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Be sure to listen to the previous podcast, In The Zone | October 2023 | Part 1.On the first Shabbat of the month, Rabbi Steve Berkson opens the floor to the local congregants and those listening online to ask questions or comment about any aspect of our belief.Rabbi Berkson addresses topics concerning fundamental Torah-based practices and personal development, gives marital instruction, shares parental techniques, and more.Part 2:• Briana shares her Sukkot experience as a teacher• Excited to volunteer• Science is painting a picture of the Creator• Don’t let your pride and fear get in the way• Being a host for an international guest• The connection• She was persistent • You’re lying to me (A tithing story)Take advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwideFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtoi_worldwideYou can contac

On the first Shabbat of the month, Rabbi Steve Berkson opens the floor to the local congregants and those listening online to ask questions or comment about any aspect of our belief.Rabbi Berkson addresses topics concerning fundamental Torah-based practices and personal development, gives marital instruction, shares parental techniques, and more.Part 1:• Intro• Should we tithe on benevolence?• What is the bowing and bending the knee motion?• Please come to the feasts• My personal growth when meeting and talking with others• What can I do better to prepare for Shabbat?• Yah’s secret place?• Value and guard your lifeTake advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwideFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtoi_worldwideYou can contact MTOI by emailing us at admin@mtoi.org or calling 423-250-3020. Join us for Shabbat Service

Be sure to check out the previous podcast, "Stories from the MTOI Community | Part 1"Rabbi Steve Berkson gives the floor to a few people to tell their stories of how they came into commitment in the context of Messiah so that you could hear and relate the experience of others with your own. Many of us had the experience of finding the Messiah first before we discovered that the Torah is still relevant. For some of us, it was the other way around. Some of us had no experience with the church, Judaism, Torah, or anything. Yet, being guided to the truth that Messiah Yeshua is the Living Torah, it’s now possible to be a part of the Forever Kingdom.Some of the topics covered are:• Intro• Story 5 - What did Yeshua say?• Story 6 - Monique from Washington state• Story 7 - A three-sided tent• Story 8 - We will celebrate Yahweh’s feasts• Story 9 - It didn't make sense anymore• Story 10 - That didn’t happen as I had thoughtTake advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this podcast has bee

Rabbi Steve Berkson gives the floor to a few people to tell their stories of how they came into commitment in the context of Messiah so that you could hear and relate the experience of others with your own. Many of us had the experience of finding the Messiah first before we discovered that the Torah is still relevant. For some of us, it was the other way around. Some of us had no experience with the church, Judaism, Torah, or anything. Yet, being guided to the truth that Messiah Yeshua is the Living Torah, it’s now possible to be a part of the Forever Kingdom.• Intro• Story 1 - This is where I’m supposed to be• Story 2 - Michelle from Tasmania • Story 3 - I had complete shalom• Story 4 - Monica from Mexico (Yahweh uses ducks) Listen to Episode 2 tomorrowTake advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwideFollow us on Instagram: htt

These days, some cannot define the meaning of ‘woman,’ men think they are women, or women decide they are men. Society uses terms such as toxic masculinity, macho, chauvinist, misogynist, and sexist to describe men. Because of this, the roles of men and women, as Elohim intended, are all but lost to the depravity of the human condition.Addressing a topic not talked about robustly in Scripture, Rabbi Steve Berkson embarks on resetting our understanding of what men should be and do and what women should be and do. He begins at the Beginning when the creation of Mankind commenced.In this the final part of this series, the audience is invited to ask questions or give their thoughts about the teaching.Some of the topics covered are:• Continual Generational Weakness• How to deal with the “woke” society• testimony of the impact of this teaching series• As a woman, how do I deal with my emotions?• Alignment with Elohim as a single woman• Not walking in agreement is a marriage problem• How do I vet a potential spouse?

These days, some cannot define the meaning of ‘woman,’ men think they are women, or women decide they are men. Society uses terms such as toxic masculinity, macho, chauvinist, misogynist, and sexist to describe men. Because of this, the roles of men and women, as Elohim intended, are all but lost to the depravity of the human condition.Addressing a topic not talked about robustly in Scripture, Rabbi Steve Berkson embarks on resetting our understanding of what men should be and do and what women should be and do. He begins at the Beginning when the creation of Mankind commenced.In this the final part of this series, the audience is invited to ask questions or give their thoughts about the teaching.• Intro & review• Interacting with other married persons when apart from your spouse• I’m uncomfortable with who my husband is hanging out with• Is your ex-spouse still a part of your family?• Uncomfortable with hugging some people?• How to be a widow and single?• One spouse tithes and the other doesn’t?• How to

We recommend watching the full teaching before watching this Afterburn.AFTERBURN:Some of the topics covered are:• Observe and learn yourself• What is the “outer darkness”?• Caring about what others think?• Why does Yahweh want all our focus on Him?• The final exam?• Try the kidneys? (Psalm 26:2)• How can I discover the scope of my talents/skills?• Why do you care?Afterburn: also known in the fitness world as the “afterburn effect,” simply put, the more intense the exercise, the more oxygen your body consumes afterward. This effect could occur spiritually after the intense teachings Rabbi Berkson delivers each week. This Afterburn Q&A session allows your mind and soul to consume more understanding (oxygen).Take advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this video has been a blessing.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwideFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtoi_worldwideYou can con

Two days before Yom Kippur, Rabbi Berkson urges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of the Word of Yah. Where are we in our walk before Elohim? How are we in our relationships with our spouses, friends, and those in authority over us. Prayerfully examining ourselves and then making the necessary changes shows the Father that we’re serious about Him, His Kingdom and His people.• Where are we in the plan of Yah?• What did the Hebrews do while heading to Sinai?• Sinai was a picture of a wedding• Can Yahweh trust you with this?• What’s the point of all this?• Are we auditioning for the life to come? (Luke 19:12)• He wants to see your creativity• Yom Teruah - There’s a ‘wake up’ after the ‘waking up’• Atonement - Yom Kippur• Understand Who you are in relationship with• Deuteronomy 4:25 – With all your heart• Wrapping it upTake advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this video has been a blessing.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.Like us on Facebook: h

We recommend listening to the full teaching before listening to this Afterburn.AFTERBURN:Some of the topics covered are:00:00 Intro02:46 Rabbi Berkson comments on Elder Jackson’s teaching07:20 When should the single person start making their list of expectations?10:34 How do I deal with the walls in me that close off communication?15:39 Generational curses, communication issues, and working out?21:04 The wall named ‘Root of Bitterness’28:00 What is the “Expectation List”?35:47 How do I judge what I should not tell my wife or husband?40:48 Life is not static, changes are inevitable. How do I deal with that?

The world and the different religious systems have significantly distorted marriage to the point that it has become something most people want to avoid. They would rather indulge in all the benefits of the marriage relationship without committing.In this episode, Elder Jackson speaks about how constant and meaningful communication is vital to establishing a successful marriage.• Review of Part 1• Disclaimer• Proverbs 24:3-4 – The first of five - Communication• Men are like dogs analogy• Where we first messed up? Genesis 3:16• The goal is Ephesians 5• The husband’s first ministry• Ephesians 5:25• Rulebook of Love - 1 Corinthians 13• The men need to work on themselves• Four questions husbands and wives should ask each other• 99% love• Still saying “I do”

On the first Shabbat of the month, Rabbi Steve Berkson opens the floor to the local congregants and those listening online to ask questions or comment about any aspect of our belief.Rabbi Berkson addresses topics concerning fundamental Torah-based practices and personal development, gives marital instruction, shares parental techniques, and more.Part 2:• Who were the Nicolaitans and what did they teach?• What is the “synagogue of satan”?• Are there oral laws that we should be aware of to obey?• You need a teacher• Did Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel have the promise to live?Take advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwideFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtoi_worldwideYou can contact MTOI by emailing us at admin@mtoi.org or calling 423-250-3020. Join us for Shabbat Services & Torah Study LIVE, streamed on our

On the first Shabbat of the month, Rabbi Steve Berkson opens the floor to the local congregants and those listening online to ask questions or comment about any aspect of our belief.Rabbi Berkson addresses topics concerning fundamental Torah-based practices and personal development, gives marital instruction, shares parental techniques, and more.Part 1:• What about outside therapy? Will it help or hurt my walk?• Will there be a “rapture” of the people of God?• Is it disrespectful to listen to praise music in the bathroom?• A thousand years is as a day?• A man cannot commit adultery?• What do we do with events that are recorded in only one Gospel?• Before Messiah Yeshua, could a person reconcile with Elohim through his own blood?• What about long hair on men?Take advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing.Listen to Part 2 tomorrow.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwi

We recommend listening to the full teaching, The Roles of Men & Women | Part 6, before listening to this Afterburn.AFTERBURN:Some of the topics covered are:• I tried hard not to believe or trust you• Doesn’t the husband by default have all authority over his family?• Whose helpmeet is who’s?• Is it ever appropriate for a spouse to create a deception?• In what setting does the agreement/submission relationship apply?• Aren’t you encouraging women to become gold diggers?• Whiny excuses about money• Should the Bride of Messiah look like the Proverbs 31 woman?• How should we care or provide for elderly parents?• Amy’s dilemma finding a trustworthy husband• Become the type of person someone would want to marry• What do you mean by ‘worthy’?• A different reading of Proverbs 31:10-31• Lee Blue’s marriage storyAfterburn: also known in the fitness world as the “afterburn effect,” simply put, the more intense the exercise, the more oxygen your body consumes afterward. This effect could occur spiritually after the i

These days, some cannot define the meaning of ‘woman,’ men think they are women, or women decide they are men. Society uses terms such as toxic masculinity, macho, chauvinist, misogynist, and sexist to describe men. Because of this, the roles of men and women, as Elohim intended, are all but lost to the depravity of the human condition.Addressing a topic not talked about robustly in Scripture, Rabbi Steve Berkson embarks on resetting our understanding of what men should be and do and what women should be and do. He begins at the Beginning when the creation of Mankind commenced.Rabbi Berkson adds a twist to this teaching by connecting the account in Genesis, the Garden of Eden, with Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.Before this teaching series is complete, Rabbi Berkson will have traversed the entirety of Scripture so that you are confident that the message is sound and founded on the Word of Elohim.• Intro - A challenging teaching• Understand the relationship between agreement & submission• Psalm 1 - Attribu

We recommend listening to the full teaching, The Roles of Men & Women | Part 5, before listening to this Afterburn.AFTERBURN:Some of the topics covered are:• Intro• Strong-willed women and marriage• Husbands providing safe space for their wives to flourish• What’s going on with the young males and females today?• Preparing yourself to become that…• Who is the Bride of Messiah?• Can examples of good husbands and wives be found in the Tanakh?• How do I teach my step-children to walk in faith when my husband…• Does not doing what Yahweh has told us about roles in marriage…• How can Titus 2:3 be performed by single or widowed women?• As a young adult, what is my role with my parents and other adults…• How does one recover their confidence once they’ve lost it?• What happens to the strong-willed woman? How does she change?• Older women train the younger by doing and teaching• There’s a law: wives please your man and he will please you• What do I do with the new you?• My husband was conning me!• It’s about the

These days, some cannot define the meaning of ‘woman,’ men think they are women, or women decide they are men. Society uses terms such as toxic masculinity, macho, chauvinist, misogynist, and sexist to describe men. Because of this, the roles of men and women, as Elohim intended, are all but lost to the depravity of the human condition.Addressing a topic not talked about robustly in Scripture, Rabbi Steve Berkson embarks on resetting our understanding of what men should be and do and what women should be and do. He begins at the Beginning when the creation of Mankind commenced.Rabbi Berkson adds a twist to this teaching by connecting the account in Genesis, the Garden of Eden, with Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.Before this teaching series is complete, Rabbi Berkson will have traversed the entirety of Scripture so that you are confident that the message is sound and founded on the Word of Elohim.• Intro• Understanding the expectations of the different roles• Revelation 19:7 – the Bride has prepared and made h

On the first Shabbat of the month, Rabbi Steve Berkson opens the floor to the local congregants and those listening online to ask questions or comment about any aspect of our belief.Rabbi Berkson addresses topics concerning fundamental Torah-based practices and personal development, gives marital instruction, shares parental techniques, and more.Part 2:• What “sins” is Paul talking about?• My job is creating a health problem in me• How do I have peace during a PTSD moment?• Can blessings be used in the humbling process?• How do I discard the Bible properly?• Self Discovery (I want to know who I am)• Beside Kashrut, how do I eat healthy?• How do I control what my child watches and listens to?• Various life coaching• Should I be concerned about the pattern on my front door?• Which is it, 20 years old or 30 years old? (1 Chronicles 23:3, 24)Take advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.L

On the first Shabbat of the month, Rabbi Steve Berkson opens the floor to the local congregants and those listening online to ask questions or comment about any aspect of our belief.Rabbi Berkson addresses topics concerning fundamental Torah-based practices and personal development, gives marital instruction, shares parental techniques, and more.Part 1:• Intro• Are wives to keep their husbands grounded by providing shalom?• A sign of emotional weakness• All this talk about UFO’s - should we be concerned?• Do you appreciate the signs and wonders in your life?• Your life with Torah and without Torah• A man that knows where he’s going - what does that look like?• Didn’t Elohim know where Adam and Eve were when they hid?Listen to part 2 tomorrow.Take advantage of new teachings every week. Please click the "LIKE" button if this podcast has been a blessing.To learn more about MTOI, visit our website, https://mtoi.org.Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mtoiworldwideFollow us on Instagram: https://www.inst

We recommend listening to the full teaching, The Fruit That Remains, before listening to this Afterburn.Some of the topics covered are:• There’s a place for you in the story• Cling, cleave, and hold fast to Yahweh for the fruit• Seaweed wrapped around my head• Painful pruning• “You don’t ever want to walk through what we walked through”• Struggling produces strength to get to the next level• Do not be nonchalant in this walk• How do we overcome a crooked heart? (Jeremiah 17:9)• Apple trees: wild, ornamental, pruned• How can we know we are connected and not just think we are?• Rabbi Steve helps answer questionsAfterburn: also known in the world of fitness as the “afterburn effect”, simply put; The more intense the exercise, the more oxygen your body consumes afterward. The same could be true as you build up your spiritual self. After an intense teaching session, you need answers as more thoughts and questions consume you in your spiritual growth.Rabbi Steve Berkson, director of MTOI, provides an opportunity fo

The definition of 'remain' is "continue to exist, especially after other similar or related people or things have ceased to exist." The fruit defined in Galatians 5:22-23 identifies those covenanted with Elohim. As we endeavor to become like Messiah Yeshua, this fruit must remain in us.The fruit produced by the old man's fleshly nature, called "nasty fruit" by Elder Jackson, cannot remain as it has no part in the Kingdom of Messiah and must be dealt with and discarded.Elder William Jackson questions us all: when the time comes, will your fruit remain, and will you hear the words, "well done, good and trustworthy servant?”• John 15:1-4 – The pruning process• John 15:5-8 – Stay connected• John 15:9-15 – Stay in My love: remain obedient• John 15:16 – You were chosen by Messiah to bear fruit• Men are like puppies• What are you choosing over producing?• Ephesians 4:11-13 – Help• The example of human fertilization• Jeremiah 17:7-8 – Blessed is the man who’s trust IS Yahweh• Galatians 5:19-21 – Do not produce this f