Year 5985

Shabbat, 1 Adar 5785 / March 1, 2025 Event More Tour, Beach, Market Here and Now Woke up before 5AM but slept earlier than usual SOAP Scriptures Torah: Parshat Terumah, 7th Portion (Shemot (Exodus) 27:9-27:19) Exodus 27:9-19 Complete Jewish Bible (vii)   9  “Here is how you are to make the courtyard of the tabernacle. On the south side, facing southward, are to be tapestries for the courtyard made of finely woven linen, 150 feet for one side,  10  supported on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets; the hooks on the posts and the attached rings for hanging are to be of silver.  11  Likewise, along the north side are to be tapestries 150 feet long, hung on twenty posts in twenty bronze sockets, with silver hooks and rings for the posts.  12  Across the width of the courtyard on the west side are to be tapestries seventy-five feet long, hung on ten posts in ten sockets.  13  The width of the courtyard on the east side, f...

Friday, 30 Shevat 5785 / February 28, 2025 Event Another Tour Here and Now Woke up 6plus, later than yesterday, had dreams I forgot about SOAP Scriptures Torah: Parshat Terumah, 6th Portion (Shemot (Exodus) 27:1-27:8) Exodus 27:1-8 English Standard Version The Bronze Altar 1   “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits [ a ]  long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.  2  And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.  3  You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.  4  You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.  5  And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the ...

Thursday, 29 Shevat 5785 / February 27, 2025 Event: Whole day Tour around Ha Noi Here and Now: Woke up before my alarm at 5:30AM, my eating patterns have changed in VT because even though I don’t eat breakfast, I eat 3x and ate really late yesterday… SOAP Scriptures: Torah: Parshat Terumah, 5th Portion (Shemot (Exodus) 26:31-26:37)  Last Night’s Reading Deuteronomy 16-18 Deuteronomy 17 6  On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.  7  The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge [ a ]  the evil [ b ]  from your midst. Legal Decisions by Priests and Judges 8  “If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, an...

Wednesday, 28 Shevat 5785 / February 26, 2025 Event Fly to Danang Here and Now Woke up around almost 6AM Vtime and ready to have my devotions because I slept long and well with a strange dream last night about Anacel wanting to quit working as our book keeper. SOAP   Scriptures Torah: Parshat Terumah, 4th Portion (Shemot (Exodus) 26:15-26:30)  Exodus 26:15-30 English Standard Version 15  “You shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.  16  Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.  17  There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together. So shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle.  18  You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;  19  and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons;...

Tuesday, 27 Shevat 5785 / February 25, 2025 Event: Saphire Cruise 2 nd day and leaving for Danang today Here and Now: 10mins late for Taichi at 6AM, had breakfast at 6:30 and now it’s 7:48 Vtime doing my devotions at the dinning area of Saphire Cruise SOAP Scriptures Torah: Parshat Terumah, 3rd Portion (Shemot (Exodus) 25:31-26:14)  Exodus 25:31-26:14 English Standard Version The Golden Lampstand 31  “You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.  32  And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;  33  three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the...

Monday, 26 Shevat 5785 / February 24, 2025 Event: First day at Vietnam @ Eco Luxury Hotel, Travel to Here and Now: Arrived @Hotel by 4am and slept from then til 7AM and then travelled to the Cruise Harbor SOAP Scriptures: Torah: Parshat Terumah, 2nd Portion (Shemot (Exodus) 25:17-25:30)  Exodus 25:17-30 English Standard Version 17  “You shall make a mercy seat [ a ]  of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.  18  And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.  19  Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends.  20  The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.  21...

Sunday, 25 Shevat 5785 / February 23, 2025 Event Sunday online worship with parents, finish packing, lunch and fly out for Vietnam Here and Now I slept only 4 hours I believe and I wonder why I wake up too early when I slept so late. But I only slept 1:48AM and already awake at 5:09AM. 3 Hours sleep only according to my smartwatch but it felt like it was good enough. Maybe it was the wine from last night, and then the coffee. SOAP Scriptures Torah: Parshat Terumah, 1st Portion (Shemot (Exodus) 25:1-25:16) Exodus 25:1-16 English Standard Version Contributions for the Sanctuary 1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. 3 And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, 4 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair, 5 tanned rams' skins, goatskins,[ a ] acacia wood, 6 oil for the lam...