Shoresh David Messianic Synagogue of St. Petersburg

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Shoresh David Messianic Synagogue of St. Petersburg Prayer Before Services
Fridays at 6:00pm

Dance Classes
Fridays at 6:15pm

Erev Shabbat Service
7pm

10/07/2026

Genesis 1:1-6:8 1 Samuel 20:18-42 Matthew 24:29-36
Beresh*t – in the beginning
Shalom, 10/7/26
The Torah has been rolled back, and we are once again ready for Adonai to reveal new revelations to us in this new year.
The reading of the Torah doesn’t have a beginning and an end.
It is a continual cycle that we get to glean from starting with His beautiful work of creation.
It wasn’t enough for the Creator to just create and be done.
He also provided for the continuation of the cycle of life to go on.
Plants, creatures of the sea and land and humankind. In each He placed the seed of life.
But with creation there is order. Order to the days and what He brought forth and when.
In all His infinite wisdom He chose to created man last so that food and the environment would be completely prepared for them. To humble them and show them that Adonai is the sole creator and they had no hand in what exists before them.
By creating humans on the sixth day, it allowed them to immediately step into the seventh-day of Sabbath rest.
But with creation came responsibility.
Humankind was to rule over all creatures, conquer the land and be fruitful and multiply.
And in return Adonai would supply their needs.
Seems simple until another cycle began. A cycle of lies, deceit, doubt and lust following as it always does with shame, fear and blame.
Once Satan lied and deceived Eve, it caused her to doubt the word from God and her eyes lusted after the forbidden fruit and she ate of it.
Like all sin, once we see it for what it is, we need to have Godly shame and fear, taking responsibility for what we did.
Genesis 4:7 tells us how we must conquer sin.
“But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the doorway. Its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Adonai created us to serve Him, Yeshua died for us to save us and the Ruach is with us to guide us in the right way and away from sin.
Blessings in Messiah,
Rabbi Bob

09/30/2026

Deuteronomy 33:1-34:12 Josh. 1:1-18 Acts 1:1-14
Sh’mini Atzeret – Eighth Day of the Assembly
Shalom, 9/30/2026
Every year at Purim we put on a play. It’s not just a 5-minute skit, it is an hour-long production written by my wife.
One that she says the Lord simply downloaded to her she called, “Treasured Memories of a Queen.
In it Queen Esther has grown old and is now reflecting on her life.
Her attendant is anxious to hear all about it but Esther tells her to slow down. She says, “Memories cannot be shared like that. They must be told with the slowness of a slough, allowing them to marinate in your soul.” I suggest you come out and see it next year. It’s a wonderful play!!
But why am I speaking about Purim with Sh’mini Atzeret in four days?
Because the rolling back of the Torah needs to be done in the same way.
After Deuteronomy is read, we need to pause, to slow down and let the Word we read last year, marinate in our souls. Because anything we do too rapidly in life is not worth the journey.
To be so anxious to roll back the Torah to Genesis that it just becomes something we do instead of a Holy moment with Adonai.
For just a moment we are standing in the middle of the two. Between “the Beginning” when Adonai brought creation into existence and “Words” that Moses spoke.
A time of transition and also a time of excited anticipation as we reflect on what we have learned and what we are about to learn.
Leviticus 23:36 – “The eighth day will be a holy convocation to you, and you are to bring an offering of fire to Adonai.” It is a Sabbath rest.
As Sukkot began it was tradition to start praying for rain fervently and a water libation ceremony was held at the Temple in Jerusalem.
During Sukkot we sit in our sukkah for seven days, seven being the number meaning completion.
But then comes the eighth day, which pertains to eternity which points us to the eternally flowing water that only Yeshua can offer.
“On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Yeshua stood up and cried out loudly, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.” {John 7:37}
Are you thirsty today? Come and drink from the only waters that can satisfy your soul!
Blessings in Messiah,
Rabbi Bob

09/23/2026

Leviticus 22:26-23:44 Zec. 14:1-21 Luke 2:1-20
Sukkot 1
We continue this week with the celebrating of the Fall Feasts.
We just went through Yom Kippur this past Monday where we were to afflict ourselves. The service was very solemn and soul searching.
And the Books were closed.
But here we are five days later, at sunset on the 25th, ushered into the joyous season of Sukkot.
These Fall Feasts are a dress rehearsal for the real events that will take place during the Last Days when Adonai will stand on the Mont of Olives and it will be split in two, and He will be King over all the Earth.
So, if you haven’t rehearsed the first two fall feasts, you might not need to worry about Sukkot.
Sukkot will be the time when Adonai and His people will finally Tabernacle together in the new Heaven and new Earth.
What a glorious, joyful, unbelievable time that will be. So, of course, He commands us to rejoice now in preparation.
Leviticus 23:40 – “Rejoice before Adonai your God for seven days.”
Deuteronomy 16:14 – “So you will rejoice in your feast.” Verse 15 says, “you will be completely filled with Joy.”
His word tells us how to rejoice in Leviticus 23:40. With choice fruit of trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook.
The first day and the eighth day of Sukkot is to be a Shabbat rest, and it is a statute forever.
So, for seven days we live, eat and sleep in our Sukkah so we can remember how Adonai had Bnei-Yisrael dwell in Sukkot when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. {Leviticus 23:42-43}
Sukkot was only one of the feasts where all males were to appear before Adonai in the place He chooses. The other two were Passover and Shavuot.
So, we are not only to rejoice and celebrate at Sukkot.
We are told in Deuteronomy 16:16 that “No one should appear before Adonai empty-handed-the gift of each man’s hand according to the blessing Adonai your God has given you. {Tithing}
So, prepare yourselves to rejoice, give, and celebrate so that we are totally ready for the real event.
Chag Sameach,
Rabbi Bob

09/21/2026

Leviticus 16:3-34 Isaiah 57:14-58:14 Matthew 25:31-46
Yom Kippur – Day of Atonement
Shalom, 9/21/26
Today is Yom Kippur until sunset. A time when we are told in God’s word that this day is to be a Sabbath rest.
His word also tells us it is a statute forever. Leviticus 16:29.
But before I continue, I want to stress just what the word statute means. It refers to permanent laws, decrees, or ordinances established directly by God in order to guide humanity.
Just as the words “set in stone” it implies something permanent, fixed by authority and unchanging.
There is no place in the Word of God that says this was done away with. That’s old and now we live under the “new”. Permanent, everlasting, unchanging means permanent, everlasting and unchanging.
Leviticus 16:31 tells us what we are to do on this day besides a solemn rest. It says we are also to afflict our souls and once again it says that this is also a statute forever.
How do we do that? Do we boast to one another who fasted the longest and what we reframed from? Do we fast out of pridefulness?
Do we put the ashes of pagans on our foreheads for all to see?
In today’s overindulgent society most people take afflicting our souls as fasting from food. But it should entail much more than that.
It’s a time when we need to practice self-denial.
Isaiah 58:9-10 tells us the kind of fast Adonai requires. To get rid of the yoke among us. The finger-pointing, the badmouthing. And to deny ourselves and put others first.
Most are able to refrain from food sometimes up to a week. Let’s be honest, after the first couple of days it gets easier to do so. But to practice self-denial, putting others first, it is unattainable for most. A foreign act that seems illogical.
But we need to help the hungry and thirsty. The sick. The afflicted. The widows and orphans.
We can see in Matthew 25:35-46 how important this is to Adonai. It says in verse 45, “Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.”
Isaiah 58:13-14 – “If you honor it {Shabbat Days} , not going your own ways, not seeking your own pleasure, nor speaking your usual speech, then you will delight yourself in Adonai, and I will let you ride over the heights of the earth…”
Gmar Chatima Tova – a good final sealing.
Rabbi Bob

09/16/2026

Deuteronomy 32:1-52 Hosea 14:2-10 Joel 2:15-27 Matthew 18:21-35
Ha’azinu – give ear
Shalom, 9/16/26
Adonai gives us everything we need but oft times we take it for granted.
Believing the lie that the abundance will always be there.
That our labors will continue to be soft. That our harvest will always fill our barns to overflowing.
He did not place us here to lie in the lap of luxury without ceasing. To drink from the well without want.
Enjoy the abundance we possess now but only through thanksgiving and praise on our lips and not be seduced and lured to sleep by all the present lavishness of this world.
For a day is coming very soon when the abundance and barns full of harvest will come to an end.
There will no longer be laps of luxury to sit in and our wells will be dry.
He will still provide us everything we need but it will be in terms of endurance, steadfastness, and the ability to rise up without fear and ready for battle.
With supernatural strength and the ability to persevere even onto physical death.
This is what He has prepared believers for.
What if the Books really did close this Yom Kippur? Would your name be in the Book who will stand righteous for His Name’s sake?
He is blameless for what our destiny will be. The blemish is on us for the sins committed and the arrogance of turning our backs on Adonai.
Vengeance is His and payback time is at hand. Judgement awaits in the shadows from a just and loving God.
Seek Adonai while He may be found, call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the righteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, so He will abundantly pardon. {Isaiah 55:6-8}
Let us honestly confess our wrongs, receive His mercy and choose a new direction in our lives.
Personally surrender and release your need to control the outcomes in your daily life and place all your heavy burdens in His Hands.
The Shofar has been sounded to gather His people.
Give ear and listen to Adonai before the Books close forever and while there is still time.
Blessings in Messiah,
Rabbi Bob

09/03/2026

Deuteronomy 29:10-31:30 Isaiah 61:10-63:9 John 12:41-50
Nitzavim-Vayelech – standing/he went
Shalom, 9/2/26
We are admonished to stand. 274 times to be exact in some bible versions.
We are told to stand firm as in our faith when we put on the whole armor of God. {1 Corinth. 16:13}
We are told to stand against such as with Hasatan, Satan. {Ephesians 6:11}
We are told to stand our ground, refusing to move from Godly values even when facing pressures.
We are told to stand still. To remain unmoved, resolute, and faithful in God's truth, resisting spiritual opposition without retreating. To stop panicking, drop your own frantic efforts to fix a crisis, and trust God to fight your battles. Only then will we see His salvation and provisions.

And we are told to stand on His word and trust His promises.
At all times we are to remember the One whom we are standing before. With this reminder ever before us it becomes easy for us to stand through all the rest.
To stand biblically means to remain faithful, resolute, and unwavering in God’s truth and authority, refusing to compromise your beliefs during hard times or spiritual battles.
Standing represents spiritual steadfastness, readiness for spiritual warfare, and a respectful posture of worship in God's presence.
Standing righteous before a Holy God now, readies us when at last we come before His eternal throne where we will not only stand but bow before Him casting our crowns at His feet.
Deuteronomy 29:13-14 says: “Not with you alone am I cutting this covenant and this oath, but with whomever is standing here with us today before Adonai our God and whomever is not with us today.”
That’s us! All believers who ever lived and followed His mitzvot and His statutes and forsake all others. God has circumcised our heart, so this is an easy thing to do for the word is in our mouth and in our heart. {Deuteronomy 30:14}
The choices are simple. Life and good and death and evil. {Deuteronomy 30:15}
We can be courageous with Adonai standing ever before us.
His word tells us in Deuteronomy 31:6, “Be courageous! Do not be afraid or tremble before them. For Adonai your God-He is the One who goes with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.”
We can rest in the knowledge that Adonai will do His part, but we must do ours. And that is to be on the alert! Stand firm in the faith! Be men of courage! Be strong! For our goal is to be steadfast, always excelling in the work of the Lord so that our labor is not in vain.
Blessings in Messiah,
Rabbi Bob

Service is Friday, September 25th at 7 PM. 6000 38th Ave N St Pete
08/27/2026

Service is Friday, September 25th at 7 PM. 6000 38th Ave N St Pete

Sukka building party Thursday, September 24th at 6:30 PM. Pizza, Movie and more. 6000 38th Ave N St Pete
08/27/2026

Sukka building party Thursday, September 24th at 6:30 PM. Pizza, Movie and more. 6000 38th Ave N St Pete

After the fasting of Yom Kippur we are Breaking-the-Fast as a family at BJ'S resturant on US 19 at 7 PM. If you are int...
08/27/2026

After the fasting of Yom Kippur we are Breaking-the-Fast as a family at BJ'S resturant on US 19 at 7 PM. If you are interested in going please call us at 727-456-9200.

Service is Sunday, September 20th at 6:30 PM. 6000 38th Ave N St Pete.
08/27/2026

Service is Sunday, September 20th at 6:30 PM. 6000 38th Ave N St Pete.

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6000 38th Avenue N
Saint Petersburg, FL
33710

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