Seeking THE Truth

G-d hates the sacrifices of the wicked person and their sacrifices are not pleasing to G-d. Most important teaching is that a wicked person cannot get his sins atoned for by bringing a sacrifice. He needs to first repent and with a pure and clean heart can bring a sacrifice to G-d to show that he has turned away from him evil ways. There is no sacrifice for a willful sin except that the person repent from his evil ways and return to G-d with a penitent heart and G-d will forgive the person. The Sin sacrifice is only for unintentional sins. Also important to understand that a righteous person cannot die for the sins of a wicked person. Isaiah 1:11 Of what use are your many sacrifices to Me? says the Lord. I am sated with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle; and the blood of bulls and sheep and he goats I do not want. 12 When you come to appear before Me, who requested this of you, to trample My courts? 13 You shall no longer bring vain meal-offerings, it is smoke...

Time & again G-d tells Israel that keeping the Shabbat is important to him. There are several passages that say that the Shabbat is holy to G-d.  While the Shabbat may not be applicable for gentiles as a command, I like to keep this day as a day of rest from work out of joy and love for G-d. Exodus 16:23 So he said to them, That is what the Lord spoke, Tomorrow is a rest day, a holy Shabbat to the Lord . Bake whatever you wish to bake, and cook whatever you wish to cook, and all the rest leave over to keep until morning. Exodus 20:10  but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the Lord , your God ; you shall perform no labor, neither you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your beast, nor your stranger who is in your cities. Exodus 20:11  For [in] six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Shabbat day and sanctified it . Exodus 31:13 "And you, sp...

I think everyone at some point in their life has this question "What does G-d expect from me?" This is what G-d explicitly tells us in the Tanakh. Isaiah 8:13 The Lord of Hosts- Him shall you sanctify, and He is your fear , and He gives you strength . Malachi 2:2 If you do not heed, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My Name , says the Lord of Hosts , I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed I have [already] cursed it, for you do not take it to heart. Malachi 3:5 And I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers and against those who swear falsely; and also against those who withhold the wages of the day laborers, of the widow and fatherless, and those who pervert [the rights of] the stranger, [and those who] fear Me not, says the Lord of Hosts Amos 5:22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and offerings of w...

There are several passages where Tanakh refers to G-d as our father. I hope you find it encouraging to approach G-d with that confidence that G-d is our father and we need to honor, fear, love and worship him and him alone. Exodus 4:22  Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says:   Israel is my firstborn son, Deuteronomy 1:31 and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.” Deuteronomy 32:6 Is this how you repay the Lord, you disgraceful, unwise people?! Is He not your Father, your Master? He has made you and established you. Deuteronomy 32:18  You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.  19 And the Lord saw this and became angry, provoked by His sons and daughters.  20 And He said, "I will hide My face from them. I will see what their end will be, for they are a generation of changes; they are not [recognizable] as My...