
  • Speak Forth!
  • Are You Agitated?
  • Israel Will Flourish
  • Remember the Land
  • Let’s Eat
  • The Naked Truth
  • Deal with It
  • Serious Consequences
  • What Are You Making?
  • Calling Generous Hearts
  • The Seriousness of Sin
  • Is It Your Time?
  • Show and Do
  • Practical Torah
  • What Are We Missing?
  • God’s Instruments
  • Escape to Reality
  • Big Problems; Big Solutions
  • Holy Curiosity
  • Unrestricted
  • The God Perspective
  • Waiting
  • The Separated Land
  • Life Is a Struggle
  • Anybody Home?
  • What’s Your Birthright Worth?
  • Give It Up
  • Be a Blessing
  • System Reboot
  • This Is My Father’s World
  • Joyful Torah
  • Unity in Diversity
  • Positively Negative
  • God Hears
  • Individualism vs. Collectivism
  • Differences Count
  • Going It Alone
  • Outside In
  • Avoiding Disease
  • Justice Community Style
  • Don’t Be Intimidated
  • Formula for Change
  • Misguided Demands
  • Why Does It Have To Be So Hard?
  • What’s Driving You?
  • Bearing God’s Name
  • Guard the Truth
  • Give It a Rest!
  • No Leftovers
  • Reasonable Restrictions
  • Isolation
  • Understanding Tragedy
  • Generation to Generation
  • Bridging Social Distance
  • Missing the Mark
  • The Glory Standard
  • It’s Up to You!
  • What Are You Carrying?
  • Mercy Place
  • Caricatures
  • Eagles’ Wings
  • Testing God
  • Tefillin
  • Sometimes It’s a Process
  • Who Am I?
  • Don’t Get Distracted
  • Roots of Relational Difficulties
  • Something Worth Fighting For
  • Engage
  • Tenacity
  • Get the Point?
  • Strange Links
  • Intelligent Faith
  • The Knife
  • Why Bless Israel?
  • Climate Disaster
  • Reality
  • The Nations Shall Know
  • Geography Is More than Scenery
  • God’s Recipe for Life
  • Sharing
  • Unknown Passages
  • Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic?
  • Get the Picture
  • Teach Your Children
  • Respecting National Diversity
  • Tell It Like It Is
  • You Can Do It!
  • Curses
  • When Blessings Become Idols
  • On Your Face
  • Strive To Enter Your Rest
  • Have You Ever Really Prayed?
  • The Smiling God
  • Getting Right with the Environment
  • Give It a Rest!
  • Perfection
  • Caution! Warnings Ahead
  • Lifeblood
  • The Bread of Affliction
  • But for Passover
  • Restored!
  • Deal with It
  • The Centrality of Israel
  • The Motions
  • Rule of Law
  • Let Him In
  • Willing Hearts
  • Really?
  • Be the Light
  • The Lost Meaning of the Ark
  • Bridging the Abortion Divide
  • Greater
  • What Do You Know?
  • Do You Know God’s Name?
  • The Foundation of Anti-Semitism
  • Beating Bitterness
  • It’s Alright To Cry
  • Mountain Movers
  • Mental Blocks
  • Being Earnest
  • A Promise Is a Promise
  • Divine Inquiries
  • Dynamics of Effective Living
  • Reason to Laugh
  • God’s Friends
  • The Global Mosaic
  • Avoiding the Devil’s Trap
  • Don’t Leave Home Without It
  • The Speed of Life
  • Be the Miracle
  • Crazy Peace
  • Being and Becoming
  • Being Responsible
  • Living Like a King
  • When in Rome, Don’t
  • The Whys
  • Your Story in Two Acts
  • Teachability
  • The God-Led Life
  • Displacement Guilt
  • That’s Not Fair!
  • When If Means Since
  • The Relational Dynamic
  • Good Wishes
  • Climate Change
  • Cultural Appropriation
  • Intentional Design
  • Follow the Evidence
  • Understanding Tragedy
  • The Bread of Affliction
  • No Bias
  • Realizing Reality
  • The Ultimate Sacrifice
  • The Anti-Narcissist
  • Special Purim 2018 Facebook Live Broadcast (recorded version)
  • The Truth You Know
  • A Small Price To Pay
  • Imagine That!
  • God Is in the House
  • Fake News
  • Facing Self
  • The Impossible
  • What’s in a New Year?
  • New Perspective
  • The Supreme Force
  • You Gotta Serve Somebody
  • Internal Forces
  • Necessary Adjustments
  • The House of God
  • The Shrinking World
  • When It’s Not You
  • Strange!
  • Do You Know Where You’re Going?
  • Rescue Is a Messy Business
  • Back to the Beginning
  • Generous Leadership
  • Reflecting Relationship
  • Israel, God’s Portion
  • False Accusations
  • That’s Good News!
  • Our Children’s Peace
  • Spiritual Ecosystems
  • Nothing Better
  • The Bible: Israel’s Title Deed
  • The Family Unit
  • Wrath Turner
  • Blessed Irony
  • Don’t Misjudge
  • Blind Jealousy
  • The Fear Is Real
  • Fake Prayers
  • Are You Agitated?
  • Israel Will Flourish
  • To Thrive
  • Let’s Eat
  • Gone!
  • Take the Risk!
  • Food Matters
  • An Empty Cup
  • Bringing Things
  • The Glory Standard
  • Consequences
  • Conduits of Blessing
  • Mercy Place
  • Where Is Heaven?
  • What’s with the Sabbath?
  • Vulnerable Situations
  • A God of Manipulation? Part Two
  • A God of Manipulation? Part One
  • Have You Prayed About It?
  • God Is Not Absent
  • Twists and Turns
  • Getting a Hold of God
  • Messy Families
  • Human Generators
  • The Plot Thickens
  • Revelatory Reactions
  • Abraham Our Father
  • Intelligence
  • Can God Have a Son?
  • Tangibles
  • 10-10-10
  • Get Real
  • Live Long and Prosper
  • Do You Rejoice?
  • Differences Count
  • Righteous Judgment – Part 2
  • Don’t Go Overboard
  • Don’t Worry About It!
  • The Ugly Truth
  • God’s Leading
  • Wrath Turner
  • Watch Your Balance!
  • You Are Legit
  • A Stranger at Home
  • For Our Children’s Sake
  • Timing Is Everything…Almost
  • Connections
  • You Count!
  • Covenantal Foundations
  • Jubilee
  • Blasphemy
  • The God of Israel
  • The Feel of Clean
  • What’s in a Name?
  • Types
  • Defiled No More!
  • Some Things Are Just No Big Deal
  • Unauthorized Fire
  • More than Heart
  • Divine Interruptions
  • Toward a Biblical Understanding of Fund Raising
  • Flip Flop
  • Putting It On
  • Sanctuary
  • Practical Torah
  • The Ten Words
  • Go Forward
  • Blessed Rejection
  • Love in Action
  • Something To Celebrate
  • Master of Change
  • The Egyptian Phase
  • Wisdom People
  • If God Be With Us
  • Tenacity
  • Are You Jacob?
  • Special Status
  • Action Items
  • The Days of Noah
  • God’s Development Plan
  • Super Blood Moon
  • Justice Is Alive
  • The Meaning of the Shofar
  • Live Long and Prosper
  • Shout!
  • Help Yourself!
  • Fruit Trees
  • Exclusivity

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About TorahBytes

TorahBytes is a short, weekly biblical commentary written and produced by Alan Gilman. Torah means teaching. It is the teaching of God to point us in the right direction. In its most narrow sense, the Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The ancient rabbis recognized that Torah was more than just these Five Books. God's Torah encompasses all of God's revelation. With this understanding we will draw primarily from the weekly synagogue Torah portions. While the Five Books are foundational in our understanding of God, we need to understand them in the fuller context of the whole Scripture, both Old and New Covenant writings. More...

About Alan Gilman

Alan Gilman

Alan Gilman has known Yeshua (Jesus) as his Messiah since 1976 and has been writing and producing TorahBytes since 1997. Alan is a Bible Teacher and writer. More information is available at his teaching web site.

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