Elul 5786 · Edition One · refreshed monthly
There is more good teaching in this community than any one household can follow — and more noise around it than any newcomer should have to wade through. So once a month we set the table: a handful of pieces from across the wider Messianic and Hebrew Roots world that we've actually read and would hand you across the counter. As everywhere in this house, we tell you plainly who each teacher is and where they stand. A link is not an endorsement of everything a ministry teaches — it's an honest "this piece is worth your time."
This month's table
1. The Month of Elul, John the Baptist and the Mantle of Elijah — One for Israel
Messianic Jewish · Israeli ministry · devotional
We are in Elul now — the month of return before Yom Teruah — and this piece draws the line from the season of repentance to the Elijah-mantled voice crying in the wilderness. Written by Israeli believers for whom these weeks are not theory. Read it at One for Israel →
2. Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord? — Lois Tverberg
Hebraic-context scholarship · Christian scholar of Jesus' Jewish world
Tverberg does what she always does: takes a line you've read fifty times — God's question to Abraham and Sarah — and hands it back to you with its Hebrew weight restored. She is not affiliated with a Messianic congregation; she is one of the best doors into Jesus' Jewish world in print. Read it at Our Rabbi Jesus →
3. New video series: Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus — Lois Tverberg
Hebraic-context scholarship · video · pairs with a book on our shelf
Tverberg is turning her best-loved book into a video series — a fine option for a small group or a family table this fall. See the series → — and yes, we carry the book.
4. Torah Portions — First Fruits of Zion
Messianic Jewish · weekly commentary portal
FFOZ's week-by-week teachings on the Torah, Prophets and Gospels — a deep companion to our own parsha page if you want a second voice at the Shabbat table each week. Browse Torah Portions →
5. The article library at TorahResource — Tim Hegg
Hebrew Roots · Torah-observant scholarship · rigorous, footnoted
When you want the long answer — Acts 15, the festivals and the believer, the place of Torah after the cross — Hegg has probably written a careful, footnoted paper on it. Not light reading; reliably serious reading. Browse the library →
6. From this house: the Moedim Calendar for 5787
Free download · print it, refrigerator it
Every appointed time for the coming year — with the calendar reckonings explained side by side, because two faithful households can keep the same feast two days apart. Download the calendar (PDF) · When is Yom Teruah 2026?
Know a piece that belongs on next month's table? Send it to us — we read everything before we set it out.