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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 5
A covenant made between two parties has certain expectations of performance. When those expectations are not met the covenant has been broken or breached. When…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelThe Sound of the Shofar
May the sound of the shofar wake us up to life that only comes from the Father through His Messiah. From Yom Teruah 2018, this message by Rabbi Steve Berkson…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 4
Covenanted people need not worry–Yahweh is faithful to His side of the covenant. In this episode, Rabbi Steve Berkson places emphasis on “emunah”, which is…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 3
What is/are the sign(s) of The Covenant? Is baptism/immersion a sign of The Covenant? Who are those that are a part of The Covenant? Rabbi Steve Berkson takes…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 2
There’s only one covenant that we should be concerned about, right? What if there are more than one covenant in play, with some overlapping others, that we…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelYMTOI Parsha Pearls - Rosh Hashanah/Yom Teruah
Song: Dip the Apple in the Honey
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Covenanted? Part 1
Now that you’ve learned about the relationship between salvation, faith and works, and that “saved” is not a status in the “Are You Saved” series, it makes…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 17
If we already “possess” everlasting life, why are we instructed by Messiah Yeshua in John chapter 6 not to labor for the bread that perishes but rather for the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 16
Do you, right now, have eternal life? Do you possess everlasting life as Messiah taught about in the Gospel of John chapter 3 verse 36? This week’s teaching…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 15
Continuing in the book of Revelation, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us into chapter 3 where we find Messiah Yeshua continuing to give His praise and correction to…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 14
There is a particular blessing for those who read, hear and guard the words in book of Revelation. (Rev 1:3) Knowing this, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us this…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 13
Continuing on the topic of “you’re going to be judged according to your works”, Rabbi Steve Berkson reviews and reiterates 1 Peter chapters 1 and 2, adding…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 12
Why are your “works” or actions important? Rabbi Steve Berkson continues teaching about the relationship between salvation, faith/belief and works/actions by…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 11
Contrary to the vast majority of those who twist the writings (2 Peter 3:16) and teach that “works” are no longer important or necessary, Rabbi Steve Berkson…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 10
In part 9 of “Are You Saved?”, we read through James (Ya’akov) chapter 2 and now understand that faith/belief and works are intertwined so that one without the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 9
In Matthew 24:12 Yeshua taught that because of the increase in lawlessness, the love of many will become cold–what is the love that’s connected to the Law…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 8
Continuing from part 7, Rabbi Steve teaches further on the topic of guarding the Torah and possessing the Witness. As he takes us to Luke 10:25 we see once…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 7
Messiah Yeshua said, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate…” (Luke 13:24) Does salvation and reward require effort? What is that effort? To where does the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 6
What does the Hebrew name Yeshua mean? Why was Yeshua born into this world as the Messiah? In this teaching Rabbi Steve Berkson continues the topic on the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelShavuot: The Launching Point
“I think that we get so verse-focused that we are missing the application, walking-it-out part.” Rabbi Steve Berkson challenges our mindset this Shavuot 2018…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 5
Rabbi Steve Berkson focuses on the topic of “Who Shall be Saved?”, as he takes us to the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 13. There we find the parable Yeshua taught…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 4
Has the One who chose a group of people from among a group of people and set them apart unto Himself rejected those people? Has now another group of people…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 3
What’s wrong with Christianity? Aren’t there “good people” there? Most of us who are now in the Messianic Torah Observant community came from Christianity…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 2
After a quick review of part 1, Rabbi Steve Berkson continues exploring the doctrine of “once saved, always saved” and the relationship between salvation…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Are You Saved? Part 1
Do you really understand what it means to say “I’m saved!”? From what are you saved? How were you saved? When did this “salvation” happen? Now that you are…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 12
Can the dead come to life today? Rabbi Steve Berkson kicks this teaching off by taking you to Ephesians 2 where the Apostle Paul writes about the dead coming…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 11
Continuing the topic, “The Mind and Thinking of Man, and How It Relates to Authority”, Rabbi Steve Berkson once again redefines words and terms that have been…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 10
Continuing the topic, “The Mind and Thinking of Man, and How It Relates to Authority”, Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us to Luke 8:5-18 and the parable of the Sower…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 9
Rabbi Steve Berkson continues the topic, “The Mind and Thinking of Man, and How It Relates to Authority”. He begins by taking us to Matthew 10:34 with a…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 8
Rabbi Steve Berkson continues the topic, “The mind and thinking of man, and how it relates to authority”. He begins in Matthew 3 where we see Yochanan (John)…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 7
Here in part 7 Rabbi Steve Berkson continues the topic, “The mind and thinking of man, and how it relates (or doesn’t relate) to authority”. In this teaching…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 6
In Genesis 6:5 we see that man’s thinking had devolved to “only evil continually” which caused the Creator to be grieved in His heart. What does this mean…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 5
Rabbi Steve Berkson addresses the topic of “Yeshua knows our thoughts and our struggle with authority”. We begin with the event where Yeshua healed a person by…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 4
Although Yahweh told a group of people that He chose them to be a select group for His purpose, there was a contingency attached, the “if/then” that we read…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 3
What is the purpose of the “correction of Yahweh”? What is “evil” according to scripture? What is meant by “their ear is uncircumcised”? Is the doctrine of…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 2
After a review of part 1 where we left off in Jeremiah 4:14 “O Yerushalayim, wash your heart from evil, and be saved. Till when would your wicked thoughts…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: What Are You Thinking? - Part 1
How many times have you read the accounts detailed in scripture and said to yourself, “What were they thinking?” Even though hindsight is 20/20 and the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Tithing: Appreciating Blessings - Part 4
Is “tithing” mentioned in the Brit Hadashah (New Testament)? Some say it is not, therefore, tithing is not required for modern-day believers–we are to give as…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Tithing: Appreciating Blessings - Part 3
Tithing is a part of the Restoration Process–of coming into observance of the Torah. Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us into the book of Nehemiah, chapters 9 and 10…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Tithing: Appreciating Blessings - Part 2
There are some who declare that tithing is not for today–is this true? If tithing is instructed that we do it, shouldn’t we? Aren’t we promised that in our…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Tithing: Appreciating Blessings - Part 1
What is “tithing”? What does the word ‘tithe’ even mean? What are we supposed to “tithe”? Who gets this “tithe”? Now, before you get the idea that this…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Endure and Receive the Crown of Life - Part 8 “Receiving The Crown”
Concluding this series, “Endure and Receive the Crown of Life”, Rabbi Steve Berkson brings verse after verse, multiple witnesses, the different authors all…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Endure and Receive the Crown of Life - Part 7 “Receiving The Crown”
Did you know that our faith walk has been compared to a sporting event? That one who would endeavor to win has to play by the “rules” or else be disqualified…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Endure and Receive the Crown of Life - Part 6 “Proved”
Starting off with a powerful verse from 2 Corinthians 10:18, Rabbi Steve Berkson continues what he started in the last teaching on the third topic from James…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Endure and Receive the Crown of Life - Part 5 “Why Endure”
Why endure? One reason is that through the enduring process, you have the opportunity to walk as the Messiah Yeshua walked. Isn’t that something that is…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Endure and Receive the Crown of Life - Part 4 “Why Endure”
Continuing in the theme of “Why Endure?”, Rabbi Steve Berkson ponders if a human being can live without limitations. If we can do all things through Messiah…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Endure and Receive the Crown of Life - Part 3 “Why Endure”
Yeshua said to his disciples, “But he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved.” What? So, saying the “sinner’s prayer” or taking the “Romans Road”…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Endure and Receive the Crown of Life - Part 2 “Blessed is the Man”
Who is the person that will receive the “Crown of Life”? What does he/she look like? Continuing on the idea of “Blessed is the Man”, as it says in James…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Endure and Receive the Crown of Life - Part 1 “Blessed is the Man”
Who doesn’t want to be called blessed? How do you get to that place of “blessed”? In this teaching, Rabbi Steve Berkson begins to break down James 1:12 and the…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelAre You Listening?
There is a day of judgment coming. Are you ready to stand before the Judge of all? According to what will you be judged? What are “the Books” that will be…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Shabbat - Part 3 “Conclusion”
Where do we see in the scriptures examples of what to do or not do on Shabbat? Rabbi Steve Berkson takes us into some to the fine points regarding our behavior…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Shabbat - Part 2 “How?”
What does it mean to “desecrate” or “profane” something? What is considered “work”? Did the Creator do something special to the Shabbat when He blessed it?…
Messianic Torah Observant IsraelCovenant Community 101: Shabbat - Part 1 - What & Why
Do you know and understand Shabbat (Sabbath)? Does Shabbat really apply to the people of today? Is Shabbat just “that Jewish thing?” When the word ‘forever’ or…