4/06/2013

Parashat 6 Portion 24 Beresheet 26:12-35 – Yeshayahu 65:23-66:8 –Rom 9:6-18



Blessing for the Torah:
Baruch atah YHVH, Eloheynu, Melech ha-O’lam, asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim,
v’natan lanu eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”

(Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim , King of the Universe,
you have selected us from among all the peoples,
and have given us your Torah. Blessed are you, YHVH, giver of the Torah. Ameyn.)



This section starts with the evidence of being in a covenant relationship with YHVH and it ends with the evidence of one (Esav) who does not seek to be in a covenant relationship with YHVH. We see Yitzchak is abundantly blessed even in famine and we see Esav grabbing what he can and grieving his parents for the kind of choices he makes. The sages tell us that Esav was known for taking married woman and doing whatever he pleased.
The evidence of these two spirits still exists today.
Let us ask ourselves this question:
Would our fathers Avraham Yitzchak and Yakov be pleased with the way modern day Christianity and even Judaism conducts itself and its affairs in this world?
Yet we call ourselves children of Avraham, are we truly his children?
Jer 6:16  Thus said יהוה, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and find rest for yourselves. But they said, ‘We do not walk in it.’
Jer 6:17  “And I raised up watchmen over you, and said, ‘Listen to the sound of the ram’s horn!’ But they said, ‘We do not listen.’
Jer 6:18  “Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is upon them!
Jer 6:19  “Hear, O earth! See, I am bringing evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My words, nor My Torah – and they rejected it.

I don’t believe there can be any doubt in the mind of a discerning believer that we have rejected our ancient scriptural foundations and replaced them with those laid by men and their doctrines. Many today follow in the paths of Esav, eager to expand and control and take what does not belong to them. The Good News does not belong to the church, it never has or never will, it has and will always be the inheritance of Yisrael.