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Shuvah Yisrael is a Messianic Jewish synagogue meeting in Avon, CT. Join us 10:30am Saturday in person or on Zoom!

05/28/2026

This week’s parasha contains one of only two prescribed blessings in the entire Torah: the Birkat Kohanim, the Priestly Blessing.

“Adonai bless you and keep you!
Adonai make His face shine on you and be gracious to you!
Adonai turn His face toward you and grant you shalom!”
(Numbers 6:24-26 TLV)

This blessing is so familiar to many of us that we can almost recite it without thinking. Yet familiarity can sometimes hide profundity.

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05/20/2026

Yankee Hall of Famer Yogi Berra was renowned for his unique and often comical way of turning a phrase. One expression that became part of the American lexicon was, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Déjà vu, of course, is that strange sensation that somehow, we have been here before, that what we are experiencing feels mysteriously familiar.

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05/14/2026

There is something both necessary and unsettling about a census… To be counted is to be known. It is to disclose something about yourself, your family, your existence, and your place within society. Beneath the bureaucratic forms and statistics lies a subtle fear that we may become nothing more than numbers in a system too vast to remember our names.

Continue reading: https://www.shuvahviews.org/bamidbar-making-souls-count/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

05/07/2026

This week’s double Torah portion, Parashat Behar and Parashat Bechukotai, drawn from Book of Leviticus 25–26, opens a window into the extraordinary generosity of Hashem. It reveals a God whose kindness is not confined to individual blessing but extends into the structures of society and even into the and itself. In the commandments of Sh’mitah and Yovel, we are invited to see a vision of life ordered not by scarcity or control, but by trust, restraint, and divine provision.

Continue reading: https://www.shuvahviews.org/behar-and-bechukotai-the-jubilee-and-the-king-proclaiming-liberty-in-the-lord/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

04/30/2026

We live in a culture that elevates autonomy to the highest good. The language of rights, self-expression, and personal freedom is woven into the very fabric of American identity. There is much in this that is noble. The dignity of the individual is real, and it is a value deeply rooted in the biblical tradition itself. But our culture has not merely affirmed individuality, it has enthroned it. Autonomy has become not simply a good, but the good.

Read more here: https://www.shuvahviews.org/emor-covenantal-identity-in-an-age-of-individualism/

04/23/2026

In this week’s parasha, Hashem’s position on the consumption of blood is unmistakably clear. “If any person of the House of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people” (Vayikra 17:10).

What is especially noteworthy is that this command is not limited to Israel alone but extends also to the stranger. This is not merely a covenantal boundary marker. It reflects a universal moral principle rooted in creation itself.

Read more here: https://www.shuvahviews.org/acharei-mot-bloody-confusion/

04/16/2026

In this week’s Torah portions, Tazria and Metzora, we encounter the person afflicted with tzara’at, a condition that brings not only physical suffering but also deep social isolation. The Torah instructs that the afflicted individual be brought to the Kohen for examination, and then later for re-examination. The repetition invites a deeper question. What, exactly, is the Kohen meant to see?

Read more here: https://www.shuvahviews.org/tazria-and-metzora-the-lightness-of-grace/

04/09/2026

The question that emerges from both the Torah portion and the Haftarah is not whether the glory of God returns, for the narrative makes clear that it does. The deeper question is what happens when it does. Human beings do not have the option of living in neutrality. Our energies are too great, our capacities too expansive, and our souls too restless to remain indifferent. If they are not directed toward the sacred, they will inevitably be drawn toward something lesser.

Read more here: https://www.shuvahviews.org/shemini-when-the-glory-comes-homeward/

03/31/2026

This perspective brings us back to a haunting line from the Haggadah, recited each year at our Passover tables. “All who are hungry, let them come and eat.” It is a beautiful declaration of openness and generosity, but it presses a question upon us. Do we really mean it? Do we live as though that invitation is real, or has it become a ritual phrase spoken safely among those who already belong.

Read more here: https://www.shuvahviews.org/passover-all-who-are-hungry/

03/26/2026

As we come to Shabbat HaGadol, the Great Sabbath that ushers us to the threshold of Pesach, we find ourselves in a moment that is both reflective and anticipatory. We look back to redemption even as we prepare to experience it again. This week’s Torah portion, Tzav, gives us a language for understanding what kind of people we are meant to be in this season. It speaks not only of offerings, but of relationship, not only of sacrifice, but of peace.

Read more here: https://www.shuvahviews.org/tzav-and-shabbat-hagadol-an-altar-of-peace-a-cup-of-salvation-and-an-offering-of-thanks/

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