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Messianic Torah Observant Israel
MTOI (Messianic Torah Observant Israel) is the teaching ministry of Rabbi Steve Berkson. Based in Cleveland, TN, MTOI is international ministry that it has affiliated congregations, as well as individuals, globally that are supplied daily with teachings, guidance and support for their faith-walk.
Episodes
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 55
He thought he had finished the teaching on The Covenant in the last episode, however, Rabbi Berkson felt there were still some things that needed to be talked…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelAfterburn: Thoughts, Q&A on CC101: Are You Covenanted? Part 54
Some of the topics covered are: • Do the prophets come under the definition of Melchizedekian Priesthood? • Will the Levitical Priesthood be reactivated during…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 54
Moving into the letter to the Hebrews chapters 7-9, a comparison or contrast of not only the two priesthoods, Levitical and Melchizedekian, begins to be made…
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Afterburn: Thoughts, Q&A on CC101: Are You Covenanted? Part 53
Some of the topics covered are: • More thoughts on how you are the tiller of the ground • Is the Melchizedekian Priesthood higher in authority than the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 53
Continuing the journey in the Book of Hebrews towards the key verse, chapter 7, verse 22, where it talks about Messiah Yeshua being a guarantor of a “better…
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Afterburn: Thoughts, Q&A on CC101: Are You Covenanted? Part 52
Some of the topics covered are: • Why do some in the Torah Observant community disregard the book of Hebrews? • More thoughts on the unadulterated milk of the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 52
In the last episode Rabbi Steve Berkson unpacked more of the nuances of being in covenant by diving into the letter to the Hebrews, the Book of Hebrews. He…
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Afterburn: Thoughts, Q&A on CC101: Are You Covenanted? Part 51
Some of the topics covered are: • Why did Messiah Yeshua have to come as a human-being? • More about coming boldly to the throne of favor • Do we know what…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 51
This exciting episode begins the letter to the Hebrews. The goal of going through this letter is to get to chapter 7 and verse 22 where it speaks of Yeshua…
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Afterburn: Thoughts, Q&A on CC101: Are You Covenanted? Part 50
Some of the topics covered are: • Listening to various “teachers” and finding your teacher • How is the “unmerited grace” that happens before the calling…
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Covenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 50
Moving forward from last week, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us into Romans chapters 11 and 12, then to Ephesians chapter 2, where he interprets the writing of the…
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Afterburn: Thoughts, Q&A on CC101: Are You Covenanted? Part 49
Some of the topics covered are: • More about “called and chosen” • Don’t we need to…? • How does being “chosen” relate to salvation? • If none of us know that…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 49
As he continues in Romans chapters 10 and 11, Rabbi Steve Berkson has received some clear insight on a couple of troublesome verses. Understanding the context…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 48
Can you say that the things you are suffering now because of your faith are not worthy to be compared to the honor (glory) that shall be revealed in you? Who’s…
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Afterburn: Thoughts, Q&A on CC101: Are You Covenanted? Part 47
Some of the topics covered are: What about using “foul or offensive language” or “cursing”? Keeping and not keeping Shabbat as it pertains to a job or service…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 47
What other teacher do you know that can reference Star Wars and The Who, and do a Yoda impersonation in the same teaching? What is the critical thing of which…
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Afterburn: Thoughts, Q&A on Are You Covenanted? Part 46
Afterburn: also known in the world of fitness as the “afterburn effect”, simply put; The more intense the exercise, the more oxygen your body consumes…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 46
Why was Messiah Yeshua “delivered up” and then “raised”? Is Yahweh “obligated” to us? What is the one thing on which Jews and Christians agree? Is the apostle…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 45
In the face of 2,000 years of twisted teaching, you will discover that the apostle Paul was not teaching that the “law” has been “done away with”–actually the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 44
Who are you allowing to have authority in your spiritual life, your faith? Is it possible to have more than one authority as it pertains to your halacha, your…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 43
Continuing with Paul’s Corinthian congregation, in his second letter he reaffirms his leadership and authority under Messiah (2 Cor 3:1). Consider that the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 42
Is the wearing of a headscarf (or kippah for males) what is being discussed in 1 Corinthians chapter 11? Why does Paul talk about headship or authority…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 41
In one of his letters to the Corinthians Paul talks about the cup that Yeshua gave to his disciples and said, this is my blood of the renewed covenant. (1 Cor…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 40
** Due to technical issues, the audio is not as it should be in this teaching. ** On what issue do Christians and those who are Messianic Torah Observant…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 39
What are the “shepherds” spoken about in Jeremiah 23? Why were they given a scathing rebuke? What’s the difference between esteeming self and self-esteem? How…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 38
Is Jeremiah 31:31 talking about a “new” covenant or a “renewed” covenant? Why? When Torah was given at Mt. Sinai, what was that symbolic of? What does that…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 37
What does it mean to “come to Him”? What is our part? What is His part? Is King David from long ago coming back to life to reign in Israel again? When was “The…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 36
Why does God allow suffering, pain and misery on this Earth? How has the law been “changed”? What was it that caused the Great Flood cleansing the Earth of…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 35
The faith/belief/trust we as humans profess in something that is greater than ourselves ultimately boils down to relationship. This relationship is being one…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 34
In Proverbs 5:6 we see the “strange woman” described as unstable. What does it mean to be unstable? How is faith related to stability/unstability? How is…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 33
The prophet Jeremiah was given some severe words to speak to the people concerning how they were behaving while being in covenant with their Elohim. They were…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 32
What kind of relationship do you think you have with our Creator? Do you believe you are “in covenant” with the Almighty? What are the two things needed to…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 31
What is significant about a “teacher’s wisdom”? (Proverbs 5:1) Who (or what) is this “strange woman” we find in Proverbs 5:3? Yeshua talked about the “leaven…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 30
Going to the book of the prophet Amos, chapter 5, we are staying with the topic of how wisdom, understanding and knowledge relate to keeping covenant with the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 29
Continuing on our journey through the book of Proverbs we are staying with the topic of how wisdom, understanding and knowledge relate to keeping covenant with…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 28
Continuing on our journey through the book of Proverbs, we are staying with the topic of how wisdom, understanding and knowledge relate to keeping covenant…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 27
Continuing on the relationship between wisdom, knowledge and understanding and keeping covenant, Rabbi Steve Berkson uncovers valuable understanding regarding…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 26
Why should you be careful and reluctant when trying to get someone to follow your position on an issue? What group of people do you not want to be a part of?…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 25
Why are people referred to as “children” in scripture? e.g., Children of Israel We are instructed to “not forget” and “don’t turn away” from the Father’s…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 24
Hoping to get through more than seven verses this time, Rabbi Steve Berkson continues teaching in Proverbs about wisdom, knowledge and understanding and how…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 23
Do you place high value on Torah and the Covenant? How about wisdom? Isn’t it through wisdom that Yahweh has a relationship with us? What is the beginning of…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 22
What we’ve been dealing with in Proverbs is the other part of keeping covenant–the ‘why’ we do what He says to do (or not do). We know there is the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelSPECIAL: State of the Body 2019
As the President of the United States gave the 2019 SOTU address, Rabbi Steve Berkson also addressed the Body of Messiah with an assessment of the State of the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 21
“Without wisdom, knowledge and understanding it is impossible to behave correctly within the framework of the covenant.” Rabbi Steve Berkson continues the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 20
Is it using wisdom to keep the covenant with the Most High Elohim? Does it take knowledge and understanding? From Proverbs chapter 2, Rabbi Steve Berkson shows…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 19
In this teaching Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us into the book of Proverbs to discover the connection between wisdom, knowledge and understanding and…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 18
Continuing the thought, The Role and Effect of Remembering What Yah Has Done on Keeping Covenant, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us to more examples from scripture…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 17
Psalm 105:4 tells us to “seek His face always”. How do we “seek His face”? What is the Relational Framework? In what forms do we see and experience this…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 16
What should you be thinking about as you read through the Bible? What is the “beautiful thing” that you see in scripture? Finish this statement, “Come as you…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 15
Rabbi Steve Berkson desires that you embrace the understanding that it’s all about your heart when it comes to keeping covenant with your Creator. It has to be…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 14
In 1 Chronicles 16 we see within a song of praise that went up in thanksgiving there is a “covenantal-mindset”. What is that “covenantal-mindset”? What…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 13
Continuing with, “The Role and Effect of Leadership on Covenant Keeping”, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us on a journey through the books of 1 & 2 Kings where he…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 12
Is sin and transgressing the Covenant two different things or the same? What is the definition of sin? What does Joshua 7:9 show us in regards to what Elohim…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 11
Rabbi Steve Berkson subtitles this teaching, “The Role and Effect of Leadership in Covenant Keeping.” He starts by taking us to Deuteronomy 31 to show how that…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 10
What is the definition of evil? Is keeping the Covenant really that big of a deal? Hasn’t it been “done away with” because of the Messiah? Who are the teachers…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 9
Continuing in Deuteronomy, Rabbi Steve Berkson shows us how to recognize certain words and phrases continuously linked to help you understand what they’re…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 8
As he said he would, Rabbi Steve Berkson spends a bit more time teaching on Deuteronomy 4:9. He points out the emphasis placed on the exhortation to “guard…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 7
What is discipleship about? What does it look like in your life? How does it relate to being in covenant? What are you willing or not willing to do as a…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 6
Is there such a thing as a covenant within a covenant? Does the word ‘forever’ always mean what you think it means? What exactly is a “Covenant of Salt”? Does…