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From Plants, Wool and Resins to Nylon, PFAS and Synthetic Fragrance For thousands of years, human beings lived in a world made largely from materials they could recognize. We wore wool, linen, cotton, leather and silk. We built with stone, clay and wood. We burned beeswax and oils for light, made soaps from fats and alkaline substances, and colored fabrics with dyes obtained from plants, minerals, roots and even insects. When people wanted fragrance, they turned to flowers, w

Book of Psalms There is another ancient treasure that I believe believers in Yeshua need to rediscover: Tehillim, the Book of Psalms. In Hebrew, the Psalms are called Tehillim, תהילים, meaning “Praises.” These 150 Psalms are not simply beautiful religious poetry preserved in an ancient book. They became one of the great languages of Jewish prayer, accompanying the people of Israel through generations of joy, suffering, exile, persecution, repentance, thanksgiving, danger and

This is not a stock photograph. These are actual aromatic materials from my own work and investigation into Pitum HaKetoret and the ancient Holy Temple incense. Before You Read This Before you begin this long blog post, I want to ask you for one thing: do not rush through it. Give yourself time to read it carefully, because what follows is not simply an article about ancient incense, oils or Jewish tradition. It is the story of a journey that changed my own life, challenged t

The Evil Eye, Envy, Social Media, and the Ancient Wisdom of Concealing What Is Precious We live in perhaps the most exposed generation in human history. We photograph our faces, our children, our homes, our meals, our vacations, our cars, our relationships, our bodies and our successes. Sometimes we even photograph our prayers. We announce where we are going, what we have purchased, whom we love, what we desire and what we fear. We reveal dreams before they have happened and

Psalm 91 is one of the most powerful prayers of protection in the Bible. For generations, Jews have turned to it in times of danger, fear, illness, war, uncertainty, and spiritual distress. Its words speak of shelter, refuge, angels, plague, terror, destruction, and deliverance. Yet its deepest message is not simply that nothing bad will ever happen to the righteous. Its message is that those who dwell close to YHWH are never abandoned, even when danger surrounds them. The ps

Something is happening in Israel. You can feel it in Jerusalem. You can hear it in the middle of the night as tens of thousands fill the streets of the Old City, walking toward the Western Wall to pray Selichot—the ancient prayers of repentance and forgiveness before Yom Kippur. This year, extraordinary crowds came to Jerusalem. More than half a million people had already participated in Selichot at the Western Wall weeks before Yom Kippur, and approximately 150,000 gathered

A branch that is grafted in does not produce life on its own. The root is the source. It is the root that carries what the branch does not have within itself. The deep, hidden life. The root holds the nourishment, the stability, the memory of the soil, the original covenant of growth. It draws from depths the branch can never reach on its own. The branch cannot create this. It can only receive it. When a branch is grafted in, it does not replace the root. It does not become