<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[BEIT TEFILLAH]]></title><description><![CDATA[We're a family friendly Messianic Jewish Synagogue in the Texas Hill Country. Join us Saturdays at 12 for food, fellowship, & Shabbat celebration!]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:06:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.beittefillahtx.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[A Time To Remember]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a command in Torah that appears again and again: זכור — remember. We remember Shabbat. We remember Sinai. We remember Amalek. And in our generation, we remember the Holocaust. But remembrance in Judaism is never passive. It is not history for the sake of memory—it is memory that demands transformation. But a question arises as we remember tragedy: Where was God?  Why did He allow this? Even in the Tanach, we hear cries of “למה”—why? From Book of Lamentations to the Psalms of King...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/a-time-to-remember</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dda4cc2f3a2e3e6c86246e</guid><category><![CDATA[HOLIDAYS]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:57:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_dd574c02590342b4942c49a150a50df2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_940,h_788,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heart’s Search For Chametz]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those of you that have celebrated Passover before, you know that there more to do than just prepare a special dinner. The week leading up to Passover is tedious and involves meticulous cleaning and scrubbing and searching to make sure that all chametz  is removed from the home. To say the least, there is a lot of preparation that goes into readying our homes for Passover. What’s more important than cleaning and preparing out homes though?  Cleaning and preparing our hearts. We...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/the-heart-s-search-for-chametz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d4a319f59112f11da01ca9</guid><category><![CDATA[HOLIDAYS]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:22:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_9868c4a025654ed4ac4575ea6709df7c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_717,h_625,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elul, the month of return]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tonight begins Rosh Chodesh Elul of the Hebrew year 5785. 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Her life is filled with love and blessing and today we’re spending another birthday, making sweet...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/brokenness-tikkun-olam</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67f560c725f24db19119e6f4</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:50:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_adbe71fb01a44237863a486ce5d599d8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_500,h_300,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do Messianic Jews Take “Commmunion”?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every Shabbat at synagogue, we make  blessings over wine and bread together. A question that often arises when people see this is “Are...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/do-messianic-jews-take-commmunion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67eef225f5ffb1fbdf522afc</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:09:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_8f95b2ac61b74d7cb1e10b3c5f863117~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_874,h_554,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why The Wine On Shabbat?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Go to any observant home on a Friday night and you’ll see a beautifully set Sabbath table. While the table cloths and prayer books may...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/why-the-wine-on-shabbat</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67c087bc97ad83d76d95c444</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:27:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_0c0978d350254b87bff131e81fc45022~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s with the challah?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why Challah, the beautiful braided bread, is a staple at every erev Shabbat dinner? Like many of the traditional...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/what-s-with-the-challah</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67af714fe5901539328f9234</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:48:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/de8199ea8638467aa676e9f4369cff74.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yom Kippur]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are just over halfway through the Yamim Noraim, Days of Awe, and just days away from Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement. According to tradition, this is the day Hashem seals the Books of Life and Death for the coming year. On Yom Kippur, we devote ourselves to communal repentance for sins committed over the course of the previous year. It is the most solemn day in the Jewish year; the day we are instructed to separate ourselves as much as possible from the physical demands of the world we...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/yom-kippur</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6705163b20aa80efd314ef3f</guid><category><![CDATA[HOLIDAYS]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:29:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_c030c33f5f264078acceed8cf1c02feb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_274,h_182,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does It Mean To Be Jewish?]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Israel became a nation in 1948, the Law of  Return was enacted which allowed Jews scattered  abroad to return to their ancestral...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/what-does-it-mean-to-be-jewish</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66819788e5f9b89cf420dead</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:36:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_6f22fd4b0acb45d2bde5cf0e9f0471bc~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_375,h_281,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tu B’Shvat]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a week's time we'll celebrate Tu b'shevat, or the birthday of the trees in Israel. 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I think we can all agree that when we come in to covenant with Adonai, we receive so much abundant,...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/to-be-blessed-and-be-a-blessing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6367352c612c66e33c4a2da6</guid><category><![CDATA[TORAH TIDBITS]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:08:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_93693990c7e64591a6dccd853dac58b5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_473,h_279,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Adam]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Last Adam, or Second Adam ... we hear this title referenced a lot in the B'rit Chadashah. At base level, we can understand the...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/the-last-adam</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6354a5942b91cc8480b13d86</guid><category><![CDATA[TORAH TIDBITS]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2022 03:46:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_a84cecf8123a472ab39e7e4fe89d6046~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_474,h_355,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE DAYS OF AWE]]></title><description><![CDATA[For those that are following, we just celebrated the Biblical Feast of Trumpets this past Sunday night. It is described in the Torah as ...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/the-days-of-awe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6335bf0e1415d46ca12f68d2</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:53:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_fe11aa5952544690b4c51ffd18330880~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_474,h_355,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Altar Of Uncut Stones]]></title><description><![CDATA[There’s something so intimate, so raw, and so holy about an altar. Altars are the foundations that sacrifices were laid on… And think...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/an-altar-of-uncut-stones</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6327efc6d127eb00b3f7a01b</guid><category><![CDATA[TORAH TIDBITS]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:33:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_061bf4dc513f4b94badb1e1cfdfeedb5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_474,h_338,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wall Of Protection]]></title><description><![CDATA[What a blessed position we are in…to have a God who is always working to preserve us and do us good. Romans 8:28 says “We know God works...]]></description><link>https://www.beittefillahtx.org/post/the-wall-of-protection</link><guid isPermaLink="false">631e0dec57cdc09b08acec67</guid><category><![CDATA[TORAH TIDBITS]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2022 16:34:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52e7bd_b95c15cdde8b43c0a15cc785fa4a16af~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_474,h_355,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Chana Seraphine</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>