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Shalom Beloved,

I hope this message finds you well. We are continuing to work on shows for the commanded feasts. They (and the traditional celebrations) are free for you to download and share. May G-D bless and keep you!

Blessings and Shalom

AJ

Shalom All!

Let me share with you a special prayer on Father’s Day. This is part of the Amidah, or standing prayer. I would like to share with you the Ahvot portion (which means “Fathers”), of the Amidah prayer.

Blessed are You, L-RD, our G-d and G-d of our fathers, G-d of Abraham, G-d of Isaac, and G-d of Jacob; the great, mighty, and awesome G-d, the most high G-d, Who bestows grace and creates all, and remembers the righteousness of the fathers, and brings a Redeemer to their children’s children, for His name’s sake, with love.

O King, Helper, Savior, and Shield. Blessed are You, O L-RD, shield of Abraham.

Amen

Ba-rooch  ah-ta  Adonai, Eh-lo-hay-noo  v’eh-lo-hay  ah-vo-tay-noo,  Eh-lo-hay  Ahv-ra-hahm,  Eh-lo-hay  Yeetz-chahk,  v’Eh-lo-hay  Ya-ah-kov;  Ha-ale  ha-ga-dole  ha-gee-bore  v’ha-no-ra,  Ale  el-yone,  go-male  cha-sa-deem toe-veem, v’ko-nay  ha-kole,  v’zo-chare  chas-day  ah-vote,  oo-may-vee  go-ale  leave-nay  v’nay-hem,  l’ma-ahn  sh’mo  b’ah-ha-va.

Meh-lech  oh-zair  oo-mo-she-ah  oo-ma-gain. Ba-rooch  ah-ta  Adonai,  ma-gain  Ahv-ra-hahm.

Amein

Blessings, Shalom, and Happy Father’s Day!

AJ

Shalom, Beloved!

We at Down Home Shalom are very excited to announce that we will be on WLFJ radio starting Sunday, July 4th in August! We are so thankful to G-D for His love, guidance and protection. It is so exciting knowing that we will now be able to reach so many more unsaved Jewish and non-Jewish people with the plan of salvation through Yeshua (Jesus) as written in the book of Romans chap 1: v16. We are also so thankful for your support and listenership! Sadly, we are losing our brother Ira who is moving on to other things and we are grateful for the time he spent with us at Down Home Shalom. However, we are adding some wonderful new people who will be a blessing to you as they already are to us! We pray that we will continue to be a blessing to our Heavenly Father and to you, our wonderful radio mishpacha (family).

Blessings and Shalom

AJ

Shalom All!

Shela and I are so happy and grateful to G-D to be able to announce that we are to be grandparents! What a blessing to our family! Our daughter Rivka and our son-in-law Daniel told us the wonderful news and we are now sharing it with you!  HALLELUYAH!!!

Blessings and Shalom!

AJ

Shalom All!

Stay with us for some very, very exciting and important announcements coming very, very soon!

Blessings and Shalom

AJ

Shalom Beloved,

Please stop and remember those who gave up all of their tomorrow’s, allowing you the privilege to celebrate today. Please let me ask you to remember just one more thing today, the words of Yeshua/Jesus from the Gospel of John chap 15 v13: “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”

Blessings and Shalom

AJ

Happy Birthday, ISRAEL!! Yes, today is the 62nd birthday of Israel. May G-D be praised!

Shalom and Blessings
AJ

Shalom All!

Be sure to tune in to WGGS-TV Channel 16 (live Internet streaming) on Wednesday, April 14 at 8:00 p.m (EDT). Ira and I will be guests along with Pastor William Morford, author of The Power New Testament! We hope the show will be fun, informative, and a blessing to all!

Blessings and Shalom!

AJ and Ira

Shalom, Beloved!

Happy Passover!! The Pesach (Passover) special presentation is now up for free download.

Blessings and Shalom
AJ

Shalom All!

Yes, I know it’s been a while. And I’m sorry. Recently everyone around here where I live is excited as we will be enjoying and participating in our community’s second annual ShalomFest! This is a great opportunity as a Jewish believer to go and fellowship with my non-believing Jewish friends.

My son-in-law Daniel e-mailed a member of a local Messianic congregation to see when they would be showing up at the “Fest.” The woman e-mailed Daniel back and told him that they were not sure if they could go because their rabbi Todd had not yet been invited! You see, Todd Lesser, who now allows himself to be called rabbi, required members to sign a loyalty oath to him in order to become a member or to continue to be a member of Adon Olam congregation after he took part in the ouster of our actual rabbi Paul Cohen. (KOOL AID ANYONE?) ShalomFest is a public event to share in our Jewish heritage.

Now, if you are not Jewish, maybe it’s understandable. But when a guy who allows himself to be called rabbi and claims to be a Jewish believer forbids anyone in his congregation to attend a Jewish-themed festival because he did not get an invitation strikes me as just weird, controlling, or both!

I hear that many Messianic congregations are mostly comprised of gentile believers in Yeshua anyway. Are not we as Jewish believers supposed to go and witness to our non-believing brethren? Doesn’t the book of Romans in the New Covenant (B’rit Hadashah) tell us to go and witness to the Jew first and then to the Gentile (Greek) for the purpose of redemption? Now then, if you ask me (and someone did), I say that if one is going to try and witness to a Jew about Yeshua, shouldn’t one try to learn a little about who we Jewish people are first?!

Come to ShalomFest, and enjoy your time there!

Shalom and Blessings!

AJ