Welcome Yeshua’s Yeladim

1. Welcome Yeshua’s Yeladim We Love You!

2. Please Remember These Rules • Please don’t talk when others are talking. • Please raise your hand if you would like to ask a question. • Please keep your hands and feet to yourself. • You must ask to leave the room.

3. Acharei Mot and Kedoshim “Loving Your Neighbor” Vayikra/Leviticus 16:1 – 20:27

4. What is Holiness? • To be holy means to be different or special. • God wants Believers to act and think differently than the world.

5. Holy Living • One way we can be holy is to follow God’s commandments or Mitzvot. • God wants us to be holy, just like He is. • God thinks that people are important and He wants us to think the same thing.

6. We must not hate our brother: • A negative commandment • This commandment not to hate is not just about your flesh-and-blood brother or sister. • We need to watch out and help one another.

7. But love him as yourself... • v'ahavta l're'akha kamokha - ani Adonai • Would you do things that would hurt yourself? • But who is your neighbor?

8. Yeshua Tells A Story • The storyteaches about helping others even if they are different than us. • One day a man who was well-educated in the Torah asked Yeshua a question. • Yeshua asked the man what the Bible said. • Yeshua told the man that his answer was right.

9. A Man Who Was Attacked • A Jewish man was walking from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was attacked by robbers. • They took all of his money and left him half dead on the side of the road.

10. Those Who Passed By • Soon a priest/cohen came by. • He went to the other side of the road and did not help the man. • A man who was not liked by most Jews came by.

11. The Good Samaritan • He was from a place called Samaria • Samaritans were disliked by some of the Jews. • They were considered outcasts.

12. Helping People Who Are Different Than Us • He stopped and helped the man. • He put medicine on his wounds. • Took him to a hotel, where he continued to look after the hurt man. • The Samaritan gave the owner of the hotel some money and asked him to care for the man.

13. Who was the Neighbor? • “Which one of these men was a neighbor to the hurt man--the priest, the Levite, or the Samaritan?” • We can be kind like the Samaritan. • The Samaritan would be like someone who is different from us.

14. Loving God Means Loving People • We must love people because God loves people. • We cannot say that we love God who we cannot see, and not love a person who we can see.

15. Yeshua Loves People Too • Yeshua cares for us like the Samaritan cared for the man. • He loves us so much that He did something to help us. • Yeshua also wants us to be kind to others.

16. Let’s Learn Hebrew! • “Ahavah” • “Love”

17. What Did We Learn Today? • We learned what it means to be holy as God is holy. • We learned what it means to love your neighbor as yourself. • We learned to help those in need even if they are different than us.

18. Small Group Time